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Fruit Last year there were over 

 *S7* ff tin cuts, fifty expedite fruit trains over 

 the Union Pacific road from California, 

 and it is expected that the number this 

 year will be greatly exceeded. Last year 

 it was proved by experiment to be entirely 

 practicable to ship fruit by the train load 

 to New York and thence by steamer to the 

 European markets. It arrived in good 

 condition and brought good prices. The 

 first train of the season came through 

 Chicago about the 12th of July, and in- 

 cluded thirteen cars of green fruit and ten 

 cars of tea, all billed to London. It is to 

 be followed promptly by others, and Cal- 

 ifornia fruit is becoming as well known in 

 London and Liverpool as in our own east- 

 ern states. 



to It was said that the great 

 Gfilvestou. steamship companies 

 would not recognize the Galveston port, 

 no matter what the depth of water. The 

 great North German Lloyd Steamship 

 Company has seen its interest in arranging 

 to establish a line of first-class ships be- 

 tween Bremen and Galveston which will 

 soon be in regular operation. The rate 

 for passengers and freight is but slightly 

 more than from New York. One effect of 

 the deep water harbors on the Gulf coast 

 has been a reduction of six cents per hun- 

 dred in the grain rate from Kansas to New 

 York, and this is only a beginning. The 

 Harrison line of passenger steamers is also 

 to run regularly between Liverpool and 

 Galveston. 





IN THE BIG BEND COUNTRY OX THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. 



