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shipments among the different markets, and when too many consign- 

 ments of a given kind of fruit were on the way to a given market the 

 grouping together of several cards in one box served as a warning that 

 the destination of one or more cars should be changed. This drawer 

 showed only such fruit as was shipped by this association. News of 

 other shipments and of their probable time of arrival at destination 

 was secured, to some extent, by the association. When it became 

 known that a certain market was about to receive an oversupply of 

 a given fruit, one or more of the shippers who had consigned to that 

 market would be notified by the association manager, so that they 

 might select another city to which to divert their consignments. In 

 case they should refuse to make such a selection the rules of 

 the association gave the manager the right to divert the shipments 

 himself. 



The movement of a car in transit was traced by the association 

 by a system similar to that used by some railroads. Each car shipped 

 East by the association was reported by telegraph as it passed certain 

 points along the way. 



In a similar way other large shippers keep in close touch with the 

 progress of a car on its way to market, at the same time keeping 

 informed as to the prices and relative supplies in different cities and 

 towns. 



For produce moving from the South northward many of the prin- 

 cipal points of diversion are along the Ohio and Potomac rivers, but 

 the route of a car may be changed at any one of a large number of 

 railroad- junction points. Cairo, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Potomac 

 Yard (near Washington) are important points from which these ship- 

 ments are distributed among various destinations. 



Between eastern markets and producing regions in the fair West 

 and Southwest the chief points of diversion include Minnesota Trans- 

 fer (between St. Paul and Minneapolis), Council Bluffs, Chicago, and 

 St.. Louis. Over one route from central California to the East the 

 principal points from which one leading shippers' association receives 

 "passing" reports are Roseville and Truckee in California, Ogden, 

 Council Bluffs, and Chicago. A Cincinnati firm may receive notice 

 of a Florida shipment when the car passes Jacksonville, Atlanta, and 

 Chattanooga, and another notice just before the arrival at Cincinnati. 

 On peaches shipped by this fast-freight service to northeastern 

 markets from Tampa, a car's progress over a certain route is 

 reported from Jacksonville, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; Columbia, 



