ACTUAL RESULTS IN CALIFORNIA 153 



light until the car was unloaded, and then often it was too 

 late to do anything. 



That the exchange system is not hesitant about asserting 

 its rights to redress is evidenced by the fact that as many 

 as 11,600 claims have been presented during one year 

 (1914-1915), and that damages are not demanded without 

 due cause appears from the fact that in some 85 or 90 

 per cent, of the claims presented damages are awarded and 

 collected. The railroads now realize that remissness on 

 their part when handling an exchange shipment is almost 

 tantamount to an awarded damage claim. Of course the 

 result has been a much improved transportatioft service. 

 Though claims are handled through the traffic department 

 of the California Fruit Growers Exchange they are in- 

 itiated by the district exchange in whose name the fruit 

 goes forward. Since the organization of the California 

 Fruit Growers Exchange a certain district exchange has 

 collected on claims almost 50 per cent, more than the total 

 cost of its own operation. For the entire period in which 

 the Exchange has been rendering this service it has ac- 

 complished the following results: 



Claims Collected by the California Fruit Growers Exchange.* 



Number of Claims Paid. Amount. 



1904-S 2102 $ 37,529 



1905-6 6059 114,776 



1906-7 4217 96,021 



1907-8 7178 152,344 



1908-9 6067 125,461 



1909-10 5644 93.200 



1910-11 6839 117,057 



1911-2 6280 125,706 



1912-3 6633 114.65s 



1913-4 5745 108,428 



1914-5 ",599 142.005 



1915-6 11,364 111,557 



' California Fruit Growers Exchange : Annual Reports of the Gen- 

 eral Manager. 1909-10 to 1914-15- 



