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TWENTY-XINTH FRUIT-GROWERS CONVENTION. 



Cisco that when there were some twenty or thirty per cent of the 

 growers outside of the Raisin Association, still these men, with no con- 

 tracts, and while they were offered more money for their raisins than 

 the Raisin Association would guarantee them, were bringing their 

 raisins forward and depositing them subject to the authority and dis- 

 position of the Raisin-GroAvers' Association. Let us look at the encour- 

 aging features of the situation. Look at the progress the Prune 

 Association made in getting together an organization. To be sure, it 

 was an organization more difficult to perfect. No set of men could 

 have made it Avholly succeed. There was an honorable set of men in 

 control, but the Association itself was faulty in its plan. The same 

 thing is true of the Raisin Association. The fault is not to be found in 

 the men, gentlemen; and you will find that when you just relinquish 

 this as an era passed and stop discussing it, looking toward the future and 

 standing for the support of this wider influence, this wider movement, 

 with the enthusiasm and power and ability that have been behind 

 these other movements, you will have a success for which we shall 

 never have to apologize. (Applause.) 



MR. HARTRANFT. I think that if any one looks the future 

 straight in the face, he will ordinarily become a pessimist, and I think 

 that is the reason why, in times and under circumstances like Mr. 

 White speaks of with regard to raisins this year, we find even well- 

 balanced men occasionally giving up hope. I know that is the case as 

 regards oranges. When there were only 50 carloads produced in the 

 State I heard the discussion among railroad men that there was great 

 concern at Riverside that they might have three or four carloads and 

 not know where they were going to put them. When they had 1,000 

 carloads they were very much worried. When they got 3,000 carloads, 

 when they got up to 5,000 carloads, and to 7,000 carloads the market 

 broke in terrible shape, but recovered on a shipment of about 11.000 

 carloads. It broke again on a shipment of about 17,000 carloads, 

 because the machinery for distribution was not organized in advance of 

 the increased production, but they went out again on a 24,000 to 26,000 

 carload crop, and we wound up rather uncomfortably last spring and 

 summer with a crop of about 22,000 or 23,000 cars. 



Now, my friend Stephens from Sacramento has argued for two or 

 three years that they have planted too much to deciduous fruits. I have 

 not been in the Sacramento territory this summer as usual, but it is my 

 impression that up there the producers are in very good shape finan- 

 cially, that they have come out from past losses and discharged many of 

 their old obligations, that they have had a very good season. And in 

 looking over the report of Mr. Anderson I see that his prediction is that 

 they can handle successfully a crop nearly twice the size of that which 

 they are now handling. Now, Mr. Stephens has argued, and I under- 



