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service for the shipment of deciduous fruits across the continent. The 

 freight rate is not too large. We are paying a less rate on those ship- 

 ments East than is being paid on peaches that go from Georgia in 

 competition with ours. The difficulty is not with the grower. It lies 

 with the transportation company in making this arrangement for the 

 transporting of our products. That is all there is about it. There is 

 something wrong with regard to that arrangement, but it will be righted, 

 and in order to conserve the business the companies will be forced to 

 that course. There are now a large number of deciduous green fruit 

 shipments that are paying no profit. You are a grower, like myself. 

 I grow pears, but nobody can induce me to ship pears and take the 

 risk. I sell my pears f. o. b. at my farm. When dealers in the East 

 find that they can not have green pears and other deciduous green 

 fruits shipped there and sold on these high commissions and we take 

 all the risk, they will come here and buy them, just as they do our 

 dried fruits. I think we will do harm to the State by putting out a 

 document of this sweeping nature. It apparently applies to the entire 

 fruit industry, while of the green deciduous fruit shipments there are 

 only some 6,000 or 7,000 cars as against say 60,000 cars of fruit in all 

 other forms, and we should not discourage the planting of fruit trees 

 and the further growth of the industry in this State. 



VICE-PRESIDENT McINTOSH. ' Gentlemen of the Convention, 

 the Chair desires at this time to state that when this Convention 

 adjourns it will do so without date. The date of the next meeting will 

 have to be fixed by President Cooper. 



THE THANKS OF THE CONVENTION. 



MR. STEPHENS. Mr. Chairman, I move a vote of thanks to the 

 Fresno "Morning Republican" for supplying daily one hundred copies 

 of the "Republican" to delegates to this Convention; also a vote of 

 thanks to the press of Fresno for full and fair reports of the proceed- 

 ings of this Convention; also a vote of thanks to the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the city of Fresno for its successful efforts to supply the wants 

 of the members and delegates to this Convention. 



Motion duly seconded and carried. 



MR. STEPHENS. Now, Mr. Chairman and delegates, I propose 

 that a vote of thanks be tendered to our worthy Vice-Chairman, our 

 temporary presiding officer, for the very able and impartial manner in 

 which he has discharged the duties of that responsible position. I 

 think it is due, because he certainly has ruled impartially; he has 

 endeavored to give all an equal opportunity to discuss every question 

 properly before this Convention for consideration, and therefore I take 

 great pleasure, gentlemen, in offering this resolution, and I move that 



