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largest dividend possible. They were placing upon our traffic all that 

 the traffic would bear to make the largest dividend. That has always 

 been the policy of the railroad company. 



Mr. Sprague: There is one thing connected with this raisin discussion 

 which we have learned, and that is, that some 4,000 or 5,000 acres have 

 gone out of raisins in the past year. Probably from 5,000 to 10,000 more 

 acres will go out, and, gentlemen, they will go into something else — 

 prunes, etc. I look on this raisin business in just this way: Keep on 

 raising raisins. Dried fruit is in demand in every store. 



The convention adjourned until Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock. 



