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grant our request, as was expressed in a letter from Mr. Sproule on the 

 21st of May last, and we will derive a benefit from the reduction that 

 was made. We not only want the time that was given by the road, but 

 that they comply with their contract made on the 21st day of May, 

 1901. If they will carry that out you will find in your returns that 

 you will get better prices and greater profits, that it will broaden the 

 markets, and that our fruit will be distributed to better advantage. 



I move that this report be received and placed on file, and that the 

 sentiments therein expressed be adopted by this Convention. 



Motion carried. 



MR. A. N. JUDD. I went up to Washington and Oregon to study 

 the fruit business, as I am engaged in it at Watson ville. I found that 

 every point where a car or two of fruit were to be shipped was a terminal 

 point, and at points where they were paying 60 to 75 cents a hundred 

 on apples, I found that we were paying $1.05. Refrigeration charges, 

 instead of being $35, were $10 to $17.50, and no extra charge for icing 

 en route. They shipped 30,000 chests of strawberries last year from the 

 Hood River, and are planting trees in that section to increase their 

 orchard areas 300 to 500 per cent. Their prunes were selling readily at 

 4, 5, 6, and 7 cents. One grower, when he learned I came from Cali- 

 fornia, chuckled at the differences among the Santa Clara growers, and 

 remarked, "You are making a market for our prunes right along. You 

 are simply holding an umbrella over our heads. We will get all the 

 benefits if you keep quarreling among yourselves." The State Horti- 

 cultural Commissions of both Washington and Oregon are well supplied 

 with money, and in the essentials of successful fruit-growing are far 

 ahead of us. They are shipping apples to-day to Manila, Hongkong, 

 and Vladivostok, and have two or three agents in several of the Trans- 

 Pacific countries constantly making markets. Before long we will be 

 up against a hard proposition in this matter of rates. I move you, sir, 

 that the same Committee on Transportation be appointed for next year, 

 that they shall report at the next annual convention, and that their 

 investigations shall cover these matters of difference in the rates in Cali- 

 fornia with those of Oregon and Washington, and all other things neces- 

 sary to give the fruit-growers of California a clear idea on those matters. 



Motion carried. 



On motion of W. H. Aiken, the Committee on Transportation was 

 made perpetual, and those who will compose it were left to the choice of 

 the Chairman, who selected R. D, Stephens of Sacramento, Alden 

 Anderson of Suisun, A. H. Naftzger of Los Angeles, and A. N. Judd of 

 Watsonville. The fifth member is to be appointed later. 



The Convention then adjourned until 1:30 o'clock p. m. 



