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Agent of the Rio Grande and Western Railway, and the same was writ- 

 ten to Mr. Munroe of the Union Pacific line. I said to those gentlemen: 



San Feancisco, April 7, 1894. 



Mr. S. H. Babcock, G. F. A., R. G. W. Ry., Salt Lake City, U. T.: 



Dear Sir: Referring to previous correspondence on subject of time to be made on 

 deciduous fruit ensuing season, and assurances given us by your good self as to move- 

 ment east of Ogden over your road and its connections, would say our Operating Depart- 

 ment advise that they have arranged schedule or developed ability to make time, con- 

 tingent on the various roads carrying out their assurances, as follows: 



In order to encourage the use of the light ventilated car, we contemplate starting a 

 fast fruit train 1st of June, to be run once or oftener per week until the business develops 

 sufficiently to warrant one or more trains daily, schedule as arranged for, to wit : Leave 

 Sacramento 12 o'clock midnight ; arrive Ogden 9 p. m. second day thereafter, thus 

 making 45 hours. We understand your company is to do its part toward making the 

 run Ogden to Chicago by your various connections as follows: via Grand Junction and 

 Santa Fe route, 98 hours ; via the D. & R. G. and C. R. I. & P., 93 hours ; Burlington 

 route via Denver, 98 hours. 



With respect to the refrigerator business, we now contemplate or expect that the bulk 

 of these cars will move over the Sierra Nevadas to Truckee in our regular freight trains 

 as fast as they can be loaded and dispatched ; there the re-icing or rilling ice tanks com- 

 pletely to be done, and to go forward in train lots or as near as may be ; running time 

 on such deciduous fruit refrigerator trains to be about as follows : Leave Truckee 3 p. m., 

 arrive Ogden 4 p. m., 49 hours later. There may be some refrigerators, however, that will 

 continue to be iced at Boca that will go forward in regular freight trains. We had 

 hoped that all would re-ice at Truckee and enable us to send trains out and deliver at 

 Ogden in solid train lots. Our aim shall be to accomplish this as near as may be, on the 

 cars re-iced at Truckee. 



This information is given that you may, if necessary, urge upon your Operating 

 Department the importance of carrying out schedule as we understand is arranged with 

 our people. Fruit shippers have been very active this season. The various organiza- 

 tions, local and general, have had their committees appointed, and we have been inter- 

 viewed on the subject of service, subject of rates, etc. We have thus far insisted that 

 the rate or remuneration for the service they ask at our hands is as low as the roads can 

 afford to go, but we have said further that we believe all roads interested in through line 

 appreciated the importance of fast time on this green fruit traffic and regular time, for 

 it is very essential that fruit arrive regularly. For example, on fruit dispatched any 

 given date, shippers wire their consignees at Chicago, and they in turn catalogue or 

 announce for sale, giving description of the fruit, on a given day, car so-and-so, as the 

 case may be. If fruit is delayed twenty-four hours in arrival, catalogue announcement, 

 of course, is of no avail, and works an absolute damage to owners, because it presents 

 glaringly the fact that the fruit is one day older than should have been, and conse- 

 quently prices are invariably somewhat off of what might have been realized had the 

 car arrived in time for sale as catalogued. These remarks apply with equal force to fruit 

 in refrigerators. 



Prospects here at this date are for a heavy crop, and we anticipate (barring the unfore- 

 seen) the heaviest movement in this commodity that transcontinental roads have ever 

 enjoyed. Would like much to get through this season without complaint that has gone 

 forth almost invariably heretofore, regarding poor service, etc. 



Bespeaking your most strenuous efforts toward building up of this traffic, I am 

 Yours truly, 



C. F. SMURR. 



Copy to: Mr. A. T. Wells, A. G. F. A., D. & R. G. R. R.; Mr. W. M. Sage, T. M., C. R. I. 

 & P. Ry.; Mr. C. N. Crosby, G. F. A., B. & M. R. R.; Mr. F. C. Gay, G. F. A., A. T. & S. F. 

 R. R.; Mr. W. H. Snodaker, G. A., R. G. W. Ry.; Mr. J. H. Waters, D. F. A., Col. Mid. Ry., 

 Denver; Mr. W. A. Bissell, G. F. A., A. & P. R. R. 



These letters provided for a five-day train of ventilated cars, and also 

 for a train of refrigerator cars arriving in Chicago in eight days, and 

 an agreement on that basis was reached with the other roads. 



San Francisco, April 7, 1894. 



Mr. J. A. Munroe, F. T. M., U. P. Ry., Omaha: 



Dear Sir: Referring to previous correspondence on the subject of time to be made on 

 deciduous fruit ensuing season, and assurances given us by your good self as to move- 

 ment east of Ogden over your road and its connections, would say our Operating Depart- 

 ment advise that they have arranged schedule or developed ability to make time, 

 contingent on the various roads carrying out their assurances, as follows : 



In order to encourage the use of the light ventilated car, we contemplate starting a 

 fast fruit train first of June, to be run once or oftener per week, until the business 

 develops sufficiently to warrant one or more trains daily, schedule as arranged for, to- 

 wit: Leave Sacramento 12 o'clock midnight ; arrive Ogden, 9 p. m. second day thereafter, 

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