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

 the run Ogden to Chicago in 75 hours, landing the fruit in Chicago at midnight or soon 

 thereafter, the fifth day after leaving Sacramento. 



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 filling 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 organ- 

 izations, local and general, have had their committees appointed, and we have been 

 interviewed 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 believed 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 consequently 

 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 refriger- 

 ators. 



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 

 fortli almost invariably heretofore, regarding poor service, etc. 



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

 Yours truly, 



C. F. SMURPv. 



Copy to : Mr. H. R. McCullough, G. F. A., C. & N. W. Ry. ; Mr. G. W. Luce, Gen. Agent, 

 U. P. Ry. ; Mr. E. H. Prentice, D. F. A., S. P. Co. 



San Francisco, May 4, 1894. 



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

 Dear Sir : Referring again to yours of April 19, 1894 : 



At interview yesterday, as per the following diary memorandum, you will observe that 

 lines seem to be now laid in good, clear form, and I trust you will supplement the efforts 

 of your Operating Department to get this fruit through on time, particularly the fast 

 train ventilator car business : 



"At interview, even date, between Messrs. Dickinson, of the Union Pacific, and Fill- 

 more, of the Southern Pacific, it was reaffirmed that the five- and eight-day schedule 

 on deciduous fruit, ensuing season, as set forth in my letter of April 7th to Mr. J. A. 

 Munroe, would be carried out, to wit : 



" Ventilator train, minimum 10 cars, departure from Sacramento 12 midnight, delivery 

 in Ogden 45 hours later, delivery in Chicago 120 hours later. (Sacto.) 



"Refrigerator trains, departure from Truckee about 3 p. m., delivery in Ogden 49 hours 

 later, delivery in Chicago 192 hours later. (Sacto.) 



"The refrigerators received at Boca to move along in regular trains. 



"C. F. S." 



We are prepared, gentlemen, if this schedule suits your Committee on 

 Transportation, to undertake to establish a like service this year. We 

 hope there will be nothing to obstruct. 



Mr. Block: What do you think of the argument in favor of a reduc- 

 tion of rate provided there is a delay? Are you ready to give us a 

 reduction in case the schedule time is not maintained? 



Mr. Smurr: I would want to think that over. My first impression 

 is that it would be hardly practicable. This last season was the first 

 introduction of the schedule rate on a fruit train being made the same 

 as that on a passenger train. The California business is a very small 

 proportion of all the business of the Eastern roads. They are very glad 

 to take the California business from us, but when they come to the 



