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The following is an estimate of our green fruit shipments from all points 

 of the State to the East for the season of 1888: Carloads, two thousand one 

 hundred and eighty-four; packages, one million six hundred and sixteen 

 thousand one hundred and sixty; pounds of fresh fruit, forty-three million 

 six hundred and eighty-one thousand one hundred and eighty. The total 

 amount of money paid the railroad companies for the transportation of this 

 fruit, amounts to upwards of $840,840. This is a vast sum of money to 

 pay for freight. It occurs to us that the railway companies can be induced 

 to largely reduce this amount next season and still make money hauling 

 green fruit. 



New York City, the metropolis of America, with its suburban cities and 

 towns, furnishes a fruit-eating population of over three millions of people. 

 New York being the leading port of entry, the bulk of imported green fruits 

 and dried fruits find their way into consumption through this vast com- 

 mercial emporium. There were received at New York during the year 

 1887, seven hundred and eighty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-five 

 boxes and cases of oranges from the Mediterranean, equivalent to seventy 

 million one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five 

 pounds of fruit, or three thousand five hundred carloads; of lemons, one 

 million three hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty- 

 six boxes, representing one hundred and eleven million one hundred and 

 fifty thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds, or five thousand five hun- 

 dred and fifty-seven carloads; of bananas, two million four hundred and 

 sixty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven bunches, representing 

 about seventy-three million eight hundred and eighty-two thousand four 

 hundred and ten pounds, or three thousand six hundred and ninety-four 

 carloads; of pineapples, five million seventy-one thousand and ninety-four, 

 equal to ten million one hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and 

 eighty-eight pounds, or five hundred and six carloads; of Almeria grapes, 

 two hundred and fifteen thousand barrels, equal to thirteen million nine 

 hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds, or six hundred and ninety-nine 

 carloads. From Florida, about three hundred and fifty thousand boxes of 

 oranges, thirty-one million five hundred thousand pounds, or one thousand 

 five hundred and seventy-five carloads. From this it will be seen that the 

 amount of green imported tropical and citrus fruits, not including Califor- 

 nia shipments, entering New York in a single season, is something enormous. 

 Here we have a grand total of three hundred and ten million eight hun- 

 dred and thirty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-three pounds of fruit, 

 which would require fifteen thousand five hundred and forty cars to haul, 

 and five million two hundred and ninety-seven thousand three hundred 

 and ninety-six boxes, cases, and barrels in which to pack it. In addition 

 to this, the amount of domestic, or home-grown green fruit consumed is 

 very large. There are no statistics available as to quantity, but some idea 

 may be gained from the fact that of peaches alone seventy carloads arrived 

 at New York in a single day during the peach season. What a market 

 this vast multitude of fruit eaters, who now draw their supplies from all 

 parts of the globe, will furnish for California's fruits in the near future. 

 This season a very small quantity was sent to New York. As near as we 

 can learn, only one hundred and fifty-nine carloads, or two million seven 

 hundred thousand pounds of fruit were shipped this season from Califor- 

 nia to supply the demands of upwards of three millions of people in and 

 about New York City, say nothing of the State and interior towns. This 

 is not a pound for each person. Is it to be wondered at that New York 

 dealers clamored for more fruit from California? Some going so far as to 

 refuse to purchase or deal in our fruit unless they could be assured of a 



