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persons employed in three of these canneries in San Jose was one thousand 

 two hundred, principally women and children. The number of cans was 

 six million three hundred thousand; the amount of green fruit used twenty 

 million pounds. 



J. H. Flickenger, who has an orchard of two hundred and fifty acres, 

 makes a specialty of putting fruit up in glass. He alone has put up twenty 

 thousand cases in the orchard, the present year, of canned goods. 



These immense quantities of canned fruits are distributed over the entire 

 United States, as well as in England, France, Germany, Australia, and 

 New Zealand. Beside these canned fruits, very large quantities of cher- 

 ries and other fresh fruits have been sent, chiefly by express, to Los Angeles, 

 New Mexico, Denver and other points in Colorado, where these fruits are 

 required, and where they have not been successfully grown. 



While this county furnishes a large proportion of the green fruits for use 

 in San Francisco, the eastern markets furnish the outlet for the largest 

 share of these fruits. The shipments from San Jose by the broad gauge 

 railroad alone, according to the figures by Mr. S. W. De Lacy, editor of the 

 " San Jose Times," are as follows, during four months of this season: 



In August l 1,528,960 pounds. 



In September 1,871,300 pounds. 



In October 1,447,500 pounds. 



In November 219,800 pounds. 



Aggregating 5,067,560 pounds. 



Of dried fruits, there were shipped: 



In August 162,080 pounds. 



In September 2,248,400 pounds. 



In October 2,497,380 pounds. 



In November. 1,374,800 pounds. 



Aggregating 6,282,660 pounds. 



The dried fruits sent to San Francisco for reshipment would probably 

 amount to from two hundred to three hundred tons. It is estimated from 

 reliable sources, that there yet remains to be shipped the additional sum of 

 three hundred tons of dried fruits, mostly prunes. 



It is worthy of note that our apricot crop of last year amounted to fifteen 

 thousand tons. This fruit grows to the highest state of perfection in this 

 valley. In addition, it may be stated that the wine product of the season 

 amounts to one million seven hundred thousand gallons. The almond 

 crop is put down at one hundred tons. While the orange crop of 1886-87 

 amounted to about four thousand boxes, there may be said to be a failure 

 of this season's crop, owing to the injury of trees the previous year by the 

 remarkably cold weather of that season. Further, it may be stated that, 

 while most of our dried fruits have found a ready market in the Eastern 

 States and Territories, large quantities find their way to Australia and other 

 ports. 



A market has lately sprung up in Liverpool for our prepared prunes, 

 and all that we can produce of this fruit may be wanted in this market 

 alone, as there is special use there for fruit of this description. Considering 

 the magnitude that the fruit product has already reached, with the pros- 

 pects when our young orchards will come into bearing, and in view of the 

 fact that a very large area of land will yet be planted, we wonder what the 

 future will be. 



The " Scientific American," of the present month, records the statement 

 that the product of the famous Genesee Valley, in New York, amounted 



