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- Mr. Temple—Do you know what they 
receive as a general thing for their 
oranges on the trees ? 
Mr. Quinby—They get about 90 cents, 
or $1.00 a box on the trees. This is clear 
of the packing-house charge ana' the mar¬ 
keting expense. 
Mr.--What variety do 
they grow principally out there? 
Mr. Quinby—We saw very few or¬ 
anges except the Washington Navels. 
There are a good many Valencias, but I 
think about 80 per cent, of the output 
of California is Washington Navels. Now 
what they are putting out in Tulare 
County, which is about 300 miles north 
of Los Angeles, I don’t know. They are 
planting very heavily there, however. 
Mr.-How does the price of 
box material compare with ours ? 
Mr. Quinby—It is cheaper than ours. 
They buy it by the wholesale. They have 
their own mills. They have cut loose from 
a lumber trust out there and have backed 
up certain independent mills that were 
about to go broke, and in that way have 
kept the mills running and have been able 
thereby to take about all the output of 
these mills. Their package is not as good 
material as ours; it would not do with us 
for shipments in less than carload lots. 
The bottoms and sides are slats, and the 
ends are solid. 
Mr.--—Is there much set¬ 
ting out of new varieties? 
Mr. Quinby—In Southern California 
proper, that is, those valleys lying around 
Los Angeles, there is a fair amount of 
setting out, probably just as much as in 
Florida today. In Tulare County there 
are a great many new groves being set 
out. I am not prepared to tell you wheth¬ 
er they are planting in the new groves 
a larger number of Valencias than the 
Washington Navels or not. 
As to the production of oranges, unless 
there are disasters to the groves, or crop 
disasters in the next six or seven years, 
the output of oranges will be almost over¬ 
whelming. We were told that there were 
20,000 acres of new grove property com¬ 
ing on in Tulare County alone. They are 
putting out groves in Arizona and Tex¬ 
as, and the increase in the Florida out¬ 
put in the next seven or eight years will 
be enormous. This fact is rather signifi¬ 
cant if you stop to 1 think about it. Of 
course we don’t know what disaster may 
happen to reduce that output. 
Mr. Christiancy—I understand 'the 
water supply is playing out on a number 
of large dams in Southern California. I 
spent 15 or 18 years in California, and 
know of two larg*e dams that went dry 
at one time, and they were a couple of 
years in getting water. 
Mr. Quinby—We did not look into the 
water supply. We know that the water is 
sold, and in some sections the water con¬ 
tracts are appurtenant to the lands. 
Mr.-Tell us the methods 
they use for getting their fruit into the 
market ? 
Mr. Quinby—That is a wide cpiestion,. 
and the meat in the cocoanut. To handle 
a Washington Navel orange, considering 
the geographic position that California 
occupies in relation to its consuming 
markets, I don’t know of any set of men 
who could improve on their system un¬ 
less they were all Solomons. Their system 
is something that has evolved itself. It 
is not the work of any one man or set of 
men. It is the result of experiments and 
