. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October, igiQ BETTER FRUIT Page 13 Plans Shipping Export Apples Through Canal CHARLES M. SIMONS of London, connected with the firm of Simons, Shultlewortli A Co., Britisli apple and pear exporters, wlio have places of business in London, Liverpool, Glasgow and also in Xew York and Boston, who was in Portland recently and talked to a representative of Better Fhuit, says that the time has arrived when Pacific Northwest apples and pears should be shipped under refrigeration in ships di- rect from Pacific coast ports to Eng- land. Simons, who is making a tour of all
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October, igiQ BETTER FRUIT Page 13 Plans Shipping Export Apples Through Canal CHARLES M. SIMONS of London, connected with the firm of Simons, Shultlewortli A Co., Britisli apple and pear exporters, wlio have places of business in London, Liverpool, Glasgow and also in Xew York and Boston, who was in Portland recently and talked to a representative of Better Fhuit, says that the time has arrived when Pacific Northwest apples and pears should be shipped under refrigeration in ships di- rect from Pacific coast ports to Eng- land. Simons, who is making a tour of all the Pacific Northwest fruitgrowing dis- tricts, including California, says that. other English firms that are handling fruits from this section of the country are joining with his firm in this opinion and that a movement has been started to bring the matter to a successful issue. The plan as announced by Simons is to secure from the American govern- ment, if possible, the use of a dozen ships that are now under the control of the shipping board and that have re- frigerating plants and have them make regular runs via the Panama Canal from Portland, Seattle and San Fran- cisco to English ports. The apple tonnage for export in the Northwest, Simons says, will be so large in a year or two that it should provide a highly remunerative business for refrigerator ships, in addition to the fact that this method of transportation will be much quicker than the present one of shipping across the continent by railroad and reloading on the Atlantic coast. The fruit, he says, will arrive in England in much better condition and at a lessened transportation charge. To secure a concerted movement, Simons is taking it up with shippers in each of the apple raising districts of the Northwest, as well as with the business organizations in the cities of Portland, San Francisco and Seattle, and on his return to New York is to have a confer- ence with several large shipowners as well as officials, who w
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