Show or is it another PROBE THE SCHEME and expose it if it is net on the square A pay son cannery editor it might interest the readers of your paper athe northern part of the county to know we are heartily in favor of the late move in regard 10 alie sugar and other features of industry advocated for so many years and home of which are now being practically put to the test in connection with the subject we are now trying to perform our portion b instituting in connection with the canning and fruit packing company of payson a fruit raising company for the purpose of utilizing our fruit and turning to a proper account the latent wealth of this portion of the county gushing and powell are around soliciting orders for fruit trees aiom a new york nursery and are getting the people to subscribe for thousands of dollars worth of trees some giving orders for from one to ten acres af trees or at the rate of assorted trees for each acre at a cost of including one share of stock in die canning company alleged to be worth forty dollars the gentlemen are using the names of some of oar leading men for reference inducing others to co operate in the movement we understand hon A 0 smoot has given orders for trees to plant ten acres and mr D T dark of pro 70 subscribed for trees to the amount of 1500 and at payson alone orders for thirty acres are pi ven athile each day the above named nurseryman nurserymen nursery men are canvassing the county procuring orders for thousands of trees they say that they intend incorporate ing with the canning company and increase the stock from eight to one hundred aad that just a few days ago the business had been successfully cess fully arranged etc now while we do not doubt the sincerity of enose who subscribed to start the industry we think it nothing but justice on the pait of those gentlemen the instigators of the the nursey busi ness to or in some way inform the people whether there will ever be an incorporation as mentioned or whether the honest and unsuspecting farmer is being duped by ane nefarious schemes of our eastern has so often been the case with us in utah it does appear that if the undertaking is legitimately founded the people ought to to be informed and then be prepared to support it but as it is our farmers do not know the gentlemen haying said nothing through the press or in public commensurate to the subject they need not fear as it seems that other local nursery men will stop in the field and destroy trade for we are all heartily in favor of the move if it is properly founded A CITIZEN salem january 24 1591 at |