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Show PEACHES OF GREAT SIZE A box of peache3, each peach welching welch-ing a pound and two onuces, a;i shipped to Park City from tee orchard of ('hnrles Taylor oi Klverdik yes-ti yes-ti day. An HinusinR thinp occurred In con-ni-ctbrn with this shipment. Three NVw York men, .icioinpan'ff. by o-i ORdoiilte, sat down at dinner, and !, local man began to pralne tne frut of this section. "Why," said the Ogdea;. e Krov.' peaches here as large as that suKDr bowl." "Well, I like, boosters.' sal 1 o:i? oi the straniteris. "but you Utah people seo things exaggerated beyon.J ail reason." The Ogden man walked hli newlv-niade newlv-niade friends to thu Ogden Si ale bank, wherp the box of rjeach.es hal been left temporarily, and each Xo.v Y"rk-er Y"rk-er In turn expressed astonishment, of fered apJlocles and then tried to buy the fruit, offering 25 cents for on? peach weighing a pound and a quarter. quar-ter. Mr. Taylor sayH he has nine acres f five-year-old trees, planted on a sandy soil on Ogden Heights, and that from his orchard hn picked 102 cas.? In which only two rows of peachos could bo crowded Into a box. the fruit was so large. |