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Show 'Ik, MWWWMrtWO- -- t TRUTH. CHATTER. clean, nice luscious fruit and ship it to market at a good price. They would in the mud pulling and rather (Being the personal opinions of the cutting grovel the tops off a lot of beets writer, and for which no one else is in ;han pack peaches in tissue paper with their Sunday duds on. The orchards any manner responsible.) are a sight to behold. The pruning doesnot to writer The expect knife spraying is achieve any great degree of popularity looked is neveras used and in face of the upon flying by the publication of the following, Divine Providence, who sent the butbut perhaps it will accomplish some terflies to deposit eggs in the apples good, even if those it hits below the and the grubs to devour them. The only thing raised for canning is the tobelt do resent it. To begin with, it mato, and that grows easily, else it may be stated as a bald fact that, tak- would be passed up. Instead of keeping the Utah farmer by and large, he ing money at home we distribute thouis about as lonesome a bit of useful- sands and tens of thousands, yes hunness as can be found in any state, not- dreds of thousands to other states withstanding the older portion stand every year, because it is so much up in meeting and tell about coming easier to raise carrots. - I sonal observations the judgment of the writer is that when the work al- j thousands and tens of thousands of sheep roaming our ranges, we send to Chicago for mutton chops. With a wool clip amounting to millions of pounds we buy our fabrics in Boston. With cattle on ten thousand hills the Gould-Rockefel-lo- w . boom-ta-ra-r- steaks and roasts and boiling pieces we eat come to us from Omaha. With the best material for hog raising on earth alfalfa we purchase bacon Scott-Streve- ll from Armour, Cudahy, Swift et al., whose nearest packing houses are on the Missouri river. With a soil which will produce the finest kind of grapes we send to California for them. When cherries of the best sort would flourish here in profusion, we take great delight in shipping them in from Oregon. Instead of spraying our own orchard and pruning the trees into bearing shape, we dispatch checks, drafts and postal orders to Idaho for apples. Utah could raise the finest peaches on earth, but we import the major portion of our supply from We have a territory in the south where the almond grows plentifully, or would if cultivated; where the pecan and the English walnut would weight down the branches, but we send away for them. Around and St. George figs grow, oh, so nicely, but we send to Smyrna for figs. One tree at Toquerville last year yielded a ton of this luscious fruit, and others could be made to do the same, but we are so fond of sending our money out of the country we couldnt live if we didnt. Apricots flourish through the south with but little cultivation, but we would rather get them from California, because it is easier to buy 'them than to rustle a bit. Why, right here at home, if it wasnt for the Chinamen, who run market gardens, we wouldnt have anything in the line of garden truck except carrots. Carrots are the staple. They grow so easily without work. Cal-ifori- a. i i i d Har-rima- Let us look at the situation. With 4 well-behave- w luded to was completed everybody took a rest and have continued it ever since. i d, . here and burning the sagebrush, building the bridges and killing the snakes, and, last but not least, making 'the desert blossom as a rose. From per- j lake do the shouting, but you bet we suit will be that Ogden will be the know where we are at! western terminus and Salt Lake will get only what a large-sizejft jit station on a trunk line is enii.ll of which means that Ogden, titled to receive. That is all. though it occupies one of the rural Jl JK districts of the universe, is sure to But there is more railroad news to cop off the long end no matter how come. The chief engineer of the many railroads come to Salt Lake. Western Pacific has been in and out And how could it be otherwise? We of for several months past, have the outlets to the east, the north and Ogden while he could not be called a and the west. How is any railroad human phonograph, enough has been from the south going to do any busi- learned to satisfy Ogden people that ness unless it comes to Ogden? It is ne represents a bunch of money that a plain case of geography on a map, is looking for another road to the and the cinch is ours. True, the Short coast. In all probability the new road Line with the new name is booked to will be hooked up with the Gould do a wonderful stunt for Salt Lake. lines, and that means the removal But its rails extend to Ogden per- of the Rio Grande shops, etc., from Jit J force, and unless Salt Lake moves Salt Lake to Ogden. Stranger things The mowing machine is left in the into our southern suburbs it will re- have occurred. But enough for this main what it is now a way station time. When it comes to railroads meadow where it was used in cutting on the road to Ogden is on. We are letting Salt .Ogden. Lake do the crowing now, but in our down the last bunch of hay; the rake Jit Jit modest way we may do a little cackwin-rorots in the field where the last Does anyone doubt it? If you have ling Ourselves after the egg is laid. was gathered together; the plow wheels prepare to shed them now. It o rusts in the furrow instead is well known that the San Pedro road C. E. Marks, W. W. Barton, E. H. ot being taken 'to tfie shed is now a Harriman n Drummond and William Jackman proposition. and oiled before being put away and have gone for a two weeks, fishing are and Morgan turning heaven with the sight of all this under his and earth to hold the transcontinen- trip to the Bear River country. Look out for some tall fish stories which very eye, the average Utah farmer tal traffic against the wouldnt do to relate in the school wonders why he doesnt do better, and Gould owns the room, when they return. combination. why it costs him so tarnation much Rio Grande Western. Harriman has for implements and tools. He watches control of the Union Pacific. Now the merchant import turkeys and then, how is the a San Attorneys Edward. McGurrin and chickens from Kansas and goes Pedro going to get anywhere unless Frank J. Gustin have formed a law out jack rabbit shooting so he it breaks Gould will partnership under the firm name of into can have meat for dinner. He none of it andOgden? it needs the Union McGurrin & Gustin, with offices at feels too tired to build a pen and raise Pacific to buildcarry its. eggs to the east- G01, G02 and G03 four to store a but drives mules pigs, ern market. As a matter of fact the ing. They are both bright young lawfor a bucket of Kansas City lard. And San Pedro needs Ogden much more yers with a good clientelle and well so on ad infinitum. than Ogden needs the San Pedro. and favorably known to the public. Jit Jt But it will be welcome. Let her come. s Now the chances are that J Jt of those of the class described What is true of the San Pedro is ON who read this article will kick because equally true of the Moffat road. It Some people think they have been told a bit of truth and would be against all railroad precethat buy good goods that the country press will jump and dent for a road from Denver west- you tohave to go on street. I can howl because their lax and lazy com- ward to stop at Salt Lake. Railroads Mnln sell you just as good munities have been touched up for are not built for fun. No, not even goods, and cheaper. Every article guaranteeyour money shortcomings. But all the time they to please a lot of good fellow news- d--or Expert repairare indulging in this sort of pastime paper writers or a gullible public. back. ing a specialty. Utah money is pouring into Idaho- for When the Moffat road comes west it business. It would prunes and apples, into Oregon for will be looking for THE JEWELER a for receiver' in ninety SAL SICKLE, be lookingcherries and other fruits, into Califor78 Bast Second South St.. nia for walnuts, pecans and almonds days if it had to depend on the local- ; reLake. out of The Salt business .. Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention. across the sea for figs, into other states for rams and ever and ever eastward for meat. What the Utah farmer needs is an injection of ginger every once in a while and then repeat. To-quervil- le - nine-tenth- MAIN STREET -- - - o OGDEN LETTER. While Salt Lake has been throwing several large sized fits over the roseate glow in the railroad sky, the average Ogdenite has been taking it easy, supremely confident that it will be Ogdens turn to laugh when Salt Lake real estate ceases to soar with the hot air which blows in her paper railroads. Not that Ogden is envious we are not that kind. We have no objection to seeing Salt Lake boom on atmosphere, promise-crammeWe hail prosperity whenever it jogs along, and we always open when opportunity Jt Jit at the door. We are not rivIsnt it about time some new blood knocks als of opportunity; we carry no was imported into this country? That knocker. We are content to let Salt some men with more ambition were stock-raiser- s given a chance? Why, if the and farmers were to awaken to the opportunities they have this state would be dotted with canneries. As it is, about ail we make is sugar and we use that for preserving anc sweetening imported fruit. These their-backmollygrubbers would rather bow over a lot of old beets at $2 per ton, or whatever old price the sugar trust places on them, than to pick s d. BY INSTALLING to to Rooty to to to to to to to to to 'oui)tio A Bell Telephone jg You can talk from your office or residence 4.000 OTHER TELEPHONES IN SALT LAKE CITY. And to any point in UTAH, IDAHO, WYOMING AND MONTANA. ..RATES TO SUIT ANY INCOME.. i |