| Show MAKE GRAND SHOWING 31 market arket gardeners association incorporated corp orated last spring proves a blessing and dividend payer the association which was formed by the market gardeners and fruit raisers of davis dav is county last jast spring known as the salt lake market gardeners fruit r growers association has proven 1 I to be a great blessing to the stockholders and those producers who go on the salt lake market dee 4 in many ways has it proven a benefit perhaps the greatest good is in the way of reducing the hours required to go on the market to sell and thereby dis finishing mini shing the torture that comes ji i from the want of sleep and at the tt same time increasing CD the rek V 11 i ft eipps i prior to this company taking hold of this matter some of the would have to leave their homes elray the prey previous precious ious afternoon af hernoon in order to get a good place to stand as the first on the V market naturally got the best 1 place others would work until 10 or 11 at night putting on their loade loads and tit lat madni midnight 0 bt would hitch up a I 1 drive to the city and when they go got there stand around several hours wait in ing 0 until it got time for the buyers to come on the market it frequently happened that some of these people had to be up a night or two in succession before the trip to bownas town as perhaps their watering turns came in the night but still as before said to secure a good platoon place on the market they would have to do 10 lo without sv scarcely arcely any sleep the writer is thoroughly 0 vers ed don on the ter te sacrifice that market gardeners have had bad to make especially if they have had irrigating to do in connection with running 0 to town and most all of them have and therefore thoroughly t appreciates the emancipation ci 16 that the tb promoters of this his incorporation brought to the truck gardeners gard ners by the rating of this company and the providing of the market place in salt lake many of the young boys and the majority of the peddlers from bountiful at least are ara young boys who use used d to go down to stay over tight were subjected to all kinds of temptations incident to city life fife since the mar ket place has been established some peddlers would go down in the morning mo sell out and return aiom horns 2 a mouth month or two at a time without over ever going up town it itwara was a moneymaking money making and a anoney lavint concern for the stockholders these ers rs who owned four shares of stock in the company got their stalls practically free as the dividends they received on their stock clock off offset set the rent of their balls stalls so go many non ori ers rented ranted stalls that the corn com tany was able to pay all rents due adjacent property and other expenses as well as the salary of the manager A stock dividend of per cent and a ten per cent cash dividend was paid the stockholders the company is not selling any snore mora stock now it seemed uphill up hill work for the promoters of this enterprise in the beginning a and for a long time it seemed like they were wera making scarcely any headway but they finally succeeded in ac comp lishing what had appeared for or years io toba baan impossibility the officer j and directors of 1 the company are john ff H barlow jr president J T williams V pres D F smith sec and treas the foregoing together a with wilford wi iford tuttle tattle W W muir franklin smith A J and frank cutler form the board of directors D F P smith had charge of the renting e of the stalls and the general management of the company during tb the e summer mont months lisand and his bis associates speak of him in the b highest 19 best terms in the able and ef fikiet manner in which he handled bandied the business end of the institution during duriac the winter months while there is but little business to attend to john H barlow jr is is in in charge of the stalls and other business as his wholesale business is located in the vicinity where the peddlers stand to sell their wares when the market gardening gard en ang business was at its height in the summer there were as many as teams on the market from points between provo and ogden |
