Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-09-16 | Page 1 | Brigham City Honors Man Who Planted Peach Trees

Brigham City Honors Man JIan Who Planted Peach Trees V x J 5 Lc Arn Arni i 2 H e q is 1 j l V o AV v w I JOHN WRIGHT ON Brigham Pioneer Who Planted Plante First Peach Tree in ill Box Elder County in 1855 Every man maD woman and child in Brig Brigham melt ment work in the valley Mr paid 1 for peach stones which he ham acted as a host yesterday ye for the set t out in what is now Brigham Most annual Peach day da but out John of the peach stones produced slips and was wag the most interesting host of or all from the best of or the lot Mr righton notwithstanding the fact tact that few ex excepting picked the first Box Elder county count peach the other pioneers knew that in 1858 the old man with the white beard heard for For more than fifty years ears Mr lr whom every one had a pleasant word ord righton has hu lived at Brigham and al although was 88 the man who panted p anted the first though the biggest pay he ever received peach tree in Box Elder county for a single days work wa wu 96 4 he has Mr was tas born bum in England acquire enough of the worlds goods and he tame came to r ah in ISO by br the ox to make him hin comfortable and entirely team route routt M in Salt Lake Luke In dependent He was one of the or 1855 hf hp h wa d at d with ith Lorenzo Lurenzo rs of lf f th First F r t National bank of Snow to go to hat is i now nov Box Elder Hidei Brigham and ad is i n a director of the county and take h hn l s gl gc If il i the setti b bank ink