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Show A MIMATLKi: CALIFORNIA. It is very doubtful if anyone living in Utah today, in the most souring flights of his imagination can picture to himself him-self the matchless resources aud wonderful won-derful possibilities of Salt Lake and Utah valleys as a fruit-growing section. The entire distance from Oguun to Spanish Fork is a little California, and in it every semi-tropical fruit can be grown of the most tender texture and delicate flavor. Our strawberries, raspberries', peaches aud pears cannot be surpassed by any , produced ou tho Paciiio coast, and the time is not very far distaut when all of the laud in these valleys will be much too valuable to be used for general agriculturo, stock raising or the growing or alfalfa. It will all have a value of from $400 lo $K0 &Q acre, and it will be cut up into small tracts of live and ten acres each, which with the perfect per-fect cultivation given in California, will yield a living for a good sized family. So little has this sourco of wealth been developed that there is not sufficient suffi-cient quantity to supply home demand, but it is owiug entirely to a lack of bushes and trees rather than to any defect de-fect in our climate and soil. Then iu ten years to come we expect to see hundreds of thousands of bushels of fruit shipped out ' of the territory, into the less favored states of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Wo expect, too, to see canneries can-neries established here in Salt Lake and other ' places, which will annually preserve thousands of cases of fruits and vegetables which will bo used in every state in tho union and in lands beyond tho sea, Perhaps in the interior of tho Dark Continent tin caus may be seen ten years hence bearing a paper label something like this: "Zion Brand of Cherries, Put Up by Blank & Co. of Salt Lake" It is no wonder that Wilson Barrett, iu a speech recently made here, spoke of this as a "Valley of Peace." A trip from this citv to Spanish Fork at this time of the year is like passing through a continual paradise. This is the orchard or-chard and vineyard of the groat middle west. Like the - laud that stretched away before the ontranoed vision of Moses, this is tho promised and favored land. Truly a little Eden. |