Show IOTAH PEACH ORCHARDS I What Eighty Acres in Weber I County Produced f L I i ORCHARDIST HAS FORTUNE I Not InconiQ From His Trees I Amounts to 20000 a L Delegates to Irrigation Congress Astonished As-tonished at the Fruit on the Jdc 1 GriiT Farm North Ogden j TRmUNID SPECIAL Ogden i Sept 11 lA party of visitors and prrss riprusjontulives at the Irrigation I luneresH piloted by a Tribune correspond entrdetermined tu put to the test some of the seemingly Incredible talcs they hade had-e heard regarding the enormous yield of orchard that I could properly r fruit iron an olchalll 1 bo termed L commercial plantation Tho 1ina at command was altogether too limited lim-ited to admit of a visit to I tho numerous Finall but excellent orchards 5n the various vari-ous fruit districts of Weber county so It was ducmcd best to select only one and WlS tlcme that a large one Accordingly n drive of r I six mliea landed tho visitors at the eighty acre orchard owned by Mr EG McGrllt I < 3CI 11cGrlr I near North Ogden Mr McGrrc was found buaily engaged etipeiintending a force of thirty t plckcra and packers who were wrapping ant box Ins peaches for the Eastern market Jlocognlslng In tin party some Iowans from the neighborhood of his former home Mr MeG nfl most cheerfully relinquished his work and volunteered to show where hid peaches grow Before reaching the location nf the heavilyladen trees It was announced that thirtylive carloads of peaches alone would In supplied by this orchard t merchants 1 Dca Molnes la Strange looks were exchanged but no nen her of the party had the temerity to express further doubt hi th t < very near presence of the promised proof The Elberla and Cooper plats of trees k were visited I I thu party walking sometimes V some-times creeping beneath bonding branches taxed with loads of peaches Mr McGrifC estimated the yield of peaches l that would 4stmalocl come from different trees placing tho output at livo to ten bushels to the tree To say that tho visitors were surprised and delighted does not express it Amazed mil astounded more nearly express S hoI I I ho-I ct Again and again did l members of the part endeavor to express their entire ali complete conviction OK to the wonderful wonder-ful production of Utah orchards until asa as-a last superlative one gentleman said Well I am prepared to believe even u lie about Vlnh fruit lie was immedi nlelv put to tho lest being told that It is r1 impossible to I tell a lie about the greatness I of llah He I stood bv his assertion for he iHIkved the last statement While Mr MeGrliT does not tell his business t busi-ness affairs to the world a very little n computation upon the bash of the ruling li Ices of peaches f o b at Ogden puts the returns fron thirtyfive carloads at from JISMO to fiOOOO the latter figures bMii tacitly admitted by Mr McGrlff lun It is known that the Krapes prunes Mid peirn on tho I McGrlff fruit plantation I tills Jtm i will far more than pay the cx I I IILS 7 incut rod for all labor ali boxing of tho total crop or 190i the neat prolH of 1OGCO Is in sight 1 for the poach yield In addition to 4030 peach trees of standard stand-ard sorts the McGrlff farm contains i1ov sprln eral thousand prune trees a good Itling of winter pears i and fiUCOO grapevines grape-vines The most gratifying SUCCCS I that hag attended Mr McGriffs efforts the hist two aiaaons has not come without previous previ-ous vlclssluideH The fruit trees that were planted at this beginning were destroyed by grasshoppers and the second planting was leI wiped out HO that the third sett ins of fruit trees was necessary before be-fore the real start for an orchard was accomplished ac-complished eight years ago Tho persistency persist-ency and norvu displayed by 1 Mr MoGrlft is reward that is both s brnglnp a now certain I cer-tain mid most Batltifactory |