Show A UTAH PRUNE SHIPMENT I The shipment of Ephraims first carload car-load of prunes today for the Eastern market will be watched with interest by the people of Utah The shipment ship-ment is said to be of unusually unusual-ly I fine quality We trust that It may be so found at the point of consignment con-signment that It may make a lasting impression on those who buy the fruit and that the excellence of grade maybe may-be fully maintained in all future shipments ship-ments of which there ought to be many It Is to be hoped that the shipper ship-per will inform the people of the result re-sult of this venture so that if it Is successful suc-cessful II may be emulated and If not that the fruitraisers may know why The time has fully come to push Utah fruitraising as a business to make it one of the great productive interests of the State The lesson at the Irrigation Congress has istirred the horticulturists ot this State to extra efforts to overcome the evil which lost them the silver cup for the best fruit exhibit Utahs evil was the orchard pest the worm that dieth not until It has done Its evil work All I know that Utah by reason of its supe nor climate variable soils and different levels of elevation can find some locally I local-ly that is especially adapted to the culture and production of each of the different kinds 1 or varieties of CruHa spot where that particular fruit can be raised In size und flavor unrivaled Thetas The-tas is to find 2 Just that locality and the variety and bring them together Brigham Brig-ham Citys general excellence In this regard is well established and her specialty is peaches JSphrafm may become be-come equally renowned for prunes And there Is a vast area of bench lands bordering all the valleys that seem especial es-pecial > adapted to apples of all varieties varie-ties the special advantages of one tract as to some particular variety being yet I to demonstrate The East is beginning to recognize the fact that Irrigation fruit is superior to all others and Utah can by a proper skill and effort come In for her full share of the trade which I this recognition Is bound to establish |