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Show FRUIT UNINJURED BY FROST IN TEN YEARS Editor Tho Tribune: In company with A. "W. CeBcy of tho County Horticultural society, tho writer completed his visits to Granger, Hunter nnd Pleasant Green, and can report a prosperous and favor-ablo favor-ablo section of tho county. Wo found that there exists from Pleasant Green around the rim of the holtoin lands extending ex-tending ln a scmlclrclo to tho Jordan Narrows a strip of land very free from frost, ono peach orchardist reporting that for ton yenrs tho frost had not injured his peach blossoms nor fruit, and that the orchard had borno abundantly for that period. Another person had sold the oarllost tomatoes to-matoes in the Stato on tho Salt Lako market from his land, which is a conrse gravel. Theso gravel spots are frequent; alBo sandy, loamy soil, nnd still others of a clavcy nature. Thero Is a tine peach . belt of hundreds of acns In this district, and for apples the land Is unsurpassed, Judging from a certain orchard of seven yoars loaded with tho Jonathnn and Ben Davis varieties, noarly froo from worms, clean cultivated, of about ten acres, low-headed low-headed trees, bearing from flvo to ten busholn per tree, and to which an apple-man apple-man who takes prizes from the Stato fair pulled his hat off, fpr they were bucIi magnificent speclmons. Tins soil was a sandy, gravelly formation forma-tion with a clay subsoil, having a perfect per-fect underdralnagc, ulso an air drainage, drain-age, ns ho was on a slopo of tho bench. We visited another orchard ln particular and noted the unripe tomatoes and over-rlpo over-rlpo grapes. TIiIb man sold on our market mar-ket this year D00 bushels of tomatoes nt DO cents por bushol. from one-fourth of an acre, and 4000 pounds of grapes at 5 cents from one-eighth of an acre, and In answer to tho question, "How much land will support a small family?" said that five acres would. This being so. why lenvo and go to strange lands, not so productive, produc-tive, nor cllmato so tine as ours? Wc found the people anxious for a canning factory and evaporation plant and willing to contract for supplying tnose plants; so all that Is needed jh somo ono to organize and the peoplo will subscribe for stock ln a co-operative factory, as the distance to market Is a decided drawback to the development of the county. vTho pumps this year hnvo glvn all tho water required and the yields of' all kinds wero plentiful. JOHN E. QOX, Assistant Secretary Salt Lake County Horticultural Society. Salt Lake City,, Oct. 25, lOOt |