Show the growth of the frait industry in A paragraph in the standard of sunday morning copied from a southern exchange caused some anxiety in regard to the tomato crop according to the provo exchange tha tomato crop is a failure in that part of the country investigation proved that the crop in these parts was in good condition A few vines seem to have been blighted but not to such an extent as to injure the largo crops which are now forming it will be interesting to know in this connection that ogden has two canneries that will be in full blast this season turning out between four and five hundred thousand cans of fruit the firm of A C mckenna co has ordered three carloads of 3 pound eans one carload of which embracing f now on hand more will bo ordered if necessary this establishment will can from three to four thousand cans per day for the season with capacity for a great many more they have seventy acres of tomatoes contracted for which are now in excellent condition besides this they expect to be abla to take as many tomatoes as they can get as well as greengages engages gre peaches plums and other fruit the firm of lundey kershaw has just finished a building feet and furnished it with the necessary appliances for canning aud pickling and also for the manufacture of vinegar and jellies this firm have made arrangements to put up in the neigh boyhood of 3 pound cans bo sides a largo amount of gallon goods in apples act they have in the neighborhood of 20 acres of tomares tomates growing and will be able to use as I 1 ganv more as they can get in connection with the other fruits they expect to can about tons both firms will purchase tomatoes at 10 per ton it has been demonstrated that between twenty and thirty tons of tomatoes may be raised on one acre since encouragement for a market has been given the farmers improvement in the fruit crop has been made thus one farmer has made arrangements to furnish within three years any amount of one kind of fruit having planted a large orchard of one class of trees there are many others following the example and within a short time we may look for orchards that can supply the canneries to their full capacity there is no trouble in disposing of the fruit mr lundey stated to a reporter that he had a proposition for all the fruit he could put up from afire east of the missouri and both the canning firms have no doubts as to their ability to dispose of a 1 the fruit they are prepared to can the trouble lies in their not being able to gt s much of one kind of fruit as they can use the flavor of the fruit grown in this region cannot be excelled and the fruit that was put up in ogden last year has caused a brisk demand wherever it reached for utah canned fruit surrounded as it is with the most fertile fruit pro part of the ten atory as well as the best shipping facilities ogden city is destined to become the great center for the rapidly growing fruci industry of utah tho farmers cai assist in its growth which will resu 4 to their own good and the merchant can aid by their patronage until surrounding states and territories get their canned fruit from ogden fetah |