Show IMF CULTURE great interest is taken in it BY FARMERS they have been ordering many trees for the coming season A gentleman of prominence in utah county when solicited recently to plant out tin extensive orchard made the remark 1 I consider the industry one of the most prominent of our cea our people have been slow to take hold of it for want of a sufficient market and now that the market lias come we have no fruit to supply it 1 am willing to encourage the enterprise by planting out a ten acre orchard during the past six months many of our people have followed the example jf the gentlemen above referred to J Y clark of prove in planting out a fit teen acre orchard and a large number of others in this vicinity are following the example by planting from one to five acres and it is safe to aay that fully two hundred acres will be planted here the coming spring in the vicinity of payson there are already about fifty acres contracted for and fully two hundred will be planted during the next year the leading men of payson are taking hold of the matter and among tho names of those win have already contracted for trees and the amount to be planted by is the following 0 0 Sch raman 5 acres FA highman 5 acres C S harper 5 acres R M harper 5 acres samuel frankena Fran kuna 3 acres geo montague 2 acres J J aylor 1 acre embt snyder L A green joshua hone and jag knight each one acre JA pierce and J K sheen of salem will each plant about one acre while many others will follow with larger amounts the occasion for this sudden awakening at payson is the recent establishment of an extensive canning factory at that point mr M B tilden of came in there last fall and organized a company the people of davson took hold of the subject with their usual vim and enterprise and today to day the machinery is on the ground end nearly in place in the building the old simons mill will be used and makes a very suitable and convenient site and before fall the people of utah will be abe to eat payson canned goods of all kinds we are sending out of this territory annually hundreds of thousands of dollare fur canned goods which might as well be saved to us the canning factory run to its lull capacity will consume not lesa than 1000 bushels of fruit per day and will employ from to ajo hands mostly girls and the amoun of money paid out not less than per month the amount of money distributed tri buted will make business lively and tha towns that support such an establishment lish ment will surely grow it has been demonstrated bv mr vm wadley of pleasant grove that the fruit business is vesy profitable if arly attended to mr wadley has now about 12 acres in his orchard and we anre informed that he is taking from it yearly from to from 70 prune trees alono he has reaped a profit 0 this last year or at the rate of 1400 per acre and yet these trees have only been set a few years standard pears plums and prunes are the most profitable profi tabe fruit and we are informed that mr wadley has never had a failure in these three fruits and other persons state that their experience has been the same when from 1000 to 1500 an acre can be made from land in fruits it should stimulate people to engage in the business on a largo scale and not occupy all their land with crops kajing only from 10 to 25 an acre another feature is that fruit trees require anly about one fourth tho amount of 1 water that other crops do and in localities where water is scarce one acre of grain can be turned int four of fruit ve would not desire everyone to go into the fruit business recklessly but to use great care and caution in the matter beoula haye been duped and swindled so much in purchasing habing fruit trees aion is needed are reliable nurseries and they are alia ones which should be sought by parties who are intending to go into the enterprise lu california hundreds and even thousands of acres are to be found in one orchard the business pays well there and why cannot it be made to pay here in utah where ane finest flavored fruits largest in size and most prolific pro lifis crops known in the world are to be found |