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Show SHORT FRUIT CROP BRINGS HIGH PRICE BRIG HAM CITY, July 3. Brigham fruit shippers were busy yesterday filling fill-ing orders for Idaho, Wyoming and Montana points in order to supply the dealers iu those states for the Fourth of July trade. Raspberries formed the principal shipments yesterday, while cherry shipments ship-ments were also quite brisk. The extremely ex-tremely light cherry crop this season has made the price soar skyward, and for the first time in history growers are receiving 8 aud 10 cents per pound for cherries, and dealers in the above-named above-named states are paying from 11 to (3 cents a pound for the fruit from Brig-ham, Brig-ham, Even at those high prices the demand is greater than the supply. The price paid for cherries to the grower is double the rate paid in former years, and the farmer with but a half crop receives the same revenue from his orchards as during ordinary seasons with a full crop.' The raspberry crop is exceptionally good, considering the heavy losses by frost sustained in almost al-most every other variety of fruit. Apricots will be so scarce that the price that will maintain on that fruit will be almost prohibitive. It is safe to say that the loss by frost to this variety in many sections of the fruit belt will equal 90 per cent. Apricots are not ripe yet, but will be on the market in a week or ten days. |