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Show BRIGHAM CITY FRUIT CROP IS AGAIN HEAVY Prices Also Are the Highest That Have Pre vailed and Growers Are Happy, Special to The Tribune. BRIGHAM CITY, July 24. Brlgham City is busy these days harvesting one of the best general fruit harvests enjoyed for some time. Regardless of the act that a recent hailstorm vLsfted this section sec-tion and ruined a. large amount of the crop, especially cherries and strawberries, there still remained a fairly good crop of cherries. Apricots are fairly good, and cherries, dewberries and other small fruits are exceptionally good. For the past two or three weeks a carload of the varieties have been shipped out every night by the American Express company, being consigned to points north of McCammon, Idaho. All shipments for points east pf McCammon j have been shipped on the Yellowstone Special. From one to four large brig-gage brig-gage trucks loffded have been shipped on this trnln. It is figured thut equally as murh fruit is hauled out in automobiles automo-biles and wagons r.s that which Is shipped out by express, so the crop has yielded about two carloads daily for several days, and the shipments are still being kept up at this rate. Never before have such high prlceg prevailed pre-vailed as the present. Strawberries sold throughout the season locally around $2.50 I n case of twenty-four pint cups; raspher- j ries remninerj at $2 a case; cherries from 4 to 8 e'-nts n pound, according to vari- ety : dewberries remained at between ', I $2.25 and ?2.7a per rase of twenty-four 1 pint eupe, find apricots were from $1.50 i I to $2 per bushel. ! Wbile the crovfl in pome sections were : regarded as very light, the returns In I doli:;rs were much greater than during j many seasons wlf-n there have ht"n ; bumper crops. Krlgham pe.iches have n.mlo their appearance on the mnrket. A new variety has hef-n sprung on the markets; it is the Red Bird, n early white cling, and one of the nvst luarions pt-anhps in point of flavor ;md color that j hns ever been grown in this locality. i |