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Show EXPECTS GOOD FIT HELD William M. Roylance Is Pleased With Conditions in Utah County. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, Aus. 19. William M. Roylance, Roy-lance, president of the "William M. Roylance Roy-lance company, has returned from an e.-.-tended trip through the east, with the object of getting the best possible prices for fruits to be shipped from this district. dis-trict. Mr. Roylance says that conditiona In the east "are much unsettled because of asitarion on cold storage and the high cost of living. ' Then, too, he adds, there is a great shortage of sugar. In Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois Mr. Roylance was told that no housewife could buy more than two pounds of sugar at one time, which, he says, will curtail the consumption consump-tion of fruit. Mr. Roviance says the peach crop in Utah county will be the largest ever produced pro-duced here, and that ,n ices promise to he good. The quality as to size, he thinlis, may not be quite up to that of 1918, however, due to the shortage of water in many sections. The apple crop promises to be only fair and the pear and prune crops also will be light. Mr. Roylance estimates that there will be 450 to 500 cars of peaches shipped from Utah county and about seventy-five cars of other deciduous fruits, together with about 150 cars of apples, making a total of about 800 cars. With the high prices, he says, farmers will have an aouudance of money with which to pay for all of their domestic wants. |