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Show j " . ' : . : i ' " V w.r v . .3 ' k u a. . ' I- w . 1 .... i -, , " v - a r ';;' . r-- - a r--v -j r-. - a f ' l" " " ' : C.-A.' Ekktnlooper of "the State 1 Board of .Horticulture , arrived from Ogderf last sight 'and has been confer-ring confer-ring with Sfcretary Tiylor of the board today. 7ha aea by a representative of THE TELEGRAM thie morning lit. Kiciealooper yolanteered aeveral itemi of Bfre concerniatf the. fruit-. Industry in Weber county of. treat interest.; Joseph Marshall of the Marshall Mercantile., company and O. H. Eicken? leoptr.wiil build a large packing-house j plant, at. PleaaantvJeTf thie winter. Ther are, now selecting- the pie of land i tha ite. and -wiil- tegia. to 'build right twar. "The building will 1 be two etory, will.be i070 feet la i. di i-menaiont, and' will contain' 4200 'iequare feet of floor eier.,Xn. evapo-rating, evapo-rating, plant in all. probability win -be built.U connection with it?'.v ' : ; ;i v- The plant U erected principaUr wxtlr an eye" to the- peach trade; which- ll in creasinff rtpidly in that viciajty. TtJ Flant will have a packing capacity ox rom forty to tfty carload. All 'the fruit' and more, too, than it can handle is raised in its Immediate neighbor hood and will be forthcoming for peeking peek-ing purposes. The prospects cf 'the packing plant and evaporating plant is gving a great impe'tus to fruit culture the neighborhood. In this vicinity,-aa vicinity,-aa In all parte ef-Weber county; many young orcharde have been eet out re-cently re-cently and are coming into bearing, and next spring will be the greatest season yet for the planting of young 'The'new an'terprise will -deal entirely! with the Eastern noarketThe members of the corporation are directly eoa netted with St. Louis .firm and have an unlimited market assured. - Said- Mr. Eickenlooper: , "Tiers is no limit in the Eastern market for Utah . fruit when, it . i first daes. When our fruit U put BPU nd received ia first .class .condition. Eastern East-ern bnyere take it up ee fast as we can send it to them. Sixty carloads of pesches- -were ' shipped : from A orth t)gden and '. Pleatantview alone the present season.' ' ' iV , Mr. Eickenlooper says that the recent re-cent win d stonn - damaged the. apple crop" of Weber county .probably to .the I extent of $25,000. the trace all over the county were practically stripped of apples. , Most' or these, however, were saved. Few fruit trees,- strange to say, -were blown down, so that the chancca for an SveTage or large crop next v-ar were not ' materially ' Jeeeened. The present season 'e crop is the heaviest ever raised in Weber county. Bishop Eickenlooper has with "lira in the eity samples from . his sesson 's crop sf wiaesap apples. It is afe ta say that If th samples shewn are fair average vt the orop nothing to exceed ex-ceed it hne ever been raiaed anywhere. Th. wihesapa- - are- flawless beauties, and are fully twice the size of thj r. dinary wineeap. Es raised 300 bushels of thia variety of f rnlt this year. In connection with the increased demand-for Utah fruit in 'the Kast.'eo noticeable Utely, Fisher Harris said this morning: "On:of the great contributory con-tributory causes was ths winning of the sweepstake cop la Idaho, as the Ir-. rigation congresa September -8 to 8.-In 8.-In 1903 the Idaho fruit growers carried car-ried -off the cup offered by Senator Clark. This year no sooner -was it an-, nounced in the press that we had carried car-ried off the- sweepstake prize than an increased demand for' Utah - fruit was noticeable." ' ' : |