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Show HOW BANANAS GET TO THE SALT LAKE MARKET Bundles of Fruit Arc Green When They Arrive and ' V. Arc Ripened Artificially, duck season, as a result of which the price of chickens Is expected to go up. Grapes and strawberries Kill continue on -the local market. . Prices on other products are as fol. lows: Apples, 30c to 60c a peck; figs, 10c per package; lemons, per dosen, 25c or. anges. per dosen, 40o to 60c; bananas, per dozen, 25c to 40c; pears, per pound, 5c, by the bushel, SI to J1.25; limes, 20c per doaen; grapes, black, 15o a pound; Tokay, 10c; pomegranates; 12Hc per pound. Pineapples, 25c to 40c each; eulnces, 6c per pound. A few weeks age the story of the source of the fruit supply .of the local market was printed In The Telegram, Special attention was, paid to the "banana "ba-nana for the reason that It is on the market the year round and is shipped farther than any other perishable fruit, j Few persons kndw of the care -and treatment f this1 fruit after it reaches the ejty aifl before Jt'f placed on the market Each of the large shipping housei In the elty has what U known, as a banana room. The O-B. -Martin-company has what Is said by experts to be the finest banana roem west of Den- j ver, not excepting San Francisco. The room has a capacity of 450 bunches of the fruit, or about a carload and a half, When the fruit arrives It is usually j frreen and must be placed Into the room n order to ripen. The Martin room is j divided into six department for the handling of the fruit in the different stages. The temperature in each room is kept at the same degree day and night and as the fruit ripens it is moved from room to room until it Is ready to place on the market No guess work will do In this department.- As told in the former story this class of fruit is in charge of a special messenger mes-senger from the time that it leaves he plantation until it reaohea this city, a Journey of nearly 10,000 miles. When Martin & Co. are notified that a car of bananas have left New Orleans for them they at once start their special messenger East At Kansas City he meets the man who ha had charge of the car to that city. The Western man then takes charge of the car and Jt is in his care from there to this city. At each stop of the train he Inspects the car and its contents, by reference to the thermometer, ther-mometer, he can tell the temperature. If too hot be opens some of the ventilators; ventila-tors; If too cold he closes them or lights a fire in the car. Neglect on his part to attend to this work would result In the spolllnr of the entire car of fruit. When the car reaches this city it Is backed to the rear of the etabliehrr.ent and in the space of two hours the fruit la in the banana room. The purprtring feature of it all Is, that after paying for cultivation, harvesting, transportation, both by land and water, special messengers messen-gers and other Incidental expenses, the fruit is sold at from 15c to 40c a dozen. During the week the Martin company haa received two cars of oranges, one of lemons, two of cabbage and one of cranberries. cran-berries. The W. M. Rash company has received a car of cranberries, one of Eastern eggs, one of pweet potatoes and a large shipment of California salmon and Idaho trout. Another week will see the end of the |
