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Show I No More Peaches I In Car Load Lots H Successful l'onch Yi-ur for Those Who H Contracted Apple Ontlook H L'ncerlalii. H' The pencil crop, or that purt o( It H. that will bo shipped In car lond lots, H. l:,i nil been gathered mid sent nway. H Wbllo the market In Utah has gone H to pleccH, a satisfactory prlco won H" rHzd fur those that wuro sent H' away, the price puld being from GO H, to 0 cents per bushel, net. Most of IjV" thcra were shipped lu bushel baskets, H, uhlcli enabled the growers to gather H much more of their crop than If they H tad been compollcd to wrap the H peaches and pa6k In cases. At the H present time peaches may be had al-H al-H most for tho asking and peddlers arc H refusing to haul them to Salt Lako H city, where tho bottom ban dropped H out of tho market also. I, During tho lust mouth over 100 H car loads of fruit hnvo been shipped H from Pleasant Grove nlone. Most at H them being peaches and which were H almost equally divided between the H, three shippers Hoylnnco mid com-H com-H pany, Wndley and White and tho Utah H Fruit a rowers' Association. Hoy-Hs Hoy-Hs lance at l'rovo, for a time was send-H send-H Ing out peaches at tho rate of n train H load per day, and wns pnybfg lu H gcs ulono over $3,000 per week. H This Arm still has over twenty girls H, employed here packing n car loud H of prunes per duy. They will com-H com-H racnee on winter pears noon, nnd will H probably shin live cars of them. E. II Peck, on tho Bench, marketed 12 car loads of peachets from his own orchard, but has lt'00 bushels which got too tlpe to ship nud which ho will cut and cvnporato. Experiences this season proved tho wisdom of those ho sold their crojm early lu the year. Apples will bo next on tho market. The crop is up to an nvernge and tho quality la number one, but owing to the Impossibility or shipping any apples ap-ples to Europe this season, tho liinr-'ket liinr-'ket Is still uncertain. Preparations, however, aro being inndu to iinck and ihjp a largo tonago nnd it is hoped that the mnrket will bo it romunern-tire romunern-tire one. Recent government rcporlu for September gives tho per cont pro. dilctlon of tho Utah peach crop as being 100 per cent, while tho por cent for tho United States is 03. Tho Utah applo crop is estimated at 8U,000 bushels, bu-shels, as compared with 010,000 bushels bu-shels for 1913, whllo tho applo production pro-duction from tho entire United States Is estlmntod at 220,000,000 bushols as compared with 145,000,000 Inst year. |