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Show FIGS IN GOMHAERCUUT IITITIrMlTEQ It is indeed gratifying to those who have worked with this objective in view to see the people taking hold of fig planting on a commercial basis. Twenty thousand Magnolia fig trees have been received in Washington county and nearly all of these have been distributed among the farmers of the county in various quantities ranging from a few trees up to as many as 320 to individuals, and the St. George & Santa Clara Bench Irrigation Irri-gation company has planted a ten-acre ten-acre tract with sixteen hundred trees. Following is a list of the approximate approx-imate number of trees distributed in the various towns of the county: Hurricane, including the towns of Virgin, Rockville and Springdale, 6700; St. George, 3600; Santa Clara, including Santa Clara bench, 3000 ; Toquerville, 2100; La Verkin, 1G00; Leeds, 1S00; Washington, 1200. Some of the large planters are: St. George & Santa Clara Bench Irrigation Co. 160 0, Dixie College 320, W. O. Bentley 3 20, Edward H. Snow 320, Geo. W. Worthen 210, F. G. Miles 200, Joe Hafen, Washington, 200, W. G. McMullin, Leeds, 200, E. M. Miekelson, Middleton, 175. The editor is indebted to Postmas ter Walter Cannon for these figures. Mr. Cannon has taken keen interest in this movement heie and is keenly alive and active along these lines. He says he may have overlooked some among the large planters, but that the foregoing list is as near correct cor-rect as he remembers. Horace Stayner of Salt Lake first introduced the Magnolia fig here, and the first ones brought here did so well that people feel justified in going ahead now on a much larger scale. We feel that the two new industries indus-tries in Dixie, fig and egg raising are going to prove big factors in our welfare wel-fare and development. |