| Show dixie peaches sell good at salt lake city editor IN COUNTY N INES ENN 8 dear sir I 1 think I 1 it partly my autv now that I 1 have returned from a little experimental trip t bait salt lake to write a few lines to you I 1 feel quite encouraged regarding the prospects on the commercial market for for our dixie products ibe rhe people in our state capital had the aunita to eat our dixie peaches and while they sold like california or anges off the retail ands it 5 scents cents each or 2 pounds for 35 05 cent cents aill the con consumer zumer was eager to buy them I 1 think dixie has marketed leaches for the biggest price ever obtained for peache in this stale state our peaches sold for 62 2 25 per 20 pound box I 1 don t think cili call forma fornia peaches ever reached this price it seems to me mr wallis that the people of dixie would ne nev v er have any trouble in disposing f f their early fruit and vegetables at prices that would greatly build up our country why do the people of oui state have to send out to the california groin growers ers a day nine out of the year for fruits and beget ables that should be raised in our country only a few days ago while standing in one of the corn com mission houses in salt lake the manager showed me an order of 35 for vegetables and fruit being first shipped from california and hurricane to salt lake and then back to milford to one of the busi ness houses at that place our fault having been hauled to the railroad by auto truck reached salt lake in good condition altho we had bad bome trouble with small peaches hiving having been hauled by wagon to lund they reached the market in bad condition FRANK BARBAR dixie nursery hurricane july julys 8 |
