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Show Dried Fruits Scarce. One feature of the local market that strikes the housewife with great force is the extraordinarily high price of dried or evaporated fruit. Apricots are selling at 18 cents per pound, peaches at 15 cents and apples the same. In ordinary years these sell for 6 and 7 cents per pound and -Utah dried fruit sells at times at 3 cents per pound. These unusual prices are accounted for by the short ci'op and by the unusual un-usual demand caused by the large consumption con-sumption of dried fruit in the army. Large quantities have been purchased , and shipped to the army by the federal government. One of the worst features fea-tures of the situation is that this commodity com-modity will be very much higher before it is lower. Salt Lake Herald. This is "Dixie's1 ' -epporta-nfty. Oar fruit crop is good in 'some -sections 'oT i the eounty. Let it be put up in first-class first-class shape and it will command a good figure. , M |