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Show AHIZOXA I'liODUCTS SEN T IlKllli, Shipment of Cantaloups and drapes Received. Salt Lake Tribune. Is Arizona to become a competitor against California for fruit in the Salt Lake market? This is a question that will probably be decided wjien a carload of cante-loupes cante-loupes and grapes, now at the Kio Grande Western yards and consigned to a prominent commission house, has been disposed of and the books balanced. bal-anced. The car, No. K31, is one of the largest refrigerator cars in use. It is marked Wells, Fargo & Co., and was loaded at Phoenix, Ariz. The fruit was in good eatable condition when packed and reached the city in excellent shape. It will be thrown upon the market today. to-day. "If this initial shipment proves a success financially, then California will have received a body blow." .-aid a dealer last night, "l-'ruit raised in a dry. irrigated country is always preferable pre-ferable to that raised in a hot and damp climate like that of California. The former fruit may be smaller, but it is claimed that it has a flavor that the California fruit does not posses.-.. Utah has usually looked opon Califor- j nia for her supply of grapes. She may soon turn ln-r attention to Arizona." j |