Show THE FIRST PEACHES in connection with reach peach day we take pleasure in printing the following account of the beginning of the industry handed us a day or two ago by a friend of the subject ot of this article ORIGIN OF 07 PEACHES IN BRIGHAM CITY with the return ot of peach day we are thinking of the early cultivation of peaches in box elder county and heir their present prominence and boon to our community we are pleased to inform the readers leaders of our paper and all that enjoy our buclous fittie that the person who fostered the first peach trees in our city Is still alive and resides here he was called in 1855 by prest lomenzo snow to aid in settling our now famous city after afier erecting a log hut lie return t ed to salt lake city in the fall to fo the purpose of 0 bringing his family to their new home and it was whilst securing provisions that he saw some peach stones in the store being curious he asked what they had them for whereupon lie he was told they were for sale and selling at one dollar for one hundred stones ile he paid for one hundred ot of them and upon le ie turning to Bilg biggham liam city put them in fit a hole where they sprouted up in the spring ot of about the time of the move south there shoots had grown large enough to blossom and upon the return of the people to their homes li in the tall fall of the first pe peaches allies were picked in brigham president snow and judge wright pronounced the fruit of these trees as buclous as t that of the east the people wore were advised to plant trees but where should they get the small trees when the transportation to and from the states was by ox ten team tit had dh no now invaded the country when 3 plants were secured from the he phoenix nursery tit at bloomington illinois most it if not all of which were planted in this city acting as agent he secured wholesale prices and let his neighbors have their trees at the retail pi ices fees realizing scarcely sufficient clent for his trouble which prices were about the same as the young trees sell for today ever since those earl early das our friend sir mr wm has done clone much to improve the varieties of fruit as well as lowers flowers mr is still hale and hearty and in passing his premises today you oil can notice their appearance as being those of a lover of nature mr gliton lon still ierides on the place where the first stones were planted fifty one deais eais ago located one block west of Comp tont art gallery in the flourishing lays days of corinne our friend sold apples as fine file as can be raised anywhere which measured IS inches in circumference and six birches in diameter being of uniform size and free from pests for those apples mr received the nea neal 1 sum of per bushel without the necessity of naming his price in those days he also sold the first cherries of ex celent variety for a pound and the purchasers being willing to pick them to see the prominence and the source of revenue which has been attained by this fruit it is with a happy if oot ot a proud feeling that tha t I 1 mr it looks back upon tile the opening of those one cent peach stones with their tender spouts which marked the dawn of so great an industry n du stry |