| Show a FRUIT TOPS libi manager geo W watkins of the brigham city fruit growers received a letter from the utah fruit exchange last week in which a report was made on a car of peaches shipped by the local firm the particular paragraph ot of that letter bearing on the condition ot of the car was ras as follows wo we have a very fine report on your car P F E that was shipped from DrIg brigham harn city mr white states that it was the finist finest car he be ever saw and the yard inspector at omaha states that it was the best cat car that ever stopped in the omaha yards we think this Is a great big compliment for your growers and your association and it if quality and pack have the the merit to in them that we have T been led to believe they have we certainly should receive considerable more money lor for our fruit than our competitors compe who put up a much inferior pack another instance wherein Drig brigham hain peaches demonstrated their class above the fruit from some of the older fruit sections of the united states the texas brokers wanted to try a car of peaches from this locality as an experiment and so go the utah fruit exchange accommodated them one ot of the cars loaded on the south spur by the fruit growers on the dinst was selected as the test car it was billed through to dallas texas to one of the largest fruit firms of 0 the state and when it arrived the boxes had been some what damaged by the switching and other wise rough handling of 0 the freight car but when the stock was placed on the market it was found to be in first class condition and the texas merchants unhesitatingly pronounced it the finest car of peaches ever sold in texas either home raised or otherwise and they wrote a very complimentary letter to the exchange expressing their satisfaction and wonderment of the quality of fruit produced here and those were brigham peaches on monday last manager watkins read a letter in the writers hearing from manager james M white dated omaha in which he stated that utah peaches had everything on the market beat this year in comparison with colorado our product is fa tar and away ahead and the fruit merchants are giving the top prices for utah fruit the letter stated that the market Is glutted some california stuff having been sold on the eastern market tor for 36 cents per case F 0 dp B and the freight charges were 40 cents making a loss on the start of 4 cents this being true brigham fruit growers who have been able to pick peaches free from fungus can be assured of getting something for their stuff and at the same time understand that other sections have suffered buffered the same as we have if that Is ig any satisfaction |
