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Show UTAH FRUIT ORCHARDS. Pleasant Grove HorticulturalistsConi-niended HorticulturalistsConi-niended for Their Enterprise. Pleasant Grove has always been considered con-sidered the best fruit raising town in Utah county, and the consideration may with equal justice, be extended to the Territory. A conespondent recently recent-ly visited several of the leadin fruitgrowers fruit-growers of Pleasant Grove, among them k-ing William Wadley and G. T. Toui-linson. Toui-linson. Mr. Wadley has twentv-five acres of small fruit. To keep this fruit. f.rm in good condition, five men under the direction di-rection of Mr. Wadley, are constantly kept employed. The scarcity of weeds among the trees is an object of comment. com-ment. All of the trees are weighted down with the various kinds of fruit, notwithstanding the fact that the ground is literally covered with fruit that was shaken from the trees by last Monday's wind storm. There has been no frost this season, and with the exception ex-ception of the backwardness of the season sea-son everything points to a heavy fruit crop. In connection with his fruit farm Mr. Wadley has three hundred hives of lees. The stands are conveniently arranged in long rows, which are covered cov-ered over and shielded from the inclemencies in-clemencies of the weather. Each stand of bees is valued at $8 and readily readi-ly commands that price. One man is kept busy attending to the bees. Eighteen years ago Mr. Wadley settled set-tled on the piece of ground he now occupies. oc-cupies. Then it was a dry, sage-brush desert. The people of Pleasant Grove I laughed at and ridiculed him. He was I kindly informed that he would starve to death there. But Mr. Wadley heed- j ed not their jeers and scoffs. He pursued pur-sued his labors with industry and today to-day what was once the sage-brush desert, des-ert, is one of the most valuable pieces of property in Pleasant Gr,,ve. Mr. Tomlinson has the largest straw-lerry straw-lerry patch it has ever been our pleasure pleas-ure to see. He has five acres of this delicious fruit and expects to be able to pick 30.000 quarts of berries from the patch this season. Strawberries are only worth ten cents per quart, but the price will probably advance before the end of the week. Three men are employed em-ployed to keep the vines in good condition condi-tion and fourteen pickers are employed during the fruit season. The pickers receive a compensation of one cent per quart. Thev average 130 quarts per day each. Mr. Tomlinson has three j acres of grapes w hich yield two tons to I Seven years ago Mr. Tomlinson purchased pur-chased this land for $1.25 per acre, and to-day he would not sell for $500 per acre. This is one more instance proving prov-ing that industry and perseverance will always win success. Many other places are worthy of mention. men-tion. Those who have not "had the pleasure of visiting those mentioned und others, would be amply repaid bv spending a day in so doing. Irrigation Age. |