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Show Fruit Raising. Editor Globe. I know you will pardon mo for thrusting thrust-ing myself Into your notice ami occupy ngso much of your spaco. Some fellows occupy the spaco In a nowspapor by roasting Tom Kcarns, scorching Hood Smoot or grlszllng Howell; or In boosting boost-ing ono or the other of them, and when one has read a column or two of such stuff lie la no wiser than boforo. This Is paper wasted and time thrown away, both by tho writer and by the reader. Pspers should bo filled with "stuff" that will elevate tho mlud and enlarge the oul; that will help a man to better his conditions morally and flnanclslly; that will help a man to sec fewer of his nclgh bor'a short comings and more of his own; that will help blm to, secure more of this world's riches and to distribute them with a more liberal hand; that will uld blm In grasping the opportunities presenting present-ing themselves daily and to turn them Into golden nuggets for the amelioration of himself and his fellow man. Perhaps In taking this view 'of newspaperdom and writing tho few short articles lately, we have bctm mistaken In the tempera-ment tempera-ment of your patrons and have already bored them beyond the limit of their patient endurance. I have mentioned the beet Industry and have tried to show there Is money In it. There is another Industry which U equai if not aupcrlor to tho cultivation of beets. Of late It is making rapid strides In tho state of Utah, and prominently In Box Elder county; In fact this county nay consistently be called tbo pioneer In an Industry that Is destined to bring ml), lions of dollars to Utah to bo sown a), roost broadcast among her people. This is fruit raising. In ISO! there were shipped 00 carloads of peaches valued at not less than 183,000 (perhaps those shipped off in smaller lots and carted away In wagons amounted to as much more making a tota,l of 170,000) for fruit raised In and about Brlgham City. Besides this there wcro the crops of tomatoes at Wltlard and Brlgham. ! Tons ef this frutt were shipped and hauled out and thousand of cases were canned. The Utah tomato Is already known and brings top prices on the mar- ket. Tho llrlghnm peach It known from sua to Mca And from Canada to Mexico. It Iibh been sold In Sou Francisco on the Pacific and In Boston on the Atlantic; In Helena, Montana and In Phconlx, Arizona; on the markets of New York, Clilcngo, St Paul, Milwaukee, St Louis, Kansas, Onmlio ano other places. They uti known sll through tho west and mid die west. It Is not ungual to meet with a pcrxon In Colorado, Nebraska, or elsewhere else-where who with watering mouth can tell you of the Brlghnm "beauties" he saw and tasted at some "Peach Day"fcstlval. I could not believe the talcs I heard until un-til an ocrtun!ty afforded me the pleasure pleas-ure of vlaitlug tlrnt quaint and beautiful spot and Me aud taste for myself, and I found to my surprise that half has never bee told The Marylsnd pesch Is a beauty but Its tlnnnens and flavor are destroyed by shipping to distant poluts; besides the growers And a market near at home. The California peach attracts the eye but It Is too mealy anrt mushy for distant dis-tant exportation; so at present Utah hss the markets mentioned above almost to herself. Fruit Is a monoy getter. I am told It Is not unusual to sell from I1S0 to 250 worth of peaches from a single acre of land aud berries will bring much more. Thcro Is a narrow belt of land skrrtlng (be foot of tho mountains and extending from tho Hot Springs to the mouth of tho Bear Hlvcr Canyon that is absolutely ab-solutely unsurpassable for tho production produc-tion of all kinds of stone fruit. Some of this land Is shy of water, but If the farmers will iiko strict economy In handling hand-ling the water they now havo and by the sinking of artltlon and am face wells and other facilities that may yet come, most If not nil these lands may bo cultivated. This means more orchards, more families fami-lies and moro wealth. While wo arc talking of poaches we must not forget there Is money In raising apples; and though tho growing of that fruit on the eaht side of Benr Itiver has not been n success in the past, thcro la no doubt but the lower and cooler lands may be mode to produco a good articles In paying quantities. Tho west side ot the river Is booming up and tbelr apples arc being sought for. Thcro Is plenty of land and plenty of wator and a road over which tno products can be shipped. When tho people become fully Inured to growing beets and fruits, It means smaller small-er farms, moro families mora taxes, better bet-ter roads, better society, bettor schools and better men and women. Here are your chances. Don't He round growling about the thrift and pro gresslvencss of your fellows, nor com plain of Harrison, McKlnley and Roosevelt Roose-velt and tho people who elevated tfacm to their positions of trust; nor nf Cleveland, Cleve-land, poor fellow, ha did the best he could. Llfo Is too short to be bartered In any such a way. Broad acres are boforo bo-foro you, happy conditions aro about you. The air, the soil, the water, the snow upon the hill tops and the little daw drops from heaven, are impregnated with miles of gold waiting to be extracted extrac-ted and coined into round bright twenties. twen-ties. Now is the time. When there shall be a continuous stretch of peach orchards reaching from Fielding to the Hot Springs, with applo orchards filling spots in the low lands, those rock-ribbed giants east and south of Wlllanl that have looked serenely down Into tho valley far below for cent-urles,wlll cent-urles,wlll echo the sounds of mirth, school children's prattle, thu cowboy's whistle and the milkmaid's song, the chatter of tha fruit pickers and the happy hap-py and contented laugh of the matron who will no longer fear want, penury and gaunt despair. This world is a pretty good place In which to live. Don't you think so? It It full of hopo and happiness for those who make It so. JAUNTER. Corlnne, Jan. 11, 1007. |