| Show GREAT ORCHARD Tooele county enjoys the distinction of having the only commercial orchard in Utah owned and operated as part of a mining property Situated at the portal of the Honorine mine tunnel tun tun- nel from which rushes a torrent of clear lear cold water is a acre orchard Drainage water from the mine Irrigates gates the throngs of graceful apple trees during the warm summer months Tons of glowing juicy fruit are marketed over the mine tracks Few people in Utah outside of the big buyers buyers for for export trade trade know know that the Combined Metals orchard is the largest and best tilled orchard in the state producing quality fruit packed and shipped under the highest grade brands to most of the large cities of the United States Year after alter year from near and far buyers come to bid on the Combined Metals' Metals crop The market is far 0 to excess of production It is probable that the fifteen thousand trees in this orchard will never produce enough to w supply the increasing ever-increasing demand Los Angeles and New York Butte and ana anaNew New Orleans pay fancy prices for lor beautiful wax like hued golden Banana Ba nana apples with their carmine cheeks an and nd from the Combined Metals' Metals orchard grace the tables of 01 some of the leading hotels from coast to coast The small year ten-year-old trees li like e that that shown shown In the accompanying picture pICture pic pie ture produce seven bushels of extra fancy apples As high as twenty bushels of selected fruit has been harvested and packed from the fo four four- of often often J average year teen trees An th that t ten bushels to the tree means the orchard produces about railroad rail railroad rail rail- road carloads of the best fruit sit g t C M h aO r L' L f ti L I Bauer Hauer Figure Orchard In m the extreme ol of tw the 9 Combined left Metals Reduction Company of tha the picture is Charlie Chaplin |
