Show MOAPA'S FRUIT AND ANDr MELON INDUSTRY Grower Says Station Will Wi be hc beI I Important on Salt Sal Lake Route nOlte ACREAGE TO BE INCREASED i of or 10 n Carload This Season I Will I he lie Followed h by l inn Cn Carloads Car Car- r- r mails loads t Year A. A L. L oo l president ont of ot the Penn enn Fruit Fui company of oC Riverside c. c Cal who vho came cam to Salt Sl Lake from morn says the Muddy river aJ valley y near that place is destined to become on one of ot the large fruit trul an and melon producing pro pro- regions region In the West cst and amI that In a acl very cl few years nr There are arE thousands boils boils- an antis ands of or acres In that region that will willbe willbe wi be Irrigated at a n el compart comparatively small smal cost cost and the soil ol is of a 0 nature that will H produce uce a grade of cantaloupes distinctive In flavor and ant shipping qualities that will wi bring a demand from the West Pest strong enough to fo take takA the Ihl production of hundreds of ot acres Mr Woodill says S 'S he Is especially In Interested In- In In this region and ant a thorough Investigation In that tha he made la last j week has haM convinced him that hat the melon and nl fruit growing Industry will wi bring the lie town own of ot Moapa up to a prominent nent place among the thc stations on the theal Los Salt al Lake Route between this cl city arid and os Angeles Although I this his Is IR th the first season I I I that l melons lors have been heen shipped from Moapa Ioup he hO Il Ml said more than CO GO carloads carloads car car- cr- cr loads will wi have been ben sent out before th the last of the crop Is marketed There will be bH a wonderful Increase In the wJ acreage this season and In III all ni probability proba there will wi be he shipments of ot or more cars next year ear Citrus CHIus Fruit Shipments Regarding the he shipments of oC citrus cirus Crul fruits Mr 0 0 ti I said ll with wih the thc season season sea sea- son far ta advanced advance there then was an average average average aver aver- age of about ten carloads a u day movIng moving inov- inov ing lug eastward and the Stilt Salt Sl Lake Lako Route was getting a good share of tho the busi busi- ness The he total shipments of lemons oranges an and grape Crul fruit for the season season sea sea- son SOl has been something more than carloads to date datt Oran Oranges cs this year ear produced about the best crop In Iii Inho Inthe the ho history of the In Industry in Call Lall Cal Cal- fornIa an and the Indications for next ears years crop are still sti better This seaon season season sea- sea son on th tIle tho ClO crop ran rai largely to small smal sizes but bUl growers say sy It I Is probable that hat next years year's CIO crop will ili wi show a n larg- larg er r proportion of the large sizes which will wi mean easier casler han handling an and better prices for the growers The Penn Fruit company which is known In iii California as the trust trustS S lighter is one OUt of the few ew companies of or Importance that is not In In tho California Cal Cal- Call Cali fornia Fruit Growers' Growers association orthe or orthe orthe the Citrus union and the competition between the two trusts rusts and the independent inde lade pendent growers Is becoming stronger strong strong- er each cach year eal |