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Show fssibi!ilics fer Apple Grewisg la IrM Cwtiy. California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Utah are the stales from whloh western apples are shipped to eastern markets. The only. place in California where faey are (hlppud .froaV la the Pajaro tTilley; ' Watfonvllle is tb largest oily nud tho center of tho valley. Tho- applo ralsod there are uot tho ted oriflu becniiBO tho fog visits, the valley caob day hdi enoils the oolpr, an'd becausb of thfs they ralao tbo yellow kind, wbiob nro not aa good, for tho market as tho rod variety. Tho valjey In which Watsonvlllo Is locatod la very nruall, and therefore the quantity tt appleB raised tbcro la limited. 11)080 two thiucs serlrusly handicap the apple industry in that region. Oregon hns two small vallevs tho Rogue nnd Hood Rivor valloys wbero its ppploa oomo from. They bto hoth email. Rnguo river baa no rainfall in tho summer tlmo nnd no irrigation. 'Hood river has n volenti Ic ash poll and thereforo 1b uot V6ry fortilo. 3 hey pro not centera ot stook industry, tbereforo they have no way, exnept artitlolol. of keeping tho fortuity of thlr soil. All of theno things handicap thorn to a oortaln extent. Washington has n hard pan nbout sii: or eight feot down. Tho npplo localities nro oxoluslrely devoted to tbnt industry and it lo onsy to suo that a lank of fertility will result. Even now Bomo of tbolr trecB aro sbowirg signs oftIaok of food. Tbo apple region in Idaho hns n bard pan undor ituud is troubled with seepage. Tho latter la very dotrimintal to npplo tree?. There is not much fruit raised in Colorado. In tbo Grand river valloy, whero they hnve, boon raising their frut, their "trees nro dying on ao-count ao-count of alkali infeotedBoil. , All of'tbepo Fta'rea raiso hundreds of tors of nppleB, but they nro at n dlsadvnntpgo because of tbo obstaolcs nnmod. Dr. E. D. Rnll. cf tho Agricultural College nf Utah, pays thorn is no plnoo In all tho west no well ndaoted for raising r,f apples ns Utah. Ho hns hnd rent exporlonuo in tbio lino and has traveled nil over tha weet and haa studied conditions thoroughly. Utah's soil ia most excellent; It la deor, feitllo, nnd just tho kind thnt nppleH thrive in. Where is the soil more deep? Whrro mcro fottilo? Whoro ia thoro Ipso eeopngo thun !n Irou Countyy It io an ideal srot for tho rniaiug of apnlop. Some may say thnt tho crop 1h not sure beoauso of froetB. In Colorado last year they usod orobrad heaters and saved their crops. TheBO wore only used when there wan dongor of fruit freezing, and as In Iron County that Ib only ono or two nights in a season, the expense would be comparatively com-paratively nothing. And codling moth oon easily be overcome by propor spraying. Bulletins Bulle-tins No. 87 and DG of tho Utah Experiment Station deal with this subject aud can be bad for the asking. Thoro is no quicker way of getting a railroad into Iron County than by the raising of fruit. And, by tho way, there is no cheaper way either. There Is need of a railroad in order co furnish a markot. If two hundred acres of nrohard wore planted and was of bearing ago, It would oe only two ywira until a railroad would bo built in order to carry that fruit away to tbo markets of tho world. In tWo hundred aorou of orchard there would be oloeo to 21,000 trrea, counting 108 trees per acre, and each tree would bear at least two bush elB, making 43,200 bushels of apples to bo Hold. Apples ore worth, and can be sold for 81.75 por bnehol. That would be au inaorce of 875,000. The second year tbeso trees would bear three bushels, or moro per tree, making 01.800 busbolsto be whipped. Would a railroad come? Yes, especially espec-ially if this aoreage were inorcaaed eaoh year. Iron County is jnet hh capable of raising thousands of ncros aa it 1b two hundred. Tbeso figures simply ehow what might be doue; tboy are based on authentic in. form' tion. C. E. J. |