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Show BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT MEN Never before have tho fruit growers of Utah had so bright au outlook as today. Not that "boom prices' are on, but good, living prices prevail and the business is settling down to a solid, reliable basis. Tho Utah peoplo have taken Into their own hands their buying and selling and today this is a recognized fact by the spray, box and supply manufacturers gcnorall and by the big fruit dealors of tho east nnd west, and as a consequence the association of fruit growers can buy their material and supplies for much leBS money and can secure the very best market prices for their products, which are now recognlzod as the acme of excellence us to grade, pack, etc. Arsenate of lead, tho prln-ipal prln-ipal expensive spray material, Tor which tho grower has formerlv boon hold up to the tuno of 12 1-2' to 20 cents per pound, has been furnished this season by the association here at 10 to 12 cents, according to the size of package, etc. Peach boxes, formerly for-merly sold at 7c retail, arc furnished at G 1-1 cents, and In carloads, boxes are furnished by tho association $10 cheapor than they can be secured elsewhere, and other supplies are In proportion. While outsldo dealera arc contracting for Elbertas at 4n cents per case, the association members are receiving 15 per cent down now on their prospetive crops at 53 onts per case, and allowed to name any portion por-tion of their crop at that price. The Ogden fruit growers havo established es-tablished a central loading point for North Ogden growers at Marshall's store, with Mr. Marshall In charge, thus doing away with the long haul to Hot Springs or Five Points, and will, for tho convenience of the grow-or, grow-or, load carloads of Elbertas at Hot Springs. North Ogden, Rivordale, Roy and Clearfield. In fact, by another season Utah fruit will be handled with almost as' 'little friction as In California, where the growers put In many years of grief and worry before finding out that they must work together to-gether as associations to accomplish results. |