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Show UTAH FRUIT HAS BRIGHT OUTLOOK James AI. White, manager for the Utah Fruit Exchange, has returned from a trip extending to tho middle east, where he has spent considerable time looking over the fruit market, and ho Is frank to say that the prospect pros-pect for the season, so far as the market mar-ket is concerned, is quite encouraging. It was represented to him bv some of the fruit dealers of the east that many of the peach orchards of the north and northwest winter-killed, and that tho big fruit tonnago necessarily neces-sarily will have to come from the western and southern states. Air. White states, however, that ho has heard of these statements In other years and that when the crop poriod arrived the states claiming to have been "wlntor-Mlled came up with a good tonnage. A newspaper roport from Columbia, AIo.. of April 1 say6 that If the people of AIlR8ourl depend on home fruit they will have to eat apples, 'because- there Is no hope for peaches, and the pear I crop has been killed In all sections I i Butter 5F toll you a tno Heavy ireezing coming at a timo rtrJed I In the winter when the shrubs had lit- f "E h tlo or no protection. ' latch Alanager White says that he will njs hoi report his findings to the board of pneum directors of the Exchange Saturday, valescl at which time he expects the board caused to givo definite instructions respecting I fa the the manner of handling tho crop. T Speaking of the "middle man" Fa , proposition, Arr. White says that it is "t cl practically impossible to eliminate i'E" a him under present conditions. He irajthe finds that tho crop will have to bo Itol?01 marketed through the jobbers of tho liTtent countries where it is sold or lose iilTcli monoy by placing men in the field to ' ig7f6r make the sales. The jobber, of courso Jeers' is a so-called middle man, but It Is ' titensl quite out of the question to get away htfklhrn from him The jobbers have their j. fteit S distributing points well established teTbcct and keep a force of men in tho field iputor all the time placing their fruits on the f ciarch, market. , giU ' While away Air. White visited N'e- ; preside braska, Alissouri, Wisconsin, Dakota. I pjah Illinois and Iowa and he came in close Wfjr' touch with tho fruit dealers of those I lrC sections He has decided to make Jmdai "Omaha the central distributing point flPrcdl for tho Exchange, the markets In Spromi all directions being accessible from ' fe clt' that city. MErd c |