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Show ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS AN ACRE. Mrs. E. C. Rilter of Riverdale knows how to grow strawberries where climate and soil arc so favorable as around Ogden. She brought to market this morning a case of berries grown on the Hitter place near the power plant at Riverdale, and 15 strawberries filled each cup. These berries are known as the "Hitter Inviuciblcs," and they are "vell named. Propagated by Mi'. Ritter. they have won a distinctive dis-tinctive place in the list of strawberries. The land in berries and fruit is valued at $1,000 an acre, and Mrs. Ritter says the farm at that is not for sale. A gasoline engine propels a centrifugal pump, lifting water 20 feet for irrigation purposes. By this method 50 acres of land are made productive. It is not so many years ago when land at $100 an acre was high and much of the acreage in Weber county could be obtained for half that sum. Muck of that comparatively cheap land lias multiplied multi-plied in value ten times. We are informed that last fall $1,000 an acre was offered for the Taylor orchard at Riverdale by an Eastern man who came here, to pass on the bonds of, the- Davis Si Weber Counties Canal company, and now Mrs. Bitter declares the fruit land on their farm could not be bought at $1,000 an acre. Does this not prove that as a safe investment, offering big profits, Weber county lands, adaptable to fruit, are better than almost any other form of investment? |