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Show PEACHES BY THE TRAINLOAD Utah has a bumper fruit crop this year, estimated at 2,000 carloads car-loads of peaches alone. The problem of marketing this immense tonnage ton-nage is so perplexing and means so much to the future of the industry in the state that the fruit growers, backed by the business interests of Ogden, Salt Lake and other centers of population, are making extraordinary extra-ordinary efforts to gain the co-operation of the entire state in a campaign cam-paign of publicity which aims to make known the excellent quality of Utah peaches, apples and other fruits and thus develop a demand equal to the supply. I In a circular sent to the newspapers, it is stated that failure to profitably market the present crop will prove a severe blow to this I great industry and will tear down several years of hard work which I has been done to build up the fruit business. Not only will future I planting be retarded, but the present orchard land values will be re-1 re-1 duced The fruit business of Utah represents a total investment in I excess of $30,000,000. The situation on this year's crop is as follows: I Estimated peach crop 1,725,000 cases, valued at .$ 500.000.00 J Estimated apple crop 500,000 boxes, valued at .'.. 400.000.00 I Pears, plums, prunes and other fruits, valued at 100,000.00 I Total crop to market ,$1 ,,000,000.00 1 This docs not include local consumption. I So we are facing the problem of marketing amilliou dollar crop. I That is for this year alone. Only about thirty per cent of the trees I now planted are in bearing, so the problem in the next five years I will reach .a total considcrabl' greater than this. ? The difference of one cent per case in the selling price of peaches means over $17,000 to the state |