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Show FRUIT CROP NOT AS LARGE AS ESTIMATED Provo. Aug. .11 The fruit crop In Utah county, Provo and vicinity is now beginning to move. Tho William M Roylance company hore Is shipping ship-ping as many as flvo carloads of fruit per day, consisting of pears, prunes and plums. They aro now employing a total of about 1C0 peoplo In assorting, assort-ing, packing and loading. Shipments will increase during the week, but the much-talkcd-of peach crop will not begin to movo until the latter part of the week or the first of next weok; In othor words, about September 7 lo 10. The crop, howevor, Is not golnc to be as largo as has been formerly oBtl-matcd, oBtl-matcd, for the reason that the peache3 havo, for some unknown reason, dropped heavily, and as a result there are not as many peaches on the trees as was estimated thrco weeks ago. So that Instead of there being 750 to 1.000 cars In this vicinity it now looks as If 300 to 500 cars ( would bo nearer a correct estimate, or only abcut one-half to two-thirds as many as has been reported, so thac It would seem prlceo should be better tliEn growers generally have been anticipating. an-ticipating. Mr. Roylance has always contended that, when tho time comes for shipping. ship-ping. If tho growers hnd the quality and pack the market would take them ; at reasonable prices, enough at least to pay good returns on tho Investment Invest-ment No price has been made for peaches yet, and at this time Mr. Roylance does not care to forecast what the market will be, but says that his firm will be able to uee all tho peaches raised In Utah county or in tho state of Utah. There will be about thirty-five to forty-five carloads of pears, about tho I same number of cars of prunes and plums, about 250 carloads of apples I and In tho neighborhood of 600 carloads car-loads of peaches shipped from the vicinity of Provo and tills part of Utah county. Mr. Roylanco says that' the quality of the fruit this year will be excellent. Growing weather has boon ideal. Cool nights and hot days have put the color on the appl&s and a fine blush on the peaches and pears. Thoso who got fruits from Provo and Utah county this year will be moro enthusiastic than ever In their praise of Utah fruits. Railroad companies are also making mak-ing an extra effort to furnish cars, and the railroad companies are prepared pre-pared and aro going to furnish an extra ex-tra switch orew at Provo to take caro of tho fruit crop alone. The Salt Lake Route and the Rio Grande are going to run special trains to handle the fruit. Tho potato crop, the onion crop and the cabbage crop are also the largest in Utah county's history, so that, generally gen-erally speaking, farmers and fruitgrowers fruit-growers aro prosperous and generally feeling well at the prospects |