Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-09-14 | Page 6 | Cold Weather Checks Peach Shipments

COLD WEATHER CHECKS PEACH SHIPMENTS Peach shipments by the Utah Fruit exchange are running from twenty to thirty car3 a day and the crop is being be-ing moved quite successfully. Had it not been for the cold wave that Btruck the fruit this morning, says Manager Burton, next week would j have been the banner week In shipments, ship-ments, but, unless the weather warms up in the next day or two, the shipments ship-ments next week will not be much heavier than they are at this time. The orchardlsts are inclined to rejoice re-joice over the cold wave as It will check the ripening of the peaches j somewhat and prevent an over pro- ' ductlon on short notice The trees I are heavily loaded and the growers declare that if the crop should ripen within a few dais' Mmn It wnnlri hr. next to Impossible to gather it. Prices paid for peaches at this time are rather discouraging to the growers grow-ers and many of them Btate that there iB not much moro than actual cpBt in their crop. Some are shipping their peaches at a price as low as 26 cents, the cost of preparing the pack being from" 10 to 12 cents a case. Manager '. Burton of the Exchange states, how- ever, that he has not offered less than 35 cents for peaches and he j Bees no reason why the price should fall below that figure. Ho Is of the j opinion that If the growers would I look more to the Exchange, which I hag a representative in "the east to j protect them In the markets, they would get better results.