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Show Ii EVAPORATING IS PROVED TO BE ! PROFITABLE With the publishing of a number of folders describing the proposed Utah Evaporated Fruit Packers' association. I S. Carver, chairman of the committee com-mittee appointed at a meeting three weeks ago, will call a meeting ot his committeemen some time ihls week to further the planr. discussed. Besides Mr. Carver, the others on ; the committee are A. P. Bigelow and J M. Forristall. propoi-en at tne mass meeting H of Weber county fruit growers, the H plan was to have each of the commit - H I teemen seled ten prominent horticul- "v'g , lurists each and have all the appoint- ... cd men work for the co-operative as- ' ' V'B soclation With this plan In view ,i I 1 Chairman Carver at the coming moet- t Ing will ask the other two members I H to do their selecting a1 once and at; H I j, the same time distribute to them some i jjjBc ' iri ll,:irs which have been Ssll printed describing the organization to be 1 "Since the meeting held at the city B hall throe weeks ago I have talked ;Wijj . ith a number of prominent fruit rals- B ers and they all were In favor of Bi the organisation," said Mr. carver to- 1 day. "I am certain that the propoei- H' Hon will be a success. " B Mr Carver has corrected by actual B experiments the statements made b B several farmers who have had expert - V ence with dried fruit, that not mon H than six or seven pounds of dried B peaches could be secured from a bush B el of the fresh fruit. In bib store today he weighed out B two pounds cf bis dried peaches lad found that it took tut .3 of the whole B fruit dried to weigh that amount Es- EPfSK tlmattiiK that a bushel box contain: t 200 peaches, he figured that a bnsh- el of the fruit when dried would, I weigh nearly 20 pounds. Tho minimum price that T have paid for dried peaches this year bas been 7 cents and the highest price 9 1-2 cents," said Mr. Carver "By the foregoing figures it will he seen that a bushel of peaches when evaporated will bring In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $1 3n When 1 bare figured this out to trull growers in my store there has been much surprise displayed Two hundred citizens with $100 each arc all that are needed to complete the organization in Box Elder, Weber We-ber Das is. Salt Lake and I tah counties coun-ties and with the enthusiasm that has been displayed for the organization organiza-tion the members of the committee are confident that the system will be in operation by fall An effort will be made to have ih packing house to which the evaporated evap-orated fruit is to be taken located in Ogden As it now stands, Provo and Ogden have about equal chances of securing the headqunrters of the organization. or-ganization. on |