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Show TRIP MADE TO SAND RIDGE ORCHARDS As the clock struck 10 this forenoon. fore-noon. l'.T' real estate men started in five automohlles to Inspect the orchards or-chards on the Sand Ridge Not since "Hiram's sparkling merchantmen went sailing out from Tyre," has a more genial band of pirates descend ed upon any community. Their names follow Senator Geo. J. Kelly, W B. We-dell. We-dell. R. P. Hunter. J. J . Brummitt, J. F. Parsons, W. .1 CrUchlow, A. Kennedy. C. D. Ies, C. C. Rasmus-sen, Rasmus-sen, Kenner S Boieman, W W. Pierce, A. L. Stewart, J. M. Fnrristall. Thos Browning, Fr., Wlllard Kay. f A. BleGulre, W. H Stlmson, Ben Oppman. The party first visited the new power phut at RiverdaJe, built by the Pa!s & Weber Counties Canal company, com-pany, and then climbed the hill past Charlev Adams' place to the state roid, and tok a look at the ranch of H. H Thompson, There they started north on a road which has only recently re-cently hen opened to the public. A pond of water across the road looker eas and pmved too deSp and the w hoi" squadron of auotmobiles ran aground A farmer left his team In the field and came to offer sympathy, sym-pathy, but first he enquired "H9ve you got any county com mlssloners In that bunch''" "Not US," replied the senate, r," we are a little bit particular " I men, says 111c iarmer, 111 so ! get my team and pull you out of the , mud but If you had had any of them commissioners along. I'd a jest set on i the fence and have laffed ' The next stop was ai C H Boggs . , place, good for apricots all around. Next Senator Kelly's "Follow Kel-: Kel-: ly" was the watchword Here the party was introduced to peaches, a wonderful 35-foot well of coolest, purest pur-est water, a cement water tank. 12x , 24x12 feet, the head of u wonderful I water system. Across the street was pointed out the big red KansaB barn and 40-acre I orchard of S W Wherry and D. H. dams To the east Paul Stecher and to the south Archie Blgelow's broad ucres. Then they inspected the J. C. Nyi orchard, the Don Mapuire land .1 F Parson s holdings, E J. Wherry's apple ap-ple orchard and then someone discovered dis-covered Judge A W. Agee armed I with a lazy man's shovel, Irrigating B patch of potatoes. Back to the automobiles again and then west half n mile to Charley I Crelgbbaum'H ranch. This is some ranch, nearly TO acres of fruit trees, and Charles and four hired hands do not seem to make any Impression on ! the ripe fruit. Here the party was i Introduced to more apricots. more peaches, and dewberries two Inches j ionf.the longest dewberries anyone ever saw almost as big as earn of corn There were apricot trees load erj beyond the power of the limbs to, hold them. It was Immense. The man who had been boosting ! for the dewberries of North Yakima ! ' surrendered when he saw those on tho Snnd Ridge While the Southern California Cal-ifornia man died harder he also took off his hat to the dewberries and then 1 filled his hat. The side trip to Frank Petersons 40-acre orchard was abandoned be-' be-' cause of lack of time and the party returned to Ogden, crossing th Ram-nerged Ram-nerged line at Orchard station. Here was pointed out the new Hpur pn which will be built the packing house, to accommodate the BOO acres of orchards or-chards Just coming lnt bearing The unanimous verdict of the real estate men waa thst In the sand Ridge. Ogden bts enow piHM( equa In attractiveness to the Ogden can-ivou can-ivou and It is proposed to deBiRrifttw H 1 certain dav each w for inspection J I trips to the big erchards |