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Show FRUIT GROWERS OF OGDEN ARE HOLDING (CONFERENCE Under the direction of C. W. Palmer Pal-mer of Farmington. H. H. Thompson of Roy and Joseph E. Wright of Ogden, Og-den, directors of the Utah Fruit Growers Grow-ers association, fruit growers and dealers of Ogden are holding a meeting meet-ing this afternoon at the city hall to organize a branch of the state organization or-ganization and to discuss briefly the general outlook for the year's fruit growing. The meeting was attended by a number of Ogden horticulturists, all of whom were In favor of the organization. organi-zation. The gathering was called for 2 o'clock but the growers were late in arriving and It Is likely that the meeting will not conclude Its business until late this afternoon. The state organization is already under way aud the pian now is to dissolve all the old individual organizations organi-zations of the state and form new ones which will be connected with the state corporation by means ol Interlocking directorates. Tho fruit growers' 4of each city, town, as the case may be, elect a board of directors who, In turn. 66' lect a manager to look after the local interests in the handling of the crop. All sales, however, are made through headquarters in Salt Lake. It is said that the plan has shown better results in the marketing of fruit than was realized by the organization organi-zation of the Utah Fruit Exchange, which has been dissolved. |