Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-16 | Page 4 | A Comparison of Two States

oo A COMPARISON OF TWO STATES. An Ogdenite, who has returned from California, says he talked to more than one man who had been Induced In-duced to invest ln ho orchard and lemon orchards of the southern part of the state and had lost all. He found that oranges are not more profitable than other fruit and lemons are shipped out by the carload car-load at a margin of profit so small that the growers, if they count their time as valuable, are very poorly paid. One orchardist in particular had four acres of lemons. He had just sold his crop. He said he had mado some money and then, ln further explanation, ex-planation, declared: "My four acres have netted me 30 cents." The lesson of all this is that Utah, though not boosted as in a class with California, is a very much better state for the investor, and we can go further fur-ther and say it offers the laboring man many more opportunities, n