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Show ij ij H a mHUll am . II PEACH CROP K i Brigham Firm Advances $13,- f 000 on Purchase of ':( . Provo Fruit BRIGHAM, June 9. Olson Brothuis. ' ' fruit dealers of this city, have pur-chased pur-chased 47,000 bushels of peaches from 0?. fruit growers in tho Provo district at H v $2 per bushel and hae advanced $13,- 000 pn the crop. " 1 Alfred N. Olsen, manager of the firm, staled yesterday that there is ' about 75 per cent crop in Utah county this year. In Box Elder county, he says, there is about a 20 per cent crop. . ' .' The freezing weather last December 1 did the damage. There are certain ,' places south of Willard and places in Brigham City where the crop is V(rv Ffinrl. Tn nthor pnlinnc fhov V are nearly all gone. Tho cherry crop will be a bumper i-r t hero this year and will bring auuuc 73,a cents. The fruit dealers aro all .;" ,: getting ready to handle the cherries, . which will be placed on the market tho latter part of this; month or tne first part of July. The neason is later -this year than usual. ; oo 1 |