Show PRESSED POTATOES A new industry in california and one that promises to be important is the preservation of potatoes by pressing A machine has been invented for pressing potatoes so that they will keep for years in any climate the potatoes are first pressed then dried and finally into a coarse powder which yields a most excellent article of mashed potatoes shipments to england of potatoes thus preserved have proved profitable and a company has been formed in california to engage in alio and drying ot potatoes for export it is certain that a very active demand will spring up in great britain for the desiccated potatoes the aeno gazette has taken cognizance of this new line of tural industries ind favorably faor ably agitates the question of taking steps towards following the example of california in nevada a it clai ms nevada potatoes to be much superior to choso grown in california the soil of the silver states being much better suited to the growth of tubers good qualities than that of the golden state we think we can go our reno contemporary one better and assert without fear of being successfully contradicted that utah can excel anything in the murphy line both in quality and quantity ahat nevada may ever boast of our soil climate temperature irrigation facilities and au alie other victors of husbandry are certainly superior to anything offered by our neighbor to the setting sun but we are thankful for his suggestion and not the least jealous or envious of anything the nevada husbandmen may accomplish inthe pressed potatoes business our farmers however will certainly not be slow in taking the hint and that in reason too this new process of preserving the vegetables for a foreign market or even for our own domestic consumption may broye important and profitable to h agricultural interests of utah no less than the pacific states our wil is capable of raising the best and most prolific tubers of any in the merkt that no more are raised is a simple consequence of the great expense of shipping the bulky article at any great distance stilt cars loads on carloads of potatoes have been shipped east and west beyond the shadows of the rocky mountains and the slope of the standing the beav freight which rendered competition with eastern and western produce almost impossible if this could be done without loss with tho potato in its unwieldy bulky condition how much more profitable would the export of the pressed dried and ground tuber be if the gantle flatten itself wit ii the fond hope that the difference in quality between the california and the nevada product should give the latter the preference in ahe foreign market and more than counterbalance the expense of getting their product to the seaboard we are still more expectant and are confident that our farmers could compete either without blat of being driven from the the potato crop is fast approaching is maturity and is a fear of much going to waste for the lack of n market it would ha a timely move for some loading man or men of enterprise and means to erect an establishment for the preparation of marketable potatoes in the manner indicated above by drying grind ing and canning or boxing them such an establishment would soon prove of general benefit und reward its originators nd customers for all their and labor WE HAVE frequently had occasion to remind our of the stand ard series of I K funk co in new york and we do eo with picas ure every time as publications deserve tha most liberal support ol 01 a press which has regard for sound instructive moral literature such is invariably presented in the volumes of the Stan series among its latest numbers is chas valuable work on the those religious enthusiasts of the early christian church who withdrew in disgust from the vices and temptations of the world to live in tho seclusion and abnegation of desert caves readers of a religious or historical turn of mind will find of the eminent chester very interesting MRS metaphorically speaking i an old acquaintance of most readers of the comical columns of the newspapers news pipers of iho daiy but few know abo old ladya family tree and pedigree the inter ocean lia unearthed the and informs us clift original MM grundy was the difo of president van bareng attorney general the lion felix grundy of ruled society in washington with a rod of iron her edicia were law her presence was indispensable to the success of all fashionable gatherings and such an authority she became on social topics that the AIM brundy bays bes so as to her fame |