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Show ' Industry In Weber county and we yenture the prediction that five years hence lands now selling for a few dollars dol-lars an acre will be commanding prices such, as aro now obtained in Colorado. - FRUIT LANDS. Within the week a large fruit company com-pany will be organized In Ogden with E. G. McGrlff at Its head, which will be the first step toward Interesting a large number of eastern fruit growers and dealers In the lands of this section. sec-tion. Fruit dealers from Minneapolis and Chicago and fruit growers from Grand Junction, Colorado, will Join with local fruit growers to help develop de-velop the horticultural possibilities of this section. When Mr. McGrlff says the country population of Weber county can bo doubled within a few years through fruit culture, some Idea of what this practical orchardist hopes to attain can be gained. The bench lands near North Ogden aro to bo made to yield rich harvests and other parts of the fruit belt are to be tested, so that in the not far distant dis-tant future we may hope for wonderful changes in the fruit business In this part of Utah. The largest owner of fruit lands near Grand Junction, Colorado, is selling sell-ing out In order to move to Ogden and engage In horticulture here. Inasmuch as Grand Junction has made a remarkable re-markable record In fruit raising and the price of fruit lands there Is up In tho thousandth, It speaks well for the possibilities of this part of Utah that one of the most successful fruit men In that section should decide to hereafter hereaf-ter be found among tho fruit growers of this county. , There is a bright future for tho fruit -" i |