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Show FRUIT YIELD WILL BE UNEQUALED. The managers of the different fruit growers associations, comprising com-prising the Utah Fruit Growers' association, met yesterday and considered con-sidered the problems confronting them this season. Brigham City and surrounding county reported 500 carloads of peaches for shipment this year, 250 carloads of which will be sent out by the association. Willard reported 50 to 75 carloads and Ogden 125 to 150 carloads. Wliile Brigham City leads in peaches, in all other products of the orchard Ogden will excel, but, without drawing an odious comparison, it is evident from these reports that northern Utah is about to surpass anything attempted by this district dis-trict in the past in the shipment of fruit. Nearly a thousand carloads car-loads of fresh fruit will leave this part of the state between now and fall. James M. White, manager of the Ogden Fruit Growers' association, associa-tion, says the fruit crop will be so large that he is beginning to worry wor-ry over the possible delays on the part of the orchardists in sending in their orders for box timber for shipping purposes. He has heard from five per cent of the fruit raisers in this district and their orders total 36,000 cases, or the equivalent of 35 carloads of fruit. At this ratio, thero will be an unusual demand for boxes this fall, and, as a result, a large percentage will be compelled to pay fancy prices for box timber, if they fail to place their orders early, although al-though Mr. White already has placed an order for $5,000 of box timber tim-ber in anticipating the needs of his associates. ' The Standard urges the necessity of our orchardists co-operating in this movement preliminary to the handling of a fruit crop which promises to enrich this section by several hundred thousand dollars. |
