Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-02-15 | Page 2 | Planting 2,000,000 New Fruit Trees

in other distilcts in the Pacific northwest, north-west, command the markets of the world and ore in demand in eastern !.nd southern points at top prices. This was demons! rated during the la it national apple show In SpoVane laRt November when several romlre'd bjio of prle winning fruit sold fr Hn a box of GO pounds, while the average price paid for standard commercial winter varieties was $150 a box. The cost of producing a box of apples for the market, nt including the cost of the land, is 42 cents, tleis leavln? i handsome piofit on bearing orchard property coating Jl.000 or more an ticre. PLANTING Z,0liT REIN RUM TREES Spokane. Wash.. Feb. 14 -Two mil-lion mil-lion fruit trees, occupying between 23 000 and 26.0"0 acres of Irrigated and non-irrigated lands in the Inland Umpire, will be planted the coming tpring. according to adUcci received bv the statistical department of the Spokane chamber of commerce from the various district In eastern Washington Wash-ington and Oregon, north and central Idaho, western Montana and southeastern south-eastern British Columbia. Must i.f the new settings will be apple trees, the saplings being two and three years .,M and will come Into bearlns In mV, and 1016. Tho apples grown iu the Siwkauc aU' liLc Ul0fc0