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Show furnlshlnR the company with from fne to six cars of penches every' day, and the end is not yet. The fruit shipments made by this company are all placed on the eastern east-ern market at auction sale, most of the products commanding good prices. Manager Derrlg states that In all the shipments so far made this year, the prowcr has been netted from 50 cents to fiO cents a case and that the sales in the east have been running from 75 cents to fiO cents per cane. A strenuous complaint Is being made by the Chicago buyer of fruits about the discriminations rmtd against Utah fruit shipments. It was wired to Manager Derrlg this morning morn-ing that fruit shioments leaving California Cali-fornia points at the seme time others leave I'tah points, arrive la Chicago three days ahead of the Utah product This cannot be accounted for unless the railroad companies are deliberately deliberate-ly sidetracking Utah fruit fnr the California Cal-ifornia shipments. An investigation is going to be mado with the view of correcting the wrong, i FUJI I 60ING OUT BY TIE TBAIN - The fruit growers and shippers of Weber and Pox Elder couu.ies are now in the midst of an abundant harvest har-vest cf peaches. It is pcjnch time in dead earnest, sav the horl icullurtsts, ami there will be no letting up In the work oi ralherlng the irult and placing It upon the market until tbe trees have all been stripped of their burden. The cool nights are aiding the pickers pick-ers wonderfully, liecc.uso tbey are holding the fruit back from ripening too rapidly. It looks now, the shippers ship-pers say, that tbe peach crop will ni be disposed of for a couple rf vveckv yet The season Is two weeks earlier than usual, consequently the cool weather prevails at the proper lime for the gathering of the fruit Manager Herri of the Pioneer Fruit company states that the peach crop in Weber and Hox Elder counties coun-ties Is more abundant than it has been frr a number of vears. and, that, in most cases, the quality of the pencil is superior to that of past years. This, he says, Is eperlally true of the peaches of North Ogden, where tbe trees are nearly breaking with the load they carry. All available! hands havo been employed em-ployed In the picking of the poach crop, and gyol headway i. being made. Over 175 cars of peaches have already lecn shipped from North Ogden, Og-den, Willard and nrigbam city by the Pioneer Fruit company alone ami they are now handling from twelve to fifteen fif-teen cars each day. North Ogden is |