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Show ON FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND. H. N. Owen, a few years ago, purchased 15 acres of land on Cross street, about two blocks east of Washington avenue. He paid $1,100 for the property. The land was converted into an orchard which has been bearing fruit six years. Two years ago Mr. Owen realized $11,000 from the peaches and apples which he gathered from his trees. Is there a gold mine in the United States with a better record of productivity, investment considered? Yesterday a representative of this paper visited the orchard and saw trees bending low with their weight of golden fruit. For two weeks nine men have been picking and fourteen girls wrapping peaches on this small fruit farm, and the end is not in sight. Mr. Owen has been offered $1,000 an acre but has no thought of selling. At its present rate of production, the orchard's value would seem fabulously high to a Kansas farmer who is satisfied with 20 bushels of wheat to the acre and requires 160 acres to support his family. The Owen orchard is a lesson in horticulture which teaches the possibilities of this section as a froit growing region. Some day strangers will come into this beautiful valley and convert all the unoccupied lands to their use and the transformation they will work will be somewhat after the changes which have been brought about on Cioss street. When the outside is made aware of the fertility of the land and the adaptability to fruit culture of soil and climate in this part of Utah, there will be a great awakening. |