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Show FRUIT SHIPMENT IS ON IN EARNEST Harriman Lines Expecting to Carry a Thousand Cars of Green Fruit From District Between Cache Junction and Clearfield Special Arrangements Made for Shipping Weber County Fruit. Utah fruit khipmcnts arc now on in earnest, and tho Harriman lines are expecting to carry a thousand earn of preen fruit out of the district between Cache .Tcnct'on and Clearfield. The Pioneer Fruit company, who pract.cal-ly pract.cal-ly has charge of all the fruit shipping ship-ping In the state, is Just entering into what will probably prove the blpgest fruit campaign of their existence. Fruit, mostly Elberta peaches, are belug packed Into cars all over the state for the movement eastward, where tbo markets are clamoring for the produce. The Harriman lines are making special prolslons for the rapid handling nf the fruit cars. At 11 o'clock each night a special ice trnin '.r being run as far north as Kr.'gham, with stops at Hot Springs. YVlIlard and Five Points, where the refrigerator cars for the fruit shipments ship-ments are stocked w ith ice. All the londed cars are brought to Ogden by tho special and leave Ogden at au early hour in the morning. When enough of the cars are picked up to I make a special, a separate (rain H made up and sent east. If there are not enough of the cars f.r a special, I thev nn attached to one of the CaK-I CaK-I fornta green fruit specials. FtuU trains run from Ogden to Grand Junction, Colo, with rca.ccly a stop. There the refrigerators are re-iced and the run to Omaha ron-j ron-j tlnued. Tho Utah fruit business of the Harriman lines will easily eclipse I anything In tin1 history of the linos. J Last year less than one hundred ears went east on the Harriman road from this state: this year at least ten t linos this number of cars will be transported transport-ed to the eastern markets. The present price of Alberta peaches is 75 cents per ease f. o. b., j but. the price will drop to 70 cents ! Monday and will probably remain in I the neighborhood of tho lattr r flgur I for some time. The peaches are ot very trood slzo and of fine nuality. very little trouble bring experienced by the gnwors from blights or other 1 enemies of the fruit. |