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Show FRUIT GOING EAST FROM UTAH The Pioneer Fruit company packed Its lirst carload of pears today at Pro-vo. Pro-vo. and the fruit shipping season is now open, although it will not b in full blast for about ten days. The prospects for a heavy crop of the large fruits is exceptionally bright and tho prices will be phenomenally high. The present season is expected to set a new pac for the fruit growers of Utah. Never before have prices been so high as this car, and at the same time the fruit so plentiful. Some fruit growers have expressed fears as to the ability of the shippers to find markets for the peaches, pears and apples now bearing down the trees In countless orchards. Tho shippers, however, anticipate no trouble In marketing mar-keting the fruit and do not believe that the size of the crop will materially material-ly reduce prlceH rtaJi and California seem to bo particularly par-ticularly fortunate this year with ineir rriiu crops, wntie many or tiieir sister states aro suffering severely , from tho belated fronts of spring. Tho central states are almost without any home-grown fruits, and tho markets of these states will be open to shipments ship-ments of the orchard products of the west. California has already shipped 5.05 cars of green fruit east. These shipments Included only cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, grapes and apples. It Is over "00 more cars than wero shipped up , to this date last year. Much of this -fruit has passed through Ogden n the Harrlman llnoR and contluues to pa.ss through this city at a rate of from one hundred to two hundred carloads a day. One thousand five hundred and ninety-nine carloads of pears alono havo Iwen sent to Eastern poins from California. Speaking of ihe high- prices being paid for fruit this season, Manager j John Ih?rrtq; of the Pioneer Fruit company com-pany said this morning: . "I-ast week we had a car of Crawford Craw-ford peaches from California and they sold at auction for $1,625, an average of $1.S5 a box. This certainly makes It look good for Utah prospects In the wav of prices. The peach crop Is far belter than anticipated, and I think that altogether lh fruit crop will be j the largest that thq state has ever producr-d. Understand, the fruit acreage acre-age in Utah ha-s been Increasing, which, naturally, gives the state a greater Ield. "We will have no trouble in getting rid of all the fruit that we can handle. Ther will probably be one thousand carloads shipped; -by us during the season and It will aJI go to the east and north. The shipment will start alout two weeks earlier this year, than usual. While we are loading a car of pears at Provo today, our real work will not lgln until the middle of the month, or perhaps the 20th. We will continue, however, in a small way to handle fruit from now on, as we have a numlier of cars to ship from Provo and Pleasantville this week." . |