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Show an acie, v ihiam V.'ail:ev ot I'leasant ' Grove, made a net profit of J i ceo on lis orf hard whi. h i.: pl.'.tited to; prunes, pears, plums ami grapes. The fact that so many fruit trees are being set has encouraged the establishment of canning factories; there beiivj one at l'as!;i with a capital of jioo,oo now ready foi. business which has a c .pacity of from 800 to 1000 bushels a day. This cannery is being built in connection con-nection with the creamery, and its promoters also control and own over 600 acres of the choicest dairy land. Another such cannery is con templated for American Fork, and its projectors, among whom are James Cliipman and William (riant, are endeavoring to organize a stock company for the purpose. A California 'company of large capital is also preparing to build an evaporator and fruit dryer in j I.ehi. With these enterprises assured, the farmers of Utch valley will be enabled to make 1.101 e money than ever before. Other parties stand ready to put in a plant in this city that will employ during the season 2000 people, and require a capital of $500,000. They will do this if they can get a reasonable encouragement from the citizeus and merchants here S. L. 'Times. j FRUIT CANNING. j Thcbe will be more acres set out in, fine orchards this season than in J &ny previous one for several years, ' tjdks had with agents of the easter.i tturseries. indicating that not less h'an aoo acres will be planted in tyah and Salt Zake eounttes. These pochards will rnge in it from fie I to fifteen acres, the prineipal fruits apples, pears, pltims and prunes,with a few acres of grapes. The people are becoming alive to the possibilities possibili-ties their farms offer for this class of crops, and they see more money in it than in raising either roots or grain. One farmer said that he had derived a profit of $ 10 a ixce from . ... ..... V |