The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
NEWS FROM NEARBY
CITIES AND TOWNS.
BIG SHIPMENTS OF LIVE STOCK
AND WOOL REPORTED.
Fruit in sanpete-Ties For the Rail-
way-GOod Price For sheep-The
Only Bill GIassmnn-The HernId
Appreciated.

The Mt. Pleasant Wool and Live Stock
Commission company ships nearly thirty
cars of sheep. one train load of seventeen
cars from Milford over the Union Pacific
and ten or twelve cars over the Rio
Grande Western from this point. Several
hundred head more can be accommodated
on the train from here if brought in by
Saturday.
The company is picking UP good
business down south. and is receiving
many complimentary notices for good
prices secured to sheep owners. The COM
pany is securing a heavy consignment of
wool.
Word from the men accompanying the
last train says the lot were s0id IN Car
caSo at good prices. All this work is
giving renewed encouragement TO oar
sheep owners, and is establishing a repu-
tstion for the local company second to
none in the territory.-Mt. Pleasant Ply
ramid.
I4dkey Shoemaker has been engaged dur
ing. the past few days in hauling ties
and distributing them along the grade
The road will be completed to Morrison
as soon the rails can be obtained from
the works at Pueblo. Colo.-Messenger.
mortal to the late President Brigham
Young. 1t is proposed to give everyone
a clit-4ice 10 subscribe, and ten
cent donations will be received. 1t is in
deed a good move, and we douot not Will
be sustained by the people. The name of
the founder of Utan." should be per-
petuated.-Manti Sentinel.
There are in this city something over
100 improved blocks, and or these blocks
g lf fr5Ti Ia
means 1900 fruit trees. The sight of
these thousands of trees, laden each year
at this time with their burdens of plen-
tiful fruit. has become such common
than even passing notice from tine in
habitants of this city.
a very small average yield for these
trees is two bushels per tree, ma king Il
total yield of 20.OC0 bushels. This is
conserva tive and safe estimate. Apples
ars becoming to be valued so lightly that
hundreds O. bushels SO u waste every
year. But if the people would only stop
and think minute, it should not take
them long TO realize that the apple or
chards OF Mt. Pleasant are of more value
than several industries which are receiY-
ing far more attention. Apples are soll
right here where they are raised as high
q and 80
At so cents, 10000 bushels means $4,000;
at 30 cents $4,000. In either case 1t is more
than enough money to pay the city taxes
in this city. 1t could pay these taxes and
give each man, woman and child 81.
If the fruit that is raised here was
properly taken care of and attended to-
and the worm pest eradicated.- the. crop
every year could be shipped and sold at
a net of go to 70 cents a bushel-
At the latter figure the present crop
would bring $4,000 of outside money in
here, or s. to each person. In "a very
few years time this crop could be
doubled and trebled, so that in a com,
paratively short time Mt. Pleasant could
and should ship nearly $4,000 worth of.
fruit
A great change must. however, be made
in the method of looking after this fruit
interest. The quality is first class, but
it has been allowed to deteriorate through
lack of care. If it was brought uo to its
standard it would find ready sale, and
when it was known that Mt. Pleasant
was a fruit shipping station, buyers and
commission men would come in here and
bid and compete for the fruit, the same
as is done for sheep Carload after car
load all that could be raised, would be
readily sold and large sum of money
brought in from the outside every year.
This is a great resource--our fruit in
dustry-and should not be neglected
Some one should take hold of this mat
ter get the orcherffsts interested i'm It
and get = II .s1'ch shape as will be
leaGirr- + ie@+-5s.
OF 60 se - -ds will have to be
all greaii- , vel but when it can be
so readily seen the profit in so doing.
there should be no delay. Spraying has
proven beneficial, and if followed up will
soon rid our fruit of pests. and then
the people can soon work up profitable
With plenty of good fruit, it would not
take long to entice fruit canning estab-
lishment in here, and that Would be sew
eral thousand dollars year more 1t is