Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-10
FROM OKLAHOMA.
The Market Tor Produce aud Fruit
New Year Celebration.

hdtor Dcserst AeVE
Thinking you might have space for
. law lines Ia your columns, 1 take
pleasure In seuding them 10 you. By
way VI letting the LAtgor.day Saints
know how blessed they nrs Of the Lord
iu Zion, 1 will give few quotations
on produce, etc, Of this country.
Several times lately have heard mer.
chants AK sl.25 psr bushel for Colo.
RADIO potatoes. Gam satisfied many Of
them we're from UAh.l Now our peO-
IlU could IND market here for many
Carllags OF potatoes Ia the fall, or have
them stored here until this time Of
year, and do exceedingly we'll on them.
Dried iruit also CYulu uU probability
tuippcd. Thesu only could / recon-.
mend shipping this ways you viii 800
by the fullOwIng: Farmers hero have
100 acres each, anu dopenu entirely
un tAe rain from above Tor irrigation.
Last year wheat orops averaged
throughout Oklahoma, ton bushels per
acre, UAlB tWonty uud barley about
twenty-five. Many huauolg u wheat
were sold Nj thlrIy CuulH, Whiiu unis
aud barley brought only nitecn cents.
The corn crop wa quite iallufe-uOi
going more than ave bufhuls pur acre.
Que rehaOn why potatoes arc higu D.
owing 20 their yielding ~ light, anu
another reason n because they cannot
keep them. They rot before Christ.
mus lime, Sweet potatoes grow large,
fine, aud keep spleuuidly through tnt
winter la cellars.
Yesterday met some young
men with six very hno one
ytar.Old chickens ON their should
sHis winch tury unu IasE purchaser
from ntignUOr Tor 7lci4, or llr.l
Zach. Que can buy las, yeaps geese
aud turkeys at 800 each, ugyuud, fine
live geese feathers Tor 6Jo per pound.
Pork Ia this country 10 tue mos.
Profitable business, rat hogs bring
from 10 90 90 per uOuul on iyOt, anu
Hlwhyu ready market lot ihcm. Beri
uu loot may be purchased from u O..
u efr. prr pound on igJi, ia amy guam
ulta, small or large. Jutt belJfu tbu
holidays saw ugge Hu.d at o. uUf
gen, sud farmers are now In gIurI
beUause they get l5s TOR Juem. Butter
la worth only 100 Iuf pound iT,Hu
from the Churn. NJ coal h usei iu
this vicinity, but tuu Astonishing iac,
lhntguJd black Jack, sHd OAK wool
some % the iiuest timber 1 ever saw,
for uurabinty and hgnl-Uau DO had "a
once door cut In cord BOD Tor 81 30
pbr c0ldi or one may have 10 choppu.
lu stove leuE ihH-a double wagon boa
lull Tor fl.OO, AZ cur "uuAuquurterb"
bro. f. hBuleu wood siN mIus, pay.
lug 21U uer load "a little over q C1Tu)
tiAuliuK Ia the forest. lie cut 10 lu
cord leugtus, Tc.l0a4HI Hud hauled
10 another five miles o. iaIuattey, Tor
lue enormous sum ut tlal per cord
This wood cost at least -It pur oDTl,
0Hd 6Ot WAS laid n y.uuE man or Ful'
ting &c ul, 81 our Brother &c..
received bOu for his ami his tOgm'a ENo
days' work.
tue Latter-doy Saints do not fully
appreciate their blosBinVs, Tor truly
they ate blessed. Many Of our yuuut
men may have an opportunity ui
learning TO love nome and surround
lugs as have, when thty are among
people who merely "exist," AMI they
M /, will tay, o, H1i how happy
dod has truly pruBpered his peOpil
Our work In the service VI our
Father lie progressing nicely. Since
my last communication four
new baptismo have taken place.
During the paslleweek Tho weather
las been exceedingly cold, snow hay-
ing come 10 thu depth Of Az lnch, We
nave hat something peculiar 10 The
utonian, since Wednesday. Heavy
1913 or mist, with partly snOW, irJti
A-u tsiJ continually falling, Ono gela