The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-03
FRUIT CULTURE.

The same causes which give excel
lenca to the grains and vegetables OF
Utah, also stand for orchard pro-
ducts of a high class. Fresh fruits are
exported in considerable quantities,
and wherever sent take a high place
and command a ready sale. In gen
eral terms, the superior characteristics
are firmness, beauty, and above all,
fine favor.
Our peach trees thrive best on light
loamy and gravelly soil. Apples are
better and becoming more plentiful
every year. Great quantities are raised
in Box Elder, Weber and Utah coun-
ties, and shipped from Ogden, Salt
Lake city, Provo and Springville to
the markets of the east and north. The
principal varieties for export are the
fall Pearmain and Rhode Island Green
ing, but among the last and very best
to come into market are the WineSar
and winner Pearmain, which keep far
into April and are generally conceded
to be of better flavor than those from
the east.
Plums, German prunes, pears, april
cots, cherries and grapes, of splendid
quality and handsome appearance, are
raised in great quantities; awberries
come to market in the greatest abun-
dance, Of magnificent appearance and
fine flavor.
In this connection great interest is
being shown at home and abroad, and
favorable comment is heard on all
sides relative to the enterprise of the
Maple Grove Orchard and Vineyard
company of ogden, Utah. This COM
pany recently obtained control of some
5000 acres of choice land in what is
known as The Fruit Belt of Utah.
This tract is in Box Elder county, be-
Springs. w. B. Wedell, the company's
general manager, is an enthusiast on
the subject of fruit culture. and has a
record in the state for making a sue
cess Of whatever he undertakes. This
company offers to sell five or ten-acre
orchards, planted 20 suit the purchaser,
on small monthly payments extending
over a period of five years. at the end
of which time they will deliver a fully
matured full bearing orchard, or re-
fund the purchasers money A five
acre, five-year-old fruit orchard in
Utah, free and clear, means an indie
pendence for several generations, and
the Maple Grove Orchard and Vine
yard company place it within the pow
er of a thrifty wage Garner to attain
that independence in a period of five
years.
Southern and central Utah are pene-
trated by branches of the Rio Grande
Western and Union Pacific systems,
and both systems send their trains in
to the leading camps and agricultural
! districts of the state. But there are to
be more railroads in Utah-from Los
Angeles a line is building to Salt
Lake, from Salt Lake line is building
to Los Angeles-two different compan-
les and leading local capitalists are
now actively engaged in the construc-
ton of a road into the wonderful Deep
Creek region. $50 miles southwest of
Salt Lake. The roads to Los Angeles
are, Of all others, at present of the
most moment to Salt Lake and Utah
They will reduce the distance between
the southern California coast and Chi
cago nearly 700 miles over all present
routes of travel, and shorten the pres
ent railroad distance from Salt Lake
to Los Angeles quite 500 miles Over
these roads trains laden with the iron,
coal and other products of Utah. will
meet and pass hundreds of fruit-laden
trains from California on their way to
the eastern markets.-E. F. Colborn, in
/ utah Revealed