The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

tains, through Box Elder, Weber, Da-
Wis, salt Lake and Utah counties to
Springville on the south, making a
distance of about $50 miles. all the
fruits seem to do equally well, pro
vided, always. that care be taken to
select the soil that is adapted to the
particular class. In the scope of
country here mentioned is found the
exact requirement OF the peach, april
cot and all other stone fruits in the
lighter sandy loan and gravel of the
upper benches, while lower down as
the soil grows heavier and usually
darker is where the apple and pear do
best.
Commercial Orchards.
It is in this central district. too that
practically all the commercial orchards
or those producing for export, are sit
mated. At Provo, Springville, Draper,
RIverton, South Cottonwood, Granite,
Mill Creek, Syracuse, Hooper. Ogden,
North Ogden, Willard, Brigham City
and in the Bear river valley. are COM
mercial orchards that are the pride Of
Utah, 2nd would be a credit to even
California, where OTchaTding is reduced
to a science. Other valleys have their
specialties, as the Moab district for
peaches and the NeTnaI country for ap-
pies, and in these speCialties those To-
NcLAAbAC0 NO4AA1A DNAG do lil0tu do uO AAAE
others to the general reputation of
L tab as a horticultural country.
If asked where is the best opening
for commercial Orcharding at present in
Utah, it would not be far wrong, TO
say, for apples. either Cache county on
the north, or Sanpete, Sewer, Iron or
Beaver counties in the south. In each
of these counties there are many thou
sands of acres Of land perfectly adapt
ed to the apple and the pear, and the
chief thing is to select the harder sorts
and then plant few varieties.
For peaches, cherries, apricots and
the berry fruits, the country from
Provo to Brigham City offers the best
inducements, although land values are
higher there because Of proximity to
the commercial and mining CenterS.
Still there are yet more acres tenfold
that are suitable to fruit than all the
acreage at present planted, and the
ruling prices of real estate in that re-
gion are not exorbitant when the won
deTful returns from well kept or
chard are considered.
Money in Orchards.
It is such a simple matter to figure
100 peach trees to the acre, with a yield
of 200 pounds per tree and a market
price Of 255 cents per pound, that many
boomers, orchard promoters and
land spectators frequently make use
toners to buy. While such estimates
are not impossible of fulfillmclt they
are altogether theoretical and seldom
if ever pan out in practical OrCo2TGlng
The 80 trees to the acre IS all right
but a safe estimate of yield would be
100 pounds per tree and a sel!idg price
of l cent per pound net to the grower
This would mean $3.50 Tevenae from
each acre. Allowing the $50 for al eX-
penses, including interest on rlICe OF
land. taxes. etc. and there is LETT a Let
revenue of 800 per acre, or 10 per cent
interest on a valuation o. Sl,0uU pei
acre. These figures are conservative
but the hydrocarbons investor may
cut them in two and then have a sat
isfactOry return for his time and
money.
Likewise the apple grower may
count on 800 bushels of good fruit Pc