Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-17

days after he arrived home he was
sent to Ogden to take charge of Ore
CONS exhibit. The colonel says that
II he had only had 10 weeks time mar
gin instead he would have made Utah
take to the tall timbers. The colonel
Is a great josher, Hon. Fred Keisel Is
hardly doing the square thing by Utah.
Take away his exhibit from the show
and the Utah growers would not feel
so nervous Mr. Keisel has ranch
near Ontario Ore, where he grows all
kinds of fruit He has shipped a lot OF
samples down that look as though they
came right off the table of a giant Of
Grimm's Fairy Tales fame. Mastodonic
apples, bloated peaches and oyerfed and
distorted plums, crab apples as big as
the common or garden variety one
and all greet the eye. Some of the
Wolf river apples are absolutely distor-
lions and would make a meal for
family.
IDAHO'S FINE DISPLAY.
Idaho makes splendid show also.
Inspector A. Mcpherson OF the state
horticultural department is In charge
and his motto IL mo trouble to answer
questions" Here upon six stands are
shown all fruits, with the exception OF
grapes, that are grown under irrigation.
Payette valley makes the best display
from every point Of view. Boise valley
Weiser valley and Upper Snake River
valley also have a good representation.
The cases from Fremont county, how
ever, arrived so late that II was not
deemed worth the while to unpack
them as all vacant space had been taxi
en- long ago. Indicative of what can
40 on gi ,fr1, o., 10, AT
products of the State Insane Asylum
farm are shown. They range from
fruit to butter, preserves to macoroni
wheat. This wheat from which the
famous macaroni Is manufactured Is
exceptionally hard. Mr. Mcpherson
says that over 100000 worth of this
product Is shipped into the United
States annually from abroad Il has
been demonstrated that Il can be sue
cessfully grown I'm Idaho and he wants
TO know why the Gem state cannot get
right down to business and raise this
right along. Idaho Is out after the cup:
consequently her exhibits are pooled
and the fruit raisers have concluded
TO sink their Identities and plug for
Idaho,
SMALL BUT SELECT.
Colorado's showing is small and se-
lect. There Is not much of Il but what
there is demonstrates that Colorado
can grow big peaches and other kinds
of fruit Most of the exhibit comes
from Grand Valley, Mesa county.
MONTANA PEACHES.
who'd ath9ught It., said one gentle
man yesterday afternoon as he s.roked
his luxuriant whiskers, why thought
they had nothing but sage brush and
shelters up In Montana" This re-
mark was occasloned by the effort on
the part of Montana to show that she
could grow peaches with the best OF
them, The fruit shown, while not as
large as that of some competitors. is
excellent and demonstrates what can
be done by means of irrigation.
WYOMING CEREALS.
Wyoming is short on fruit but de-
cidedly long on cereals. Her display
Is very artistcally arranged and is one
Of the centers of attraction for the man
who dearly loves to see rolling wheat
field.
THE BEET CONTEST.
II size We're anything to go by. Utah
has the beet cup in her grip already
packed away in It's handsome morocco
case. The Utah beet Is all pervadIng
for the others are veritable pigmies In
comparison The Utah Sugar COM
pany shows some that must have re-
quired a block and tackle to get them
out Of the ground intact. The Union
Sugar company Of Betteravia. Cal, the
Idaho Sugar company, the Greedy
Sugar company Of Wild county Colo,
also have sent samples. while Utah
county growers and sugar beet raisers
Of Garden CITY, Kans,,
There are a number OF other exhibits
of miscellaneous order that attract
attention, not the least of them being
section of wooden pipe eight feet in
diameter, a facsimile of line con-
structed by certain firm for the Utah
Sugar company.
ENGINEERS MEET.