The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-17
utah FRUIT Is GUESSED
As EASY wilmer Of CUP
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the surprising possibilities of the south
err country in the way of fine fruit
| growing Great quantities of ThOmp-
son s seedless raisin grapes are shown
tnese. can be grown in Dixie and sun
/ utled INTO the best raisims a { a profit Of
9tsV an acre. The southern Utah expe-
| fiment farm contributes a number Of
varieties of choice grapes. The large
ana complete display of almonds and
( a good share Of the Dixie exhibit OF
/ grapes and other fancy fruit were
/ grown by Thomas Judd of St George
and La Verkin, who has the largest
| commercial orchard and VINEYARD i'm
I southern Utah located at La VerlSin.
! which is undoubtedly the comine, fruit
| center of Dixie.
one Of the most complete displays.
and certainly the most artistic in the
entire exhibition is that of the Wilson \
I brothers. John L. and Andrew OF this
\ city. Their collection of fresh AMI
+ oried fruits, fancy fruits put I'D in
/ preventative liquids in artistic glass
7 Jars, IS all that could be desired. Their /
/ EXHIBITS OF plums, pears and peaches (
are particularly meritorious OF the
( fLrst named nothing better could be 4
shown anywhere. The Wilson brothers /
are among the largest and most sue [
: cessful fruit growers Of the state sup I
] plying the market with choice fresh I.
fruits nearly the year round They
grow twelve varieties of apples twenty
! three OF peaches, thirteen of pears. six /
Teen OF plums, nine of cherries, ten of I
grapes, besides all kinds of small fruits 4
and fancy vegetables. They have on .
exhibition the following:
Varieties of Fruit.
Varieties OF Apples-Ben Davis.
Jonathan, Winesap, Gano. Sutton'si
Beauty, Mammoth, BLACK Twig. Mis-
souri, Pippin, r. I. Greening. Twenty
ounce, White Winter Pearmain and
Wolf River.
OF peaches they show the following
kinds: Eiberta, Champion, erik.
Mamie Ross, Wheatland Cragum.
White Cling, Governor Brigg.
Plums and Prunes: Bradshaw. YeHowl
Egg, Green Gage, Yellow Seeding or
Hungarian prune, Columbia, Grand
Duke, Peach Plum, and the Giant. Sill
yer, Italian, Tarrant and Tragedy
pruues.
Pears; Bartlett, Howell. Clairgean,
Winter NeHis, De ANTON, Lawrence,
vicar Seclel and Buerre Easter.
Cherries: Black Republican Windsor.
May Duke, Centennial. Black Tartar
ian, Napoleon. Reign Hortense and
Knudsen's Late
Grapes: Black Prince. Muscat. Flame
Tokay. Zinfanden, Green Verdall. Ham
burg, Mission, Virgenis and Niagara.
me cases of dried plums and apricOts
IN the Wilson exhibit deserve special
mention They were No. 1 in quality,
cured and put up by two little girls.
Luscious Grapes.
The display Of grapes peaches and
other fancy fruits shown bv Fnoch Farr
OF Ogden, is another Weber county eN-
hl6it that any fruit grower would be
proud of. and is one that added much
10 the prestige of Utah's fruit exhibit
nus trays of grapes of Flame T0kay, I
Black Prince, Black Hamburg. Musca- /
tells, ThompsOn's Seedless and other
varieties are equal to anything shown
III the entire exhibition. and that is
saying a great deal, as the California f
and southern Utah displays of the same 2
varieties are about the best that nature !
produces.
The exhibits Of Thomas b. Helm Of G
Pleasant View, @. G. Mcfarland Of G
Wilson's lane, Charles Ziemer and A. 2
/. Stone of Ogden are most creditabIe ;
and add greatly to the excellence and =
variety of Weber county'sr display In / /
addition TO fine displays OF plums ana
other fruits, Mr.. Stone snoWs several
varieties Of cantalOupes. J
BOXelder is one of the banner fruit
counties Of the state, and Brigham City
Is the center Of the peach industry,
which is the cOUnty's chief dependence.
Il would be hard to find a better eli
mate and soil in Utah for peach, april e
cot, cherry, small fruit, and grape 0
growing than the western foothills of il
the Wasatch in BOxelder. All stone ]
fruits grow to protection, fact which :
the farmers are taking advantage OF. ;
ana Jne peachlng growing industry Of :.
1Als county IS growing rapidly year by o
ear. Hundreds of carloads Of fruit are Z
shipped from this county annually. o
Box Elders Exhibit.
The fruit growers Of BOxelder aided n
by their county board of horticulture "
and their fruit inspector, n. J. Nelson, u
made a systematic canvass for the best 81
fruits of the county which was sent p
down to Ogden in care of r. A Box, y
who unpacked the entire display alone -
and made most striking and meritor SC
Gus display showing a large variety Of
apples, peaches, pears plums, grapes
which do great credit 10 the growers :
The following contributed to the ex- .
lIbIt from BONelder: Charles Singleton, a
w. /. Wight, Joseph Knudsen. Mrs. s.
hnudsen, (. p. Gordon, A. II. Snow. O. y
>. Jensen, N DedericksOn, Peter knud- e
sen, a. Christensen y. j. Nelson. j. 3
w. valentine John Barratt, II. Cotter q
and others. 81
salt Lake county is represented by L. =
demenWay Of Granger, J. NJ. Fisher of s.
Mil Greek, A. S. Martin of Sugar. and e
J. Young, Bishop Heber Bennion and g
Alfred BeuniOn Of TaylorsviIle. who 3
sent in fine varieties Of apples. peaches. 81
lectarines, pears, grapes pIums and 3
lrunes. z
Utah county makes a splendid show 81
ne Of apples, grapes pears. plums and =
)runes in great variety and of fine n
quality. The apples and pears from y
lere are especially fine. The growers
ire James Medium, Benjamin john y
son, James LoveIess. Nels b johnson, g
otto Olson, Walter Cox. Corey brothers, ! y
Ienry Smith, ]. L. Booth. II
William II. Miller Of Syracuse. who / u
las one of the largest commercial or ! q
hards in the state, holds up the credit Il
If Davis county in fine shape with a II
display of fine market apples, York Inn N
)erial Ben Davis, Babbitt Winkler, u
Mammoth BLACK TwiS. Missouri Pip III
lin. Stark. Jonathan and the Bartlett y
year. 81
Coming to Salt Lake. y
S. A. Ham of Salt Lake. representing 81
he state fair was in ogden today and 81
oncluded arrangements with Director 81
Whitaker TO have the principal part o. u
he magnificent fruit exhibits here Ell
moved 20 Salt Lake and placed in readi- Ii
ess for the State fair which onens in 81
ALT Lake Oct. /. The exhibits VIII A
kelly be moved down Immediately after &
he adjournment Of the congress and ri
laced in cold storage in Salt Lake a
waiting the opening of the State fair III