The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-27
SALT LAKE EATS
OFF THE WORLD
Is Fed by All Sections of the
United States.
WHERE FOOD COMES FROM
GOOD THINGS REPRESENT MANY
MILES OF TRAVEL.
FOOD CONES FROM

MILES OF TRAVEL.
Did YOU ever stop TO think where
your food comes srom-,;kere your next
meal is coming from? IL doubtless
never occurred to many Salt Lakers
that the good things of life that daily
come and ga OH their tables represent
nearly every section OF the United
States and several foreign countries.
OF course nearly every one associates
New York and Baltimore with oysters,
Oregon with apples and so on. These
are few standards which are common
property. But there are many which
are Known only 90 those who are asso-
ciated in some way with wholesale or
retail produce markets
For instance, last TEanksgiVing din
ner meant thousands of miles Of travel
on the part of the good things that bur
dened the table. Where was the tur-
keys career cut short? Where did the
cranberry sauce grow? Where were
the bananas and Holsters before they
lost their green hue. the one in the
process Of ripening en- route, the other
by way of proper introduction to the
table?
Queries might oe made with regard to
many other eatables-and drinkables-
that appeared on the average salt Lake
table Thanksgiving day. Below win be
found some Of the answers 10 these
queries given in an interview by well
known Salt Lake wholesaler. whose
business IS probably the most extensive
in Utah.
East Helps Out On Turkey.
According to this dealer, Utah's tur-
keys proved amply sufficient TO supply
all Salt Laker's needs for Thanksgiv-
ing. Speaking along turkey lines. he
said:
Thanksgiving mas just about cleaned
out the Utah turkey market. and
Christmas and New Years Will see us
shipping from the east. Most of the
turkeys. and there win be thousands
Of them, will come from the corn belt
Of Kansas, where some Of the best il
the world are raised.
While there are large turkey ranches
iu California in the Sacramento valley.
the coast demand more than equals
the supply. This year has been a good
one for turkey raisers.'
OF the necessary accompaniment 70
turkey-name not necessary-he said;
New Jersey is, of course, hardly less
famous for cranberries than for mos
quitoes. This year she put out an eX-
ceedingly fine crop Of the former.
An eastern paper Of recent date
says that more cranberries will be used
in the country this year than ever be
fore. and adds that the good, old-fash-
toned mince pie has taken a back seat
for the less complicated cranberry
All local retailers report heavy sales.
California to Fore.
California has no small share of the
honOrs in supplying salt Lake homes
with things to eat, both the necessities
and the more nearly luXuries of life.
Not only does she come in with heavy
fruit list, including oranges, lemons,
grapes. olives, etc. but she supplies
Utah with sweet potatoes and with al
kinds Of shell fish. Fresh fish of every
variety comes from Sacramento as well
as from Seattle, Wash, in great guam
titles.
New York and Texas send nearly all
the oysters consumed in Salt Lake.
New York supplies better bivalves than
Baltimore.
Commenting on the fact that CALI
fornia has usurped the lemon and or
ange market 20 a great extent in the
United States. the VIII Jlesaler said.
1T has only been within the past few
years that people have come TO realize
that nowhere i'm the world are better
lemons raised than IN California. For
merly lemons were not thought worth
using unless they came from the old
country. 1t was the same way with
oranges.
Now. however. there is scarcely an
importation in this line made by whole
places i'm the east. There, they claim
that 90 ship from California means less
profit because Of high freight rates.
1T Is interesting to note i'm this con-
neCtion that with the opening of the
Salt Lake route. Los Angeles, with her
tropical fruits viii be brought many
miles near Salt Lake and the east
Most Of the apples Consumed in Salt
Lake we obtain from Idaho, Oregon
and Colorado. Few comes from Utah
growers. The trouble with Utah farm
ers is that they do not know how TO
pack their apples properly. Instead of
having them laid out i'm tiers as do
growers in other states, they pile them
I'm boxes any way. mixing good and bad
with indifferent. When we sell Napples
TO retailers we must give them an arti-
Gle that has been carefully packed and
selected, and we cannot do this at the
present at least, with Utah apples.
All the Way From Arabia.
our bananas nearly all come from
Honduras, Central America. On the
coast many Wholesalers import from
Honolulu with profit. but seemingly
there rs nothing I'm them when sent this
far. Dates and figs come from Arabia
just as they are packed at shipping
points
So the, list might go ON indefinitely.
Creamery products Of course are sup
piled by home diaries and manufactO-
Tics. Utahs egg demand, however,
sometimes is far in excess Of her sup
ply. This is now the case. Eastern