Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-30

| Union for the raising of apples and
| the only reason that the state is not
| sending apples to nearly every part OF
| the Union Is because the people OF
! the state have not paid the proper at
| tentlon to the raising of apples
Now" said the old man, the sol
! and climate at Trenton are particular
| ly adapted to the growing OF apples
| 1t is Il deep, rich, sandy loan, with
| ont stone or alkali and there is plenty
| of water for every acre of 1t. But II
was of the possibilities OF Trenton as
an apple raising district that ] wanted
to talk. Here is a part of report
from Roy n. Rasmussen. horticul-
tural inspector of Weber county: i
have examined the land at Trenton
and find the soil second to none for
fruit growing, such as apples, pears
plums and small fruit of all kinds
and for sugar bects, grain and alfal-
IA, I have examined tho soil, condi-
tons. and location, and my confident
Judgment is that they are perfectly
adapted to the growing Of the above
mentioned fruits. | have examined
the small orchards I'm the vicinity and
find them in a healthy, growing con-
dition free from pest and disease: and
that the recent frosts, so disastrous
in other places. have done no dam
age whatever to the fruit in Trenton,
Pretty strong testimony but not too
strong" said my old friend Nov"
said he. II am going To- show YOU
some apple figures which will prove
To you that there is money in apples.
=. O. Wade, of Malaga, WASH in
1905, picked and sold from 20 seven
year old trees Is bushels of apples to
the tree, being at the rate of 500
bushels to the acre, which apples sold
at sl.l0 per box, or $3.50 per acre.
y. A. Burton, in a recent issue of
the Fruit Grower, says that he took
apples from 40 trees which sold for
$1,700, or $3.50 per tree. a rate OF
1915 per acre In one year"
In a speech before the Northwest
Fruit Growers association, David Il.
McGinnis showed that western grown
apples had brought $3.50 per barrel
as against $3.50 for eastern apples. and
that there We're records to prove
where $1,000 had been made in one
year on one acre of apple land Mr.
McCiinniS said that the western
grower need have no fear of the east
because they cannot raise apples of
the quality of those raised in the west.
Four years ago j f. Wakefield of
Paonia. Colo. bought n young apple
orchard for $500 he raised three pro-
ftable crops and last fall refused $685.
c0O for his investment of a little ovei
four years.
In the Denver Greeley district. Colo.
fruit land without n tree on it but
with a high priced water right is hel1
at $1,000 per acre. Coming nearer
home, you can't buy good fruit land in
Weber on BoNelder counties for less
than $3.50 per acre, and that Is with
out a tree on the land. Orchards in
bearing command from 5000 to- 81 900
per acre. over in the Curinnc district
the price Is as high. and land would
he as Etgh In the Moab and Washington
county district We're IT not for the ia t
that they lack railroads To carry their
fruits to a market"
THE GOVERNOR OF UTAH COR.
RECTS SOME FALSE IMPRESSIONS.
II have given you these few figures.
culled from hundred to show you tina /
there is good money in apples, said
my old friend as he looked across thu
table at me
Some time ago somebody wrote ~
Coy. Cutler and told him that the writ .
er understood that he was Interested in
Mexican fruit raising schemes. Heir
Is the governors reply and you eau
use what part of il you wish. II was
published in the Deseret Evening News
of April III; here is the part Of the gov
ernor's letter referring to fruit lands
, in Mexico:
Certain agents have declared that /
am Interested In a certain tropical fruit
companies land In Mexico In reply
to yout question | beg to state that /
am not interested ia this company =
land, And | would advise You
that anyone who buys land in Mexi-
60 on the guaranty ot any party
TO plant fruit trees ON the land, which
will be- turned over to the purchaser
f,,f Ia.
ardous, long wnded proposition. And
! I is likely that most of those who buy
| VIII sell out before anything Is realized
| from the Investment"
In view Of the fact that II is evident
| that agents who are inducing people
20 invest I'm their various propositions
make II practise 10 quote the governor
as having taken stock in this or thai
| enterprise, using the statement as an
argument FOR others to purchase the
| stock, VIII say this. Sometimes the
| statement u true. sometimes not. But
whether or not the governor has taken
| stock In an enterprise each one APP
preached by an agent selling that stock
should investigate the matter closely
ana carefully, and decide whether on
, not he would do well to purchase IT,.
Every man should invest his own
money. one man should not depend
on the judgment Of another. If / think
/ can take a chance on certain invest
ment, II does not necessarily follow that
any other man should make the same
Investment II IL and should be mat
ter of personal investigation.
As Ia Mexican land propositions aud
similar ones. / might say that there
appears Ia be- an element OF unfair
ness iu tn fact that the land II pur-
chased at very low rate and immo-
dlately sold AT AN advance of several
thousand per cent the ground for the
advance hcing the supposltiun that tho
land win be planted with fiuit trees
or some other vegetation. which an some
tine in the future win produce big val
ues for the investor. ON this supposi-
ton aud representation the man buys
the land at fabulous advance. The
galcs are hastened by the statement
on the part Of The agent that the price
Of the lnnd ~ about 10 be- advanced S25
or $50 AN acre, and purchasers are
urged To get IN at the present price,
And that sort of argument catches
many people.
Ana yet the purchaser rs not sure
perhaps. for the reason that he cannot
investigate personally, whether on not
The land can be cleared, the trees plant
od aud taken care OF, aud the frnii har-
vested aud marketed AT cost low
enough To- renlize the great hopes he
has for a. IN brief. he hugs bllndlY:
the size OF tho promised profits being
usualy In direct ratio 10 the distance OF