The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

I loads. For each of the two previous
years the shipments were but three
cars. The increase in Box Elder. Cache
! Weber. Davis and Utah counties was
! fully as marked. Grand and Sanpete
counties were also large shippers OF
fruit. 1t is thought by many who have
watched the steady growth of this in
/ dustFy that by 1910 the shipments OF
1 fruit 10 outside markets VIII be more
than double the splendid rec 5rd for 1908
/ At the present rate Of growth, the fruit
] industry will, ten years .ence, be the
I leading agricultural industry of the
state. as IL is already in Oregon and
/ Washington, where the fruit orop of the
present year is valued at S10,"ol,000. In
California also fruit and + IL growing
has long been the leading agricultural
industry.
For the production of many varieties
Of fruit. Utah's climatic and other con
ditions are as favorable as in the golden
state, where land values have attained
to phenomenal figures by reason of the
splendid returns from orchards and
vineyards Only in mining can land be
made more valuable than the pursuit
of horticulture. Devoted 10 the latter
industry it is not uncommon TO find
values of irrigated land running to
81 600 to $1,000 per acre ire California
should hold in this state if based upon
the same consideration-that of interest
returns for the investment.
Utah's Advantages Great.
Few realize the splendid advantages
held out in the fruit growing industry
in Utah. where the irrigating bitches
supply the water to the fruit at the
time when most needed. and in the
nj frv ho f,.1
ment in size and flavor. The air also
is so dry and clear. coupled with the
almost continuous sunshine, that fun
gus and other fruit and tree diseases
are practically unknown, and the condi-
tons are such as to bring the fruit to
a perfection of color and flavor nowhere
surpassed
In the Hood river country, the We
nachee and Yakima valleys of Oregon
and Washington, are noted for growing
the finest commercial fruits in the
American market, particularly apples
But these noted sections are no better
adapted for fancy fruit production
than some of Utah's favored valleys
The Cache, Bear River and Grand val
leys, and the Green river country are
equal in every respect to the sections
named in the northwest. The Ashley
valley in the east and the Dixie coun-
try IN the south viii be equally IA
nous for fine fruit as soon as railroad
facilities are afforded. The latter win
rival the productions of California in
semi-tropical fruits in the not distant
future.
Exceptional ADVANTAGES.
The people of this state do not begin
to value at their worth the splendid
horticultural opportunities lying all
around them. Only in the very recent
past has any recognition been given
the bonanza TO be realized in dry farm
ing, which viii soon extend to millions
of acres. The opportunities in fruit
culture are fully as wide. the writer
believes, as those in dry farming, and
only await development by the ener-
getic husbandman- In California the
opportunities for fruit growing which
the climate affords are so valued that
unimproved land. isolated from irrigat-
ing bitches, is considered well worth