Identifier: utahfactstoprove1905egn (find matches)
Title: Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Portland, Or.) (1905
Subjects: Lewis and Clark Expedition Centennial (1905)
Publisher: (Salt Lake City: s.n, 1905).
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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built up. There are four-teen canneries in the four leading counties, whichturned out last year: Article. Cases. Tons. Assorted fruit 26,000 600 Tomatoes 390,808 19,544 Peas 37,ooo 920 Beans 3,000 69 Pumpkins 2,500 60 Tomato ketchup 2,500 60 The canneries afford a ready and convenientmarket for the above products and their number isyearly increasing. In addition to the home con-sumption, these shipments were made by counties: County. Carloads Value. Box Elder 179 $ 89,500.00 Weber 261 125,000.00 Utah 150 75,000. 00 The mining camps and populated centers ofUtah and neighboring states afford an unfailingmarket for Utah fruits. Utah alone has not beenable to supply the home consumption, Californiabeing an active rival in the local market. Utah fruitsgrown as they are in a dry climate, where 90 percent of the days are bright, are famed for their qual-ity and flavor and sell in the Eastern markets ata premium. Many carloads were distributed inEastern cities as far as Chicago last year. 44
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Everyday Scenes in the Orchards near Brigham City. Reduced to Figures. W) RODUCE PRICES.—Wheat, of which 4,000,000*■* bushels were raised in Utah in 1904, 05 percent shipped to Colorado and Texas, brought 70cents the bushel. Oats, insufficient fur the local de-mand, brought $1 to $1.20 a hundred-weight. Bar-ley, consumed by the Utah breweries, brought 85to $1 a bushel. Alfalfa, which averaged 6 tons tothe acre on irrigated land and 2 1-2 tons on dry farms,was taken by stock-owners, the ruling price being$8 a ton. Potatoes were 25 cents a bushel, butter17.6 a pound, cheese 9.4, apples 75 cents a bushel,peaches 30 cents a box, tomatoes 4 cents a pound,cabbage 1 to 3 cents. Cost of Land.—Land may be obtainedeither by entry or by purchase. Utah has 39,703,466acres of unappropriated and unreserved land.Several million acres will be reclaimed by irrigationand 20,000,000 acres may be successfully dry-farmed.Of the 400,000 acres to be reclaimed by the Govern-ment within two or three yea

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