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southern val]ey,s in the State, those definitely specified lieing the 

 Alexander, Dewey, St. John, Briggs, Belle, Elberta, Late Crawford, 

 Wheatland, Kninunel, Sylphide, and Salwey. 



Dlstrihution. — In Utah the orchard interests are in valleys which, 

 in general, are located to the westward and along the course of the 

 main range of the Wasatch Mountains, in the north-central part of 

 the State. The principal centers of peach production are as follows: 

 The extreme eastern part of Box Elder County, about Willard, 

 Brigham, IIone3'Aiile, Dewey ville, Trenionton, and Corinne; Weber 

 County, about Ogden, Roy, and Uinta ; Davis County, about Clear- 

 field and Woods Cross; Salt Lake County, about Salt Lake City; 

 and in Utah County, about Provo, Springville, and Payson. 



Yariefles. — One estimate places the Elberta at 00 per cent of the 

 couunercial product of the State. The Early Elberta, Foster, Sellers, 

 and a fcAv others are grown in very limited quantities. 



NEVADA. 



In most parts of Nevada the climatic conditions are not suited to 

 the culture of peaches, and very little attempt is made to grow them. 



PACIFIC STATES. 

 WASHINGTON. 



Dlstrihution. — The peach districts in Washington are coincident 

 with the apple districts, though not all of the latter contain peach 

 interests of importance. The most prominent district with reference 

 to peaches is the Yakima A'alley, in which this fruit is grown at 

 numerous points between North Yakima, in Yakima County, and the 

 junction of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers, in Benton County; 

 at Kennewick, located a few miles below the mouth of the Yakima 

 River in Benton County; and at Pasco, directly across the Columbia 

 River, in Franklin County. 



The Wenatchee Valley, centering at Wenatchee in Chelan County, 

 is the second most important peach district; the third is the Snake 

 River valley, especially that portion included in the southern part of 

 Whitman County, where at various points peaches are grown on a 

 relatively small commercial basis. This valley is virtually continuous 

 with the Lewiston district in Idaho. In the Walla Walla Valley, as 

 in certain other districts, peach interests have been developed on a 

 sufliciently large scale to produce some fruit for shipping, but the 

 two valleys first mentioned are by far the largest producing districts' 



