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The Indians burn wood, but the whites burn coal at $1.50 a ton. There are coal veins all along the river and gulches, and 3 miles back from Fruitland there are immense coal deposits with a 50 foot face.

The north side of the river is setled and mostly farmed by irrigation, and good crops of fruit, grain, vegetables and hay are raised. The fruit crop this year was almost a failure, owing to windy spring and late frosts. The fruit trees blossom early and then are killed by frosts in April or May, and the dry winds injure the fruit after it has set. We could get only some poor apples and winter pears at Fruitland, tho some bartlets were raised. Oats and Alfalfa do well and all sorts of vegetables are excellent.

The best apples are said to be the Grimes Golden, Jonathan, Arkansas black and Roman beauties, but hundreds of others are raised. The best pears are Bartletts, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Russets, the russets the best flavored I ever tasted.

The best plums are Lombards, green gage, blue damsons.

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