Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-01-08

Scorr COUNTY TRADs IN FRuir AND ORSA-
MENTAL TREss.-As fruit growing State,
the advantages oil Iowa have been rapidly
proven Of late years. It has been conclu-
sively showa BY those who have adventur-
ed in this line, that money can be made in
no surer manner, than in ajudicious invest
ment in fruit trees Considerable time
must eapss, it is true. before the planter re-.
ceives returns for his money and care, but
when the dividends do commence to dow
in, it is in the most liberal and rsmunera-
tive style. 1t Was early conceded that Iowa
must become great apple raising State, by
virtue Of its productive soil, aud favorable
climate. In raising peaches. it was found
hat our ir9sts were too severe for any thing
bordering on reasonable success. Our Ger
man citizens, however, soon demonstrated
that this delinquency could be supplied by
. still more profitable plant-the grape. The
prairies west OF Montrose are becoLling "a
nous for their vineyards, as also are lands
in the vicinity Of Burlington. Touching on
the Mississippi, and in one Of the most fer
tile portions Of the State, Scot county has
not f,llcn behind in bringing all her re-
sources into play. Our farmers have OF
late years. given the matter Of fruit raising
that attention which it deserves, as any one
can readily notice by driving over the well
tiled prarics that lie west OF our city. On
every hand, young orchards are springing
up, and hiilsides being covered with vine
| arbors
| As a natural consequence, the trade in
fruit and ornamental trees and shrubbery.
in Scott County, is assuming respectable
proportion. A few figures bearing OH this
subject may be interesting
From the various fruit tree dealers, whose
head quarters are in this city, we have oh
tanned the following statistics The value
Of the trees anil shrubberv sold in Scott
county during the year 1865, amounted in
round numbers to t'eenty thousand doitars
Of this amount, the Geneva On. Y. Nur
scry received $4,000; the Bloomington
Ulls.) Nursery, $4,000, and various other
smaller establishments $4,000. OF these
sale, the largest were Of apples and grapes.
The sales may be set down as fyllows:
Apple trees-10O varieties 10000
Pear trees-2U ... 5000
| Plum trees-l5 " .... 5000
Cherry trecs-lO ........ 1000
Grape vim $50 ....... 80, 900
Of these, the varieties most popular, and
most sold, have been Of apples. the EARLY
Harvest, Red Astrachan, Maiden's Blush,
Fameuse or Snow Apple, Rallies Janet,
Yellow Bell Flower, and Northern Spy.
OF pears, the Louise Bon dc Jersey, and
the Bartlett. Of plums, the Imperial Gage,
and Smiths Orleans. OF cherries, the Refine
Hortense. and Maduke. OF grape vines
the Iona, Delaware, and Hartford Prolific
In addition to the fruit trees, the sales Of
ever-greens, and other ornamental trees has
been large The most popular Of these latter
have been the Norway Spruce, Balsam Fir,
| and American 4, bor ri.ae.
ElGnrY ACRES OF GRAPES Within short
slime past Messrs. Kent Il Goldsbury. land
| agents, have disposed Of eighty acres Of land,
laying in section SO, Davenport township, on
the Telegraph road-half mile west Of
Mr.. Wilkinson's place, for $50 per acre,
cash, to be devoted exclusively to grape
| culture. Forty acres were purchased by
Charles and Fred Schmidt, and forty, ad
loining, by Ludwig Mueller. The owners
have already commenced grubbng out the
scrub growth and will probably commence
planting in the spring. Here We have an
energetic start towards opening up large
| vineyard interests in this vicinity. There
are a good many acres already occupied by
bearing vines, from which the owners are
every year gathering handsome profits, but
this last movement is the first that has been
inauguratcd on really large scale, and we
feel verp much like consra;uating the pub
he upon step SO important. The warm
southern slopes Of the long array of bluffs
that overlook the Mississippi from this
township, contain mines Of wealth in the
luscious grape and its ever popular products
We were told at Fort Madison last summer,
that as high as $4,000 per acre had been re-
allied from vineyards in that place. That is
a large yield OF course-but even at a great
" reduced profit, the business cannot be
otherwise than highly l,munerative. We
hope to hear ol capital and enterprise con-
stantly branching out in this direction.
BY the way the price which the above
named lands were sold shows that real estate
stands firm higher in the rough than
in an improved state.
OLD SETTLERS FEsrivAL-The Pioneer
Settlers of Scott County, hold their Ninth
Annual Festival at the Pennsylvania House
tomorrow evening. The Pioneers, as
authorized. hy the Constitution of the organ
ization, are those who found home here
previous to the year 1s4l. There will
probably be pretty large attendance should
the weather prove favorable. The members
Of this organization are growing less and
less each succeeding year. The list Of deaths
is unusually heavy for the year ju t passed.
In 1864 there were ten deaths. we believe
among which were John Morton, Gabriel
Macarthur and Benjamin f. Coates In
1865, VIC believe, there has been fifteen
deaths in this Pioneer Band-among which
are our lamented fellow citizens, Alfred
Sanders, Judge Mitchell, James Bowling,
Louis A. Macklot, Stephen Thompson, and
so on. Surely the lines are being steadily
contrae ted. and ere many years, the Pioneer
Settlers Of Scott County will be few and far