Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-15
NEW HAVEN, CONN. MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1892

grown every fruit and every cereal in the
vast region from California to Maine.
Second, her water supply Is practically
unlimited, the Grand and Gunnison rivers
furnishing at least sufficient water for four
times as much land as is available for cul
tivation. To those who know what ample
water for irrigation means, the prime i'm
portance of this Will be apparent.
Third, she has great body of land sub
ject to irrigation, being fully 225, 900 acres,
nearly all of which is available for fruit
growing, the most profitable branch of hus-
bandry. With these three essentials, Mesa
county can successfully invite comparison
with the most fortunate sections of the
state.
The reports made indicate that fully FIVE
times as many trees will be bearing in the
year 1895 as were in bearing this past sea-
SON, giving a probable crop of 5000, 900
pounds. The new acreage, designed for
planting during the next two years, is
equal to ten times the number of trees in
bearing during the past season, which in
dicates q probable crop five years hence
of 5000, 900 pounds of fruit, or 300 car
loads, against thirty car loads of this
season. But this is the showing made by
the handful of people now engaged in fruit
growing. The last season has seen large
tracts of land, bought by capitalists and
companies and large areas set to fruit un-
der one management, and the enterprises
now underway indicate that during the
next two years more fruit trees will be
planted by new comers to our valley than
the entire planting contemplated by our
present settlers, which, expressed in figures,
means a crop of 600 car loads of fruit in
1897.
Fruit trees in full bearing give Q return
of $500 per acre. Strawberries and goose
berries $500 to 500, grapes from 500 to
$500, and prunes and apricots for drying
purposes to be immensely profitable. In
valley makes more than favorable showing
in comparison with California fruit lands,
for it has equally productive soil, and, in
the mining camps of the mountains it has
the finest markets in the world.
The highest authority in the United
States on the sugar beet, NJ. Swanson,
esq.,, of Fort Scott, Kan, after repeated
tests, has pronounced the beets from Grand
valley the finest he has ever tested, some
yielding 19a per cent of ssccharine matter
with high degree of purity. In beets
alone the land of Grand valley will yield
from $50 to 500 an acre and the time eau
not be far distant when sugar factories will
add materially to the wealth of our far
mers. A single factory of fair capacity
uses beets from 3, 900 acres, produces 7,000.-
600 pounds best quality sugar, and pays thu
farmer $3.50, 900 for the beets. Within five
years Mesa county will produce from 500
to 900 car loads of fruit and canning es-
tablishments will be built to handle the
over-ripe or surplus product, and towns will
have sprung up where now are isolated
farms, and the towns of to-day viii have
become thriving cities.
hn ona1 darosifa M Mesa n0nntv
simply immense. The Grand Mess, on the
south side of Grand river, is evidently
wholly underlaid with veins of coal, which
extend across the valley to the Book cliffs
on the north. and stretching westward into
Utah, crop everywhere seams of varying
thickness from Eve to twenty feet. This
coal is of an excellent bituminous quality
and much of it cokes readily. Veins from
five to twelve feet have been opened four
teen miles up the Grand from Grand juno
ton.
All along down the valley the farmers
furnish themselves from the many coal
banks opened up almost without money
and without price. Anyone who cares to
pay the government charges may own
coal mine, and the influence of this cheap
and abundant fuel will go far toward build
ing up the future cities in our valley. As
yet, anthracite coal has not been discover
ed, but indications of its presence are not
wanting and it is believed by many that 1t
will be found ere long.
Underlying the divide between Roam
creek and the West Salt wash is an enor-
nous deposit of bitumen or asphaltum,
which some day will be of great value.
Building stone of great beauty and of first
quality, comprising granite, lime and sand
stone is in great abundance.
On Orchard Mesa are found beds of clay
suitable for the manufacture of the best
pressed brick. An extensive deposit of
fire clay is also found there directly across
the river from Grand junction. Grand
junction is to-day the only unocoupied nat
ural smelling point in the state. No loca-
tion in the west offers superior advantages
to Grand junction for the successful oper-
alton of smelters. The ores of southern and
eastern Utah are tributary to her.
The story of the growth and develop
ment of Mesa county during the single de-
cade of her existence is wonderful, but it
is only chapter in the grand history
of the conquest of the wilderness by the
march of civilization throughout the west.
Ten years ago the retresting Utes crossed
Grand valley into Utah, never to return;
and following close behind them came the
| first contingent of pioneers who were to
| compel the reluctant desert to yield its
wealth and loveliness to the strong hand
| of labor. Slowly the numbers of this little
band were augmented, and little by little
the water was led upon the land, and now
the promises of wealth and plenty are about
| to be redeemed. Here and there few
more discerning or more venturesome than
the rest, planted small orchards and vine
yards and are to-day enjoying in anticipa-
ton the prosperity which will surely come
| to this whole valley. Ten acres planted to
| fruit in Grand valley, with its never failing
| waters and its everlasting sunshine, will
| make any man independent, and under his
| own vine and fig tree he may live out his
allotted days in peace and plenty and Sc
1 curity.
| The past ten years has seen the simple
homes of pioneers created from the desert
| of the dainted savage, and the next ten
years will see the building as If by magic,
| of cities and towns, of factories and
i smelters, the advent of new railroads and
an enormous increase in our population.
SOMETHING ABOUT IRELAND.
How Rev. Samuel Mcbride Sees the
Situation-Some New Ideas for This
/ Country.
| from Our Country.l
The congregation in Music Hall yestsr.
day was addressed by Rev. Samuel Nc.
Bride, of Brooklyn, n. Y, on Ireland'f
thraldom. The speaker is an Irishmsn by
birth and possesses a large share of native
wit, and his remarks were well spieed
with humor.
Upon being introduced DR.. Mcbride
spoke as follows: am an Irishman and
am proud of it. 1t isn't much to be proud
of, for I couldn't help it. If had hsd
nv choice I should have undoubtedly beer
born in Boston.
The Irish are q wonderful people
There are a great many of them. G'
where you will and you will find Irish
men. believe that when the North poll
is discovered they will find an Irishmar
sitting on top of it. You might know
that they are not Yankees; there are 81
many of them. w
And they all come from one little islant
no larger th an the state of Maine. A lit
tie piece of land in the north Atlantis
ocean; but q very troublesome piece o
real estate. There is probably more trou
BILE and mischief to the square yard In Ire
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