Cañon City record., 1897-09-30
Fruiit Votes.


dollars that will be paid TO our fruit
growers is in circulatIca, times ought
to be easier in Canon.
ii. q. Turner of Park Center has to
date picked 1900 pounds of tomatoes
from 2oO vines, with as many more
green ones.
With the new railroad in operation
it is safe to say that Canon City will
furnish about nine-tenths of the fruit
used by the fifty thousand people in the
Cripple Creek district.
Several hundred men win be quite
busy picking apples during the next
month or six weeks. Persons without
work ought not to have much difficulty
in getting job
T. Bachelor has a neat, small fruit
farm on Orchard avenue. His trees
are yet small and did not bear much
this year, but his grape crop is slightly
above the average. Mr.. Batchelor has
a six-acre crop of corn OH Mr.. McMil-
ian's place that he expects will yield
about fifty bushels to the acre.
Mr. Eickelberger of the Canon City
Cider Mfg. Co, who has had wide ex-
perience iii his business in various
fruit raising districts. says that the
Cafon apples are remarkably juicy and
yield larger amount of cider than any
he has ever seen.
A Hurihurt, who lives on Graydene
avenue, has one of the finest residences
in Frnitmere- Ills fruit farm of eight
acres is quite productive one. The
apple tree.. although not large enough
to bear very heavy crop, are well
loaded for their size. Mr.. Hurlburt has
fine lot of grapes. His exhibit of
thirty varieties at the State Fair took
the first premium. The prize for this
collection was one of the best offered,
T. Mcmillan, from Aspen, arrived in
Canon the middle of last week and is
making arrangements for the erection
of a neat nine room brick cottage ON
his fruit farm on Orchard avenue. Mr..
Mcmillan will board with Mr.. Fitch on
Orchard avenue until his house is com
pieted. when lie will remove his family
from aspen. A person would have to
go a good ways before he could find a
better i2>acre place and an orchard of
more even growth than that of MIR.
McMillans. The trees are between five
aud six years OF age and are bearing
nicely this year.
G. q. Leibhart. senior member of one
of the largest commission houses in the
state. was in the city Tuesday, looking
through the orchards OF Capt. Rock
afeilow and of other fruit growers. He
was very much surprised To note the
excellence of the Canon apples. He
had expected to lind them scalded by
the excessive warm weather at this
season of the year, as is the case in
other localities. He was very favor
ably impressed with the quality of our
apples and their freedom from blem-
ishes.
Persons interested in fruit culture.
who have not already done SO, should
get Mr.. Rockafellow's consent to look
through his big orchard in Fruitmere.
IL is the largest orchard by Gar in the
valley. II you care to see fruit you
may see it there. For miles, almost.
you may drive between rows of the
most denseiy loaded apple trees, trees
ready to fall TO the ground with their
weight of fruit were it not for The
many props that sustain them
We clip from one of our exchanges
the following tribute to one of FIRE.
mont county's products: IA new
apple called the Colorado Sunset has
made its appearance in Fremont
county and L. F. Jewett has the credit
Of Knowing as much about it AS any
one. although we believe he is not the
one who propagated it from the seed.
II is rather over the medium size, a fall
dessert and cooking sort, most beauti-
fully colored. striped yellow and red
and splashed in such peculiar way as
TO suggest Colorado sunset and il is
from this characteristic that its name
Is derived. 1t is sub-acid in flavor and
fruit that is very acceptable to the
eye and taste.'
One of the finest sen-acre orchards
for its age IN the valley is that OF II. L. |
Cramer, in Lincoln Park. Five acres
Of this place is set TO winter apples,
mostly Ben Davis, and the trees are
Just coming into good bearing, being |
nine years of age. The quality of these
apples is especially noteworthy. The
writer does not hesitate to say that he |
has not seen any larger, cleaner and
iner apples in any orchard than those
,f MIR. Cramer's. 1t Is well known that
MIR. Cramer took the premium on the
largest apple exhibited at the state.