CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-03-12
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zone mucn IOr the orange EfOW.
era of this state. Almost half of |
the oranges grown in hestate go
into this exchange and the Qrgau-
ization maintains representatives, |
in all the large markets Of the
country. The result 10 that no
market ia never glutted with Cali
fornia oranges and at all times
shipments are made to the points
where the market price il best.
This saves many thousands of |
dollars to the orange growers
every year. / feel sure the apple
Rrowefs OF Colorado could adopt
some plan of this nature to very |
great advantage.
Riverside, though little larger
than Canon City, has one of the
finest hoteis in the state. 1t is
built on the Old Mission style,
with courts, belfries and chimes.
The inside is finished and fur
nished in the old fashioned way,
a sort of Will Bradley style as
recently shown up in the Ladies,
Home Journal. The house will
accommodate 400 guests and cost
the builder $4,000 Riverside
is not naturally more of tourist
point than Canon City but this
hotel has put it on the itinerary
of most visitors to the coast par
ticularly of those who are able to
pay for the luxuries of the swell
hotels. It is doing and will do
more for Riverside in a business
way, in bringing to the city
home builders and in increasing
tine value of property than would
all of the ten or twelve smelters
located at Florence and Colorado
City put together. If such ho-
tel could be located in Canon City
/ believe it would be of more val
ne and benefit to the town than
all Of the manufacturing estab-
lishments are to the two Colorado
towns referred to above.
| Mr., Frank A. Miller the pro-
moter and nominal proprietor of
the Glenwood Tavern, the hotel
referred to is one of the most re-
sourceful and euterprising men
have ever met.
| He IS not man of greatmean
being probably not more than in
about the same class with a half
dozen of our leading merchants
on Main street, yet he has the
credit of having built for River
side fine opera house, of having
aided materially in giving the
city fine four-story Y. NJ. c. A.
building, of building a street car
line of about fifteen miles and
last of building the $500, 900 ho-
tel just mentioned. 1t would be
good for the town, il Mr.. Miller
would locate in Canon City.
Nearly all of the newer public
buildings of Riverside are built
on the old Spanish mission style.
, Those ] have seen include the
big hotel, library, high school,
court house, Jail, Christian
Science church. Sherman Insti-
tute-a school for Indians with
about dozen buildings, besides
several handsome business blocks
and fine residences. This gives
to the city novel. unique and
decidedly attractive style Of ar
ch;tecture and if the style is kept
up, will in a few years make Riv-
erside appear almost like a for
eign city.
Chase Bros, the big New York
nursery people, are largely inter-
ested in Riverside, They seem
to take peculiar delight in add
ing attractive spots to the city
and vicinity. They have taken
up section of rough hilly coun..
try about like the red hills be-
tween Canon and the Royal
Gorge or the smelter hill and
made Of it swell residence sec.
tion. They found a deep arroyo
in the edge of town about like
Sand Creek and turned 1t into q
nursery and orange grove. They
1--we built many roads and drive
ways over the tops of hills and
along the sides of mountains so
that peopie may drive out and
view the city and orange groves
from above. They have probab-
ly been repaid for their expeudi-
ture by the increased value their
enterprise has given to their
orange groves and city property.
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! fancy If the Chase people