CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-07-14
FRUIT GROWERS BUSY
Marketing Their Produce. An Inn
mense Quantity Of Berries of
Various Kinds Being
Shipped to Out
side Points.


side Points.
Fremoat county fruit growers are
extremely busy these days picking and
marketing their cherries. raspberries,
currants, gooseberries and other pro-
duce immense quantities of which are
being brought to town every day for
shipment to less favored localities.
Although the prices generally are not
quite as satisfactory as they were a
year ago, growers are not complaining
much on account Of market quotations
as they realize that the long and dis
tressing strikes in the mining sections
of the state have cut off large part of
the consumers of orchard and garden
products. In spite of low prices the
Arkansas Valley horticulturist is get
ting fair margin of profit for his fruit
and will have no difficulty in keeping
the wolf from the door owing to the
plentitude Of his crop.
Cherries, of which the yield Is more
prolific this season than ever before in
the history of the community. are
bringing from one dollar to "a dollar
and severty-hve cents crate accord
ing to quality Most of the sweet
cherries, such as the Early Richmond,
have been marketed and the Ostheimers
and Montmorencies have taken their
place. 1t is computed by local dealers
that more than twice as many cherries
will be shipped from Canon City this
season than there was last year
Raspberries, particular, black caps,
are coming in fast and are fetching
growers from dollar and forty cents
to a dollar and seventy-fve cents
case. They are of fine appearance and
OF excellent flavor and little difficulty
is experienced in disposing of them to
Denver and Colorado Springs buyers.
The raspberry crop is full up to the
average and the financial returns from
them will be very satisfactory.
Gooseberries are bringing growers
about dollar crate, but are not re-
garded as very remunerative at that
price. The crop now being harvested
will compare favorably with that of
last year.
Currants are in the very zenith of
their season and are unsurpassed in
both quantity and quality. A promi-
nent Lincoln Park ranchman told the
writer yesterday that the crop of cur
rants was so prolific that on many
places the bushes were bending down
with the load of fruit He stated that
it was no uncommon thing to pick two
crates of currants from one bush, and
that individual specimens could be
found almost as large as a cherry.
They were worth yesterday from dol
lar and fifteen cents to q dollar and
thirty-tive cents a crate. 1t 10 gener-
is the place par excellence for currants.
Early Harvest and other varieties of
summer apples have made their ap-
pearance in market the last few days
and will find their way to town in in
creasing quantities for some time
They are worth from dollar to a dol
lar and q half a crate, the price de-
pending upon their size and cooking
qualities. The crop of summer apples,
like the winter varieties. Is not . very
big one. although there is no complaint
on the score Of quality.
Home grown peaches, of which there
are more than usual this year, are
ripening nicely and have begun 60 show
themselves on the market. The crop
will be fairly good one, but will pro-
badly not be sufficient to supply the
local demand Grand Junction peaches
are already being shipped in. and will,
doubtless, dominate the local trade in
that sort Of fruit. The peach crop of
Mesa county is reported to be abnor-
maily large this year and growers will
have to sell them very cheaply in order
70 dispose Of their surplus. At present
they range from eighty-hve cents to
dollar a crate. just what the mimi
mum price will be it is hard to predict
with any degree OF accuracy.
There will be an abundance of plums