The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-08-31
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A CALIFORNIAN

Colorado, with its great and diver
sified industries, its superb climate.
its world renowned scenery and driving
tireless population is naturally attract
ing much attention nowadays and one
of the best and most promising things
within its rugged borders is the town
of Grand Junction, in the big, rich
valley of the Grand River. 1t is only
about twenty years since the streets
were staked out by the pioneers of
the community. They called the turn
on coming events to nicely. Grand
junction today las population OF
5000 and an excellent prospect of
size. within the next score of years.
1t is modern city of large area and
very wide streets that have streams of
water and shade trees bringing them
after the fashion of Salt Lake city.
Its homes and business houses are of
modern architecture almost four hun
bred of them were built last year.
There is a striking resemblance
between the general appearance of this
municipality and our own beautiful
Palo Alto in California. And the
Grand Junction people remind one in
many ways of Californians- that is,
such Californians as we have up our
way in the mountains. They are cor
dial, warm hearted and go-ahead,
and they do business in the good west
ern way.
The Grand and Gunnison rivers
come together in the valley and fur
nish an unlimited supply of water
for irrigatinR, power and domestic
purposes. The soil all through the
growth of peaches, apples and agricul-
tural products. Stock grazing on the
peighboring mesas is an important in
dustry. But little rain or snow falls.
The summers are rather hot ana there
are some cold snaps in winter, the
thermometer occasionally getting sew
eral degrees below zero.
A large beet sugar factory. smell
ter. an artificial ice factory and other
industries are carried on. This is an
important railroad center. The town
has many fine church and school build
ings, beautiful library building.
presented to the city by Carnegie and
maintained by the people. and is get
ting ready to hold an annual county
fair which will doubtless be mark
ed success if the over Jealous Law
and Order League do not succeed in
their desire to debar poolselling and
thus practically do away with the
horse racing feature. The conserva-
| tive and substantial element of citi
affairs, say there is 10 danger to ap
prehend from the League in this di-
rection. as the people at large will
I not stand for it,
This is high license town, five
| we'll appointed saloons paying one
thousand dolalrs a year each for the
privilege of doing business. They
are making money even under this
tax.
A local fruit grower has propagat
ed genuine seedless apple and 10
cal company with capital stock O.
$500. 600 has been formed to put tree
on the market next season. The ap
pies. with which the company ha
many large trees loaded are absolute
ly without core or seed and are u
fine quality and large size. The,
! seem almost immune from the codlii
= moth. The trees do not bloom. tn,
y apples forming from bud. 1t il
q claimed these apples are as far super
4 Tor to the seeded kinds as the nave
y orange is to the Seeding.
Some two miles from here is TIL,
: Teller Institute, government Indiai
2 school where one hundred and sevent,
z Indian lads and lasses are receivins
q technical education in various branch
d es of industry and are being trained
in the ways of the white mans civil
: lization. Captain Lennon, one of the
= veterans in this humanitarian work
is in command of the institution AM
his efforts are meeting with unbound
I ed success.
S. L. CALKINS.