Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-10-18

fruit CROP OF MISSOURI
| SLOPE DAMAGED BY FROST
Banana, Orange, Apple and Prune
Orchards Badly Damaged by tie
Unusual Frost.
4 A great misfortune came upon the
fruit raisers of the Missouri Slope last
might. ss5
The unusual frost which fell upon
this section was unprecedented and
therefore entirely unexpected, or
some damage preventive in the way
lof burning smadges in the orchards
and plantations might have been at
1 tempted.
/ Fruit growers residing in the city
were off to their orchards and vim
yards at an early hour this morning
TO investigate the damage and UP to
the hour Of going to press reports were
meagre, but from the amount of dam
age done right in the city it is certain
the loss in the country is very large.
Losses reported up to p. m. are:
Alex Mckenzie Almost entire plum
orchard killed. It is estimated, how
ever, that there is enough packed
fruit on hand to fill outstanding CON
1 tracts.
D. J. McGillis Sixty acres Of capitol
peaches. Will have to be entirely re-
planted.
Henry Tatley-Partial loss Of 100
acres of bananas.
| Mayor Webb-Loss cannot be esti-
mated until the sun comes out, but it
is thought his beautiful orange grove,
the pride Of the county, to which all
visitors to this section are taken, is
totally ruined.
John Yegen-Three thousand apple
trees gone in the famous orchard
which gave the name to Apple river,
east Of town.
I VIM. O'Hara-PartiaI loss of his
beautiful prune grove However, he
had partially packed the crop and viii
be able to fill few orders. Mrs.
O'Hara is disconsolate over the dam.
age done as prunes were her particu-
lar hobby and the crop this season
promised to fulfill her fondest expecta.
! TONS
Henry holt-Had the frost come
a few days earlier it would have done
great damage to his Vineyards on the
4 Little Rhine fruit farm. AS It was
the picking was just finished yester
day and Safely housed Mr.. Richholt
says his grapes never were so fine as
this year.
4 RID. Hoskins-With his usual care
and foresight, Mr. Hoskins feared the
danger and protected his young apricot
/ trees by raising umbrellas over them.
They are undanagel. He has some.
! thing over 900 trees. /
! John satterlund received a wire
from Washburn saying his plum
orchard had escaped without damage
from frost, but that a guard was neces-
sary to protect it from poachers from
Underwood.
I Judge M Kenzie-Lost all of his
43l-acre strawberry patch. He con.
8 graduates himself on the fact that he
/ postponed setting out another hall
! section to this fruit until next year. =
\ General Williams came in from the
irrigation district and reports the
work e"ozen up tight and that he is
doubtful if there will be any more ex
tensions this year. He eaid this was
the worst freeze he had experienced in
this section
i b. G.. Patterson Went over his
Fourth ward tract at an early hour.
and although he admits some loss in
his neighborhood in the way of
bananas, he pronounces the grape
fruit unchanged.
The wine producers were naturally
Ianxious about the vintage in the low
places, but report conditions fairly
reassuring.
Messrs. Gussner and Slattery were
lfacetious over the cold snap, saying
If 1t continued they would close their
artificial ice plants and secure cheap
crops from the river.
Probably the loss that will be most
regretted by the citizens generally is
the complete destruction of the beauti-
full botanical gardens of o. H. Will &
Co, in Maennerchor park. These were
the pride of the city and state, and it
was expected that the NEXT legislature,
with its accustomed liberality, would
buy the ground and make it a state
reservation. Such a loss, therefore,
becomes a public calamity. !
James Kennedy reports the loss of
several valuable sewer plants in