The Elbert County tribune., 1906-07-12
COLORADO FRUIT
FRUIT GROWERS ARRANGE FOR
FALL SHIPMENTS.
CROP BREAKS ALL RECORDS
Estimated at Five Thousand Carloads
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trees
Planted in Colorado Every Year


Will Soon Be Banner Fruit State.
Denver.-Arrangem are being
completed by the Western Slope Fruit
Growers Association, which is holding
its meetings in Denver. for the ship
ping of the biggest fruit crop that Colo
rado has ever known. The total
amount shipped out of the state will be
5000 cars. California's. Missouri's and
Michigan's banner years have been c.
900 cars. The fruit men declare that
next year California's record will be
equaled, and the following year, with
trees in the condition they now are,
Colorado will. be the foremost fruit
shipping state OF the Union
At the head of the fruit growers is
John F. Moore of the Grand Junction
Fruit Growers Association, the pio-
neer fruitman of the western slope.
Others who have been in attendance
at the meetings are: Z. J. Dalton of
the Fruita Fruit Growers Association,
George S. Conklin of the Delta Fruit
Growers Association, w. II. Garvin of
Robert HALEY of the Montrose associa-
tion, Clarence Nelson of Nelson Broth
ers, Paonia commission men; H. ID.
Foy, the fruit growers eastern agent
at Omaha; George Granger, wholesale
dealer from Lincoln, Nebraska; Don
Campbell of Fort Worth, Texas. and
Lyman Shonts, general freight agent
of the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha railway.
Each summer the fruit growers
come to Denver to make traffic ar
rangements with the Colorado Midland
and Denver & Rio Grande from the
western slope to Colorado common
points and thence eastward.
The business east, from Colorado
common points-Denver, Pueblo and
Colorado Springs-will be divided be-
tween the various roads running be-
tween Colorado and the Missouri river.
Rates satisfactory to both parties in
almost every instance have been Sc
cured. The railroads have recognized
the Importance of the fruit shipments
and their unparalleled increase and
have granted rates corresponding to
the Importance of the business.
I'VE are prosperous. more SO than
ever before said John Moore, in tell
ing of Colorado's wonderful crop for
this year. "Ten years ago there was
not enough fruit over my way to shake
stick at Now we find that all the
big roads of the country are being
hard put to it to find cars enough to
ship it for us.
"The western slope will ship. 5000
cars of apples. peaches and pears this
season. The apple crop is little light.
The peaches and pears are unprece-
dented. You never saw anything like
it. Our biggest year before this was
1904, when we shipped $500 cars. Last
year was a little off, and we only
shipped 1900 cars. With the new trees
that have been planted and that are
fast commencing to bear we shall
equal the record of the greatest decidu
Gus fruit-shipping states, California,
Missouri and Michigan, in two years.
why, do you know that in the little
Grand valley, which is only eighteen
miles long, 100000 trees were set out
in 1904, 100000 more last year, and
100000 have been planted this year?
Do you realize what that will mean in
three or four years from now? 1t will
mean that Colorado will be the great
est fruit-shipping state of the country.
California ships more peaches and
pears than we do now. Missouri ships
more apples. Georgia and Michigan
ship more peaches. But the output of
those state has been increasing only
slightly when compared to the tremen-
dous gain that Colorado has made in
the past five years."