CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-11-15
Boost for Canon City.

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plating country run for tomorrow.
Fresh second crop strawberries are
still being served on a few favored
tables.
Help us tell about sO,OOO,OO0 people
in the east that Canon City and vicin-
ity is the finest place on earth.
Fred. C. Johnston has just purchas-
ed two lots north of the Fruitland
ditch in Reynolds Heights and ex-
poets to build in the spring.
Canon City can boast of about as
fine and up to date dry goods stores
as can be found in any city of cores
ponding size anywhere in the Union.
Geo. A. Prentiss, salesman for the
Canon Realty Company. has Joined the
ranks of the automobilists. and will
hereafter show his customers around
in an Olds runabout.
The new common battery system
recently installed in Canon by the Col
orado Telephone Company, is proving
a great success by giving SO much
better service.
| Pete Sheridan yesterday bought from
the Canon Realty Company the pretty
four room cottage at GA Forest aven-
ue, Reynolds Heights. and today moved
his family into their new home.
| There is no excuse whatever for
men, young or old, in robust health,
by discrete investments, to accumu-
late a modest fortune within the next
several years. If they don't do 1t
now, they never will.
Now that the foliage is gone. view
of Canon City from the sky line shows
the city proper at a better advantage
and is well worth the trip. Walk-
don't ride-this is not an advertise
ment for the livery stables).
The basement and foundation for
the new Harrison block on East Main
street, is about completed and ready
for the brick masons. The building
will be a two story brick, with a nine
ty foot plate glass frontage on Main
street
Fremont County, Colorado, Jonath-
ans are selling for fve cents apiece
in Chicago, while eastern Jonathans
sell three for FIVE cents. This is why
five acres of orchard land here will
pay as big a profit as twenty acres in
the eas.
The Canon Realty Company must
have taken fifty different people in
their automobile today to see and look
over their new Broadmoor sub-divis-
ion. However. they positively refuse
to make any sales before O'Clock
Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Sharp, Master
Sharp and Mrs E. W. Cox toured over
from Colorado Springs in Mr.. Sharp's
new White Steamer Saturday and re-
turned home Sunday. They report
the roads fairly good. The distance
is about fifty miles.
The number of people out shopping
on Main street Saturday evening re-
minded one of 10th street, Denver.
Simply verified the truth of the card
board signs prominently displayed by
the merchants in their show windows,
Business is good here"
Twenty years ago little did our older
residents think that the greatest gold
camp in the world would be only forty
miles from here, and that the street
cars in Cripple Creek and Victor would
be operated by electric power sup
piled form a Canon City plant
Sundays Pueblo Chieftain says
"one Pueblo housekeeper saved one
dollar and sixty three cents by read
ing the advertisements of the grocery
page in yesterday mornings Chief
tain" The readers of the Canon City
papers didn't know where to go here.
To go to Broadmoor, walk or drive
out 9th street to Fairview avenue,
thence east three blocks to the addi-
ton. II a round trip is desired, con-
tinue across the addition, coming out
on Center street just south of the
hay stacks, hence south to Main
street.
Alfalfa hay. not baled, is selling at
$12 a ton, with big demand at that
price Those who purchased five acre
tracts this fall at from 5000 to $3.50
per acre have a bargain. One acre
!. win really produce about six tons. ana
at $12 ton amounts to $7a and acre
each year. or about thirty three and a
third per cent.
The Broadmoor subdivision. with
Its newly graded streets. prominent
survey stakes. plowed outlines and
neat descriptive sign boards. has much
the appearance of a Chicago suburban
district, and is about as handsome q