CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-04-12
PLANTERS OF SHADE TREES
LIVE TO ENJOY SHADE
Live Enjoy Shade of Trees They
rove by Experience in Canon.

along the public highway. In 1864
when Henry Harrison came here
there was not shade tree between
Soda Point an Four Mile, except
along the river bank where there
were occasional clusters of cotton
woods, in fact, at that time there
were no irrigation bitches and people
did not care about planting shade
trees as there was no means of water
ing them and they could not be in
duced to grow in the dry soil without
moisture. In 1865 the first irrigation
ditch, now known as the big Ditch"
was completed and people began to
give their attention to planting shade
trees, which they had long recognized
were a prime necessity in the growth
healthfulness and beanty of the place
Perhaps the first shade trees in
Canon City were set out by Henry
Harrison on what is now East Main
street For half a mile along the
roadway he planted row of cotton
woods, some of which are yet stand
ing near the residence of DIR. T. II.
Craven In the forty years that have
elapsed since they eSere set out these
have grown to large dimensions,
few of them having attained diane
ter of two and half feet. \ little
further eastward on Main street is
row of trees set out by Capt Rocka-
feller a few years after the close of
the civil war. They are splendid
specimens of their kind and their
shade has furnished refreshing rest
to many a weary traveller since that
day.
Through the enterprise of Dali
DeWeese in procuring water and
planting shade trees Lincoln Park
has been made to blossom as the
rose. There is today no better illus
tration in Colorado of what water
will do in redeeming a half arid soil
from baroness than Lincoln Park
Fruit and shade trees have there TAX
en- the place OF the cactus and the
sage brush and land that formerly
seemed TO have no intrinsic value
now sells for n thousand dollars an
acre. The glory of Lincoln Park is
its trees. Dali DeWeese came tc
Canon City in 1884 and the next year
planted an experimental orchard of
twenty acres. which. under his
became great success. Mr.. De-
weese was a nurseryman and propo-
gated shade and ornamental, as well
as fruit trees. and many of the largest
naples and elms growing along the
streets of Canon City were obtained
from him From his old home at
Troy. Ohio. Mr.. DeWeese brought cut
tings and seeds which became the
progenitors of many OF the most Wig
orous and beautiful trees now grow
ing in Lincoln Park, notably was this
the case with a number of butternut
trees. the seed of which was brought
by him from the Buckeye state in
trunk more than twenty years ago.
According to Mr.. DeWeese the adap-
liability OF the different varieties of
shade trees to this locality is in the
following order. maple. lombardy
poplar. walnut, sycamore and boxel-
der. The latter is the least desirable
OF the kinds mentioned from the fact
that II sheds its foliage and seed ear
lier in the fall than the others. Mr..
DeWeese has given 800 shade trees
to the Arbor day committee to be
planted along the streets and on the
vacant lots OF Canon City one week
from tomorrow.
Everybody interested In the welfare
and embellishment OF the city should
plant trees. az attractive and we'll