Cañon City record., 1907-01-03

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for all the celery and asparagus that
can be produced in Fremont county
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The more l see of Fort Collins,
Greeley, Grand Junction and other
cities the more l appreciate the needs
of development in lands for Canon
City. These towns are all booming
from the increased productions of the
farm lands. Already the fruit landss
of Canon City are more highly devel-
oped than those of any of the points
mentioned And that is what Canon
City must depend on-high cultiva-
ton.
Suppose every acre that is now out
in alfalfa were planted TO celery.
strawberries, asparagus, onions. ETC.,
it would add a million dollars to Can
on City's yearly income. This money
would practically all go into the
hands of the laborers and growers,
and would mean more to Canon City
farm lands. Already the fruit lands
shops or two or three beet sugar fac
tories.
A day or two in Grand junction
helps a Canon man to better appre-
ciate our thirty miles. of excellent
cement sidewalks. Nothing was ever
lone for Canon that addedrso much
to its appearance and so much COM
fort to its residents as the building of
the sidewalks. Grand Junction needs
lust such sidewalks badly.
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Grand junction has two daily pa
pers. 1t is ideally located for daily
paper. No Denver papers reach the
city until twenty-four hours old, which
fact helps the local dailies greatly.
And the little towns about here help
the circulation. Although the field
and support is twice as good here as
lat Canon, still there is no better daily
here than The Daily Record. The
Sentinel here gets exactly the same
press dispatches as The Daily Record,
and neither paper prints more news
than The Record
Grand Junction merchant said to
me: Eyes, we have two little daily
papers here, but we would be better
off with only one. If we had only one
we would have much better paper
and we merchants would reach Just
as many people for half the money.
Two daily papers do not reach any
more people than one,- yet 1t costs
twice as much to advertise in the two
came from a city of nearly 10000
people back east and we had but one
daily paper. The merchants would
not stand for another and they saved
many thousands of dollars a year in
advertising bills"
He came from Atchison, Kansas.
The newspapers of Grand Junction
scrap a good deal. I should think
the people would grow tired of 1t.
Both newspaper men told me that
they did too much Of 1t but neither
gave any good reason for keeping 1t
up. II the newspaper men of Grand
Junction would enter into a compact
not to mention each other I am sure
their papers would be better and the
people would like the change. Canon
City people ought to appreciate the
fact that they have very little news
paper wrangling. No papers OF the
state are 70 free from 1t and every
newspaper proprietor in Canon ought
Ito. be given due credit for this happy
state OF affairs.
Some former Canon City people live
in Grand Junction.
Prof. J.. H. Allen for many years
superintendent Of our city schools Is
now superintendent Of the Grand
Junction schools. He has good Job
and is very popular in Grand juno
tion. N
James Wood at one time county su-
perintendenst Of schools in fremont
county runs . tea store 4 Grand
Junction.
Mr.. Collins who's H.. h.ss-.A