Cañon City record., 1907-02-28

of Orchard products, for Whlcn tney
receive something like s925,000. Our
apple crop in 1905 brought into the
community s506,2S0, which is equal to
a pay roll of more than $4,000 a
month. There is" said Mr.. Farmer,
about 5000 acres set to fruit in the
immediate vicinity of Canon City and
chard area, which If cut up into four
acre tracts will support 1000 families,
or 10000 people. Last year Canon
City horticulturists used 16.000,OOO
pounds of poisoned water to kill the
coddling moth and they succeeded 30
well that there was less trouble from
that source here than in any other
orchard growing section of the coun-
try. New York state, which boasts
that it can raise enough apples to
supply the United States, will take
this year from 100 to 500 car loads
of Colorado apples. We will ship
from so to 100 car loads to Minnesota,
and from 800 to 400 car loads to
Texas. England has had taste of
our Colorado grown apples, so has
Germany and Canada, and they want
more. Australia has already sent her
agents here to purchase our crop for
export to the Andpodes before it is
grown" Mr.. Farmer proposed the
sentiment, The finest apples in the
world are grown in Colorado, the fin
est apples in Colorado are grown in
the Canon City district" which was
drunk by the guests, the audience ris-
ing.
Major S. K Hooper of Denver, gen.
eral passenger and ticket agent of the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad COM
pany, who was declared by the toast
master to be the first booster Colorado
ever had, made an interesting talk, in
the course of which he said that Col
orado had attractions peculiarly its
own and that Canon City was in many
respects one of the most interesting
in the state. He said
that he was glad to see that the peo-
pie here were beginning to awaken to
the beauties and advantages of the
town and that they were endeavoring
to give 1.-THE position among the cit
les of the state which nature intended
it to occupy. Col. Hooper said that
the d. & R. G. railroad company
would promote the success of the
Canon City and Royal Gorge electric
line by every means in its power.
"The railroad company" he stated,
would advertise the electric line in
It's folders as one of the biggest scenic
attractions in Colorado"
w. w. Umbenhauer Of Philadelphia,
whose firm is financing the Canon City
and Royal Gorge electric company,
said that the enterprise would be car
ried TO execution in accordance with
the promises made by Mr.. Heath some
time ago. 81 want to say" asserted
Mr.. Umbenhauer, that we are going
10 build the road because we believe
Il to be a good business proposition.
The old company owed at the time it
went into liquidation something like
s60, 900, about half of which was due
eastern creditors, the rest at this end
Of the line for labor, materials, etc.
We have taken care of the New York
creditors and will attend to those here
as soon as we can get the tansle of
affairs unravelled. We have number
Of bookkeepers now at work on these
old accounts, and it may be two or
three weeks befre we will be in
position to cancel the local indebted
ness. At the proper time we will pay
one hundred cents on the dollar on
these accounts. Outside subscriptions
to the capital stock of the company
to the amount of s350,000 have al
ready been received and there will be
no lack of money to construct the
road"
Col. d. X. b. Sellers spoke on the
necessity of a Boosters Club as an
auxiliary OF the Canon City Mer-
chants Association, and named the
following committee to formulate
plan for such an organization: Frank
D. Heath, H. 5. Maddox, d. n. Gar
rett. C. c. Dawson and Henry l..
White This committee will hold a
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Egolf of Kansas City, who is one
of the subscribers TO the electric rail-
way proposition, said that he had
enough faith in the enterprise which
was being backed by Mr.. Umbenhauer
ard his associates to put his money
into IT, and that he was confident that