The Glenwood post., 1908-10-17
ASPEN FAIR
IS A..HuMMER
By H. G. Overlook.

By H. G. Overlook.
A grand stand packed with pretty
girls; the rails along the race track
black with "rail.birds." Up in the
Judges stand Aspen s two prize heavy
weights: Manford Smith and Ed Ogden.
Such was the first impression gained of
Aspen's fair grounds when 1 visited
them on Thursday.
Hello, Glenwood; how do you like
it?"
/ turned around and there stood
Porter Nelson and Harry Koch, another
pair of the Aspen fair boomers. l look
ed over the ground with its crowd. My
eye swept over the well filed stock pens
where j. C. osgood and Gene Grubb
were swapping opinions over horse
bleeding; had already been through
the fair building crowded with exhibits
and likS every other Glenwood man I
had mot on the grounds, echoed
"great."
r And that is the word to describe AS
pens fair.
| Away up near. the mountain tops;
where the great pines sway easily in
cool breezes from deep snow banks
those aggressive, energetic men have
gathered together an exhibit Of farm
ing products that would do credit to
the rich soil of Colorado's IS lower lands.
An agricultural fair in a mining
camp! Where, but in Colorado, and
Western Colorado, at that, is such 1
thing to be found. Like most of the
visitors from these lower valleys, 1
looked for mining exhibits. There were
a few such, a very few, consisting of
somo nice looking specimens of ores;
but they were private mineral eollec-
tions, submitted in contest such as
would find place at any fair. Other
wise it was strictly an agricultural fair,
with a nastonishing variety among the
exhibits. r
There was box of tiny potatoes,
grown away up at Ashcroft, at an al
titude of $500 feet. The same ex-
hibit contained hay and grain. Think
Of spuds and cabbages growing at
timberline, underneath the eternal
SHOWS!
Think of variety of such as the
following, grown several miles above
Aspen on the Roaring Fork, at an al
titude of 800 feet potatoes (seven
different varieties,) turnips, table beets
weighing S pounds each, young onions,
rutabagas weighing II pounds, white on
ions raised from seed planted last
April and grown to diameter Of three
inches, cauliAower, cabbage, radishes,
garden peas winter radish, carrots, wax
beans, parsley, butter beans, kohlrabi
weighing Z pounds, ground artichokes,
besides heavy wheat, oats and timothy.
All these were contained in one exhi-
bit displayed by NJ. W. Lewis. All were
large, firm specimens, and 1 was -.
sured that Mr.. Lewis is in the habit Of
raising these things right along; makes
his living by it; and doesn't even
think It q wonderful thing to grow such
q variety at such an altitude. Talk
about farming in high altitudesl II
that doesn't beat the record / want to
hear about It. Mr.. Lewis ism T bit
smwelled up about It, either, but II any
one ever got chesty it was Porter Mel
son; ~ he descanted eloquently about
the agricultural resources Of Pitkin
county. "Piek, 'em up; weigh 'sn,"
he cried. "Look at this cabbage, It
weighs IA S-4 pounds and was grown
70 slose TO this fair ground that ysu
eoald throw stone into the 1sld. I"
He took ne "a the door sld psintsd est
tAs l1sM. He seeksd abost for . stesis,
bot sea,<a Y. A. eas, bat pssheqs y
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