The daily sentinel., 1909-12-09


5000. l have yet to see the country
where the apple grows at as high an
elevation as in Mesa county. / know
one place where it grows and bears
fruit at an elevation of over 1000
feet
Down in Nevada. on the Nevada
side OF the Funeral range. not so very
far from Death valley t4O0 feet below
sea leyeD at one OF the watering
places. | picked an apple of the tree
in December; but also the fig doesn
grow there it cannot stand the eli
mate.
AGAIN MAKE THE STATE
MENT THE APPLE AND THE
FIG NEVER DID GROW TOGETH-
Err. OF course Sentinel readers want
me to prove it, but it is just as easy
for them TO try to prove me wrong
by trying TO grow an apple and fig
orchard side by side. or course it
is required to produce the big red
apple" such as we know il.
Now comes the question. What was
il then, If it wasn't the apple2 Why,
it was an orange that Eve picked on
the pretty orange tree: and. while
she meditated. she had plenty Of
time to peel it before she gave Adam
half of ii. Without prejudice make
this statement queer statement 4
but remember | must clear the apple.
and must convince Sentinel readers
| if not now, still some day, that the
apple never had any part in the
| fall of man" that sad affair.
Dr. Hewitt the distinguished arr
chaeologist, insists that Colorado
was the seat Of the original Ede<
I I "a fu1s IL fg-
puted that Ross county, o., was where
| the garden OF Eden was once locat-
ed and, If I am not mistaken, it was
once claimed that aTchaeologists had
| found the petrifed gate-posts. They
| tell us they raise some fine apples in
| Ross county, o. The Mound of the
] Serpent is located there-a mound
representing a large serpent, with
| something between its upper and
| lower Jaws. This something was,
| for a long time taken to represent a
goose egg but in late years, this
idea has changed. and it is now
claimed that the mound represents a
snake with an apple between its
| jaws. ArchaeOlogists claim that the
story of the Bible was on this CONT
nent long before Columbus landed.
Leading citiZeus of the Grand val
ley should back up in spirit tand IL
nancially, If necessary and invita-
tion to DR. Hewitt and other men OF
science TO come to Colorado-to come
right here to Mesa county For the
geologist there is no more interesting
| field than Mesa county and the adj
joining territory Let them look at
the lava buttes tthe haystacks) high
up between the Grand river and the
plateau; let them take look at the
Grand mesa, and go along the divide
! from Mesa lake to the head OF the
plateau and the head-waters of the
| north fork of the Gunnison Let
them there take look at Fire noun
tain and at the high altitude oal
mines on the Anthracite. Let them
come down again, and up to Dragon.
Utah, and over across White river,
and view the gilsonite deposits-the
largest so far discovered Let them
come and look at the formation down
the Grand river, near Moab. Utah,
| (the formation on ends) up to Will
son mesa and the LaSalle mountains.
Let them come all the way through
the Unaweep canon and back over
Pinon mesa and take look at the
ancient river channel in places over
3. 900 feet higher than the Grand
river today. Let them take pebbles
from up high and compare them with
the pebbles of the present river bars.
What an interesting report and write
up it would be,
Drl Hewitt must surely bring n
! leading chemist along; and let the
chemist go to crematory and, II
| possible, secure the ashes of the bod