The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-06
SUCCESSFUL OPENING OF oREA!
COLORADO NATIONAL APPLE
EXPOSITION.
DISPLAY IS WONDERFUL
ExHiBIS HERE FROM EIGHTEEN
STATES AND THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA.

Denver.-The first Colorado Ma
tional Apple Exposition was opened
at the Auditorium Monday night in
the presence of large gathering.
The Introductory remarks were
made by C. r. Root, president of the
exposition, who traced the progress of
the apple industry in the state and ex-
planned various matters of interest re-
lating to the show.
When | came to Colorado nineteen
| or twenty years ago." said President
Root. the apple industry was in its
infancy. Only jefferson, Boulder, FIRE.
mont and Larimer counties were
growing apples and the sole variety
was the Ben Davis. At that time the
red apple was the emblem OF several
western states. Colorado growers de-
cided to make it the distinctive en-
blem of this state and an enthusiasm
spread all over the state to raise the
best red apples in the West. From
that time the industry grew fast.
Our horticultural society conceived
the idea of this great exposition and
the matter was taken up by the cham
ber of commerce. DIR. Bartlett, the
big-hearted president of the chamber,
declared that Colorado must have an
apple show and the chamber united
with the apple growers in promoting
the exposition.
"On August 1, the final decision was
reached. Since then we have raised a
vast fund. The growers themselves
were very liberal. The chamber of
commerce contributed it's share and
the remainder was raised by subscrip-
tions from Denver citizens. The en-
tire sum is about $4,000.
I'VE will give away in premiums
$4,000 in cash, $1,500 in nursery stock,
81 900 in merchandise, $4,000 in fruit
lands, $1,525 in silver cups and nine
teen medals and numerous diplomas"
John S. Irby, secretary to Mayor
Speer, welcomed the exhibitors and
visitors.
Taste the apples of Colorado, and
you will know what the angels eat"
said Irby. as the climax of poetic
flight that was watched with interest
and enthusiasm.
II know that it was not a Colorado
apple that Eve ate, for scripture re-
cords that she repented.'
The immense auditorium is a sea of
apples. Varying in size from box
of choice Rome Beauties, some of
which are nineteen inches in
circumference-so large that there
are only nine TO the tier
to the other extreme, special
variety which look runty in compari-
son with the more snowy, but which
are the result of signal success in the
growing of that variety, the exhibits
furnish and almost never ending rev.
elation to the thousands of visitors,
who throng the aisles of the vast en-
closure. Banked in long rows in the
center of the main floor are the nine
entries in the carload lot class-em-
bracing the several varieties which
predominant at the exposition. These
are the offerings of the following:
Nelson Bros, Paonia, North Fork
Fruit Growers Association, Paonia,
two carloads; Grand Junction Fruit
| Growers Association, A. B. Stoddart,
| Grand Junction; w. T. Bozman. Cor
tez, Fruita Fruit and Produce Associ-
alton, Fruita; San Juan Fruit Exposi-
ton Company, Pennington, N. M;
Garfield county exhibit, embracing a
score or more individual offerings.
Flanking the rows of carload lots
are exhibits in the one, five, ten and
twenty-box lots, representing individ-
uals, companies and associations from
every fruit growing section of Colo
rado seventeen other states and Brit
ish Columbia.
But this is not all. Crowded into
every possible nook and Granny of
the basement are exhibits. Tables
holding plates of five apples. exhibited
for the prizes in the individual class
and arranged artistically, to the rear
of benches and tables supporting
boxes of Roman Beauties, Jonathans,
Winesaps and half a score of other va
rieties. From the orchestra pit back
to the southern end of the building,
and in every corner of the basement.
it is nothing but apples-apples large.
apples small. red apples, green apples.
dark brown apples, almost white ap-
pies, all arranged to carry out the
artistic color scheme conceived in the
mind of the promoters of the show.
And from this mammoth display there
is one paramount result which greets
the visitor as he enters the foyer OF
the big building-the aroma.
Railroad Employees Pensioned.
New York.-Some 500 employees of
the New York Central railroad and its