The daily sentinel., 1910-04-02

of the cool storage system we should
be able to supply our markets with
our own fruit at all times. However.
a new and significant development
has taken place this season. Apples
grown in Colorado are actually being
sold in Melbourne. This enterprising
venture is suggestive, one point be-
ing to emphasize the fact that the
Australian fruit grower is not so
badly treated as many people are in
clined to imagine.
Anyone who will study a compare
tive table of prices paid for farm pro-
ducts in the American cities of San
Francisco and Denver, and in the
Australian cities of Melbourne and
Sydney, will find in these prices one
reason for the prosperity which
abounds here. Some of the American
apples now being sold in the fruit
shops of Melbourne came from Colo
RADIO. They were grown on higher
priced land than can be found in Aus
tralia- They were carried 1900 miles
by rail, and more than 1000 miles
by water. They were more than a
month on the route, had to pay Gus
toms dues, and still Melbourne was
better market than any American
city. If this were not the case the
apples would not have been shipped
here. The following significant an
nouncement appeared in the Week
ly Republican" of Nov last:
Grand Junction, Colo, Oct. 30
A carload of Colorado apples left San
Francisco today for Melbourne, Aus
tralia. They were of the Ben Davis
variety, were grown in the Grand
Valley, and shipped by the local as
ISOLATION. Small shipments of Grand
Valley apples have been sent in past
years to nearly every civilized com
try on the globe, but this is the first
| carload to be exported"
1t may be safe to assume that the
average Australian reader, IL ques-
toned on the subject, would doubt
II he did not ridicule a statement to
the effect that fruit growing in Colo
| RADIO has attained greater dimensions
than the same industry in any one of
the Australian states. Colorado gold,
yes; live stock on the Colorado
plains, yes: Colorado silver mining,
yes; but fruit growingl We never
heard of fruit grown in this noun
famous state
The latter quotation is reproduced
from one of The Leader" special
American articles, published in
March, 1908, in which our repre-
sentative added:
Our recent experiences were suf-
| ficient to encourage us to prophecy
that Colorado will soon be known to
the outside world as fruit and vege-
table raising state second only in i'm
portance to California. Roughly,
Colorado may be divided into two
sections. There is the wide sweep of
plains to the east of the Rockies, and
the mountainous region with rich
sheltered valleys. In these valleys
there are sections devoted to the rails
ing of immense quantities Of fruits
and ground crops. This is on the
track of the Rio Grande railway sys-
TEN, which carries you over some OF
the most impressive mountain seem
cry in America Grand Junction, for
example, is thriving town, the larg-
est on the western slope of Colorado,
lying at the junction of the Grand
and Gunnison rivers. The Grand is
the largest river in Colorado 1t
rises in the heights of the great Con-
tinental Divide, in the northern part
of the state, flows through deep
canons and broad valleys, and, after
receiving the waters of many tribu-
taries, presents volume sufficient
to irrigate half the area of Colorado,
assuming that 1t could be applied to
the land. For this reason the rich
and broad valley Of the Grand river
is rapidly assuming an Importance
from producing point Of view, which
will soon make this the most wealthy
section of wealthy state. Immense
quantities of peaches, apples and 9TH
er fruit are raised. Colorado
has an area of 103,645 square miles,
and a population of 100000. Vic
toria has a population Of 100000
on an area Of 1854 square miles.