The Delta independent., 1912-08-09
OUR FRUIT LEADS IN
ALL EASTERN Markets
READY SALE; ADVANCED PRICE.
Twenty Pound Box Of Western Slope
Fruit Sells For Same Price as
Sixty-Pound Box Grown in
Other Sections.

There is no mistaking the fact
that Western Slope fruit leads all
markets of the union, in both quail
ity and price, and it doesn't take
a customer long, when selecting
from eastern displays of apples
peaches or pears, where varieties
from all fruit gowing sections of
the country are in evidence, to de-
eide upon the Colorado product.
Many recent visitors in Delta
from the East, state that they
have frequently visited fruit mar
kets of eastern cities and have
heard numberless custo mers call out:
"Give me the Western Slope fruit
Others would come into these mar
kets, and, not knowing what brand
they wanted, would invariably point
10 box of our stuff when choosing
from a large assortment.
1T isn't difficult to tell the Colo
ors. for it is better in size, better
in color and far ahead in quality"
And these claims are very strong
ly verified every now and then by
some eastern writer who has made
inspections for himself, who has test
ed the quality and perhaps visited
in this section of the state and
seen the great orchards of our dis
trict. Here is one of these boosts re-
Gently written for an eastern ag-
ricultural paper:
Western fruit, apples, cherries
plums, peaches and pears are begin
ming to move to eastern markets.
This fruit. owing to the low rate
of freight and quick transportation,
comes east and sells in our mar
kets in competition with fruit that
is grown in eastern states. 20
pound box of peaches grown in Cofo-
rado can be shipped to St Louis
for a few cents, and. owing to the
superior quality of the fruit, sell
for more on the market than a 60
pound box of Missouri peaches.
fit of freight rate that enables
the grower to ship a 60-pound box
for a cent A pound to the or
chard state of Michigan, where they
bring more than $50 pounds of
Michigan apples. The same is true
of Colorado cantaloupes, celery. po-
tatoes. etc.
THE railroads charge twice as
much for the same class of freight
west-bound as they do for the or
chard and farm products. on the
east-bound haul. Canned goods,
sugar from the beet factories and,
in fact, all the products of Colorado
get a lower rate, in many instances
less than half. eastward to ST. Louis,
Kansas City. New York or Chicago
than the same goods can be ship
ped back again to the STARTING
point. No wonder Colorado orchard
land sells for $1,000 an acre and
the potato grower rides in a high
power auto
This excerpt states the conditions
precisely as they are. The facts
are bigger boost for Colorado
than any tale of fiction. Millions
of dollars are added to the great
value of Colorado land and products
by the low east-bound freight which
enables products from 500 miles
west of Chicago, to reach Chicago
markets at rate that permits of
a fine profit to the grower. East
ern apple growers would like to see
Colorado apples charged two dollars
n box freight to New York instead
of one dollar. and see the extremely
low rate on cantaloupes and pota-
toes doubled. Many Intellectual eff
forts have been made by eastern
growers to bring this about, so far,
fortunately, without success.
SHIPPED 30 CARS OF CATTLE