The Ordway new era., 1913-09-12
Building Mountain
Out Of Pink Meats
At the State Fair
Exhibit of Ordway and Crow
ley County to be Featured
by Carload of Cants
in Immense Pile
Cantaloupe mountain!

Cantaloupe mountain!
Visitors to the State Fair at Pu"
next week will be given an opportun-
ity to see and feast on a novel kind OF
mountain.
Ordway and Crowley county's prin-
its principal product-the famous
Pink Meat cantaloupe. Special reser-
walton Of space for this unique exhibit
has been secured at prominent place
on the grounds and this carload OF
cantaloupes will be placed in one pile.
Arranging the exhibit 10 this manner
will serve Il double purpose. To resi-
dents of the state and to those visit
ing the fair from outside the state 1t
will call attention to the fact that
this baby county Of Crowley produces
cantaloupcs, and to the uninitiated it
will give some idea OF the enormity
OF production when about 700 cars are
shipped from one point in a single
season. a carload of fcantaloupcs con-
tains about $50 crates OF the standard
size. Each crate contains fifteen mel
ons. This will make total of about
IL ,2oO cantalOupes in the pile. The
seasons shipment in carload lots only
and not counting small express ship
meuts which are made by the hun.
dreds, will be about 700 cars, or 525,-
600 crates, which means total OF
about 5000, 900 cantaloupcs.
The growers about Ordway are fur
nishing the cantaloupes for this eX'
hibit, and will receive from the com
mittee in charge an amount for them
which it is believed will be as great.
If not. greater, thag that received ron
commission men.
Attractive advertising literature is
being printed by the New Era to give
out In connection with the exhibit.
the principal feature of which Is
folding card the exact shape Of one
OF the cantalOupes, with a blending
OF yellow, red and blue ink in such
manner as to produce the exact color
ing, as near as possible, of both the in-
side and outside of the melon. These
viii be judiciously distributed on the
grounds.
This mountainof cantaloupes Will
be kept on exhibition at the fair at
least three days and on Thursday Or
Friday will be sold TO visitors at ten
cents each. The committee 10 charge
will have men at the booth to cut the
melons and remove the seeds il the
buyer desires. and each purchaser Will
receive with his melon little sack or
salt and spoon.
1t is believed that this will prove
to be one OF the most effective adVer'
tisipy stunts ever pulled off by Colo
RADIO town. The idea in carrying IT.
out is. principally, to familiariZe Col
oradoans with a baby industry within
the state, which in one locality alone
-Ordway-is the means OF distribut-
ing something like S400, 900 each sea
son among growers and laborers.
This is afTording the opportunity 10
every citizen OF Crowley county I"
effectually advertise his county, and
he is urged by the committee, II at
the Fair, to consider himself part
uf the general scheme OF things and
do all he can to increase the effective
ness Of the exhibit and its final dis
trbntion.
Folders giving the "a B c OF Crow
ley County'-alfalfa, beets and canta-
oupes-will also be distributed at the
Fair by this committee. These fold
ers are gotten up in such manner
that the enormity Of Crowley cnunty's
agricultural production is given In
concise, read BILE, understandable
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