The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-11-25
LOTS OF
APPLES
GOING TO
MARKET
crop OF CANON CITY DISTRICT
ESTIMATED AT FROM A THous-
AND TO TWELVE HUNDRED
CARLOADS.
BRINGING FAIRLY GOOD PRICES

Although there appears to be no
great rush on the part of Fremont
county orchardists to market their
apples they. are being shipped out in
considerable. quantity, and, for the
most part. are bringing fairly good
prices.
Ranchers of the Canon City district
as a rule were a couple of weeks
later in gathering their apples this
year than usual and there was cor
responding delay in placing them on
sale The crop here this year was
much alrger than was believed would
be the case during the summer months
and it is estimated that there will be
a thousand or twelve hundred car
loads for shipment in addition to what
is needed for home consumption. A
few people have expressed the opinion
that the total shipments of apples
from here this season will approxi-
mate fifteen hundred carloads, but
that is, probably. excessive.
No figures are obtainable as to the
number of car loads of this years
crop that have found their way to mar
ket up to this time, but it is thought
by dealers that less than one third
of the toal crop has thus far been
next three months to be as good as
they are at present. the 1915 apple
crop ought to put into the pockets of
the ranchers of the Canon City dis
trict. something like s450,O00.
Anywhere from a dozen to fifteen
carloads of apples are being shipped
from here daily, with now and then
as many as eighteen or twenty car.
loads: the volume of the business de-
pending on the market quotations for
such produce Most of the fruit rails.
ed here this year is going to Texas
Oklahoma and Kansas, although some
of it has been consigned to points
as far east as Kansas City and be
yond. A few carload lots have been
marketed in st. Louis, Chicago and
Cincinnati. OF course, Colorado
towns are large tuyers of ,anon City
apples and Pueblo, Colorado Springs
and Denver are taking them in large
quantities. Leadville and points west
are this year taking more of Fremont
county grown apples than usual, due
in some measure, to the insufficiency
4.
More bulk apples are being forward
ed to market from Canon City this
fall than common, although they form
comparatively small portion of the
weeks the shipment of apples in bulk
will cease and the boxed fruit will
take its place as marketable pro
duct Bulk apples are bringing
growers from sixty-five to seyenty-five
cents hundred pounds. The pre-
vailing price for boxed apples is from
forty-fiye to seventy-five cents for Ber
Davis and from ninety cents TO q
dollar for Fancy Jonathans. Winesaps
Rome Beautys. Colorado Orange
Black Twig and other standard yarie
ties of fruit
The prices, while not as high a:
many people would like to see them
are far from discouraging and averag,
better than they have for severa
years past. While there have beer
seasons when Fancy Jonathans, Rom,
Beauty. Winesaps, Colorado Orang,
and few other of the choicer yarie
ties of apples sold for upwards OF {
dollar a box, the average price foi
the last decade was less than il /.
this year Never until 1902 did Fancl
Jona;ians and other first class kindi
OF apples bring Canon City growers
as much es a dollar a box. Because
of the shortage in the orchard pro
duct OF the Montrose Grand juno
tion and other western slope frn
districts th ; year there will be
demand N Colorado this season 70
every g'Y'e that Canon City and Ere
mont county growers have to spare
POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITS NOW
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