MISCELLANEOUS. 



PEACHES AND NATURAL GAS. 



f~> RAND JUNCTION, Colorado, is just now com- 

 V_I ing in for its share of glory and profit, it having 

 been made known to the world for the first 

 time, on a large scale, that the country surrounding 

 this wonderful young city is capable of producing all 

 of the finest deciduous fruits to perfection and in 

 profusion. Everybody now knows about its great 

 annual festival, called " Peach Day,'' but the world 

 doesn't know that the very land that produces these 

 peaches has beneath it a field of natural gas. 



A combination of business men recently organized 

 the V/estern Colorado Development Company for 

 the purpose of sinking an artesian well, with which 

 to water a large body of fruit land held by it, and 

 were agreeably surprised to strike a heavy flow of 

 gas. Experts who were here pronounce the find in- 

 dicative of the presence of a strong oil field, but the 

 members of the company incline to the belief that a 

 much greater flow of gas will be encountered. 



The company has leased over 4,000 acres of land, 

 and it is its intention to prosecute the work and fully 

 develop the gas or oil, and at the same time bring 

 under irrigation a body of land comprising over 5,000 

 acres held by it, which of itself is a fortune. The 

 prospectus of the company, which has been sent to 

 many inquirers, is very readable matter, and many 

 Eastern people, principally in Ohio, Indiana and Ill- 

 inois, are becoming interested in the enterprise. 



For size and prospective profit, the scheme ranks 

 any offered in California, for the reason that the lands 

 here have not touched the boom 

 figures which prevail in that State, 

 and it has been proven, so the 

 Colorado people claim, that the 

 percentage of profit per acre is with 

 them much greater. Certain it is 

 that this point is less than midway 

 from Chicago to California, and 

 this of itself is a point in its favor, 

 the fruit, in consequence of its prox- 

 imity to Eastern markets, being 

 picked at a riper stage. 



The Chicago Herald of Septem- 

 ber 12 accorded " Peach Day " an 

 entire telegraphic column on its 

 first page and other Eastern pa- 

 pers and the Associated Press dis- 

 patches spoke in praise of the 

 country and the efforts of its push- 

 ing people. 



The New York Sun recently con- 

 tained an article asking for better 

 peaches, and the Grand Junction 

 people think they have solved the 

 problem. 



They swept everything at the 

 recent Nebraska State Fair, and 

 now have on exhibition in Denver several carloads of 

 fruit of all sorts that is attracting crowds both night 

 and day. 



Several members of the late Irrigation Congress 

 wound up their trip by taking in the sights at Grand 

 Junction, and they were unstinted in their praise of 

 the country and its products. 



It seems that the city is the one place which will 

 attract attention during the coming year. 



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Tney bop, skip, jump, elide, turn somersaults 

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 Everj body wants one. Full history of tree and sample Jump- 

 ing Bean to Agents or Streatmen, 25 cents, postpaid. 

 3, 60c.; 6, $i; 12, $1.50; 100, $10. Rush order and be first. Sell 

 quantities to your merchants for window attractions and then 

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