History and Development of the Fruit Industry 9 



has been dead many years, but neither he nor his enthu- 

 siastic endeavors to impress all with whom he came in 

 contact as to the possibilities of Colorado for fruit-raising 

 are forgotten. 



" Henry Lee, in 1870, brought from Iowa fifteen thousand 

 nursery stock and sold these from his place of business 

 in Denver to many customers, most notable of whom are 

 David Brothers, Mart L. Everett, Joseph Morris, Wilson 

 Perrin, and others, principally located on Wheat Ridge, 

 a suburb of this city. Many of these trees are living 

 to-day and yearly produce crops of apples. 



"As nearly correct as can at this time be positively 

 determined, the late Wilson Perrin started in 1869 or 

 1870 the first nursery in the territory of Colorado on his 

 farm on Wheat Ridge, four miles west of Denver. His 

 example was soon followed by others, notably H. G. 

 Wolfe, of Denver, and G. W. Webster, of Longmont, 

 Boulder County, Colorado, and J. W. Cook, and also, about 

 the same time, nursery stock was set out in the Union 

 colony at Greeley, Weld County. And here permit me 

 to digress and read to you part of a private and char- 

 acteristic letter from the Hon. J. Max Clark, in reply to 

 an inquiry of mine for facts on fruit-raising in the Union 

 colony. 



"Mr. Daniel Stanley, a settler in Boulder County, in 

 1865, brought by mule team from Iowa a lot of orchard 

 stock and sold them to his neighbors, notably of whom 

 were G. W. Webster and J. W. Goss, of Hygiene, Colorado. 

 I here incorporate into this address an extract from a letter 

 of a late date from the latter gentleman. He says, writ- 

 ing of Stanley's venture: 'I bought six out of this lot 

 and set them out in 1866. I paid for six trees, $30. 

 Four of those six trees are alive to-day, and have been 

 bearing since about the fourth year after setting out. 

 Two of them are yellow sweets (I do not know the name), 

 one is Red Astrachan, and the other is a winter variety, 

 something like the Ben Davis, but better in flavor.' 



