Agricultural Products Shipped Into Colorado 
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Nearly one-third of the stiawberries came in out of our season, 
and were sent from California, Texas, and Arkansas. Two-thirds of 
the strawberries shipped into the state came from Missouri, and a 
large part of these should have been produced in Colorado. Some 
strawberries came from Oregon, and Utah. 
The tomatoes came from Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, 
essee, and Mexico, and were received before Colorado tomatoes were 
marketable. 
The watermelons came from Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, 
and Oklahoma, and were shipped in out of season. 
FRUITS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GROWN IN 
COLORADO. 
Grapes. $208,300 
Apples. 65,500 
Cantaloupes. 57,200 
Pears. 33,500 
Prunes. 8,300 
Peaches. 5,800 
Cherries. 1,300 
Total 
$379,900 
One hundred and thirty cars of Concord grapes were shipped 
into Colorado in 1909, costing, wholesale, $104,850. Half of these 
grapes came from New York, over one-third from Michigan, and the 
remainder from Pennsylvania and Iowa. 
The writer has purchased New York grown Concord grapes, at 
Cortez, Colorado. They were shipped' from New York to Denver, 
and re-shipped to Dolores, 510 miles by rail from Denver, having 
to be transferred at Alamosa to narrow gauge cars. They were car¬ 
ried by freight wagons from Dolores to Cortez, nearly twenty miles. 
Yet grapes thrive particularly well in the Montezuma Valley, of which 
Cortez is the center, and the few vineyards there yield $500 and up¬ 
wards an acre a year. 
California grapes to the value of $91,000, and Imported grapes 
to the value of $12,450 were shipped into Colorado in 1909. Professor 
O. B. Whipple, formerly Field Horticulturist for the Colorado Ex¬ 
periment Station, states, in Bulletin No. 141, that California varieties 
of grapes grow in the fruit section of Colorado will, when mature, 
give an average annual return of $525 per acre, and Concord grapes 
an average annual return of over $600 an acre. One of the most suc¬ 
cessful apple growers in Canon City stated to the writer that grapes 
planted between rows of bearing apple trees have given him, for 
twenty years, an average annual return per acre of $100. 
The fruit sections of western Colorado are well adapted to grape 
growing, and it is an industry that offers quick returns. If there 
were a sufficient number of men to grow them, Colorado could not 
only fully supply the home market, but the demand in all the other 
mountain states. 
