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The Colorado Experiment Station 
1 Dunlap (Senator Dunlap) 
Gandy 
: Glen Mary 
] Haverland 
Ivanhoe 
Jessie 
^Marshall 
Parker Earle 
Progressive (Everbearing) 
1— Best for commercial planting. 
2— Recommended for home use. 
b.—Black caps. 
p.—-Purple Cane. 
THE FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT GROWERS 
IN GRAND VALLEY 
The readers of this bulletin will naturally wonder whether 
fruit growing in the Grand Valley has any future before it or not, 
whether the decline in productiveness, in prices obtained for fruit, 
and in the deterioration of some of the orchards will not perma¬ 
nently cripple the fruit industry in Grand Valley. It is undoubt¬ 
edly true that fruit growing in the Grand Valley will be restricted 
to certain limited areas where fruit growing under all conditions 
will be reasonably safe. It is also true that a considerable portion 
of the land now in orchards will be put into agricultural crops be¬ 
cause of the unfavorable conditions of these lands for fruit. 
The Palisade and Clifton Districts, and part of the Grand 
Junction District, will very likely remain profitable fruit growing 
sections. For the Fruita and Loma Districts as a whole, the writers 
are less hopeful. Many of the orchards in the Fruita District are 
unprofitable at present, and more are reaching this state each year. 
A large part of the young orchard at Loma will probably never 
pay for itself. True, some of it will, with proper care, develop 
into profitable orchards, but as a district the odds are against this. 
For profit, pears give the most promise. There is usually a 
good market for them, and they may be grown very well east of 
Grand Junction. Apples will always remain profitable, and, for a 
long-time average, may give as much return as pears. 
The by-product problem must be solved before peach grow¬ 
ing will be permanently profitable. 
SUMMARY 
The fruit industry in Grand Valley, Mesa County, as a com¬ 
mercial enterprise is about 20 years old. Fabulous prices were ob- 
Saunders 
Sharpless 
Splendid 
Thompson 
1 Warfield 
1 Wm. Belt 
Wilson 
Wolverton 
