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A PRELIMINARY REPORT. 
make the statistical information as full and complete as 
possible, and to secure this, we ask the co-operation of 
fruit growers and others interested. 
I wish here to express my obligation to Mr. G. W. 
Kramer, Manager of the Denver & Rio Grande Express 
Company; to Dr. Alexander Shaw, Secretary of the State 
Bureau of Horticulture, and to Secretary Olney Newell, of 
the Denver Chamber of Commerce, for statistical informa¬ 
tion furnished from their respective offices. 
