Show pflach day ID colorado yesterday waa peach day at orand junction it was tho first festival day of the kind ever baertel baer Ted in this state or perhaps in any other colorado indeed adema to havo set the example of apart days for the commer aora tion of special and special products first rocky ford had its watermelon day then monument on the divide established its potato bake day and now grand junction has followed with its peach day the governor and his graced th occasion representatives of every city town and section of the state were present the for the entertainment tain ment of the great throng were ample and perfect and worked admirably the peculiarly significant thing about the celebration was the illustration ur of the marvelosa mar velona growth of the new west a growth that would be possible only in a region of ty of soil five tons of peaches were put op in tempting pyramids and terraces to be gratuitously distributed to the attending crowd yet only six short years ago the country the city of grand junction is now situated was reported in disgust by one of the leading newspaper men of eastern colorado aa a dreary dismal waste of gand and cactus and rage brash sinco then irrigating ditches have been built the gladdening water ha been made fiad over the sand and it ha developed wondrous roua fertility on no ordinary boil could richly bearing fruit orchards be developed within six yeara or leas rocky mountain new |