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Show fM4-ta Hay In isUw. esttrday waa Teaih Dyt Grind Junction. It wsjUhn flnt fitlfal Uf of the kin lever obvrrel In thia stat. nrperhapaln any othif Oolomdo, in deed seems to have set the rxatnpto of ut ting apart days for the mratnemnr lion of apwlal reaoarces anl special product. t!rat Itocky Ford hail its Watermelon ilari" then Monnment on triffdlvldo taU)hnl tU IVtato UaLe liny, an 1 now OraiM Junction has followed fol-lowed with Its Teach Ihy Tim gorrrnor and h t.taff grarI tht prraiton. He iiruaenliitlvert of every city town and cectfon of the Hate were prea-ht prea-ht The atrangtmenta for the enter talmnent of hf great throng were ample and perfect uud workel atlmlraldy The peculiarly aiauinrsiit tiling about tl celebration waa thn iiltutration fur in- il of the marrehjfia gr wth of the uew wsat. a growti Uwt w. nl 1 bo ponl bio only ln a region cf wonderful fertlll tyofsoiL Five tona of petichM were put tpln trupttng pyrami'U ami temcefc tobegratuitoualydlatnbutMto tho at-ending at-ending cmwt! Vet only Mi short years ago the country about the spot where the city of (Irani Junction H nawsltn ated wm reporte.1 In dlogiut by on of ih9lfdlU nevrfwtr men of rnatern iVdoradona a dmtry, dismal waste of aan 1 and rantua and aige bruli Sinew then Irrigating dltchet hare wn bntlt The gljfldentng water luu been m vie ll w over the sand, and It has developed a wondruua frrttlity. On no ordinary soil could richly Waring fruit orcbarda bo developed within six years or lit Itocky Mountain News. |