Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — GETS $10,000 ON MELON CROP [ARTICLE]

GETS $10,000 ON MELON CROP

Undismayed by Failure Last Year, Rancher Takes Bigger Chances This Season. Clifton, Colo. —To clean up a w»t little fortune of approximately SIO,OOO as a result of a couple of months’ work was the experience of J. B. Jobes, a rancher west of town, who decided that there was money in cantaloupes despite his own experience to the contrary. Jobes, who was a practicing physician back in Pennsylvania, came to the Grand valley to regain his health. He bought a young apple orchard and decided that he would pay his expenses by growing cantaloupes among the trees. Doctor Jobes ran up against a bad year, however, and last season not only didn’t make a profit, but for some of his cantaloupes did not receive enough to pay for the crates. Instead, however, of blaming the melons or the valley, or a hundred and one other things, he decided that the only difficulty with his returns was the way that they were marketed. Consequently he decided to market his own melons and anyone else’s who would trust him with them, i \ % *