Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1898 — Can’t Buck Colorado For Watermelons [ARTICLE]

Can’t Buck Colorado For Watermelons

Editor Republican: I notice in issue of Republican of September 9, 1898, that Berl Richardson had grown a watermelon weighing 48 lbs and Ben Hansen one weighing 58 lbs. I think probably that is a pretty good melon for Jaspercounty. But I have to report upon three watermelons that were grown in Baca county, Colorado, in 1889, and purchased by myself and C. C. Warner, now of your town, and sampled by N. Warner, Mrs. N. Warner, Miss Hill, C. C. Warner and myself and family. These melons were purchased of a Mr. Dalton of Minneapblis, Colorado for 50 cents, by myself and C. C. Warner, and the combined weight of the three was 183 lbs. During same year there was a melon on exhibition in R. A. Crossman’s law office at Vilas, Colo., that weighed 97 lbs. I think C. C. Warner and Thomas Florence of Jaspercounty saw this last watermelon. Very respectfully, Ezra C. Nowels. Lamar, Colo., Sep. 12, 1898.