Delta chief., 1883-08-15

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ROBERT D. BLAIR, Publisher,
Delta. Delta County, Colorado.
The Garnet ditch is approaching compile
ton, and is now finished to the mesa over
looking Delta.
Judge Baldwin passed through Delta last
week with 3s7 head of cattle, on his way to his
range on the Grand Mesa.
Louie Crotser came up from Grand juno
tion last week. on a visit to his parents. He
reports things lively at that place.
Mrs. Phye, the county's ward, has gone to
her rclatives near Buena Vista, and will
hereafter make her home with them.
Hats from 25c to 5000 at McGranahan's.
Persons wishing to see some samples of
Delta county's cereals, are requested to come
to this office and look for themselves.
Nothing has been heard from Simeon NJ
Decker, who recently broke Jail at this point
No reward has yet been offered for his cap
ture.
DIR. Yarger is building an extensive hen.
merry and hatchery in the rear of his residence
on Main street. He will stock it in the dark
of the moon.
The Denver & Rio Grande have surveyed
route around Bridgeport, with a view of
cutting off some of the bridges made neces-
sary on the present line at that place.
Carpets! carpets! See samples at McGran-
ahan's.
The chicken business is fast on the increase
in Delta county, and new henneries are be-
ing constructed on all sides. The fowls seem
to do extraordinarily we'll in this climate.
All who have soles to save should under
stand that Delta has now a first-class shoe.
maker, who not only mends but manufactures
all kinds of boots and shoes. He will make
the repairing of harness a specially.
Glenwood Springs, the new bathing and
health resort on the Grand river, is seventy.
f!e miles from Delta, over good road all the
way. Several parties from that section have
been in the city lately laying in supplies.
Rope enough to hang the county ut Nc
Granahan's.
Proposals are out for bids on mail route
1O6Ol4, between the Denver & Rio Grande
depot and the Delta postoffice. We hope the
department will pay fair compensation for
the service. At the old rate the messenger
could not afford the service necessary to give
us our mails promptly.
A party of pleasure-seekers, consisting of
Messrs. Dillon and family, Pugh and family,
Moody, Whips, Wright and Kiethley, spent
most of last week among the lakes on the
Grand Mesa, and returned Saturday evening,
having had fine old time. They report
fish, game and berries in great abundance.
Mr.. Hodgdon, the station agent here, is
moving from the old box-car to more commo-
dious quarters in the new depot, which is fast
approaching completion. Being a man of
broad ideas, he will no doubt be glad to have
more room in which to allow them to expand.
We congratulate him on the Improvement in
his quarters.
We would like to have the ranchmen of the
county bring us samples of cereals raised by
them for exhibition, to the better enabling US
to show what the land will produce. Almost
every day brings new people into this section
looking for locations, and these specimens
will go long way toward removing doubts
about the productiveness of the soil.
r. E. Eggleston came in last Thurdsay with
fine lot of speckled trout for shipment to
Denver: They were captured in Lake Eggle-
ston, on the Grand Mesa. Mr.. Eggleston has
rgged up self-registering mosquito-bite ma
Chine, and by this means found out that these
trout cost him just eighty-seven mosquito
bites each. Fine fishing up there, he says
Ranchmen who desire to buy choice blood
ed pigs would do well to address o. d. Lout-
senhizcr, Montrose, Colo.
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Last week we spent few hours on Muddy,
and found the crops looking fine and the
ranchmen all busy at their harvest. Our
wandering was necessarily brief, but we were
fully convinced of the great future in store
for that portion of Delta county. At some
time in the near future THE CHIEFS repre-.
sentative will pay this section visit and