The Delta independent., 1906-04-20

as directors and Milliard Fairlamb ~
Secretary.
KEEP MONEY At hone.
The amount of money sent out from
Delta County in the course of year
for products which can reasonably be
grown at home with profit to the pro-
ducer and benefit to the consumer Is
probably SO large, that if we could ar
rive at it with any degree of certainty,
it would amaze US. The chief business
of the Uncompahgre and Gunnison VAL
leys today is fruit growing and each
year will see its steady increase. The
day of cattle and grass and alfalfa %
passed. and the capital invested m
stock raising will tend to decrease -
the development of the fruit industry
gradually raises the price of land until
it will be no longer profitable to pro-
duce forage for stock, cattle and sheep.
1t is absolutely impossible to run stock
without timber feeding and there is
well defined limit to the price which
stockmen can afford to pay for winter
feed.
Only in the more remote sections and
at attitudes too high for fruit crops TO
be depended upon will winter feed ulti-
mately be grown for stock and as the
years progress, it is probable that the
summer ranges, so eagerly sought for
tbeef produetisa today, will be- given
over to dairying and perhaps the time
will come when cheese and kindred pro
ducts from the Grand Mesa will become
as famous as those from the Alps OF
Switzerland. Meanwhile the great bus
iness of these Valleys will be more and
more fruit.
Under the present system, the drain
upon this community will be very heavy
for the cost of trees for planting the
many thousand acres of orchards which
the next ten years will see established.
There is every reason why these trees
should be grown here at home and the
money otherwise paid out to Eastern
and Southern growers and in excessive
railroad freights be kept in circulation
among our own people. The railroads
have got US 'agoipg" for we are com
PEELED to ship our products out, but it
will be our own fault if they also have
us 'acoming" SO far as freight on nurs
cry stocks are concerned. There is no
doubt but every planter would be better
pleased to go to the nursery and select
the stock he desires to grow rather than
to see it for the first time as it is un
loaded at the railroad station.
Because of these and many other rea
sons it was decided by the above gentle
men to proceed to the establishment of
a nursery for home grown trees in Del
Ia County. The president, Mr.. Elmer
Young, of olathe, is known to--this COM
munity as wide-awake rustler-a good
business man and one who is always
willing to put his shoulder to the wheel
in aid Of any project which will be of
substantial benefit to this section and
any enterprise operated under his direc
ton bids fair to be successful. Mr..
Worse. who will have the direct man
agement of the company, is compe
tent nursery man of fifteen years ex
perience in every branch of the bust
ness and the owner of one of the hand
soonest orchards in the Uncompahgre
Valley. There is brilliant future be-
fore this company and we believe that
its business will be conducted along
such lines as to command the support
and confidence Of our people and that
among other equally worthy enterprises
it will aid in the much desired object of
KEEPING OUR MONEY AT HOME.
Mabel Blair and Mrs Byram Luce en-
tertained the Priscilla Club last Friday
afternoon ut the home Of Mrs. Luce on
Garnet Mean-