The Delta independent., 1907-04-19
Local and Personal

steers to Ouray Tuesday.
F. G. Myers spent a couple of days in
Denver the first of this week.
The Montrose city council took in
50, 900 license money at its last meeting.
A letter from Iowa says they have
had a hard freeze causing ruin to their
fruit crop.
+. J. Mathews sends the INDEPEND-
ENT to Lonnie & Wagner at Appleton,
n. Y, for a year.
Miss Pearl Carter has returned from
Utah where she spent the winter. She
is a neice of Mrs Jeifers.
Dr. Whiting was in town Saturday.
He reports everything looking fine on
his big ranch east Of Eckert.
j. S. Angle has purchased the resi-.
dence property owned bv Mrs. B. w.
Worth; consideration s., 800.
Mr.. Carr expects George and Mrs.
| Stephan back from their European
| trip some time prlor to the first of May.
Grant Mooberry shipped 300 head of
steers to Denver last Friday that he
bought of Stockham Bros. and Charles
! Zanninetti.
The race meet next month at Mont
rose is being extensively advertised.
They are raising $500 to promote the
proposition.
One Of the water works pipes went
broke in North Delta last Saturday,
which accounts for your not being able
! to get water for few hours.
Z. E. Bull was down Monday and
remained over until Tuesday. Mr.. Bull
reports everything lovely and the goose
holding h S head high in his part of the
country.
Joseph Stone and wife have returned
to Delta from Telluride. MIR. Stone
says he has located in and left Delta
several times, but expects to remain
this time.
The late o. d. Loutsenhizer of Mont
rose, left an estate valued at S2I 200.
The heirs are Mrs. Harry Mcneil of
Montrose and Miss May Loutsenhizer
of Oklahoma City.
W. T. Rattenburg and wife of Plym-
outh, Mich. are guests of Mr. and Mrs
T B. Geer. They stopped off here
while on their way home from trip to
California. Mr.. Rattenburg and Mr.
Geer were school boy friends.
City Marshall Dan Wagner has
bought Mrs. Stafford's property on
Eaton ave. and known as the Highland
lodging house. Mr.. Wagner took pos
session of the property last Monday
He will continue to run lodging house,,
Former game warden X. M. Light
left on Saturday for Gunnison where he
will be in the employ of the state game
and fish commissioner IN the capacity
of fish cnlturist. His work will take
him to all places in the state where the
government has hatcheries.
Chas. n. Cox, the original promoter
and builder of the Grand Junction beet
sugar factory, died at his home in
Denver last week of peritontis after an
illness of but 36 hours. MIR. Cox made
a success of promoting factories in
northern Colorado and accumulated a
snug fortune at the work, but he made
his money off of the trust in the sale of
factories after they were built and run
ming. We also have the impression
that Mr.. Cox had something to do with
promoting the North Fork branch of
the Rio Grande.
The Seaton Drug Co. has rugged up
in great shape for ice cream and soda
fountain business, having installed a
ten gallon freezer which is run by a
two horse power gasoline engine. But
30 minutes is required to turn out ten
gallons of cream by this method. They
have also installed 10 gallon aut omatic
carbonator, which is attached to the
city water works. An even pressure of
l25 lbs. is maintained all the time and
when the carbonated water is used out
to certain point the machine goes to
work unaided and undirected to replen-
] sh the supply.
I Comparatively few people realize that
Colorado, known far and wide as the
greatest producer of precious metals, is
now forging to the front as one of the
leading agricultural states. Notwith-
standing the fact that last year the
! mineral output was greater than that
| of any previous year in the history OF
/ the state the value of the firm .anno