The Delta independent., 1907-12-27
On the iriing Line.

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The days are short but they are
going to get longer. Times are little
dull but they are going to be better.
Those who have money to invest in
land-the safest of all investments
will do well to investigate Delta county.
Here are offered all the advantages
and merits which appeal to investors
and homeseekers. Schools, churches,
societies, sociability, honor, sobriety
and honesty.
In the beautiful springtime fruits
and flowers will bloom and the harvest
of fruit will follow. That is time we
are all looking forward to, for the
scene will be one of beauty and rich
ness. Then will come swarms of peo-
pie to see sights they will not soon for
get.
An estimate generally accepted and
which seems conservative, is that Delta
county will double in wealth and popu-
lation every five years, for an almost
indeterminate period. Taking the last
three years as a basis, in which time
Delta has more than doubled in size,
the five year lap is too long.
1t brings tears to the eyes of some
of the old timers who sold property in
Delta county several years ago for
song, when they gaze upon it now and
realize its value. But greener mead
ows represented as just beyond the
hills, had, still have and will have,
charm TO lead people along that trail.
Strawberries 81 500 an acre: toma-
toes $500 an acre: cantaloupes $50 to
$3.50 an acre: potatoes $50 to $500 an
acre; sugar beets SlO0 to $50 an acre;
peaches and apples $3.50 to 81 900 an
acre; alfalfa, four cuttings; oats 20 to
100 bushels an acre: other fruits and
field and garden products. a good
yield and extra quality. That is Delta
county's record.
With its thousands of acres of bear
ing orchards, its additional thousands
of acres of young trees, with its broad
titled farms. its meadows, grainfelds
and gardens; with its thousands of head
of range stock and fattening herds.
its sheep, hogs and poultry, it does not
look like Delta county should stand
much in awe of a little one-horse panic.
With the building of the big new
storage plant has been suggested a
canning factory and evaporating works.
These things viii be needed to aid in
saving Delta's future fruit crops. and
the field is open for them as not only
needed but also profitable ventures.
The attention of the public is called to
their urgent need and to this inviting
field of profitable enterprise.
Despite the fact that the season per-
iod is an off one-despite the fact that
the year itself has been an off one
despite the fact that we are just clos
ing up our little part of the financial
furry and scrip period Delta is grow
ing, has grown steadily and solidly all
the year. New and bigger and better
things are coming. and the real import
ant growth has but begun.
Delta's great coal fields are destined
not only to supply its citizens with an
abundance of good and cheap fuel for
all time, but will also attract the at
tention of the coal consuming
world. These great measures have
as yet been but little prospected-jus
little surface scratching in a few
places. The deeper stratas which
doubtless underlie much if not all of the
county's area, have none Of them been
exploited.
In Delta county small farms, gardens
and orchards pay well and larger ones
in proportion, when the same care is
bestowed. 1t is not infrequent that an
income is shown Of 81. 500 year off Of
two to three acres. Think of $50, 900
in single seasons crop off of 30 acres
of orchard, as is an example this sea-
son. Such sum is life stake. No
average business proposition requiring
like investment can make the profit
showing that Delta county crops have
made; and with less work, less worry
and less competition.
That Delta county should have oil
deposits possibly surprising anything
between Kansas, Texas and California,
stands to reason. Its location, topog-
raphy and formation are all favorable.
Not only are its shales adapted to oil
storagcs locally. but they are so set
as to catch and retain the seepage from
the higher shale and oil rock stratas Of
the vast territories higher up and lying
between Delta and the Florence oil