The Delta independent., 1908-05-08
Local and Personal.

Hotchkiss and Olathe ball teams will
cross bats at Olathe Sunday and the
game will be warm one.
See the Bachelors Congress, at op-
era house next Friday night. High
School talent will present the play.
Mr.. E. E. Bull, one of the prominent
ranchmen of Eckert, was in Delta
Tuesday and made the INDEPENDENT
office call.
The creamery reports plenty of mar
ket in Grand junction for all the butter
It can make, and it is shipping most of
its product there.
We understand that some early beds
'around Delta have already produced
ripe Strawberries. The main crop will
be along in June.
There will be lots of fruit to ship out
of Delta county this fall. And there
will be ts-thousands of car loads-of
other farm products We need another
railroad
Attorney H. ]. Baird, secretary of
the Delta Business Mems Association,
addressed the Commercial Association
at Glenwood Springs Tuesday night of
this week.
1t begins to look like the storm peri
Cd was now well passed and that the
fruit was not in further danger. The
fruit prospects grow mare encouraging
as the days go by.
Mrs. j. F. Stone has purchased the
millinery stock and business at 255
north Main street of Mrs. Ruth. and
respectfully solicits a share of the
ladies' patronage of Delta and vicinity
Stock is doing well on ranch and
range. There is now plenty of grass
and cattle herded to the hills will soon
be fat and sleek. Stock wintered fine
and generally went on the range this
spring in excellent shape
Hot suns will soon bring out the
seed that has lain dormant during the
cold spring. Within a week shade
trees have put on their summer dress
of green. 1t is time for real spring
and there is every reason to believe it
is here.
The Athletic Association of the Delta
High School viii present the clever
and amusing play, The Bachelors
Congress. at the opera house Friday
evening, May 18th. They should be
given big house. The play Will be
well worth seeing and it is to help out
on equipment.
The Gunnison river is the standby
for reliable water supply, its water
shed nearly always having the greatest
snow supply of all the mountain sec
tions of Colorado. At present millions
of gallons per minute are rolling away
ina wasteful current, but when the
Gunnison tunnel is completed much of
this waste water will be used.
The matter of making an effort to
get public library for Delta and to
procure the assistance of Mr.. Carnegie
in doing so, is one which should deeply
interest all our people. Delta should
have had a good circulating library
long ere this, and now that the effort
is to be made to get one, all should
plan to help it along in some way.
S. L. Hartman, John Sipma, w. d.
Mcintyre. G. w. Hendricks and w. d.
Gould were appointed by the Farmers
and Business Mems association at
Crawford. railroad committee. to look
after the possibilities of securing a rail-
road branch to Crawford, with instruc-
tions to gather and present statistics
and to consider and repol t upon propo-
sitions.
Real estate sales are reported as
as usual for the first week
in May, while the number of people
headed this way from outside points
continues to grow. The main rush
will not begin. however for another
month. From June to December it is
predicted that more people will visit
Delta than during any like period of
the past.
1t has been suggested that the people
of these valleys should work with the
Southern Pacific for railroad competi-
ton, if they expect to get it; that the
S. p. needs line through to Salt
Lake to make its through connections;
that this is its natural route, and that
just rs soon as it reached Grand Ju !.
ton in building, we would have rail
road competition.
Ella Schooley, of Nebraska, bought
of VIM. Klatt, 20 acres near Cedaredge
this week for 81, 800, Il. T. Douglas,
of Iowa, bought of c. W. Brewer 40
acres near Cedaredge for s.. 600. Clar-
ence Dillon. late of Nebraska, bought