The Delta independent., 1909-10-15
W. R. Gale has a new auto.

Hermann Mayer has gone to Lake
City for the present.
Do not think that Delta is not going
to have beet sugar factory, for she
is.
Clay Davis has stray horse, branded
40" left shoulder, bay, white in race
and two front feet white.
W. M. Hastings is at Clark's Sani-
tarium, Pueblo, trying the effects OF
the mineral water and baths for health
benefits.
A. E. Penley has his fine new build
ing on Main street occupied with full
stock of grains, hay, mixed and ground
feeds, etc.
Mrs. Walter Singleton has written
home that she reached her Ontario des-
tination and that her father, whose i'll
ness called her there, is still quite low.
Sam Farmer ordered two new sui
scriptons to the INDEPENDENT this week
to parties at a distance. That's the
way to post them on Delta county re-
sources
DR.. Hadsell was down from Cedar
edge Wednesday. Mrs. Hadsell and
their daughter. Miss Zeda, who gradu-
ated in the Delta High school last year,
are living in Bou,d r, Miss Zeda having
begun four years course in the State
University.
Geo. A. Nida, who with associates is
building the Orchard Mesa ditch, to
take water out of the Gunnison river near
Roubideaux, states that they expect to
have the ditch completed in about 60
days. The Orchard Mesa ditch will ir-
rigate a large tract of land for next
season.
Some people were caused to jump
quick enough yesterday morning to
loosen the soles of their shoes by a
sound of the fire bell. Those nearest,
on looking over, saw small boy about
four years old swinging to the rope,
which had been left dangling. He had
found something to play with.
Stock certificate books for the
American Ditch & Reservoir Company
and the Delta County Ditch & Keser-
voir Company have been supplied by
the INDEPENDENT job printing depart
ment this week. These two companies
are newly Incorporated enterprises
which will bring into production added
fertile acres. 1t is gratifying to note
any development of this character, for
each means something in the kind of
improvement that counts for all future
time.
A working man came into the INDE-
PENDENT office one evening this week
and exclaimed: This is great country.
have been in Delta three days and at
least fifty different men have asked me
to go to work them" While this con-
dition impresses a stranger, it of course
does not apply the whole year through.
The normal demand for labor is about
the average with any other good agri-
cultural section, while in the fruit
gathering season, as now, the demand
for help is hard to supply.
Through the efforts of the Delta
County Business Mems Association the
Denver & Rio Grande has been induced
to give up one of the large windows in
its city ticket office. at Seventeenth
and Stout streets for display of Delta
county fruit Some of the finest apples
grown in the county are now being col
lected. They will be displayed in pyra-
mid form, arranged in the style desig-
mated by the rules of the National Ap-
pie Show, for which prize of $50 is
offered. Accompanying the fruit will
be the premium cards and ribbons which
Delta county won at the State fair at
Pueblo and at Montrose. together with
placards and pictures. A large amount
of literature will be sent on with the
fruit, and this with the display should
result in some good advertising for the
county.
H. H. Wolbert, cashier Of the Delta
National Bank. has returned from his
vacation. which was spent with Mrs
Wolbert on the Pacific coast and in Wis.,
iting the Exposition at Seattle. Mrs.
Wolbert remained in Los Angeles,
where she will prolong her visit for
couple of months. Mr.. Wolbert praises
the Seattle fair very highly. ''It is
the cleanest, incest fair l ever saw.
Everywhere is paved and of morning
all is as clean as well-swept floor. "
He states that while there the gate re-
ceipts had reached the two-million dol
lar mark. lone thing" said Mr.. VOL
bert. (which attracted my attention
particularly, was the manner of packing
fruit in the Northwest. The apples in
box were all of size and quality,