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The Delta independent., 1912-01-19

OF convictions, faith in ones power
to achieve what he sets out to do,
is what scores. Confidence born of
experience, fears nothing; it peoples
waste places, levels mountains, maps
the work by which civilization makes
progress. Colorado has nothing to
fear except the loss of confidence
in itself.
Through cooperation men build
cities, found commemorative, rear
empires, lift society onto higher
planes and prepare the way for in
dividual betterment. T he man alone
stands in no need to consider 9TH
ers; once a second man appears up
on the scene the advantages of CO.
operation become apparent. There
after certain things for the common
good can only be accomplished
through cooperation, working, plan
ming, building together Colorado
needs more of the spirit of co-opera-
ton to make it's Confidence bear
fruit.
Judgement is the guiding star;
there are certain rules of conduct
which must be applied in all that
man does unless the result is to
be chaos. The rule of commonsense
must be respected if the individual
or society as whole is to move
forward and reach a position from
which there need be no retreat
Commonsense will solve every riddle
and realize every proper desire, II
only the appeal to it is sincerely
made and with an honest demand to
know the right course to pursue.
Confidence, Cooperation and
Commonsense; these are all Colo
RADIO needs today to make it the
greatest state in the Union, its peo-
pie the most prosperous and best
contented. A resolve to make this
it's watchword for the year to come,
firm, sincere determination to ap-
ply that rule to every question, to
hold firm to that guiding star
throughout the year in all private,
political, industrial and social con-
teTuS, anu tntIe Wouiu hcNCi oo"''i
be talk of hard times or distressing
and embarrassing conditions.
The state and all it's people have
suffered enough from neglect of the
eternal truths, from lack of confi-
dence, failure to pull together, re-
fusal to apply commonsense in solv-
ing communal problems. 1t is time
to turn face about, get back to first
principles and march for while
under the banner of Confidence,
Co Operation and Commonsense!'
What say you, people of Colorado
Do you want to go ahead?-Denver
Republican.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
Offers Splendid Field
For Capital.

The Western Slope territory
stands as field hungry for in
vestment and development. 1t is
crying for money to build railroads,
to establish power plants, to erect
factories, to build reservoirs and
dig bitches. For all these it offers
legitimate openings and prospective
ly rich returns. There are few fields
where capital has held aloof with
out reason. The lands of these val
lays are the richest and most fertile
on the globe, yielding from 100 to
every transportation and industrial
need has been supplied. Here mon
ey is made and spent literally in
all directions except in the larger
amounts required for large factor
les, railroads and power plants, for
which there is already an existing
need. To this field and these sub
jects. the Independent desires to
call the attention of capital. We
have the water. the coal and the
productive 1leldS. we nave numer-
Gus power sites with unlimited pow
er waiting to be harnessed. We have
a population that is rapidly increas-
ing and already production which
o.ertaxes the capacity of any single
railroad system. The right people
would be met with every encourage
ment, even concessions, but no jim
Grow promoters are wanted. They
are the class of people who tie things
up and delay people who could and
would accomplish development and
Improvement. AS matter of fact,
our fair field has been so fully list
ened to by this class of schemers
that legitimate undertakers OF i'm
provement and industry have be-
come sufficiently disguised as to
phun the Western Slope territory.
But the field remains, with all its
attractiveness, as a small amount OF
investigating will prove.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
THE THINGS WE ARE LOSING.

The farmer man or boy must be
constantly reminded of the value of
crop rotation, live tsock, grazing
Lanyard muck, good seed and deep
tillage or he will not get along very
we'll. Only the other day Burbank
told me that the two great essen
tails in our economic existence are
sunshine and nitrogen-the one and
the same, but INTERCHANGEABLE differ
cnt in producing all that the world
contains. With these essentials and
the blowing under the turf mixed I
with little irrigation we will never
have a crop failure. We will contin-
ually increase fertility and get lar
ger yields, just as do the farmers
of Great Britain.
1t is a deplorable fact that the
American farmer is producing I'M
der the most favorable conditions, on
ly one-third of the crops which the
European farmer is producing I'M
Ger extremely bad conditions. An
other significant fact Is that the
fertility and productivity of the Eu-
ripcar farm is gradually increasing.
while that Of the average United
States farm is decreasing in about
the same inverse ratio This is true.
despite the fact that the farms of
Europe have been worked for 1000
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
MARSHALL PASS NAMED FOR

In a recent issue of the Gunni-
son News-Champion appeared an in
teresting article on Marshall Pass
and how it received it's name. 1t is
reproduced below:
The question has often been ask
ed: Where did Marshall pass get
its name? The answer is: From
Lieut.. w. l.. Marshall of the Unit
ed States army. who led the first ex-
petition over the mountains into
the Gunnison valley.
Marshall pass has been made ia
nous the world over through the
scenic descriptions of it contained
in the literature of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad.
An old farmer named Brown,
living near Ridgway, recently told
a Gunnison visitor to the cattle
mems convention, the story OF the
naming of the pass. 1t is here re-
peated:
Two expeditions had been sent
out from Washington. one by the
department of war and the other by
the department of the interior, to
make geological and Typographical
study of the entire country west of
Pueblo. Col Wheeler was nomin-
ally the head of both expeditions,
although one Hayden, after whom
Hayden's pass was named, led the
interior department expedition.
Lieut.. Marshall took his party d.
rectly westward. up along the Ar
kansas, and crossed the range over
the pass named for him. He came
down along the TOmichi and on
westward to Uncompahgre noun
tain. His ambition was to climb
some high mountain where he could
gain a good view of the surround
ing country. but being a large man.
considerable difficulty was encoun-
tered. However he finally reached
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
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The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
THE HUNGER FOR THE LAND.

Land hunger Is the only kind of
hunger that strengthens nation.
Bread hunger weakens a people and
in the end means revolution. Mon
ey hunger is simply another name
for greed and in the words OF the
old proverb, greed always kills
kills family life. kills patriotism.
kills representative government and
democracy and in the end will kill
freedom Land hunger gives perma-
nence to the home and stability to
our institutions. BY land hunger
do not mean the motives that
drives men to land grabbing or land
speculation, or Investment In land.
That motive may be and frequently
is simply another form OF money
hunger and may be as dangerous
and destructive when carried to ex-
cess as any form of greed.
I mean by land hunger that deep
and passionate instinct to possess
and own and cultivate and keep the
land from which we draw food and
the means OF life. / mean the ma
tional and individual instinct that
regards land as the most durable,
the most desirable. the most fund
amental OF all the forms Of wealth
and places agriculture first In the
honor roll OF the industries. For
examples OF land hunger that lead
to the proper appreciation Of the
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19

To Bal. July 1. 1911 -. 81
Collections ............ l.
Balance Dec. 31st e.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19

years. The corn area of the Unit
cd States is practically developed.
There are no new fields except in
Argentina where we can look for
increased production of corn for hu-
man food or the making of meat.
The only solution of the problem
of securing cheaper prices for the
food of the people of this nation is
to double or treble the acre yield.
The capabilities of the soil are treb-
lie, if not quadruple what the land
is now being made to show. We can
not too son adopt the methods and
principles of European farming. The
stinginess of the United States gov
eminent in appropriating a measly
SIS, 100000 a year for the further
ance of the great cause Of agricul-
ture is almost income i,able. Practic-
ally the entire wealth of the coun-
try is created by the farmer and
the miner Out of the earth comes
wealth in nearly all it's forms. The
value of the nations crops approach
es $4,000, 100000 annually, and
this amount can be trebeled if the
farmer is given the proper knowledge
of scientific methods. The prosper
ity which will ensue will reach ev-
cry line of industry, without excep-
ton.
The appropriation by the govern
ment for agricultural purposes should
not be one cent less than 100000
900 every year. 1t would be incom-
paribly the best investment that
congress could make One of the
most valuable factors for the educa-
ton of the farmer along right lines
is the agricultural college. yet this
institution is giving the farmer of
the country only half measure. We
are today misapplying the revenues
from the Morrill, act. The bill en-
acted in the early COS was most
wise in it's conception. 1t provided
ample funds for the education of the
masses in agricultural and mechan-
ical lines, but we are not getting it.
If the wise provision of that act
were carried out, particularly the
one requiring that each and every
two nor more than four hours a day
at manual labor in the field or shop
our free agricultural schools would
not be crowded with men and wom-
or Snalyi m nniunrCity nrnfaSGinnS I n
the exclusion of many who are err
nest in their desire to conquer soil
problems.
If the student is pursueing a lit
erary course exclusively in the agri-
cultural college, where he does
not belong, he would soon seek
other courses of culture. Only by
combination of the technical study
of the classroom and the practical
work of the field, the farmer stud
ent can be educated up to the FULL
ness of his capacity to get the most
from the feed lot and the soil. An
other regretable fact of our insti-
buttons and conditions is the loss
OF the apprenticeship system in our
trades. We are now compelled to
rely upon the mechanics that come
from Europe to do our work. If
the agricultural colleges would live
up to the requirements of the Nor
rill Act we would give the Ameri-
can boy an opportunity to acquire
technical education. This would re-
move, in a large measure, the re-
strictions upon the opportunities Of
the young man of this country. The
American mechanic will once more
come into his own.-Eugene Grub.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
Rest In Solitude.

Tho first requisite in resting is to
be alone. Every human being is more
or less Of nm irritation. One must get
away to his room or to the woods. A
near as possible one must secure soil
tude and silence; for 1t Is in the heart
OF what shallow people call loneliness
that there Is found the fountain OF re.
freshment and new birth OF Joy In
life.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
Chinese and Japanese Brides.

The Chinese bride is clothed In scar.
let silk. But Japan, strange to say, fol.
lows the western custom. and the Jap.
anese bride appears on the important
morn clad In ono resplendent garment
OF white silk. The sleeves of this Co.'S
tune are usually two and q half feet
long. while the sash measures some
II feet In length.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19
the summit and took observations for

map-making.
When his party reached the low
ell country. the members learned
that Indians had attacked the Hay
den party and had taken and de-
stroyed all their instruments. The
two patries were then combined and
travelled together afterward.
Mr.. Brown was in charge of the
pack train for the Marshall expedi-
ton and remembers well the journey
over the pass. 1t was made some
time in 1878.
The Delta independent., 1912-01-19

'Confidence, Cooperation,
CunInOnsense."
Given confidence no man Will hes
itate. The will to do, the courage
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05
MANY COURT DEATH
Hunters Every Year Venture
Forth on Niagara River.
Nlmrods Caught In Running Ice jam
Observed by Man With Glass, Who
Watches Them Plunge over
the Falls.

Buffalo, N. Y.-The fascination OF
hunting must be very great when it
will lure men out onto the Niagara
river in the winter to an almost GER
tain death trap. 1t seems that the
duck hunting is especially good but
very dangerous about a mile above the
falls. Every winter adventurous duck
hunters put out in small boats and
dodge the ice cakes while they hunt
their favorite game. AS a rule, how
ever, most of the hunters perch them
selves upon a ledge Of ice and hunt
from 1t. They take terrible risk even
by this method, for the ice jam that
is constantly moving down stream is
at any time liable to dislodge the hunt
er's perch and down he goes a victim
to the merciless cataract.
Not many years ago two men were
observed in a duck boat trying des-
perately to row out of a running ice
jam which had carried them down the
Canadian channel from far up the
river. Their terrified efforts were
closely followed by man with a spy
glass, who had discovered them from
the windows of one of the large shore
factories on the American side. The
unfortunate men had already drifted
too near the first roaring cataract to
admit of any possible rescue, so the
watcher could only helplessly wait for
their pitiful death.
In describing the incident afterward,
he said: God. what could l do to help
them-what could any man do? The
Almighty alone seemed to hold them
in his power. One man seemed to be
wrenching his shoulders from their
sockets with the oars; the other stood
in the stern, desperately plying a pike
pole. An oar broke, and was replaced
by a third. The man didn't lose a sec
ond in its replacement. Then, in a
mighty stroke, the other oar went,
and he fell sprawling back in the boat.
He stood up, pulled the good oar from
its pin, and began padding insanely
from the side.
They made little progress. Slowly
the great field Of ice swept them
down, down toward those snarling,
angry cataracts below. l writhed in
agony before the hopeless vision. Into
the rapids swept the fore part of the
ice jam. Then the first great wave
seemed to rise up and hover hungrily
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05

family sleeps, dimes and sits in the
single room above
In Labrador there is no such thing
as a road to consider. There has
never been a horse nor an OK to use
1t, nor has a traveller attempted to
make one settlement from another
Dy any other method OF transportation
than boat. There Is practically no
soil, the bare, uneven, mountainous
rock sinking abruptly into deep water.
The fish houses are built wherever a
ledge OF rock offers a foothold, and a
staging Of rough poles projects from
the water by a rickety ladder work
OF poles. perhaps ten, perhaps forty
feet high.
In Newfoundland the fishing villages
are clustered so closely to the waters
edge that the village is built upward
instead of horizontally. A fisherman
could spend his whole life at his work
without touching ground. Up the side
OF the cliff the stagings, fish houses,
paths. cod flakes and houses will run.
occupying, as at the battery adjoin-
@ 'O4Ai LOl llOIS lHdu IOTly
or nifty feet or horizontal surface for
large village. Land residence is an
unfortunate necessity that is simpli,
fled to its limit
There the fishermen live and die as
their fathers did before them for gen.
erations. Their work, their homes,
their lives, they themselves, will al
ways be absorbing to the visitor with
a love for the picturesque. Indifferent
and phlegmatic they may appear, but
they take chances that would mean
certain death from heart failure or
rashness to the most active. And
through all their trials and perils
they go on fishing, never really salts
fed with the catch or conditions, but
thoughtless of any other occupation
than the catching of the cod.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05
LANDS USUALLY
NEEDING LIME
When Soil Is Sour It VIII Turn
Blue Litmus Paper Placed
an Contact with
It Red.

CBy DIR. W. P. BROOKS, Massachusetts.)
Those soils on which, when seed
ed, timothy and clovers fail, and
where sorrel comes in largely togeth-
er with red top, usually need lining.
1t should be pointed out, however,
that the presence of sorrel is not a
proof that lime is needed. This weed
will flourish even In soils which have
been heavily lined; but on such soils
the grasses and clovers are likely to
crowd 1t out, while on soils which are
in need Of lime, they are unable to do
SO.
When soil is sour 1t will turn blue
litmus paper placed in contact with
1t red. To carry out the test, make
about a tablespoonful of the soil into
thin mud with pure water and after
it has stood for a short time lay
piece of blue litmus paper on 1t and
cover with the mud. Be careful not
to handle the papers with the fingers.
After about ten minutes remove the
paper, washing it if necessary to show
the color. If it has turned red, the
SOIL is sour and needs an application
Of lime. Practically all druggists
keep litmus paper.
The most certain evidence Of all
as TO whether lime will prove bene-
fetal is afforded by a simple expert
ment which may be carried out as
follows: Lay of two square rods in
a part Of the field to be tested which
seems to be fairly representative and
even in quality. To one of these ap-
ply twenty pounds of freshly slaked
lime. After applying at once work
it in deeply and thoroughly. A few
days later apply TO each plot liberal
quantity Of either manure or fertilizer,
precisely the same amount to each.
Plant table beets. n the soil is much
in need of lime these will make a
better growth upon the lined plot
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05
MEET DEMAND FOR ODD SHOES
Manufacturers and Dealers Prepared
for Need, and There Is No Diff
ficulty in the Matter.

When a one legged man buys a shoe
the dealer sends to the factory for a
shoe TO match the one left remaining.
In these days of the use of machinery
in every process of their manufacture
shoes are made with the utmost ex.
actness and precision and it is easily
possible to mate that remaining shoe
with the greatest nicely in size. style,
material and finish.
Few people have feet exactly alike,
commonly the left foot is larger than
the right, so that one shoe may fit a
little more snugly than the other.
Commonly, however, people buy shoes
in regularly matched pairs, the diff.
ference in their feet, if it is noticeable
to them at all, not being enough to
make any other course desirable.
But there are people who buy shoes
of different sizes or widths, in which
case the dealer breaks two pairs for
them, giving them. to fit their feet,
one shoe from each. In such cases
the dealer matches up the two rumain-
ing shoes, one from each of two pairs,
just as he would where he had broken
one pair to sell one shoe to d one
legged man.
But man doesn't have to be one
legged or to have feet of uneven sizes
or shapes TO make him ask the dealer
to break pair OF shoes for him. Here
was man with two perfectly good
feet who came into the store where
he was accustomed to buy and who
wanted on this occasion one shoe.
Travelling in a sleeping car his shoes
had been mixed up with others and
he had got back one of his owa and
one of some other mans; a fact which
he had not discovered until he was too
far away from train and station to
make return and setting things right
possible; and now he came in 10 buy
one shoe to match his own.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05

over the little boat. Both men saw IL
and rushed toward each other. Locked
in each others arms they disappeared
into the curling swell. That was the
last l saw of them"
Niagara also plays the death trap to
hunted as well as hunters. Hundreds
of wild fowls are swept each year over
the falls. During densely foggy nights
strange ducks often stop to roost in
the upper waters Of the river. Drift
ing unconsciously toward the brink,
they are suddenly hurled down into
the abyss of plunging water.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05

the flock, and if his dam and grand
dam We're good producers, he should
be worth much more as a sire than
those whose dam produced only I'm
tied number OF eggs.
He should have a good constitution.
showing short beak, broad head and
bright eye, neck short and stout,
breast of good width carried we'll for.
ward and Of fair depth. The mating
of such sire to a flock of hens bred
from laying ancestors cannot but help
to give good results with proper feed.
ing and housing.
The breeding pen should be yarded
separate from the whole flock, select
ing for this pen only the very lest
egg producers, and this should be
done each year. One male with 10
or IL females will give best results
and eggs will be of stronger vitality
for incubating purposes. The breed.
ing pen should be well cared for.
Quarters should be roomy, we'll light
ed and ventilated. The quarters
should at all times be kept clean and
disinfected. A variety of grain feed,
green cut bone and green feed is abb
solutely necessary to insure fertile
eggs, and grit and water should be
kept before them at all times.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-05

If it would have been good, sound
grain, might have made a better
showing. The difference in price of
about seven cents per bushel between
barley and corn must also be taken
into consideration.
The Wisconsin station, which has a
fine reputation for careful feeding In
vestigations, some years ago made
test between corn and barley and re-
ported that the value of corn was only
eight per cent greater than that of
barley. The barley was figured at 4S
cents bushel, corn at So cents and
shorts at $14 per ton. The hogs in
this test sold at $500 per hundred,
the barley fed hogs netting a profit
Of $1.00 per hundred pounds and the
corn fed hogs netted S1.S9.
In this test the price Of barley at
As cents was too high as that was the
regular price for best grade mailing
barley while the average price of
common barley was 81 cents per bush
ell. Taking these figures it would
have been cheaper to feed barley and
sell corn.
Investigations that these two sta
tions have made shows that barley
makes more lean meat than corn. OF
course corn is the greatest fattener
in the world when fed to hogs, but a
better grade Of bacon can be produced
by feeding barley than corn.
When hogs are fed for weight alone
there is no doubt that corn has the
slightest advantage, but where bacon
is produced for the best special mar
kets barley will turn out the best
product. The result of the two ex-
periments show:
That it required 1S per cent more
barley by weight than corn to produce
the same gain in feeding pigs when
both grains were fed in the proportion
of four parts Of grain to one Of shorts
by weight.
That it is profitable to feed barley
to hogs If pork is selling at an aver
age price.
That the carcasses of the pigs fed
barley and shorts showed a greater
distribution of lean and firmer flesh
than the carcasses of pigs fed corn
and shorts
That pigs fed on corn and shorts
VIII dress higher per cent than pigs
led on barley and shorts.