The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-16
OPENING Of DELTA
BRANCH CELEBRATED
Great Throng of Utahns
Cheer Governor Spry at
Ceremonies.
Ceremonies.
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serted that he was glad to see n sec
ton of Utah built up of men from
other states who brought their brains
and energy into this section and helped
TO make the section an important one.
He asserted that the occupation OF
farming Is an honorable one, and that
no stigma attaches TO it as formerly,
when country boys were called hay
seeds. He said that farmers are now
called agricultural men, and are high
ly respected everywhere. The gov
ernor held the closest attention Of the
large audience for more than an hour
Tonight another mass meeting was
held in the hall and big dance in
tho amusement hall At tonight Is mass
meeting j. David Larsen, publicity
director of the Weber club, Ogden; W.
n. Candland, l.. Holbrook, A. A.
Hinckley and II. z. VanHousen, super.
intendent of the Salt Lako Route,
were speakers.
Both afternoon and evening mass
meetings in the meeting house were pre-
sided over by James A. Melville, father
of Millard county development
Although what now is the town Of
Delta was founded early in l9O6-at
that time called Melville-the present
prosperous community of 1900 people
is only about three years old, the first
efforts to build UP a town having failed.
The town after first having been named
Melville was changed TO Burtncr. When
the Delta Land & Water company took
charge of the Delta tract three years
ago and changed the name to Delta
the town wns merely name. AL
though 1t was on the main line of the
Salt Lake Route, there was no passen-
ger station and not train stopped.
Town Is Prosperous.
Today the town is thriving. Two
main line trains each way stop in the
town, there is a comfortable passenger
station, q half dozen stores, bank
and an opera house as we'll as numer.
tant support of the town is the big
irrigation project Of about $4,000 acres.
On this tract there are Approximately
$50 families, outside the town. The
north tract which the new line will
pierce is the larger of the two and
contains about $4,000 acres Two
thriving towns to the west of Delta
will be vitally affected by the new
branch. Hinckley already has a popu.
mated to have 800. While tho line will
not run directly through either, it will
pass close to both
While most OF the towns of Millard
county will not be directly affected nv
the new branch, all took part in the
celebration-Leamington, Oasis, Lynn.
dyl and Deseret, because the people
realize that the line will mean general
prosperity; Oak City, Scipio, Fillmore,
kanosh and Meadow, because the peo.
pie believe that if branch is run north
and west there is likelihood that the
road Will some day build east aud pierce
their unrallroadcd territory.
Success Crowns Work.
The entire Delta branch will ne in the
north side irrigation project The his
tory of this project is interesting. For
several years, after 1906, yarious AT.
tempts were made to establish success.
ful project. Twice q dam was built on
the Sewer river and each time after
settlers had come in the dam was
washed out. Finally the settlers gave
up hope and most Of them moved out.
Three years, ago George A Snow of
St. George and II. L Moody of Chicago
formed the Snow-Moody company and
placed the project on substantial
basis, making the second successful
Carey irrigation project in the United
states. When this compnny-the Delta
Land d Water company-took CHARGE
there were about twenty families on
the whole tract
Delta is. approximately 46as feet
above sea level. The town is located
about go miles south of Cache valley
so that the climate is much lees rigor
Gus than IN the northern part of the
state. The settlers are said to have
reapcd unusually good crops during tbe
last two years, Many farmers who have
come from the middle west and Califor.
ma have cleared away the sapebrush
and produced fifty bushels Of wheat TO
the acre, according TO Professor l.. 4.