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The Delta independent., 1920-06-25
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

A. D. Fairbanks, Sr., is fishing at
Cimarron this week.
Mr.. and Mrs S. E. Lewellen and
Miss Leda Lewellen went to lola Sat
urday for few days fishing.
Helen Garcher returned Saturday
to Montrose, after a pleasant visit
with Elizabeth Horton of this city.
Mrs. Claude Trickett came up from
Fruita Saturday for short visit with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Gable
W. L. Jones returned Monday to
Altamont. Kansas, after an extended
visit with his daughter, Mrs. B. F.
Campbell
Miss Isabelle Scott went to Grand
Junction Saturday for two weeks
visit with her nephew, R. w. Scott
and family.
Leon Overbay returned Monday aft
ernoon from Denver. where he re-
ceived medical treatment in the Den
yer & Rio Grande hospital.
Miss Alice Harrington is enjoying
visit this week with Miss Joe Pfis-
ter. who arrived Tuesday from Tellu.
ride
A. E. Penley made a business trip
to Canon City the first of the week.
On his return trip he stopped at Sap
inero to give his new fishing rod a
tryout
Fred and Phil Brewer, representa-
tives of the Baker Steam Motor COM
pany, went through Delta Monday on
their way to Paonia to look after the
company's interests there. Their
wives accompanied them and the par
ty will enjoy little outing on Grand
mesa while in this territory
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WESTERN SLOPE FRUIT
PROSPECTS TO DATE

The office of the state hOrticulturist
has just completed a survey of the
Western Slope fruit prospects up to
the present time. The figures for
last years crop were secured by TAX
ing an average of a number OF grow
ers' estimates. This years figures
are the average of growers estimates
and estimates made by the writer aft
er direct inspection of several orch
ards in each section. These figures,
while rather early for definite infor.
nation, will give fairly accurate idea
Of present fruit crop conditions. A
full crop on all trees is figured as one
hundred per cent.
Mesa County.
Apples.-According to these figures,
the Mesa county district has 48 per
cent crop OF apples to date. as against
SO per cent last year. This is an
average of all districts in the county.
BY districts this year, Mesa county
yielded the following: Grand juno
ton district-62 per cent of full
crop; Clifton district-47 per cent;
Palisade district-71 per cent; Fruita
district-10 per cent. This year the
main varieties in the Grand Junction
district run: Jonathon, Al per cent:
Gano, 6S per cent: Ben Davis. SO per
cent; Winesap. 90 per cent; Stayman,
80 per cent; Arkansas Black. 72 per
cent: Missouri Pippin, 40 per cent
Clifton district-Jonathan, 46 per
cent; Gano. 80 per cent; Ben Davis, 54
per cent: Winesap. % per cent; Rome
Beauty, "a per cent: Missouri Pippin,
SO per cent. Palisade district-Jona-
than, 81 per cent: Winesap. SO per
cent; Missouri Pippin, 90 per cent; /;
Rome Beauty. 65 per cent. Fruita
district is light in all varieties.
Pears.-This years pears. all varie-
ties. average 65 per cent of full
crop. as against Ga per cent last year
The main varieties of the Grand juno
ton district run for this year: Bart.
lett. 81 per cent: Kieffer. &C per cent
Aniou, So per cent: Winter Nefis. So
per cent; Flemish Beauty. 76 per cent
Clifton district: Bartlett. 5S per cent
Kieffer, GO per cent: Anjou. SIS per
cent: Winter Nelis. 5S per cent: Flem.
ish Betuty. 20 per cent. Palisade dis.
trict: Bartlett, 72 per cent: Kieffer
SIS per cent; Anjou. so per cent; Win.
ter Nelis. 20 per cent
Peaches.-The peach crop averages
for Mesa county this year, 3s per cent
as compared withs2 per cent last year
Practically no peaches are grown in
Mesa county. except in the Paltsade
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are very spotted this year, but for the
Palisade district, the average will be:
Elbertas, SO per cent; Carmen, 6S per
cent. Clifton district: Elbertas, 5
per cent.
Cherries and Apricots.-Both these
fruits are practically failure all over
the valley this year. Five per cent
of full crop would be high. There
was very good crop IL both last year.
Delta County.
Apples.-This year Delta county as
whole has 62 per cent Of full crop
as against So per cent for last year.
The main varieties this year by dis
tricts are: Delta district-Jonathan
rs per cent; Gano. 33 per cent; Rome
Beauty, so per cent; Ben Davis, 25
per cent; Crimes Golden, rs per cent;
Winesap, 40 per cent. Cory Austin
district-Jonathan, Al per cent; Gano,
80 per cent; Ben Davis, 43 per cent:
Winesap, so per cent; Rome Beauty,
40 per cent; White Winter Pearmain,
80 per cent; Crimes Golden, SIS per
cent. Payne mesa district-Jonathan
95 per cent; Ben Davis, SO per cent;
Gano, 35 per cent; Rome Beauty, SO
per cent Eckert district-Jonathan
6S per cent: Gano and Ben Davis. As
per cent. Cedaredge district-Jona
than, 95 per cent; Ben Davis, 62 per
cent; Gano. GA per cent; Rome Beauty
63 per cent; Delicious, 70 per cent;
Winesap, SO per cent. Hotchkiss dis
trict-Jonathan. 40 per cent; Rome
Beauty, 40 per cent; Winesap, so per
cent; Jonathan. 40 per cent; Rome
Beacty, 40 per cent; Winesap. so per
cent. Paonia district-Jonathan. "a
per cent: Gano. 70 per cent; Rome
Beauty. II per cent: Winesap, 73 per
cent: Ben Davis. "A per cent; Crimes
Golden. s4 per, cent
Pears.-Delta county has 81 per
cent of a crop this year against 4s per
cent for last year Comparatively few
pears are grown.
Peaches.-As a. whole. Delta county
has 80 per cent of a full crop of
peaches this year: CT per cent was
last years record. Delta district has
per cent or less this year. Cory
Austin district-10 per cent. Cedar
edge district-31 per cent Hotchkiss
district-63 per cent. Paonia district
SIS per cent
Cherries tSweet and Souri, Delta
county shows 35 per cent sweet
cherry crop for 1920. while there was
Ga per cent crop in 1919: sour
cherry crop for 1920 averages II per
cent. against so per cent for 1919. By
districts, the percentages are: Cory
Austin district: Sweet. 90 per cent;
sour. so per cent Payne mesa dis
trict: Sweet. 10 per cent: sour. so
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Berries.-Raspberrie will probably
produce 95 per cent of a crop, against
60 per cent last year. Strawberries
produced 35 per cent of full crop
last year. From present Indications
there will be S5 per cent this year.
An average for the different fruits
for all districts on the Western
Slope, giving each district equal val
ue, regardless of tonnage produced,
would be:
Apples. 60 per cent; pears, 81 per
cent; peaches, 81 per cent; sweet
cherries, SO per cent; sour cherries,
81 per cent; apricots. so per cent;
grapes, 80 per cent; raspberries, 95
per cent; Strawberries. 80 per cent.
H. D. LOCKLIN,
Chief Deputy State Horticulturist
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considering the propriety of disso.
ing said corporation and held at t
city of Denver. in the state of Col
rado. on the 9th day of June, 1920,
which the holders of all the outstan,
ing capital stock were present, tt
stockholders, upon resolution and NJ
on the affirmative vote of all of II
capital stock ordered said corporate
to be dissolved.
We further certify that all debt.
owed by said corporation have been
fully paid
In witness whereof. we have made
and signed this notice and affixed
thereto the seal of said corporation.
this 10th day of June. 1920.
A. L. BALDWIN.
corporate SeaD As President.
C. B. HOTCHKISS.
AS Secretary. $3.50.
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per cent. Cedaredge district: Sweet,
SO per cent; sour. 85 per cent. Hotch-
kiss district: Sweet. .25 per cent;
sour. s5 per cent. Paonia district:
Sweet, 3S per cent; sour, rs per cent
Apricots.-This year there is in the
county Sc per cent of a crop, last
years mark being SIS per cent. The
Cory-Austin district has 70 per cent
of a. full crop this year. Cedaredge:
rs per cent; Paonia, So per cent.
Grapes.-While. there are only a
few grape vines in Delta county, 1t is
Interesting to note that many Of these
we're winter.
Montrose County.
Apples-Montrose county will aver
age Sc per cent of an apple crop this
year, against less than per cent in
1919. Montrose city district will av-
erage by varieties: Jonathon, 95 per
cent; Ben Davis, 95 per cent; Wine
sap. 80 per cent; Black Twig. SO per
cent. Olathe district: Jonathan. so
per cent; Rome Beauty, 10 per cent
to nothing; Delicious. 35 per cent;
ben DdVlS, oU per cent.
Cherries (Sweet and Sour).-Mont-
rose county as whole averages:
Sweet 1920. 80 per cent: 1919. %
per cent; sour, 95 per cent in 1920;
25 per cent in 1919. Montrose dis
trict this year averages so per cent
for sweet and 95 per cent for sour
cherries. Olathe district has a 25
per cent sweet cherry crop.
Apricots.-The entire county of 1920
has 95 per cent of a crop in 1919. none
There are very few apricot trees in
the county.
Berries and Grapes-All berries in
the Olathe district have a heavy CROP
95 per cent. Grapes have about IS
per cent Of crop.
Garfield County.
(eattIement Mesa Only.
This year this district will produce
"A per cent of full crop, judging
from present indications. Last year
there was about 80 per cent of a crop.
Most of the trees are just coming into
bearing. This accounts for some of
the increases. BY varieties. this dis
trict runs: Jonathan, 90 per cent;
Ben Davis and Gano. 6S per cent;
Rome Beauty. az per cent; Black Twig
SIS per cent; Delicious, 3s per cent:
King Davis. % per cent; White Win
ter Pearmain. SIS per cent
Peaches.-There are not many
peach trees In this district and these
are light. having 35 per cent Of a
crop fhic yoay ne AGAINST az NOV cop<
in 1919. Carmens run better than FL
bertas. The former are 65 per cent:
the latter. 5 per cent.
The Delta independent., 1920-06-25
THE GLOBE EXPRESS CO..
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION

We. the undersigned, A. X. Baldwin,
president. and c. r. Hotchkiss. secre-
tary. of The Globe Express company.
corporation organized under the
laws OF the state OF Colorado. do here
by give notice that at meeting duly
called and held for the purpose OF
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LEGAL NOTICES Z
. . . . % % . . . =
Notice of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that at q
special meeting of the stockholders
of The Mechelke Cheese company,
held at the office of said company. N
the City of Delta, Colorado, on the
twenty-nin day of May, 1920, pur-
sIant to due and proper notice, he
following resolution was unanimously
adopted upon vote of all the outstand-
ing capital stock of said corporation
cast in favor thereof:
Whereas, The Mechelke Cheese
company has ceased to carry on
business, and all debts owing by -
said corporation have been fully
paid and discharged, and all prop
erty thereof has been sold and
disposed of.
Be 1t Resolved, That said. The
Mechelke Cheese company be dis
solved forthwith and that the
president and secretary be au-
thorized and instructed to make
and sign proper notice of dissolu-
ton under the seal of said COM
pany, one copy of which shall be
filed in the office OF the secretary
filed in the office of the
secretary of state of the state
of Colorado. and one copy
with the county clerk of the
that copy of such notice be pub
lished in The Delta Independent,
newspaper published in said
County of Delta, for a period of
six weeks: that upon the compile
ton thereof. said corporation be
deemed to have been dissolved
forever:
and that pursuant to said resolution
said corporation has been and hereby
is dissolved.
Given under our hands and the seal
of said corporation as officers thereof
this twenty-ninth day of May, A. d.
1920.
tSeaD
F. R. wISONER.
President
CHAS. L. KELLER,
Secretary.
State of Colorado. County of Delta. ss.
Before me. the undersigned. no.
tary public within and for said county
anu State' tuiS uaS pei Soh""s "P
peared F. B. Wisoner and Charles L..
Keller. who are personally known 10
me to be the president and secretary.
respectively. of The Mechelke Cheese
company. and who executed the above
notice of dissolution, and acknowl-
edged that they signed the same as
their free and voluntary act and deed,
Witness my hand and notarial seal
this goth day of May, A. D. 1920.
My commission expires August H.
1928.
(SeaO MORTIMER STONE,
Notary Public.
First pub, June 4, last pub July Q, 1890
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Claimed that more farm hands
could be secured. if each one could
have an attendant to hold a sun um-
brella over him.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27
The Right to Beat Up

There are the largest reasons why
the people of this city should sup
port, heart and soul, the courageous
move of the merchants of the city to
ED the tie-up of freight at this port.
No metaphor is too extravagant to
express what this group of radical
unions is doing to the city. These
industrial autocrats are choking the
commerce of the city to death. They
have already done incalculable in
jury to the business Of the city, and
by the destruction of perishabIe food
and the. detention Of supplies of
every description have added materi-
ally to the cost of living of every
man, woman and child whose home
is here. To let such a condition con-
tinue longer, to submit to the princi-
pie of such dictation, would be to
court disaster on huge scale.
The right to strike is not remotely
involved in the dispute. 1t is the
right to beat up for which these
unions contend and by which they
have thus far maintained their
stand. The people Of New York
have no grave quarrel with unions
that merely quit work to obtain
higher wages or shorter hours. All
such striking is in most cases short
sighted and uneconomic and is part
of the vicious circle that is reducing
production and increasing the cost of
living and gradually wiping out that
growth in wealth per human being
which has alone made our modern
civilization possible.
But the stand of this transporta-
tlon labor trust is more than eco
nomically unsound. 1t is illegal and
criminal. Actually it is throttling
the commerce of this city by plain
force. {. By beating up non-union
drivers and by threats of violence
its agents have made the breaking
of the strike without Nolice assist
ance impossible. With diligent police
protection the strike would not have
lasted week. 1t viii end as soon as
the right to beat up is ended.
Every law-abiding citizen should
lend his support to this fight on be-
half of all. The union laborer, the
shopkeeper, the clerk are equally
concerned in ending this brutal hold
up that is a raid upon the pocket
book of every inhabitant of the
neighborhood and that threatens the
entire future welfare Of the city.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27

listened to Mr.. Wilson's address of
April 2. 1t recognized that it
wasn't legally or morally bound to
accept his revised theories as to the
causes Of the war or the conditions
of peace. 1t pointedly ignored them
in the declaration of war which it
passed, simply stating the basic fact
that state of war already existed
through German acts of aggression.
Germany challenged our rights and
interests. Congress gave notice that
we were going to defend them.
In the address of April 2 the
President himself admitted the spe-
citic and limited basis for the dec
laration of war maale against Ger
many. If we were fighting for de-
mocracy, popular rule, the rights
and liberties Of small nations and a
concert of free peoples, there was no
excuse in April, 1917, for not de-
claring war also on Germany's allies.
The President, in fact, acknowledged
this. He told Congress-:
Il have said nothing Of the gov
ernments allied with the imperial
government Of Germany, because
they have not made war upon us or
challenged us to defend our right
and our honor. We enter
this war only when we are clearly
forced into it, because there are no
other means Of defending our rights"
Later, when war was declared
against Austria Hungary, Congress
based it's action specifically and ex-
clusively On the fact that the Austro-
Hungarian government had "com-
nitted repeated acts of war against
the government and people of the
United States"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27
Saving the Mutilated

When the Rules Committee of
the House reports, as it has an
nounced it will do in few days, the
Fess-Kenyon bill for the vocational
rehabilitation of industrial Grip
pies, it is to be hoped the long
delay over the passage Of this high
ly desirable measure will be over.
Valuable workers go annually to
the scrap heap. The war opened the
peoples eyes to the wisdom and
humanity of teaching the disabled
soldier to do something within his
power. This work has been scan
dalously mismanaged, but public
opinion is sure to force more ener-
getic and intelligent action.
Surely nothing better can be done
than to adopt a similar plan for the
benefit> Of our industrial cripples.
There are 100000 such in the United
States, and they are increased at the
rate Of 1850 year. Eleven states,
including the principal industrial
ones, have passed laws on the sub
Ject, and the work will become ma
tionWide if the Federal aid which is
proposed is given. 1t is as shameful
to neglect the multitude of soldiers
of our industrial army as our mill
tary ones. An artificial leg is arti-
ticial, whether it wore overalls or
puttees. Every consideration of de-
cency as we'll as of national economy
requires that the manned shall still
have a chance in the world
But short time to get action re-
mains and Congressional inertia is
an old enemy. Help to overcome it
in this instance and get the Fess-
Kenyon bill passed.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27
Why We Went to War

In Its eagerness to prove that the
Senate committed itself irrevocably
to an approval of President Wilson'S
war aims and to his peace con-
ference policies when, on his advice,
it voted with the House to declare
war on Germany The World offers
highly strained Interpretation of
the facts of record.
On what grounds did Congress
declare war? The text of the Joint
resolution, approved April 6, 1917,
speaks for itself. 1t reads:
"Whereas, The imperial German
government has committed repeated
acts of war against the government
and the people of the United States
OF America; therefore, be it
"Resolved by the Senate and House
or Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the state of war be-
tween the United States and the i'm
perial German government which
has thus been thrust upon the United
States is hereby formally declared;
and that the President be, and he is
hereby, authorized and directed to
employ the entire naval and military
forces of the United States and the
resources of the government to
carry on war against the imperial
German government; and to bring
the conflict to a successful termina-
ton all of the resources of the coun-
try are hereby pledged by the Con-
gress of the United States"
The World quotes the resolution.
But it holds that the record doesn't
end there-that the resolution was
both legally and morally an indorse-
ment" of the words of the Presi-
dents address to Congress on April
2, 1917. In that address the Presi-
dent said, among other things:
eve shall fight for the things
which we have always carried near
est our hearts-for democracy, for
the right of those who submit to
authority to have a voice in their
own governments, for the rights and
liberties OF small nations, for a uni
versal dominion Of right by such a
concert of free peoples as shall bring
peace and safety to all nations and
make the world itself at last free"
These causes and justifcations of
war against Germany had existed
long before April, 1917. But as late
as January IS of that year the Presi-
dent had ignored their existence
even to the extent of telling Con-
gress that the war ought to end in ga
peace without victory" Congress
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27
Unknown Spanish Writers

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: One of the greatest drawbacks
fol full and genuine understanding
between the United States and the
Spanish speaking countries is the read
mess with which our second rate lit
erary men are accepted here as the
only and true exponents of our cul
ture, and when they get into contact
with the American people their COM
missions and omissions are charged to
the debit of our race.
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote" at a
time when by sheer merit alone could
the fame of book transcend the bor-
ders Of the country where the author
was born, and such was the state Of
affairs when Englishmen decided. be-
tore his own countrymen did, that it
was an immortal work worth trans
lating into the language Of Shake
speare. But to-day all that is neces-
sary for any second rate Spanish writ
er to dispose of his books abroad is an
active press agent, and that it has
worked wonders is shown by the fact
that, while many, if not all, Of the ex-
cellent works Of authors like Benito
Perez Galdos, Jacinto Benavente, Emilia
Pardo Bazan, etc, remain untranslated
and unknown outside of Spain, those
OF the second raters are sold by thou
sands in the United States.
That such should be the case, and
that it has called for sad commentaries
IN the newspapers and magazines of
Spain, has been known here among
those who would like to see it other
wise if only for the sake Of the true
knowledge Of cultural conditions in the
two countries.
Spaniards claim that this is a seri-
Gus matter, inasmvcl as it fails to give
proper idea abroad of their best
thinkers in the realm of literature.
while giving prominence to literary
production which would not pass mus
ter as the most eclectic selections
among their native connoisseurs. They
cannot understand how the mediocre
wielders of the pen can get the most
attentive hearing beyond their national
domain, unless it be that din and guam
tlty debar nodesty and quality in the
judgment Of foreigners.
DIR. JOSE G. PEREZ.
New York, May 25, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-27

Mr.. Cutting Sees Hope Of National
Party Under Him
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Lodges statement call
ing upon the Republican party TO break
into the solid South expresses a hone
the realization of which would be of
lncalculablc Importance to the Republi-
can party and the whole country. We
have had only one national party in
this country since 1852 The COM
promise of 1850 carried through by the
last Wing administration was suicidal,
end the party went into the campaign
of '52 in articulo m,oytis. The crush
ing defeat of Scott by Pierce buried it,
The Republican party has been sec
tional since its inception. It's dreams
of reconciling the South have never ap-
preached realization.
1t has a better possibility of achiev-
ing this desirable end in 1920, with
Herbert Hoover as its candidate, than
on any occasion since its birth. No
other nominee enjoys the confidence Of
Southern voters as he does. Before he
announced himself as a Republican
many leading papers throughout the
South were calling for his nomination
as the Democratic standard bearer. In
all the greatest cities of the various
Southern states leading papers were
sounding his praises. His virtues have
been widely published to the Southern
electorate. His independence of mar
row partisanship in the Republican
party, his keen interest in the prob
lens Of agriculture and his freedom
from all binding obligations, social,
political or commercial, commend him
peculiarly to voters long alienatcd
from the Republican organization.
There are still hundreds of Hoover
clubs in the South. The women of the
South will poll heavily for Mr..
Hoover.
This is not case of the Republican
party invading that section. 1t is an
opportunity to separate domestic from
national problems. The solid South
has been held together largely on do
mestic questions, and it is imperative
in the national interest that party ma
tlonal problems should be separated
from the domestic in all parts of the
country. The policies and issues ad-
vocated by Mr.. Hoover have appealed
strongly to the whole Of the South.
and in him may be found a bridge bv
which the Republican party may be
created national as distinguished from
sectional party.
When the successors of Clay, of Ken
lucky, and Toombs, Of Georgia. are
campaigning on the same platform with
the contemporary Websters of Massa-
chusetts and Stewards of New York we
shall heal a long open wound of our
political life
R. FULTON CUTTING.
New York May 26, 1920.