The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
March Fl, 1888.

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Grass in the North Fork country is
four and half inches high.
The county commissioners will meet
for the first time about the first OF
April.
Delta County needs a good lawyer
or two Court will soon open, but as
yet there is no one to practice before
it,
Governor Grants appointments don't
seem to give entire satisfaction in
Mesa County. But it's Hobson's
choice.
Best Tomichi hay $40 per ton, oats
cents per pound, at the Elkhorn
Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. F. H.
Burkhart, Prop.
A good bricklayer could do well in
Delta. Last week the d. & r. G. tele-
graphed to know if they could have
$50 900 brick burned at this point, and
not one of our citizens could take IT.
William Mathers has opened full
line of general groceries and gentle.
mems furnishing goods, such as over
alls, boots and shoes, hats and caps,
etc, in the building lately occupied by
Robert Breese.
The discovery of rich copper mines
in the Unaweep country promises to
be a bigger thing than at first thought
to be. A crude test in blacksmith's S
forge has proved that the copper
exists in the ore in abundance. This
is a discovery it will pay well to in
vestigate.
With perfect climate, perfect soil
and perfect scenery, the future of the
| reservation cannot be anything but
bright. With an unlimited amount of
agricultural land and market of easy
access for all that can be raised, we
will soon balance the eastern slope
of the Rockies in wealth and influ-
ence.
We take pleasure in announcing
that the Surveyor-General has let the
contract for surveying the reservation,
and that work will begin as soon as
the parties in charge can reach the
ground, which will be the latter part
of this month. But 100000 was al
lowed for the surveys in this part of
the country, and $4,000 of this will
be applied to the counties of Delta
and Mesa.
Morris Pulvermacher, a clothing
merchant, popularity known as Cheap
John" died at Grand Junction last
Saturday afternoon from the effects of
an overdose of morphine taken Friday
morning He had had considerable
financial trouble and many believe the
dose was taken with suicidal intent.
His friends say it was taken to relieve
pains in the head. He was 40 years
of age and leaves wife and two chill
dren in st. Louis. The body was sent
to Denver.
The Hartland ditch. across the Gun
nison river from Delta, has been fin
ished and water will be turned in
soon. 1t is the intention to run the
ditch from its present terminus to the
Roubideau, six miles further down.
AS it now is. it will irrigate about
1000 acres and when extended will
| irrigate over 1000 acres. The ditch is
10 feet wide at the bottom and will
carry over 5000 inches. The farmers
will all put in good crops. some OF il
wheat. II there were assurances of a
DeiuS put up at tuls punt
this year the acreage Of wheat would
be largely increased.
A number OF people of Ouray have
associated themselves together for the
purpose of locating a townsite and
building a town in the Red Mountain
district. to be known as Ironton. The
town is located on the Red Mountain
| creek lust above GRAY Conner falls
below Copper creek. A portion has
been surveyed and plated and any
person can secure lot by building
upon 1t before the first day of April.
| The location is good one, those IA
miliar with the district describing it
as the best location in the district for
good town. About seventy-five per-
sons have announced their determine
ton to build houses and take their
chances in the new town. which bids
fair to rival the other towns of the
district