The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
DELTA poiNGs

lied. Demand nominal.
The ice is all out of the Gunnison
and Uncompahgre rivers.
Travel on the d. & r G. at this
point is increasing.
Major Burkhart received a carload
of seed wheat last Monday.
The days are rather too warm fos
comfort. but the nights are cool and
comfortable.
The city election occurs in April,
and already aspiring candidates are
in the field.
Lumber can now be had in Delta.
NJ. C. Vandeventer received a large
invoice Monday.
1t is time to lay off your flannels
and heavy clothing, and lay in a stock
of summer wear and straw hats.
The town company should take
some steps to erect town hall. Such
an Improvement is badly needed.
The cottonwood buds are bursting
and the willows are showing signs OF
vitality. Surely spring is upon us.
Our citizens should take the matter
in hand OF improving the site Of the
iron springs. Some day they will be
valuable to US.
Wild ducks are plentiful in the Gun
nison river. Very few of them have
! been brought in. as the nimrods are
too busy to hunt them.
We are under obligations to Mr..
Hodgdon, the gentlemanly lightning
jerker of the d. & G. r., for a couple
OF bottles Of German champagne.
There is a very strong salt spring
about four miles up the Gunnison, the
waters OF which, II is believed, would
pay to evaporate.
Mayor vandeventer is having the
school and courthouse squares plowed,
preparatory to having them sowed to
grass.
Mr.. Burkhart last week sold two
thousand bushels of seed wheat to
one ranchman.
From one grain of wheat sown on a
ranch five miles up the Uncompahgre
last spring there was grown 157 stalks.
The stalks were eaten Off by mules
before maturing. Henry Hammond
vouches for this. and he counted them.
There was driven through the city
last week two thousand fat sheep.
They are to be slaughtered at this
point and shipped to Grand Junction
and Montrose. From the preparations
for farming now going on around us,
we will supply these points with gar
den sass also.
Levi Shield has opened a meat mar,
ket on Main street.
One OF the crying needs of this
county is a mail route from Delta to
the Surface Creek and North Fork
countries. There are three large set
Elements in these sections. with two
established postofiices, but they have
to depend on private enterprise to get
their mail from this point. There is
certainly business enough done to en-
title them to mail facilities. The at
tention of our congressional delega-
tion is called to this fact.
There is not better point in all
Colorado for the erection Of good
Touring mill than at Delta. The point
is central. with large scope Of coun-
try tributary to It, the ID. & r. G. run
ming through the Uncompahgre val
ley now, and soon to be built up the
Gunnison, with water power beyond
compare. and the ranchmen ready and
anxious to raise wheat, no better point
can be found. Some enterprising
miller has bonanza awaiting him.
Delta's white sulphur water Is get
ting to be in demand. Mr.. Burkhart
has had several orders for 1t from per-
sons passing through on the train. He
contemplates taking n fresh supply to
every train. We are satisfied that
when the merits OF the water become
better known there will be demand
for It.