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Show the tract last summer he confidently looked for a yield of over 300.000 hushn, and that the results were a disappointment to everyone. Hut he believed that with alfalfa, live stock and sugar beets this would be one of thu most prosperous and productive counties in the state. Mr. Moody then axked those who could not pay even their interest to (land up. Klght or nlue responded to this request While no statement was made as to what deposition would be made of these cases, it was understood under-stood that they would be inquired Into separately. The company allowed no disposition to crowd the settlers, and (t would undoubtedly prefer to have them remain on the land and make good, as they can, rather thau quit and lose all. Mr. Moody said that an irrigated country was no place for grain raising. rais-ing. That In an arid country there was always a lack of humus. In the humid regions tbe decay of vegetation for centuries added an abundance of organic matter to the soil. He eaid this section was especially adapted ti. alfalfa and live stock. He had seen no finer alfalfa anywhere than he had seen In Millard county. With live stock the farmer could keep adding to the fertility of hla soil instead of taking tak-ing It away, as waa the case when grain was raised. A motion waa then made that tbe proportion of the company be accepted ac-cepted which waa passed unanimously, and the meeting adjourned. Tbe action of the company In extending ex-tending the payments on principal from one to three years is a good one for both the company and the settlers. set-tlers. It will prevent a great many of the settlers from leaving, which would be disastrous to the company, a It would give the project a black eye, from which It would take years to recover. It has created a more friendly feeling toward tbe company, and since the settler has learned by hard experience tbe road toward proe-yferny proe-yferny he "Will fclart out with renewed faith and courage. It will pinch some of them to raise tbe Interest and get started In stock, but m Mr. Melville explained, the bank, of w hich he la the president, will render all the help It can with safety. The editor has had a bard luck as any other farmer, but be has never been discouraged or printed a word In disparagement of the country. It ha taken the settlers set-tlers and the company two or three years to discover that this is not a grain country. With 40 or 50 bushels of wheat raised from raw land It wa probably natural to believe that this could be equaled or exceeded In succeeding suc-ceeding years. Hut we have found that this is not so and we know the reason. With its unexcelled alfalfa and pure water this sectlon is specially special-ly adapted to dairying and hog raising. rais-ing. While alfalfa seed cannot be depended de-pended on every year, when there Is a good crop, as there was this year, it will In most case pay the entire cost of the land from which it was raised. With live stock on the farm manure can be added to the land, putting It Into condition to raWe the maximum crop of sugar beets, as this soil has all the mineral elements for this crop. It will also raise any other kind of vegetables la abundance. Wbat this land can produce when In condition Is shown by Richard Parker's garden at Hinckley. It was an old alfalfa field and it raised the pant season sixteen Idfferent kinds of vegetables and they were all first class. Hut this cannot be done on raw land, except in rare oases, and probably not for two or three years in succession. It takes a few years to get the land In the right condition for tbe best results. With the principal payment deferred toe settler will have an opportunity to get bis land In condition and can look forward with the certainty that In three or four years he will be able to meet his payments with ease and have a surplus beside. THE GDMPANY AIID ; THE SETTLERS " in ii i hi.iiii 5 Officers of the Delta Company Meet the Settler and Extend the Payments on Their Contracts. . . Messrs. Moody, Snow, Melville and Prout of tbe Delta l-and A Water Co., met the members of the Water Users' Association last Thursday evening to consider the question of an extension of the time for payments on the wat. r contracts of the settlers. Tbo Rock school house waa filled with sei tiers from all over the north project President Watt called the meeting to order and stated the object of the meellng. He said that owing to the failure of tbe crops of many of the settlers they were unable td roee their payments and unlese an extension exten-sion waa granted they would be obliged oblig-ed to leave. Tbe proposition was that the company extend the time foil the payment of the principal on theli; contract for five years, and that the settlers pay only the annual Interest tlnrge during that time. This would enable the farmer to make Improvement Improve-ment and get in alfalfa and be in a j position to make money. He then! called upon those present to give their' experience and tell why they could not meet their payments. . i A number responded and toM of their condition. Not one of them biu believed he could make good , V given time. They all believed tbji the country was all right, but that it was not adapted to grain. lf,they did not have to meet tbe principal on their contracts they would be able to put some alfalfa, fence their places, g some hogs or other stock and th'j be In shape to make money. 0.. speaker thought the reason for, t tnmller yield of grain was 'the sm' amount of humus In the soil, which was soon exhausted and that In th's dry climate the stubble turned under lid not add an appreciable amount of humus under two or three years. He thought the threshers' estimate of 15 bushels to tho acre this eeaaon wis above the average. Not much over '10.000 bushels of grain had so far been shipped and sold to tbe mill. Probably Proba-bly not much over that amount we.s unthreshed or was held unsold by tbe farmers. One hundred and fifty thousand thou-sand bushel from the 12,000 acre under un-der cultivation would give 12Vs bushels bush-els to the acre, and be doubted whether wheth-er It would run much over that. This statement was not disputed. After all had spoken wbo desired, Mr. Snow waa called upon. Mr. Snow said be did not understand that an extension of five years waa to be asked ask-ed for. He said that after discussing the matter with Mr. Moody the company com-pany had come to this decision: Any settler who was unable to meet his next payment when it came due would be given an extension of a year on bis principal, but would be expected to pay hi Interest. If be could cbow that hla condition waa such that be could not meet the payment the second sec-ond year be would be given another year to pay the principal. If be still could not meet It be would be given a third year to pay tbe principal. This applied only to actual settlers working work-ing their own land. They were willing to do all tbey could for the actual set-tier set-tier who waa Improving bis land and doing bia best to make a living from It. He eaid tbe Interest of tbe company com-pany and the settlers was one. The company could prosper only as tbe settler prospered. He advised the farmers to plant fall grain and get tbelr land Into alfalfa as fast as possible pos-sible so a to get stock on the farm. He said that while this arrangement of deferred payments applied only to the contracts held by the Delta company com-pany be would use his best effort to have other holders of contract agree to the arrangement and he had little doubt but that thl could be done. In regard to the failure of water after the 27th of July the reason for thia wa that owing to the work on the dam lat fall they did not begin to fill tbe reservoir till December 20, so t&ere was not enough to laat through tbe season. Hut that there would be no such trouble next year. Also, that the segregation of land bad bees reduced re-duced from 43.000 acres to C2.000 acres, so there would be ample water for all tbelr land hereafter. Mr. Melville aald that in going over |