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Show Millard County Chronicle Thursday, June 12, 195S GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over . . . By Dick Morrison The New And Th Old At hand are two booklets, ouch published for the purpose of promoting pro-moting Delta and Millard Cmnty and inducing people to come nere for the purpose of making a living, establishing industries, and engaging engag-ing enterprises of the ginds which would build up the population and wealth of the community. The points of similarity between the two booklets are striking, and so are the differences. One is of current cur-rent issue, just now being distributed distrib-uted by the Millard County Industrial In-dustrial Developemnt Association, address Delta, while the other is about a quarter century old. A certain contrast between the two booklets makes one thing clear: that the Delta area has made a great deal of progress in twenty five years, in all ways but one. The new brochure, "Industrial Opportunities in Millard County, Utah", a copy of which was handed to me by Glen Swallberg, secretary-treasurer of the Association, Is of attractive format interesting, and full of factual information. It contains brief sketches dealing with twenty-two topics having to do with the possibilities for industrial in-dustrial revelopement and living conditions of the county. It was prepared for general circulation, chieflyv but of interest also to people already here. Copies can be had from Glen Swallberg, as well as the other officers of the Industrial Indust-rial Developement Association who are, Wallace Jeffery, general chairman, chair-man, and four directors: Dr. Melvin Lyman, Bill Bishop, Thorpe Wad-dingham, Wad-dingham, and Gene Walker. It is, of course, a good thing to know all about the place we live in, and such books as this, along with such as Milestones of Millard, and Mr. Beckwith's Millard And Nearby provide the means of learning. The Millard County pictured in the new brochure is an attractive one indeed, the' towns of Delta and Fillmore appearing up to date and well kept with their wide, paved streets and modern buildings, build-ings, and the farming and industrial indust-rial spots shown to good advantage. advan-tage. The factual data runs all the way from a summary and ,a historical sketch of the country to some appended tables on labor force and employment, climatolog-ical climatolog-ical data and climate charts and graphs. All are well presented accurate, ac-curate, concise, and to the point. .Now, to turn the clock back thirty-five years, more or less, we can look with mingled amusement and nostalgia to the booklet, West Millard County Utah which was prepared about 1923 or 1924 by the Commercial club of Delta, Scott "i W"-4 " Y " Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Yrs. Old 86 Proof Ancient Age Oist. Co., Frankfort, Ky. Taggart secretary. The purpose was exactly the same as that Of the new brochure, with the exception ex-ception that the earlier purpose was pitched more with the idea of inducing farmers than Industrialists Indust-rialists to move in. Following are abbreviated bits taken from the old 'book. The then editor of the Chronicle, Frank Beckwith, started things off with, "It is thus seen that Delta is a town of about 15 years growth beginiing from a mere abandoned box car stuck by the side of the railroad track to a town, in 1923, of about 1539 people and sixty-one different business houses, supporting support-ing a large beet sugar 'factory, and two seed cleaning plants". Except for a picture of an alfalfa field, the first picture is of en $83,000.00 county road surfacer. This has to be seen to be believed. It is very large and clearly intended in-tended to be slow moving, with a powerplant which appears to be of three large cylinders. It has one iron-spoked wheel in front, and two crawler track assemblies at the rear. It is shown pulling a wagon, possibly a gravel dump wagon. However good this piece of road surfacing equipment, the results are not apparent on the subsequent pictures. The streets of Delta, Lynndly, Hinckley and other places were often photographed when wet, and were veritable mires of of mud. Few automobiles appear, and those which do are mostly Model T Fords, Chevrolets and Dodges, all four cylinder models, of course. Drainage trench-digging machines are proudly shown, the work of in-stalline in-stalline the tile drainage system on some tens of thousands of acres, at a cost of millions of dollars of borrowed money, being then under way. That the cost of paying off the bond issues was later to practically pract-ically bankrupt the whole community com-munity was not forseen at that time. The irrigation water system is shown in illustrations which look very much like some of recent date. Water going over the spillway of the big dam the flumes, diversion dam, etc., still remaining essentially essent-ially unchanged. . Among the "advantages of West Millard County is the availability of an adequate supply of electricity" elect-ricity" states the old book,' on a page sponsored jointly by the Tel-luride Tel-luride Power Co. and the Deseret Power Co., a subsidary of the Deseret Des-eret Irrigation Co., and the Melville Irrigation Company. The former constructed a steam plant of 125 hosepower in 1918, but this soon proved inadequate, so it joined forces with the latter, and the two constructed a high tension line to make connection with the Tel- luride Power Company, which had approximately five thousand h.p. developed at its two giant plants on the Beaver River. The business of the Deseret Power Co. grew phenomenally from 290 customers in 1921 to 412 at the time the book went to press, partly as a result of his connection with Teiluride assuring "an unlimited power sup ply". The big industry was, of course Utah's Largest Sugar Factory. A picture of this is shown, looking across the many long railroad trestles upon which trainloads of beets were placed every day In the season to be dumped into streams of running water below and washed and moved Into the factry. This is the point of retrogression retrog-ression referred to in our opening paragraph the one way in which Delta has failed to progress through the intervening years. With this industry here then, the big push was to Induce more farmers to come In; today it is to induce industry in-dustry to come. The boosters lent their names to the effort, and a good number of prominent people sponsored the book. Many of these are still with us, and many more are affectionately affection-ately rememberd; some have died, and some have moved away. To give brief evecrpts from some of their own words: A. A. Hinckley stated "I think I know Utah pretty well. I do not know of a better opportunity elsewhere else-where in Utah, than in Millard County". J. M. Moody is shown with one of his 'fine teams. The home of Marcus Skeem is shown,, with the remark that it was paid for with the proceeds of two years of crops and in addition a family of eight was properly provided for, W. H, Bassett offered the advice that anyone comling to West Millard Mil-lard to take unimproved land should have sufficient money to defray expenses for the first two years; they must have a desire to work and they should not take more than forty acres for the purpose pur-pose of Improvement unless they plan on hiring help or have some good strong boys.... W. J. Oppenhiemer stated that there was no healthier place on earth for raising stock, than West Millard". Jerome Tracy is shown standing beside the first house built north of the railroad, "on what Is known as the north tract". His wife, our beloved Dr. Truey, stated, "the reasons rea-sons for the wonderful health enjoyed en-joyed by the residents of this community are that the air is perfect per-fect and open sleeping quarters are used by practicaily everyone". W. C. Cole is . presented as "a graduate of the University of Utah here to do surveying on Drainage District No. 2 left after three months and then returned in 1920 in which year he bought forty acres followed toy eighty more in 1921. "If you wish to know anything any-thing about the soil of West Millard Mil-lard and what can be grown here, Mr. Cole can give you the information," infor-mation," states the book. Eugene Gray came here in 1910, with one horse, and started man aging his farm for several members of the family and himself. By 1922 he had sixty acres In alfalfa, 3 horses, 36steers, 3 calves and 28 hogs. Rex and Lamond Bunker had been on their farms but three years, but, "by hard work and a determination to succeed they have made. good. Their future is more than promising." In 1922, F. M. Needham let 25 acres of alfalfa go to seed. He threshed out 232 bushels, almost ten bushels to the acre. J. W. Underhill made the statement, state-ment, "A man can come here with $2000, buy a forty acre place and in three years be independent if he is a worker." R. S. Bishop boasted that his first cutting of hay, 65 tons, was already stacked, he had sold his alfalfa seed for $3000 and his hay for $400. He had Just purchased another an-other fifty acres of land and had a clear title to it. Fred Hauman is shown about to get into his Chevrolet 490 coupe, with Mrs. Hauman, to drive to LTOXDYL MRS. MARY JOHNSON Roy Nielson drove to Salt Lake City Wednesday taking Kathlyn and granddaughter Liz up w th him Liz has been here the past two weeks visiting. Sunday, Mrs. Em-ogene Em-ogene Everton who has been living in Vernal came home for a stay with the Roy Nielsons while her husband Joe Is serving two weeks time at Camp Williams. Miss Mary Everton came down with her as a guest of Kathlyn. Mrs. Myrtle Mills and daughter Melody drove to Salt Lake Friday for a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Dutson and family and Miss Linda Mills. Mrs. Ruth Nielson and Wardell drove to Provo Friday, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Larsen and they brought Susan home from'the BYU. '.FACTORY ft. L-3w y U U U W mm 17 Come in now while they last before they're gone. Get a lawnboy power mower at a new low price. It has all the famous LAWN-boy features: one pull starting, plus exclusive 'Activated Pilot Wheel to insure level-cutting even over dips and hollows. Aluminum-light Aluminum-strong. Available in green and autumn rust, r i i i -j DELUXE MODEL 21' NOW ONLY 7 I $94.95 Self-propelted Automower Model 21" Now Only J 129.95 PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN THE WESTERN ZONE iPiWiliililf QUA! IYY IME2KE1 Hardware Dept. Delta. He theh had 65 acres of alfalfa. Marion Pace had purchased 40 acres of land here in 1912, but had leased It out, and had moved to Delta only "three years ago." Among other exploits, he produced 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre In 1922, using no fertilizer. Dick Clark announced that he would pay the balance he owed on his place, $1700, the coming February. He had contracted to sell his alfalfa seed then for 17 cents per pound.' M. H. Workman "was engaged In the sheep business from 1911 to 1915, at which time he purchased 160 acres with his brother, and until 1919 they worked this land jointly. All these and a great many others, are shown in this old booster's boost-er's book. Each of those mentioned, who sponsored a page, asked that interested people write them directly. di-rectly. All gave glowing accounts of the future possibilities of the Delta district. There is only one sour note In all this. Shortly after this booster's book was issued, Delta lost the biggest industry it ever had, the sugar factory. It looks like the big job of the Millard County Industrial In-dustrial Development Association is to get it back , or something in its place of comparable value. Why Pay More? A. O. SMITH 180 Amp. ARC WELDER -Complete Wlth- SHIELD CABLES GROUND CLAMP ELECTRODES ELECTRODE HOLDER PLUS 6-12 Volt Battery Charger $230.00 "Everything for the Welder" RALPH'S DISTRIBUTING CO. Fone 1461 Fillmore, Utah Susan is planning a trip to Europe with an excursion from the BYU und will be leaving not too far distant. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wilkins spent the day Friday at Manti, Saturday Sat-urday they drove to Salt Lake for the day and brought Enla and Linda home, who have been in Salt Lake visiting relatives through the week. Mr. and Mrs. Brant Wall and family of Salt Lake came down Friday evening. Saturday the Mc-Cardell Mc-Cardell menfolks with Brant and his two sons went fishing. The Walls returned home Sunday evening. ev-ening. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Benson visited vis-ited here Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. William Overson and Mr. and Mrs. Lile Johnson. The Bensons were returning to Los Angeles after. They came to Utah to attend the Graduation of their son Richard at BYU. They also visited their son Maurice Benson, wife and little son in Salt Lake City. John, another son who has been at the Y returned to Los Angeles with them. Ivie J. Gary and Leon Nielson are home from school, also Blaine and Joe Nielson. Miss Karen Nielson Niel-son has returned from her vacation vaca-tion to the Canadian Rockies with the Golden Ivies. Miss Nona Sherriff came rown down from Springville Sunday to stay through the week. Miss Leslie Welton of Delta is here" with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Talbot while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Welton and Gandpa John are fishing. Mrs. Lucille Johnson and son George are home after spending ten days with Mr. and Mrs. John Neuwinski in San Diego California. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Haves. T.indn. DuWayne and Roberta were weekend week-end visitors at the Dean Eatough nome last weekend. The Bee Hive Girls and their leaders, Mrs. Mina Overson, Miss Shirley Sheriff and Mrs. Ruth Bowers Bow-ers and Mrs. Mary Johnson en- MRS. DORA ROSE Word was received here by the Jones family that Bryant Jones has been made second councilor in the Bishopric at Santiquin First Ward. Congratulations to Bryant and to his family. Miss Betty Bennett visited with her 'folks Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bennett. Ben-nett. Mrs. Earlene Dastrup and children child-ren were visitors of the Doyle Steeles last week. Mrs. Dastrup brought her new baby to see her relatives. Mrs. Marie Jensen's sister has been with her for over a week. She returned home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Rose and their son Lynn tfrom Ogden visited with their brother and family the Heber Roses. Kenneth reports that theres plenty plen-ty of fish in Panguitch Lake but to please leave them there because be-cause he may decide to catch joyed an early morning breakfast at the sand hills west and south of Oak City with others of the Stake Tuesday morning. It was a very lovely morning and the wide open spaces were very inviting. We enjoyed the music of Mr. Thur-man Thur-man Moody and Mr. Losee following fol-lowing the breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bradfield, Don and Lawrene are vacationing in Nevada at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bowers and Margaret, drove to Wendover and visited their son Louis and then on to Wells and Elko where they visited with friends. They were gone Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Gertrude LaRue took care of the telephone while they were away. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nielson, Kathlyn Kath-lyn and Mrs. Eleanor Nielson attended at-tended a wedding reception in Springville Saturday evening for the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Watts. them his next trip over. There Isn't anything that anyone could do that Couldn't be misjudged misjudg-ed by one who wanted to misjudge. There is no word spoken, that could not be interpreted differently than It was intended. There is no one but what could be, in some respects presented in a bad light by a prejudiced person. Whether it be with our 'friends or family, fam-ily, among our own intimate associates as-sociates or absolute strangers, one of the greatest qualities of character char-acter is to be just and generous in judgment, because there was never a mortal man who couldn't be misjudged by one whose mind was set. SHOPPERS WISE ECONOMIZE THEY SHOP WITH THOSE WHO ADVERTISE BATTERIES for CARS, TRUCKS and TRACTORS Full LAHER Line including Mustang, Exeter. Nonstop Priced from $10.75 Guaranteed from 2 to 4 years ALL ADJUSTMENTS MADE BY US DELTA AUTO SUPPLY Delta, Utah 1 GET YOUR ORDER IN HOW FOR JUNE DELIVERY All items listed below, 10 discount during June, luly & August. 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