Show T R R. R. R STATION BUSINESS Some Idea of the growth and development development development de de- of at the Valle Valley is shown by the carload shipments to and from tram the Delta station Shipments Shipments Shipments Ship Ship- ments from other stations are not available However the out shipments shipments shipments ship ship- ments mostly go from tram Oasis where the country is much older an and producing producing producing pro pro- more for tor shipment than Is the case around Delta there being more producers In that portion than consumers l proportionally the country country country coun coun- try being older Then there is of course many carloads of stuff which is shipped out in smaller quantities as well as shipped in Carload lots during 1917 to date arriving at the the Delta station are as follows Autos 10 Asphalt 1 Brick 81 Boilers 7 Cement 7 Coal 10 1 Coke 22 Castings 1 Emigrant 15 15 Flour 3 Fittings 1 Fruit t Jars 1 G Gravel ravel 80 Glass 2 Implements 1 10 Lumber Machinery l 55 65 Oil and Gasoline 16 Plaster 7 Pipe 2 22 Sulphur 1 Steel Steel 28 Sugar 3 J Tools 1 l' l Wagons j Dynamite 3 Livestock 42 2 Beets SHIPPED OUT Grain Ill H Hay a livestock 75 1 7 r t j f v 1 t- t t 1 a aField Field of Beets raised by George Meinhardt l in a no former year The tops are small as the picture was taken early In the season The beets made 22 tons per acre orations this year This Is the first year Mr Moody has really tried farmIng farming farm- farm Ing ng for some time and the proposition appeals to him very strongly Prior to this year he has let the boys look after the farm He watered his beets twice and the ground on which they were raised was not In the best of shape He harvested 16 tons per acre and he thinks they would have lave gone 20 tons if It he had not flooded flooded flood flood- ed them so much and got them in Inthe in inthe inthe the spring at the proper time His wheat went 45 46 bushels to the acre Samuel Western Vestern of ot Deseret where alfalfa seed growing is practiced prat tired raised bushels of seed from 20 acres this year and received 10 per bushel for It or for his crop O. O E E. E Smith who wh did the threshing thresh thresh- Ing n around Deseret this year says that he le threshed bushels of seed in that locality which will bring In the raisers Mrs Conk sold the seed from a three-acre three field of White Clover on her ber farm tarm three miles southwest of Deseret for tor and George Croft sold his hia alfalfa seed from 40 acres for Can anyone say we have nothing to tobe tobe tobe be thankful for Win Wm J. J Webb southwest of Delta tells us that this year ho harvested tons of alfalfa from tram his acre 23 field and that besides securing from tram 14 to 20 tons of beets per acre he gleaned some experience in their pro pro- One of the prospering farmers of the valley who has done exceedingly well Is O. O L. L Crawford whose farm lies along the Seyler Sevier river between Delta and Deseret Mr Mx Crawford came to the valley five years ago from Nebraska and paid per acre for an Improved alfalfa farm In three years he had his back his living and a nice II bank account The farm had made him in the three years Beets are this year paid for at 7 7 per por ton Contracts are being entered into it Is said to pay per ton for 1918 1915 beets and as our company has agreed to pay as big a price for beets as any factory in the state this price will prevail here hore also alia |