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Show now also covered with irrigating i canals, being of a sandy soil, is excellently adapted for all classes of fruit and vegetables. Oak City, I about 12 miles from Delta, produces pro-duces as fine flavored Alberta peaches as can be found in Utah, while the apple crop from Leamington Leam-ington is unsurpassed in quantity quanti-ty and quality. Canteloupes and melons are also unsurpassed u. quantities, richness and rlav. Coupling with this the fact that Delta is only about 24 hours ride from Los Angeles and that the San Pedro, ' Salt Lake and Los Angeles road, passes right through the heart of the country, this furnishing it one of the best markets in the west, and it will take no prophet to foretell the future of this country. It is reported by ie old settlers set-tlers of the country "that President Presi-dent Young - prophesied on different dif-ferent occasions that this country would yet be the grainary of Utah, a prophecy also attributed to-President Erastus Snow, and present indications verily indicate a literal fulfillment of this prediction. pre-diction. With the present growth and development, ten years hence will witness a marvelous change in this once God-forsaken country. "Verily, the wilderness wilder-ness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. And the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty thirs-ty land springs of water; in their habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with seeds and rushes." Never has there been a prophecy proph-ecy more literally fulfilled than in this instance, for even now, in fulfillment of' this last part, they are opening up fountains of living water. L. F. Moench, in Ogden Daily Standard, Jan. 4th. Sutherland Searchlights Mrs. Geo. Boardman is suffering suffer-ing from a severe cold. A number of people are putting putt-ing up ice for summer use. Bryan Smith has been suffering suffer-ing for a week with a very severe case of Lagrippe. Leslie Abbott of Bunkerville, is here visiting his uncle, M. A. Abbott and family. Bert Johnson is buying hogs on the east side of the county for Mr. Hunter of Holden. - Edward Ottley returned home last, week from a visit of several weeks to Salt Lake and other northern points. Mildred Locke entertained at a party, Saturday evening. A very pleasant evening was spent by those present. i Messers. Abbott nd Walker accompanied the Delta committee to Abraham, Saturday, to attend the railroad meeting concerning the new road. We understand that Abraham responded by proposing pro-posing to do their share of the work rather than have the line moved. Another meeting is appointed ap-pointed at Hinckley, Jan. 13th. What is heard this week at Walker's store. "I'll tell you boys he can't' be beat, with Roper hands and Rofer feet. And just to think eight pounds or more, came a traveling to our door. His hair so long, about half-an-inch, is red and curly, that's a cinch. Poor Wins hopes did take a fall, when Doctor said "not so at all, but caused by use of olive oil that you have listed on your sole." We think he'll take to drinking ale. Andrew Allred, Joe Neilson and Bert Peterson, all of Castle Valley, Val-ley, are here this week, visiting J. H. Peterson and family and looking over the country with a probability of purchasing farms i and locating. ' WRITES ABOUT THE PAHVANT Editor Standard: I desire to call your attention to the Delta Country, located in the Southern part of Utah, and more property known as the Pahvant ValleyA Millard county, where I . lately visited. This valley without doubt, is the largest valley in Utah, being-one being-one hundred and fifty miles long and from about fifty to sixty wide. It has the Sevier river running through it which drains a watershed estimated to cover the immense area of 5500 square miles. There are several reservoirs reser-voirs in it, but strange to say the water that runs into the last does not appear to be diminished by the quantity which runs into the ones preceeding it,' This reservoir, reser-voir, it is claimed, contains as much water as all the rest of the reservoirs of Utah put together. The quantity of land brought under un-der cultivation, and which it is ultimately expected to cover is about 132,000 acres and with the prospect the country has before it now and the impetus it has received re-ceived the last year, it promises to become one of the most populace popu-lace and fertile valleys in Utah. It appears to be thi home of the alfalfa, alfalfa seed and the sugar beet. From the very best authority and personal knowledge, know-ledge, it is a common thing- to raise from five to seven tons of alfalfa hay to the acre, while during dur-ing this fall there have been sixty six-ty carloads of alfalfa seed shipped ship-ped from greater Delta; this, at $4000 a car, yielded the immense sum of $240,000 to the farmers this year, to say nothing of the private sales which have been made, and which would easily run up the total to somewhere near a quarter of a million of dollars. It is claimed that Utah raises one-fourth of the alfalfa seedof the UnitedStates.and that greater Delta raises' one-fourth of that. . Now, when it is remembered re-membered that alfalfa seed is the easiest of all crops raised, and with the least expense, and that the farmer cuts his first crop for hay, and lets the second crop stand for alfalfa seed from which, in addition to the seed, he also obtains the chaf, which is excellent ex-cellent for cattle and sheep, . this crop becomes doubly valuable. It is a common thing in a good year, such as the last was, for a farmer to realize, clear of all expenses, $100 an acre. It had been predicted by old farmers that it was also the home of the sugar beet. But no real test was made until last year, when the Lehi Sugar company offered to pay the farmers the same price for sugar beets, aboard the cars, at Delta, namely, name-ly, $4.75 a ton, that they were paying at the Lehi factory. As a result several farmers, as a mere test, put in a few acres in sugar beets. The result this fall was astonishing. Comparatively new land which haS not been.un-der been.un-der cultivation for more than a year or two, yielded the remarkable remark-able quantity of from fifteen to twenty-five tons of beets to the acre, while the saccharine matter exceeded those of old localities, running as high as from 15 to 18 per cent, being from 2 to 3 per cent higher than in old sugar beet localities. The results are that two or three companies are already figuring on erecting a sugar plant at Delta in the very near future, even a company from California being one of the competitors. As the climate is mild, being about 175 miles south of Ogden, and the snow in the winter time light, the country" is excellently adapted to stock raising, poultry and hogs. This the farmers have alread discovered, andlast J id reports VA) car-hipped car-hipped fro;i Delta. :h carter' cover a 3m $1200 to $1500, e from this source 3.600 to $150,000. 'alfalfa seed and promises to be-e be-e most profitable Delta, while live-iltry live-iltry are just be-:ive be-:ive a start. :ountry, especially the north and northwest tract, is yielding excellent results in small grains. It is common in that locality for farmers to report a yield of from 35 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, with a corresponding corres-ponding rate of oats, rye and barley; and had it not been for the rust striking the spring wheat, there would have been a ; yield of anywhere between 100, I 000 to 200,000 bushels this past i year. As it was, there was perhaps not more than 100, 00'. i altogether. Adding this to the : returns from alfalfa seed, hogs i and sugar beets, the income thi; ; past year must have run close or : to one-half a million of dollars. , The east bench containing about 30,000 acres and which i: |