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Show TOWNSITE OF DELTA The Plan of an Up-to-Date Town and How it is Laid Out. Salt I-ake. No other town In the state has such an area of splendid farming land immediately surrounding It, and Its founders laid it out with a knowledge of thla fact. Is It not the wide streets that constitute the principal prin-cipal charm of Salt Lake City? Ioes any one doubt that In time Delta will have street cars running on Its principal prin-cipal streets? That they will be lined with trees, covered with gravel from the nearby bluffs, sprinkled with water from a city water system drawing draw-ing Us supply from that pure and In-exhaustable In-exhaustable subterranean lake that underlies this whole valley? lielng a town of home owners, made up of progressive people from every part of the country will they not be Interested Inter-ested in beautifying their homes, and also see that we have a progressive city government, that the streets, alleys, al-leys, ditches and public parks are kept In an attractive condition? The town looks raw and unkept now. You can't locate Its streets or parks or vacant lots today. For two years and over the people had a hard struggle lor existence. It Is only since the last harvest that they have -begun to get on their feet. Hut now things are coming their way. Hy next spring several hundred new families will have settled in and around Delta. The town has just been Incorporated. We have a live town board and the work of public Improvement will go forward as rapidly as the revenues will permit. A fine new depot the largest on the line south of Salt Like Is nearly completed. A new modern I hotel has just been built. From 30 to 80 land buyers come Into Delta every week. About 4.000 acres of land were sold around Delta during December. Take another look at the plat of the townslte and see If Delta hasn't the making of a beautiful modern city. If you are looking for an opening either as a farmer or a business man, write the Delta Commercial Club or any of the Chronicle advertisers for information. by other people. We think It will pay owners of these lots to sell some of their lots ut coHt to any one who will put up a good building, and we think this is the policy of all those who own lots on ("lark street. Any man who wants a lot for business purposes pur-poses and agrees to put up a good building can get a lot for from $?' to $200, according to the size and location. loca-tion. We think this Is remarkably cheap, and Is a great encouragement to those who want to go Into business in Delta. There is very little speculation specu-lation In land, the desire being rather to see the town grow along legitimate business lines. As we stated the residence lots are about an acre and a quarter In size. This enables the home owner to have a garden and an orchard, have a stable and a cow, a team and some chickens and other things necessary to an agricultural agri-cultural community, as It will be during dur-ing the early years of Its development. The alley In the rear of each lot makes a convenient arrangement for all out-bulldlngs to be In the rear of the lot so that the main streets will be kept clear of everything but residences. resi-dences. As the town grows these lots will undoubtedly be subdivided Into smaller residence plots, the original owners reaping the- benefit of the enhanced en-hanced price arising from the growth of imputation. The ownership of the lots being divided di-vided among so many people and having hav-ing been obtained at so low a price, the prices are still remarkably cheap. IH-Ita is not a one-man town or a corporation town laid out for speculative specu-lative purposes. It Is a town laid out by the owners of adjacent farms whose only desire Is to see It develop Into an attractive city of home owners. When we see that residence lota of an acre and a quarter can be bad for from I GO to 1200, according to location, loca-tion, we can see that unusual opportunities oppor-tunities are offered to home seekers. Where can you find a new town where realdence lota can be bought for as low a price per acre as farm lands are sold? It Is also to be remembered remem-bered that the Irrigation system pro-rides pro-rides water for every lot. We have heard It remarked that streets six and eight rods wide will be too expensive to keep up; that they will be nothing but streaks of mud and dust between weed lined sidewalks. But we think this is a short sighted view. Delta Is laid out with tbe expectation ex-pectation that it will before many years be tbe principal city south c. A stranger who drops off at Delta and looks over the town can't see that it Is laid out with any regularity. He sees houses scattered Irregularly over an area of about a mile square and wonders why It has not been built up compactly from some common com-mon center. Most agricultural settlements settle-ments have grown up on the four corners of two well traveled highways. Hut it was quite different with IH-lta. In the spring of lUoti about fifteen of tbe owners of land in the 10.000 acre Melville tract met at Oasl to discuss the location and plan for a new town which they proposed to name Ilurtner In honor of the pasen-ger pasen-ger agent of the Salt Lake Route, who had done much for this section of Mil. lard county. The plan was substantially substan-tially as given below, the site covering cover-ing an area of one mile and a quarter. Through the center of the plot running run-ning east and west was Clark street, named In honor of Senator Clark, principal owner of the Salt I-ake Uonte. North and south through the center was located Main street. Iloth of these streets were eight rods wide. Th plot was divided Into 110 blocks 30 rods square, containing about five acres each, with a two-rod alley run ning through It. One block was reserved re-served In the center of each of the four quartera of the town for public purpor.es. One block was rel,,"rved In the renter of the town as public square. Another block at the corner of Main and Clark streets was reserved for school purposes and two blocks and two balvea at the head of Main street were reserved for a public park. Tre streets were numbered east and west from Main street and north and south from Clark street as they are In Salt Lake City, and were six rods wide As Clark street was Intended for the business street of the new town, the alleys ran through the blocks parallel with thia atreet ao as to give access to the rear of every business bouse. Tbe residence lots of the town. about an acre and a quarter each, were distributed by lot, every owner of a forty acre farm being entitled to one lot. Of course this scattered the ownership of the lots all over the townslte, and when the owners got ready to build, the houses were of course considerably scattered. Many of the original owners have never built, or have sold out. One result of this method of distribution Is that It bas kept the value of lots at a pretty uniform price, as one could have neighbors In any part of the townslte. The business lots on Clark street were sold to the highest bidders and It has developed according to the original or-iginal plans. Into the business street of the town. The business houses on this street are as follows: H. J. Ijw, corner of Main and Clark; S. W. Kc-cles, Kc-cles, near the amusement hall; Job Hiding, telephone exchange; Mrs. Winterrose has the cement blocks for a building adjoining. Next west is the Arcade Furnishing House, then the Delta meat market Across the street the Chronicle office, next to which the Hub Mercantile Co. expects to put up their new store building, and further fur-ther east Is A. C. Sorenson A Co.'s mercantile establishment and Knight tc Marshall's new n.ii,tif,e at present used as a carpenter shop. It Is expected ex-pected that the postofflce will be ultimately ul-timately located on Clark street. Its present location being on Second West and Third North. As the amusement amuse-ment hall Is located on Clark atreet and the town and ultimately the county bulldlnga will be located on the public square reserved for this purpose. pur-pose. This will naturally attract the business bouses to this part of the town for several years to come or the lots are put up to a figure out of proportion pro-portion to their real value. The quickest way to kill Clark street as a business center Is to sell the lots for speculative purposes, or hold them out of use In expectation of a big profit through the Improvements made Tbe laughing plant la not k flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter. If the printed accounts of travelers can be believed, aaya an English paper It grows In Arabia and la called the laughing plant be cause the seeds produce effects tike those caused by laughing gas The flowers are of a bright yellow, and tbe seed pods are soft and woolly, while the seeds rea.emble small black beans. -Only two or three grow In a pod. The natives dry and pulverize them, and tbe louder, taken to small doses, makes tbe soberest person behave be-have like a circus clown or a madman, for he will dance. ing and laugh most boisterously and cut the most fantastic carer and be in ao uproariously uproar-iously rldiiuious condition for about an hour Whn ihe excitement reaaea the exhausted exhibitor of these an Ilea falla asleep snd hen be aakens be baa not the slightest remembrance of hi frisky dolrgs |