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Show THE DELTA CEMETERY. Hut we can hardly call It a ceiue tiiry, for it Is the forlornest, most bar ren God's acre 'we ever saw. We ited It the first time this week. It H situated on the bench northeast ol town, where the soli Is nothing but gravel and nothing but stunted greaw-wood greaw-wood will grow, and where there iynn clmnce for anything i ever growlas It Is beyond the reach of water, unless it Is pumiK'd up from the canal. The eleven graves seem to be the hidJ'K places for badgers and qulmps, whiih, with the tumble down board tliat mark the sandy mounds give the pl4 ;e a most neglected appearance. T).e place can only be reached by a long detour nearly to Koche's cement work where a bridge is located. It is Impossible Im-possible to dig a grave of any depui, as the gravel eaves In when a few feet In depth has been excavated. Tie place never can be made a descent cemetery. It was evidently seleeud because It could never be used fpr anything else. Hut a new seleetl4ti should be made at once on the outskirts out-skirts of the town where the plot can be irrigated and planted with trees and shrubbory and made as attractive as posible About 20 acres should also be sclera d for a park, as the square coiiudulnq the race track and grand staudjSean nver be anything but a sporting plat. There ought to be a place for a regular park to be laid out with walks, drive, trees, flower beds, swings, etc . Of course these things cannot coinV-i h.. feat rh'5ffiiuror w purpose ought to be secured and set aside before land values become too high. It would be a fine thing if the Melville Co. could reserve a plat to be used as a cemetery and park, the town to pay for it as soon as It was able. Hinckley has Just secured 20 acres for a park, and Delta ought uot to be behind be-hind our neighboring town. |
