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Show lis new spring arrivals are anion iieiu and the ladles will be iiure to be pleased with the new dress goods he a allowing. Other seasonable goods noted In hla now ad elsewhere. IN AND AROUND DELTA Tie Week's News from the Coming Metropolis So many land buyers are coming to Delta these days that It's hard for the editor to keep track of them all the time. The Hotel Delta Is full all the time and a good many have to rind sleeping quarters elsewhere. Wednesdays, Wednes-days, Saturdays and Sundays are the big days, California visitors usually coming Sunday, when the limited stops for their benefit. Sixteen California Cali-fornia peop'p stopped last Sunday. We learn that there Is a good reason lor so many California people buying land In Millard county. Kvery once In a while a frost comes along and ruins their orange or lemon crops, and then a drought finishes up their grain. On land costing from $300 to $1,000 per acre this Is a pretty serious blow. California has many taxes, as does every other country, we don't often hear of them. Millard county may have some disadvantages, but crop failures is not one of them. An Iowa man showed us a picture of his native town taken the week he . left, which Indicates one of the dlsad- ' vantages of that splendid state. The 1 snow was three or four feet deep on the street, and on one corner a drift an high as a man's head. This was .probably exceptional. Millard never has this disadvantage, The snow this week Is about as much as we ever get. and It Is gone In two days. Of course It leaves the roads In bad shape, but this only lasts a few days. It Is really surprising how quickly this .sticky mud dries up. Knglneer Martin Informs us that the piles for the new steel Hume are on hand and as soon as the engine sinking the depot well Is at liberty the work of driving them for the supporl of the piers will be commenced. Th material for the abutments Is arrlv tnic and the JilgjieeMluTije. j llt and a "f across and with a capacltj of 250 second feet. It will probably be in place by the first of May, and It a guarantee that the farmers on the west side will have plenty of watei this Reason. J. W. Robb, representing a blf bunch of farmers of Auburn, who owr a large tract of land on the west side Is back from Nebraska. He wants al those who have borrowed plows, bar rows and other tools from over there to bring them back. He don't mind lending them, but he don't expect tc give them away. Delta Is doing more passeuger ami freight business now than any towt south of Salt Lake. Last month be side our unusual amount of loca freight, there were nleteen cars of set tier effects. There has averaged oni car of settlers' effects this month, be sides cars of lumber, coal, machinery etc. This will give some Idea of tin way Delta Is booming. The Baker Lumber Co. has got li three more cars of lumber, Indudini the material for the new lumber shed This will be 44x120 feet, and whei built all their lumber will be unde cover. Manager Bailey says tha while there are no storms In thl country to damage lumber the con tlnuous sunny weather Is likely t check and warp It. The company ha also got in a car of shingles and i quantity of nails and other builders hardware. The large amount of buibl Ing going on In and around Delta keep Manager Ilaker busy from mornln till night. The new store of the Delta Mercar tile and Implement Co. on Clark stree is completed and all hands are bus unpacking goods and iuttlng ther away, and from the way the place I Ailing up they ought to add anothe twenty feet to the old store. The ol building will contain tbelr grocery an hardware department, and the dr l,ools, boots, hats, clothes, etc.. will b in the new building. They are coi nected by passage way In front, car load of farm machinery will be I shortly and another car will be alon In about month. They will hand! the celebrated Kraerson plow and th Milwaukee machines. embracin every kind of machine and tool th farmer needs. Including wagons an buggies. Hyrura Knight of the fin sys tbey prouoaa- to carry one of th biggest stocks in the state. Don't forget the entertainment the Relief Society on Friday afternoo and evening. An interesting prograi will be furnished In the afternoon, h which will be free, and fifty cents will t be charged to the St. Patrick's dance p In the evening.' Don't forget that green ii Is the color, and all silks, satlus and n dress suits are barred. Simeon Walker, thy Oak City orchardlst and stock raiser, was In town last week with a fine team of Shire mares which he sold to Arthur I Cord I tier, a new settler, for $3.10. Mr. t Walker has a few more of these horses b for sale. 1 The new well at the depot has been 1 completed at a depth of 2.13 feet. A I three-Inch pipe has been sunk and the r water rises to within 20 feet of the t surface. A fine baby boy made Its appearance i at the home of Albert P. Wallace on the 23. Mother and baby are getting f along fine and the father has ac- t quired an added touch of dignity. t The heavy snow fall this week will f be a fine thing for every farmer who has fall grain In, and also a great bene-i bene-i lit to the man who has done his spring 3 plowing, of whom there are a great t i many. On the dry land along the east t i bench it was about a foot deep. This I - with the heavy fall of last month as- c , su res big crops on the dry farms of the county. ' f The article In last week's and this . week's Chronicle on the duty and . measurement of water, construction of , weirs, eto., by Knglneer Hark In i , charge of Irrigation Investigations are I I most valuable papers, and we advise , every user of water to cut them out i r for future reference. I We have received a number of, ; guesses on who stole the money In the I continued story, "The Lash of Clrcuin- i t stance," but the guessers are away i off, so some one still has a chance to 1 4 win the $5 prize for the correct guess. John Steele reports Increasing sales i of farm Implements and machinery, of which the Hub Mercantile and Pro-l Pro-l duce Co. has a big Block. With the e large acreage under cultivation this t year there will be a growing demand a for farm machinery, r- Dr. Stockham Is having a well put e down.backut his new Ur?.Jy, W ... V ne" well driving firm of J. E. Pratt y and A. M. Rosenbnum. They have y brought In a new well driving outfit s with a nine and a half horse power e gasoline engine, and are prepared to r put down wells in any part of the district. dis-trict. g Quite an important discovery was n made last week In sinking a well near , the new townsite of Alfalfa In Section II 29, 15 South, Range 7 West. An ar-P. ar-P. teslan vein was struck at a depth of e 200 feet, the water rising two feel d above the surface of the ground. If o the artesian vein extends very far It will be a great thing for that section, j The water is of the same unsurpassed n quality found elsewhere In the valley. Whicker Hros., who are now In t, partnership, have struck two flowing wells on the south tract that flow p seven gallons per minute, rising two leet above the surface. They have also Just completed four wells on the e west side. Settlers on the west side are grow-n grow-n Ing more ambitious now that they have a county road laid out through the j tract. They are going to try and get a rural mall route established. Sixty ,r families are already located there and a the number will probably be doubled la in a few months. They also want to . be set aside as a school district, either 0 this year or next, so they can have a llt school. More than the requisite num-a num-a ber of children of school age are in the proposed district. Most of them ,. are now in the Abraham district, is J. W. Smith has purchased the big ig Raw ley tractoln engine that has been standing all winter near the Delta n. Company's office. He will use It to P, plaw the 1200 acre tract of the Valley ,y Orchard Company west of i'je Deseret , reservoir. He suggests that some l bridge across the river, preferably the ,.r one across the spillway, be made Id strong enough for traction engines, as ,d there will probably be a number used ry In this section this year, e Rev. Josiah McClaln. superintendent n- of Home Missions for th Presbyterian A church in Ctah. held services at the In -hcKl bouse last Sunday evening. He ig announces a service for next Sunday, le March 1. Sunday School at 2:30 and tie preaching at 7:30. Strangers are In-ag In-ag vlted. The preparations for the build be ng of a small chapel Is now under d New people Interested In church m Work are Invited to come out and n make iheoiselves known. "Come (now with us and we will do the good." of Whenever there is a lot of freight o . mies In there Is sure to be a big m k .MMignment for R. J. I- Some of |