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Show A PROMISING GARDEN. L. Koch shows his faith In the soil and climate of Delta by the work he Is putting In on his place on the bench northeast of town. He has a homestead home-stead entry up there of 80 acres and has fenced In several acres for a garden gar-den and orchard. He has planted all sorts of vegetables and has set out quite a number of currant, raspberry, blackberry and dew berry bushes besides be-sides strawberries. Also apple trees, pears, plums, peaches, cherries and grapes. They all seem to be nourish ing liuely. They have had no water except the rains of spring and we were surprised to find the soil quite moist only a couple of inches below the surface. sur-face. The soil Is a sandy and gravelly grav-elly loam ho that evaporation is very slow. It Is quite the soil for fruit and as It Is some elevation above the valley val-ley and has a southern exposure, there Is little danger of Its being touched by late frost. We believe this whole bench will be very suitable for fruit and will most certainly be the most desirable building site, as It gives a beautiful view all over the valley. When the canal from the Fool Creek reservoir is built It will water this whole bench. Mr. Koch will water his garden at present by means of a pump pluced in the muiu Melville canal. Hy the way, we wonder why the company selected the site for the town where they did. It Is the roughest piece on the whole tract. Half a wile north, east or south would have given them a perfectly level piece of ground for the town. We think we will select our ultimate residence on the north bench. Mr. Koch certainly had an rye , to the future when he selected his building site. U Is only a question of a mile from town"" ' "' ''" |