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Show IN AND AROUND DELTA He Week's News from the Coming Metropolis While there are are not a many buyers coming to Delta a there ha been during the early spring a few are dropping off nearly every day. During the past week there have been men from Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, and California. They all buy. If they can't get laud on the Carey tract they buy elsewhere. The I'tah Real Estate and Live Stock Company sold one Improved farm and one unimproved farm to California people the past week. They are near Hinckley. Many California people find the climate here very beneficial for usth-ma usth-ma and catarrh. One man who ha been here only three week says he ha had no trouble with asthma since he came out, though he could hardly sleep In California on account of It. We have some disagreeable winds here In the spring, and had some this week. Hut we see that twenty Oklahoma Okla-homa town have just been laid in ruius by a tornado and many people killed. You Oklahoma people need never fear anything or that kind in Utah. F. W. How man and family left this week for Welser, Idaho, where Mr. Bow man will go Into stock raising, j Dr. Murphy ha also selected Veier for hi future home and hi family leave Delta for their new home Thursday evening. They have not yet sold their place here. Owing to the rain siorm last Friday Fri-day night there wa a small attendance attend-ance at the dance last Friday. Ou Tuesday of next week. May 7, the ladles of the Relief Society will give a dance for the married ' people to which all the married people are invited. There will be good music ' T probably 4h .UmciU&y .orchestra. and cake and lemonade will be served. Work on S. W. Eccie new building Is going rapidly forward. The foundation founda-tion has been laid, the hollow tiles lor the wall are on hand and Mr. Eccles expi-cls to have hi new bakery bak-ery good and confectionery establishment estab-lishment In about sixty day. It will be two stories high and tio feet long. Work has also been commenced on Jenkin llro. cement block building on Clark street, opposite the Chronicle Chron-icle office. If a little work was now done on the street in grading it and liiling up the chuck IioIch it would look a if it were really Intended lor the business street of the town. The town board met in regular session last Saturday evening, but nothing but routine business wa ilnlie. The Hotel Pahvant in the Stockham , building wa opined to the public this week and they started in by feed- ing ::o people lor dinner. There Is a ( good sized dining room where expe- rieuced waller attend to the want of patrons. The kitchen 1 spick and span with shining new utensil and ( Is .presided over by Frank McDowell, a skill! ul chef. There are 13 room ( upstair where customer will find i iean and comfortable bi ds. There I also an office and waiting room in limit. The new boiel seem to fill a ( genuine want. It get It name from the Pahvant Valley t pronounced ' Fi'.wvaut) running through Millard County, and the biggest valley In the slate. It i an Indian name, signify- j inc medicine water. The Indians evi- dently knew the virtues of our renowned re-nowned lithla water. Verne Ilartholemew wa over from Fillmore this week. He shipped some of his celebrated Holstein stock north. He also came over to arrange for the 1 cultivation of his land. He own 2oo acres adj lining the town site on the ' north aud will have loo acres put out 1 Into grain tbi season. J John Steele and the I'tah Real Es- j tale and Live Sunk Company have ( been getting In hay and grain thi ' week and It goes off as last a It tan be unloaded. Wheat 1 12 .",0. oat and barb y $2 6.". and hay $1S. $20 aud 921 per ton. Prices are llke! to go higher rather than lower, and It will be about two months before new hay l on the market. Eren then prices are likely to be high, a the many i.ew comers will create a big demand ( and there will not be much additional acreage to cut. Then next t Nn t there will be even more new comer l Iwif Koch acd son are turning out i about CK cement blocks per week j and expect to be able to supply tin big demand there will be for tilt hiock thi summer. They make ii fine looking and durable building am are not expensive. There Is a big demand for fenci post around Delta and If any one ba them for sale they will have ni trouble in disposing of them. Itrlnit In a few thousand. The Utah Real Estate and Live Stock Company i getting In a car ol horses for sale as there Is quite a demand de-mand lor work horses. They are all young and prices rang? from f.'lod to $::.'iit. They are also getting la u car of Rural potatoes from Idaho for seed. The timber work for the new steel flume I nearly all In place and the work of putting in the steel plates will be rushed a fast a possible. They expect to have the water running run-ning through by the end of next week. Whicker llro. made their best record In sinking the well on the editor's farm on the west aide last week. They put down 1 80 feet In eight hours, which is going some. The water rises to within three feet of the surface. The boys have a pretty good record as well drivers. They have sunk over 3."0 well In this section sec-tion and have never made a failure. They will make a permanent well for you aud guarantee the job, and If anything any-thing happen within a year to stop the (low will pui it in running order without cost to you. The west side now ha telephone connection with Delta. Ackerman, .Minister, and we don't know how many others have telephones, and It will be extended a fast a they get time and material to put It In. From what we have seen of tbime west side people nearly every farmer will have a phone. The petition for the rural mall route Is being circulated and there will be no trouble in getting a sufficient number of signers to secure It. The editor i"rhnrTririioni? ' tmro-spomlence tmro-spomlence with the Agricultural College Col-lege and an Iowa college In regard to I he cost, profit and feasabllity of e-tabllshing e-tabllshing a co-operative creamery and butter factory among the farmers on the west side. When we get the. data needed we will see what can be done. Horsemen and others Interested are working up a plan to have a big race meeting at Delta on July 4 and .". Helta ha some good horse, so ha Fillmore and other neighboring Low ns, and Salt Lake would send low ti a Hiring of horse If our track was put In good order. The track on tie park ha the making of one of lie best race course In the state. No gravel or stone and Just enough sill lo make a good cushion. The plan Is :j have the track graded a good hall mile, put in a stockade fence, a grand taud and some stalls. Some money ivould have to be advanced for this, jut enough ticket could be sold for he races to come pretty near paying or It. Several thousand people would illdoubtedly be attracted lo hiicb, a ueet and It would be the best adver-Isement adver-Isement Delta could have. The prop-jsition prop-jsition could be worked up into a big 1,'ng, and the Chronicle will boovl j or it. A. J. Henry and wile of Oasis, old Imer of Millard County, aie taking heir first vacation In twenty-five rear. They left thi week for Hills-lale, Hills-lale, Ida., where they will spend the iiimmer with their son. Mr. Henry 1 toing to try and find some grain and lay In that country for Millard county arniers. Word comes from A. R. Humphries bat he 1 settled In his new home at tupert, Ida., and likes It very well, le has bought some land there and ;one Into the lumber business. Mrs. Angelina Hinckley, a pioneer ind widely known worker In the Mor-non Mor-non church and mother of President lini kley, died at Salt !ake this week, ilie wa the widow of Ira Hinckley, or twenty-ix years president of the dlllard stake. For many year sh-ka sh-ka president of the Fillmore Relie. Society, t-l.e wa K) years old and ame to I'tah in ISjO. She had been '.I since last tall. The funeral was wld at I'rovo. where she wa buried leside the body of her husband. Mr. T. C. Gronning was called to laker City last week by the news if the serious illness of ber mother. The editor has had so much job )rintlng to do the past week that he is not had time to ni around and :et a much news a umtl for bi si-er. |