Show DELTA CRO T THAT I 1 IT 0 OF F N S A S N an ali investigation into conditions in ill the delta agricultural district which was made yesterday under tile the direction of prof lewia A merrill agricultural agriculture al expert of the SaIt Lako route boute unearthed the interest interesting hig fact that no one ti j JW IN Jf mairo farmer arth n at vicenty who had sov sown n liis his I 1 wheat last fall s secured 0 loss less than forty bushel to the acre there are arc about fa banners on oil the north and south tracts on oil either side of delta this is is considered remarkable owing owing to the short tinie time the country has been under cultivation i the investigating party part c consisted 9 ny of professor morrill J H manderfield Mander neld assistant general freight and passenger agent of tile the salt lake route houte C george jeorge T odell general manager iia nager of the col consolidated soli dated wagon and machine lie colli company pally john 14 gritchlow s sales ales nia manager nager of f that colli company pally H L moody president of the delta land and water coni company pany co oon D page 2 ool col 1 DELTA WHEAT CROP RIVALS THAT OF KANSAS con from froin page JL 1 george A snow vice president and manager of if that co company pay J edward taylor state ural mal inspector dr E G titus of tife utah agricultural college and ben R eldredge of oatlie the dairy division united states depart in nit cut of agriculture the party returned to this city this morning satisfied that rumors detrimental to tile reputation of the delta country are without foundation two or three lied fled farmers who were to blame blaine rather than the country for their partial parti til failure were found as compared with more than 1016 were nio most st enthusiastic over the progress the aliey y leave made and I 1 over tho alie prospects of the entire delta region only biily in the last few days leave reports readied rs moody and snow who are bacling backing the delta project eliat crops had failed and that pon conditions ditl i ons were generally bad throughout eliat country the in investigating vesti gating party was at once 0 o organized organised sed and a thorough se search all cl I 1 for the I 1 source e of complaint was n ys y S i made I 1 L LOW e i 11 1 pro professor fe asor II merrill errill said this morning f hut every crop that has be been eai p planted lias done s splendidly p lend idly and that the wheat raising and sugar beet groNi growing ing have done so we well ll 11 that they may inay justly be i called ta the ie lebanner banner industry the party held a ine meeting eting it at delta ift last s t night at which janies james A melville who represents the delta land and water company at delta presided tile the officials of the Del delta land an water dWater company announced that they lieve decided to extend tile payi payment nent on oil the abe principal which the fa farmers owe tile company for three years in norderto order to give every nian man in the district a chance to do as much as pos possible sibl e it will now be necessary for tile the farmer in ill debt to tile company to pay simply the ili interest on oil their loans features of tile Dle meeting eting were addresses by professor iNi merrill errill on oil on oil the file possibilities of ing ilig the delta country 15 anday and by mr r eldredge on oil dairying addresses were also made by other inen members ibers of the assor merrill discussed tile markets ts for hogs raised in ill utah and piloted Pill p minted ted out liow how hogs ill may ay b be 0 made iliade ono one of the best paying industries ill dus tries of tile delta country tile meeting was largely attended and many of tile farmers expressed themselves as highly encouraged cou raged and as being more inore than s itis fied fled with the progress they 11 leave 1 made to late date |