| Show V TH E TOM HOW I 1 CNE TO delta by mrs josephine B walker hrs mrs johephine Joeph lne B walker con tributes rib utes the following clever article ti in n the form of answering a query m nade ado by her son in conversational style tyle I 1 oa ou say son gon you want my ston store 2 of how we ue came to delta and all labout about it well heie goes tie e aie ai moving along in 1808 1908 9 we be bean an to e ceide advertisements in tie mail of the glorious fel orious possibilities of new homes homs in the burtner country vir gin soil that iad been deposited by the long since receded old lake bon don acres on acres of reclaim un ed b grease rease land ouis cuts foi tot the filing of a carey act entry at pan an acie acle and only 40 an acre foi the water right why those write ups and pictures ot of fruit trees taken in oak city lucerne fields no douat I 1 from around provo or pill moyo enado you want to move so quick quiet that the first thing ou knew you were all sold out and on your way the tt elcome of the eail da das s we shipped by the railroad lail road but many came by team and 17 agon gon son when you drove up a stian iger ger to any tent ehtel or circle ot people howdy stranger pull in land and rial nale e yourself at home be one N ith us you re welcome that was the pint of the day it dian didn t matter v lether they bad had lit tie oi 01 were I 1 lettai ettel oft off t tian ian a lot it was 0 irs to drive right in male it our home and take what wh t tl py ey I 1 ad it was friendly on friendly and what did ve we fird M les leb up on miles of desert fhe rhe town of del ta the name having first stained a melville but not allowed by the post office department because of mill vale then akin and fin ally delta was A house bere ere anc away avei another one ai aid d still farther over yonder another one as a newcomer new comer described it one would naturally suppose that in a new place the houses be kinda kinds huddled together and una fraid but no siree boldly stood the scat catered ered houses and shacks far apart as thou though ii saying were we re firm ly planted each for himself we re big an ani I 1 well be BIGGER acmon fellens we well 11 make this the impute of lie tile est my flit impression well an other answered it by saying I 1 nev er saw a town with so few houses of so many linds 1 inda and SO MUCH and there he was mas son g along in 1910 and 11 tents and shacks two story frames a gran rah V anes aries sheep wagons anola andrin en eri a band of settlers from every state in the union all a rann to gol FO he re tirel bubines bu sines men newly mairi eds lawyers doctors sc school teachers old now farmers farmers that never saw a corrugation nor turned a saleam mine aline worl ers mormons jews and gentiles all come to make their home in this country oh ye yeo I 1 don doi t want to for get the editor of the paper norman 13 dresser a sm ill dried up man who journeyed around from tov n to town in a little dog cart finding items for tl e chronicle you might not be in tl Is weeks news neus but given time yo ii 11 name v as sure to appear especially if you g t mar ailed aare having a bab or built a lein to to dour our granary the dams bas in 1909 and again in 1910 the dive diversion ision dam and canals broke so 50 there was not much choppin we railed our land lands how did ou ask why we hitched tour four horses oa on each end of a heavy R R rail and two men inen lode iode it ma ing tug and dig ging and barking out the brush as they went tl TI Is brush we tired fired then wo we I 1 lal al e pi I 1 and disked and I 1 allow low ed and cleared our land flen when we veren t clearing land we worked on he canals tor for the company gee geel III never foight that first two i eels eel s the wind blew all day a cloud of white dust hovered around us my pes and face were so eore sore T 1 I 1 c a pare par ed peapod and aud rained rained cats and hitched up to go to town and baldy got stud many a time in the carry act before we rot vot there the mud would fill the pokes ind the men would have to get got out and dig them out only to fill up again in a few rods in the clay mud tte fun nm in the good old days D d we have fun you ask fun you just ought to have gone nith us to one of those bouse house wai min cay ay Ivery everybody body went when someone was about to move into a shack the word went around and some one hitched bitched up a hay rack and gathered the neighbors as they went along each woman bil Iiii nging a parcel of eats or kettle 0 grub the good old fiddle and harmonica tuned up ind we DANCED no slow lol lobing ing no ing through the desert night flouted blie the strains of swing old adam swing old ve swing old adam before you leave and on to the nest next one along abo it eleven coffee tor for the 3 gentiles cocoa for tl tie e mormons and then john from nebraska daiy aa from cal or bill from new i lork ork would all join in merryman mer in ng all tl P time we glew son crops 1 eie ele c 1 in 1912 wie we mere ere ship P ii 9 out millaid gold cold in car load lots one year hay roe robe to 30 a ton on we were sitting on ti e moon I 1 inc no irlen men gossiped Gossl ped at the welk wells we formed a club well were few and men hauled water in barrels on skid skids why one day fourteen men gathered at jacl smith smiths s and there theres a lots of gos elp alp can be swapped gettin fourteen barrels of water shucks we wim men had no show till we organic ed tue JOLIA JOLLI fud and then we WO caught up in meetings only every two weeks on the men with the head lead start they d bad Pros perit was wa our undoing well son to make a long story sort we found gold millard gold tl 91 e golden kernels or of millard it just poured out of our thresh ing tug machines times were good and we ue began to have growing pains palus just as we ue were sitting on top of the world we borrowed three or four million to drain we got so big and prosperous we just naturally up and busted 4 but I 1 in a telling yau when we fet get all the holes filled up snug up and wake up and ind say as we did in the good id days howdy neighbor lets up and at it 11 ji well we 11 have a mighty food country yet |
