Here are a few reprints:

Stewart Mesa residents were reported to be putting in a public hydrant so ‘people who do not have water on their places can buy it by the barrel”.  This was handled by the use of coupon books as it was in town before the water was piped to homes.

The same year, February 21, 2908, the newspaper reported that the “city council of Delta granted to J.W. Lee a franchise for an electric lighting plant and canning factory.”

The fruit growers on Rogers Mesa, according to a news item, organized a Fruit Growers association “and will erect a large packing house.” Andrew Linn was elected president of the group and H.C. Busey was secretary.

In the North Fork area at that time C.W. Fowler was president of the Alta Vista Reservoir Company, composed of Hotchkiss residents.  Secretary Paul Wilson was reported to be constructing a reservoir five miles up Leroux Creek. The reservoir was expected to water 1,000 acres of land.

Also at Leroux Creek J. E. Hanson was constructing a 16-room mansion on his ranch at an expense of $15,000 to $20,000.  The house was designed with a bath on each floor, was to be heated by steam and ‘will be the finest residence in Delta County.’

Newton Heistand of Hotchkiss threshed 127 bushels of wheat to the acre on his ranch in 1908.

Among sugar beet producers at Hotchkiss were J.I. Smith who averaged 34 tons to the acre in 1908.  Carl Sherman averaged the same amount in the same year.  The latter was reported to be harvesting his fourth crop from the same land, “each better than the crop before”.

At Austin in 1908 Dr. A.E. Miller sold more than $20,000 worth of apples from 40 acres of trees.