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6 THE IMPERIAL PRESS PUBLMIIBD SATURDAYS AT IMPBRIAL, CAL., BY IMPERIAL PttESS PUB. CO. JAS. O. ELLIS, Manager »*- WHtch the subcrlptton date on your paper. " ADVERTISING RATUS Per month 1 inch * LOO 2to 13 inches (X P' ll g e )» P or Incl '" 176 13 inches (^ page) 8.50 62 inches {%. page) 15.00 52 inches (full page) fl>.oo ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER SUBSCRIPTION One Year .... $1.00 Six Months ... - .CO Three Months . - • - .25 Single Copies - .05 DO NOT SEND STAMPS IN PAYMENT The number of our paid circulation will be furnished on application SATURDAY, MARCH 11. 1905. ABOUT THOSE FLOODS To anyone at all familiar with conditions in the Imperial Val ley, it is puzzling-, to say the least, to determine why such un speakable falsehoods are publish ed as the stuff contained in the Los Angeles Examiner of March Bth. The ignoramus guilty of such work should be sent back East and made to stay there. California, and especially imper ial Valley, is too g-ood for him. It is not worth while denying this stuff in detail. It is all false, and the author writes himself an ass in every line. Instead of our people being flooded out and fighting hopelessly against the floods, as the Examiner repre sents, there are no flooded fields and, owing to a small break in the main canal, some of the farm ers are actually out of water for a few days. We have no anxiety on the score of being flooded. The Salt on sink may get quite a lot of water in it, and the Southern Pacific track near Salton may overflow, but Salton is 200 feet lower than Imperial and 265 feet lower than Calexico and Holt ville, and it would take more water than the entire Colorado river could run in ten years to fill up Salton sink so it would cover any of the farms in the Im perial Valley. According to the measurements taken by the Rec lamation Service, about one-ninth of the water m the Colorado river is diverted by the Imperial canals. Granting that none of this goes back into the Colorado river from the Quail river waste gate, (50 per cent of this water can be turned out at this waste gate and except in high water would go back to the Colorado) one can see what we would have to take care of. Both the Salton and New Kivers are quite large channels, and we have no doubt will safely carry away all the water not needed for irrigation. We be lieve the California Development Company should have headgateß in their canals, and we think they intended to put them in but have been prevented by high wa ter. Their system is far from complete, and it will likely- take two years to complete it, the best they can do. In the meantime, they must depend on their ability to waste the surplus water into the Sal ton Sink, when the water is high, in order to be able to di vert sufficient water at low water staye to supply the Imperial Val ley farmers. Because a large lake is visible from the Southern Pacific tracks, it docs not follow that the water backs up 200 feet 'high, or that Saltoii channel and New river could not carry all our surplus water, The Imperial fanners are more interested in getting help to take care of the forth coming enormous harvest than in anything else, and any yellow journal than depicts him other wise receives a well merited smile of derision. In this issue will be found the report of the accountant who ex perted the secretary's books for Imperial Water Company No. 1. The expert found the books to balance all right, and to have been well kept. In view of the difficulties under which Mr. Mcl'herrin has worked, the plan ning- and systematizing necessary to be done and the perfection to which it has been brought, we feel that Mr. McPherrin has done very creditably and we congratu late him. No stockholder of No. 1, nor any one else for that mat ter, has ever found Mr. McPher rin to be other than a courteous g-ehtljinen, and the best we can expect for the stockholders of No. 1 is that Mr. Baker, the present secretary, shall prove to be as acceptable and capable as Roy McPherrin. Concerning 1 the ex perts report, we wish to call at tention to the balance sheet where the capital stock of the company is valued at one million dollars, and the distributing 1 sys tem described as "construction work" at one million and twenty six thousand dollars. Thisagiees with the commonly accepted view, that the water stock represents the distributing 1 system, and is the correct method of making- the statement. It is reported that a strong firm, haying its headquarters in a southern California city, will enter the Imperial Valley market to buy grain and hay during the coming season, and that ware houses will be put up by them at two and possibly more points in the Valley. Thus do we see the proof of our growth and greatness. We trust the new firm will establish itself among us. We welcome all who come to help in the upbuilding of our Valley. There are several very fine openings for business in this Valley that are still unoccupied, and we trust the business men of the southern part of the state will look over the situation and pick up the rare opportunities here offered. Turned the Water on Big Tract Big crowds gathered at Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursdny of last week to witness the ceremony of turning in wa ter to the canals irrigating 270,000 acres of arid lands. This is the biggest irri gated tract in the western hemisphere under one canal. The water is supplied by the Snake river irrigating system and represents an outlay of two and one quarter million of dollars. Settlers are taking up land under the Carey Act,— San Diego Union. IMPERIAL PRESS California Development Company Sued— Snltoii Company Begins Action The threatened litigation over the flooding of the Salton Sink by diverted waters of the Colorado river, as outlined in The Times recently, came to a head Thursday in the Superior courts at River side, when the New Liverpool Salt Co., through J. W. MoKinley of i.os Angeles , entered suit against the California De velopment Co. for damages in the sum of $87,000 and for a permanent injunc tion restraining that corporation from diverting into the Imperial canal sys tem more water from the Colorado than shall be required for irrigation. The complaint alleges that unless this injunction issues, the New Liverpool Salt Company will suffer fully $200,000 damages at the hands of the California Development Company, as the waste waters from the latter's improperly constructed canal system have sub merged the salt fields operated by the complainant and are steadily advanc ing toward the point where inundation will destroy great quantities of salt which the complainant has mined and stored at its plant within the northern edge of the sink. Should the injunction be granted, it will have the effect of an order of court requiring the canal owners to build headgates across the three intakes which cut the west bank of the Colo rado. Through these intakes the flood waters of that mighty stream flow wild into the Imperial canal system. To prevent this vast volume of unwanted water from rushing into Imperial Val ley and flooding ruinously the farms (which can use only a reasonable por tion, in irrigation) the California De velopment Company opens a series of vvastegates in the main channel of the canal system, a few miles west of the river. The result, as set forth in the salt company's complaint, is that im mense quantities of this wasted 'water inundate the country south of the main canal, transforming feed crop and cat tle lands into inland seas; then finds its way southward whence it is emptied into the New river and flows seventy five miles north into Salton Sink, where it has formed a land-locked sea 300 square miles in extent, flooding the New Liverpool bait Company's salt fields hud threatening to put that cor poration permanently out of business. It is pointed out that had the Cali fornia Development Company built its canal system properly and with regard to the rights ami safety of contiguous property holders, its intakes would have been equipped with antes to regu late the flow of the river into the canals and all this trouble and damage would have beeif averted. The complaint narrates that time and again the complainant has called the attention of the California Develop ment Company to the danger that threatened and the damage being done, but these notices and complaints were ignored. — Times. COMPLETING WORK OF RESURVEY Imperial Valley Land Lines Being Corrected Mr. \V. O. Owens, the Examiner of Surveys for the United States, returned to the Valley this week accompanied by his assistants Messrs. Dehirio and Dow ney. They left last Tuesday with ex county surveyor S. L. Ward, to run a line west to the Pacific ocean from the corner established by Deputy U. S. Surveyor Henderson when lie made his survey of the township lines in the Im perial Valley according to the Act of July 1, 1902. We learn that the survey of Mr. Henderson was found to he correct so far as the work is concerned; and that all that was to be determined by this line being run by Mr. Owens and his party, was as to whether his starting point is correct. If found to bo correct, l iO douht the work of running the sub division lines will soon he begun, and the lonu delayed work of straightening out the surveys in the imperial Valley be completed. It is Mr. Owens' opinion that this work will soon he under way, and we hope this will prove to he the case. Colorado River Gage Taken At Yuma Jan mary Fob nary Gage Height Dis- charge Gage Height Dis- charge i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 <) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 18.50 18.50 18.50 18.60 18.75 18.95 19.00 18.90 18.65 21.10 19.25 19.20 19.25 19.70 19.70 19.75 22.20 24.00 22.20 21.00 20.45 20 55 20.30 20.00 19.80 19.75 19.65 19.55 19.40 19.35 19.30 3,800 3,800 3,800 3,985 4,240 4,573 4,650 4,450 . 4,170 16,087 6,401 6,000 6,347 8,370 8,370 8,600 20,117 27,500 19,300 12,116 9,300 10,170 9,090 7,900 7,025 6,765 6,250 5,727 5,400 5,070 4,900 19.45 19.60 19.70 19.70 20.30 21.40 21.05 28.00 28.80 26.20 24.10 22.95 22.40 22.20 22.25 21.60 5,420 5,940 0,630 6,632 10,150 16,595 11,590 64,737 82,820 44,578 32,623 26,143 23,880 22,240 22,500 18,610 22.65 24.90 25.75 25.85 23.55 22.00 21.45 23.65 23.50 23.50 25,000 47,002 55,553 57,708 38,340 21,993 18,855 27,000 27,726 27,800 March April 33 Gage Height Dis- charge Gage Dis- Height charge 1 2 3 4 23.!)0 25.05 26.70 26.70 29,073 39,260 70,170 70,170 Fob Jan mary Dis- charge Gage Height Gage Height i 18.50 18.50 18.50 18.60 18.75 18.95 19.00 18.90 18.65 21.10 19.25 19.20 19.25 19.70 19.70 19.75 22.20 24.00 22.20 21.00 20.45 20 55 20.30 20.00 19.80 19.75 19.65 19.55 19.40 19.35 19.30 19.45 19.60 19.70 19.70 20.30 21.40 21.05 28.00 28.80 26.20 24.10 22.95 22.40 22.20 22.25 21.60 3,800 3,800 3,800 3,985 4,240 4,573 4,650 4,450 . 4,170 16,087 6,401 6,000 6,347 8,370 8,370 8,600 20,117 27,500 19,300 12,116 9,300 10,170 9,090 7,900 7,025 6,765 6,250 5,727 5,400 5,070 4,900 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 <) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 22.65 24.90 25.75 25.85 23.55 22.00 21.45 23.65 23.50 23.50 April March Dis- charge Gage Height Gage Dis- Height charge 33 29,073 39,260 70,170 70,170 23.!)0 25.05 26.70 26.70 1 2 3 4 On February 28 the following meas urements were made in the Imperial canal showing the volume of water being diverted by it. Imperial canal heading No. 3, total diversion 3,102 second feet. Imperial canal, Bests camp, below waste gate, 1,821 second feet; is amount of water headed toward Imperial. A second foot of water is about 50 miners inches. On the day this meas urement was taken the total flow of the Colorado river was 27,800 second feet, or 1,390,000 miners inches, of which approx imately one-ninth, 6r 155,100 minora inches was being diverted from the river by the Imperial canal. Of this amount 64,050 inches was being wasted at the Quail river waste gate and 91,050 inches is coming to the Imperial Valley in the California Development Company's canals. PROFESSIONAL CARDS FN. BURLEIGH, ATTORNEY Al. • Law, Imperial, California. Abstract certificate Df title to all pro- perty in San Diego County, protected! by $100,000 fully paid up Capital Stock. Insurance — Conveyancing. DR. G. T. GREENLEAF, PHYSN cian and Surgeon, Holton, Cal, p J. BOLD, M. D., PHYSICIAN ■ • and Surgeon. Office: Hotel Imperial. Calls left at Hotel or at Miller's Dru)| Store will be promptly attended to. JI. SHEPHERD, ATTORN EY-AT- • Law. Office, corner Sixth street and Imperial avenue, south of the Press office. Entitled to practice in all the Courts of the State, Department of the Interior at Washington, I). C, and all the bureaus thereof. pAIIK, STEARNS AND SWEET, * Attorneys at Law, Imperial, Cah- fcinial Practise in all the Courts of the State and before the United States Register. Land law, final proofs and contests ot desert land entries a specialty. rjEO. 11. P. SHAW, ATTORNEY AT Law, Imperial, California. Office upstairs in Imperial Land Com* pany'a building. nary Dis- charge 5,420 5,940 0,630 6,632 10,150 16,595 11,590 64,737 82,820 44,578 32,623 26,143 23,880 22,240 22,500 18,610 25,000 47,002 55,553 57,708 38,340 21,993 18,855 27,000 27,726 27,800