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IMPERIALVALLEYPRESS WBUSHED SATURDAYS. EL CENTRO. CAL, P. P. PELLET Editor And Man»per ♦- T«^ •>•«> Hi Moiilhn • • .JO Three Month* * • " • •*& Single Copie* • • • • -W* advertisi.no rates Per Month 1 inch * 1-25 2 to IPinche? (1 column) per inch 1.00 22H inches iX page) l". r >o 45 inchee (S # P ft S e > 30.00 P0 incliee (full page,.. 50.00 Beading noticed, legals and solid matter 10 cents per line firpt insertion and 6 cents per line for each subpe qnent insertion, Brevier measure. Make all remittances and address all oommnications to Imperial Valley Pre?s. •7-Watch the subscription date on your paper. The number of our paid circulation will be furnished on application Entered a* second-class matter March 3d. l«x*attbe postofficeat El Centre California, voder the Act of Con^re** of March 3, 18/9. Will Editor Howe please let us know when he wants us to be lieve him. Just a short time ago, about June, the Standard printed an article telling how angry the Southern Pacific company was with Mr. Holt and tbe Holton Power company. Also the Stand ard claimed the Southern Pacific owned the H. I. road and was very much dissatisfied at the way it was being run and that next winter the road would be extend ed to Imperial because tne S. P. company did not like El Centro. This appeared in the issue of June 3, of the standard. Now, in direct contradiction of these statements, the standard of July 23 and 24, says there is a triple alliance, namely: The southern Pacific, the Holton Power com pany and the California Develop ment company, on July 24 Howe states that the "Southern Pacific aids El Centro scheme." It sums up this way: One of ..Howe's statements is false^ or else he does not know what he is talking about in either case. The readers of his paper have ex pressed a desire to know which one of the statements he would haTe believed. Beiner so badly mixed, Howe will, of necessity, have to label his explanations exhibit A. and exhibit B. But really, by glancing over the files of the Standard, one comes to the conclusion that Howe can beat any old 3-wbeeled velocipede all to pieces on jumping the track. The latest feature to come to light is that in the building : of El Centro the Bouthern Pacific Company has given to th« promoters cf that town the freight ratse applied to the construction of ile own branch railroade. To enable the railroad to keep track of tht actual expense of railroad con struction, the company has established a rate of a half a cent a ton per mile for structural material, which is the es timated coßt of moving such material ovei the road. If any citizen of Imperial, however wants to bring in structural material lor hie personal purposes he must pay a rate eeveral times as great as this for this is the rate established exclusively lor the Southern Pacific's own DUBineee. — Imperial Standard The rate paid by the com panies for the shipping in of gravel and material to El Centro is a rate that has been fixed by the railroad company and can be obtained by anyone upon appli cation under tbe same circum stances. Howe makes an asser tion in tbe above article which is absolutely false. The records of tbe railroad company can be seen by anyone and Howe knows that no person or company in El Centro ever got a rate other than was lawful and the same rate could be bad by Imperial or any other town. It is such state tnents as these that practically brand Howe either an imbecile or a wanton prevaricator of the truth. If what he publishes weie true he could very easily make complaint to the Commerce Commission and put a stoo to it. Key. Wentworth spok© to a small audience at Holtville, Wed- • nesday night, and as we read ! over the transcript of his speech ! we are forced to the conclusion that the speaker, although a ' minister of the gospel, is just as , prone to misrepresent and make statements in behalf of the cause to which he has loaned his in fluence and voice as any other politician, who professes nooth- 1 er avocation. We do not know what the Rev. Wentworth would say if he were called upon to discuss these matters, but the ; first sample delivered by thej Politician Wentworth is in keep ing with all the misrepresenta tions of the Imperial push. In fact some of them would do jus tice to his side-partner on the stump in behalf of Imperial. Politician Wentworth at first dwells quite lengthy on the fact that he stood before his audi ence as an honest man. That! was taken for granted. Up to the time no one had cause to dis pute it. Then he takes up the assessment of the property in El Centro and Imperial, and fol lowed the same tactics as that of another henchman of the Im perial push. He led his hearers to believe that there had been misrepresentation on the part of owners of property in El Centro. Now if Wentworth intends to stand before his next audience as an hanest man, he will be called upon by his own con science to make a statement that he willingly, maliciously and with intent to deceive, failed to state to his Holtville audience that he was fully aware that when the assessments were made the'bfi}ttiftfgs' in Bl Centro were then itf the course of con struction and such buildings are never assessed for any larger amount than what would cover the material on the ground at the time of assessment. Why, if he was as honest as he claim ed to be, did he not go on and say that reading from the ad vertisement in the Press and also from the assessment roll he learned that the town of El Cen |To (iomeseekers f | and Investors! # Wishing Imperial | 0 Valley Lands f 1 Do you want a square deal? % I:i : © 0 it 'pays us to give our customers the benefit g X of the OWNER'S LOWEST PRICE S it pays prospectors and investors to buy 2 0 through us 3 We have lands in any size tract from 40 to 640 acres. % S We are agents for El Centro town property and acreage 2 tracts adjoing town. v $ We are selling land strictly at the § | owner's price-Nothing added | I IRA ATCN LAND CO. I 1 Heal Estate Dealers EL CENTRO, CAL. $ tro had made one of the most phenominal growths in the past Bix months of anj town in South ern California. Next year, those buildings which arc completed will be. assessed as such, while those that will then be ,in the cour»« of construction will' he assessed ouly'for such material as Is in sight. Wentworth need not think that because he deals considerably in the future that the county assessor will assess what a business man intends to do. The buildings are here, some finished, some not. Work is progressing rapidly. Went worth him§elf helped build a Methodist church in this town since March Ist. Ile knows that when this was being built there were a dozen buildings here in the course of construction at the same time. Aye, behold s the politician. Mr. Wentworth will please now explain how it comes that the Paulin push managed to ac tually escape from paying taxes on the domestic water systems both at Brawley and at Imperial. They were not even turned in and -were not on the assessment roll until this year. Dodged, ab solutely. And that leads us up to the unsold lots in Imperial which the city council exempted from taxation. Do you want the county seat in a town where such actions are common occur rences? .. Wentworth would .do well, also to explain how it comes that he,' a minister of the gospel, is out working for a town that allows the illegal sale of liquor to go merrily on without a protest from him. The town he sup ports even owned the fixtures where it is rumored a pig is now operating. How much more would the people oi the valley respect him if he would go about the valley asking the help of the people to rid his town of these unlawful places. • Such ac tions .would show his honesty ,of purpose and his purity of heart. Paulin worked up an auction sale for Imperial through the Emerson company. Now he is trying, to Avork through the Im perial push a scheme to sell that terrible big bunch of lots he has left in Imperial. Every vote for Imperial tor county seat helps him iust so much. J. 8. CM»rcnri«u> R- B. Wootrout Crutchfield & Woolfolk WHOLESALE COMMISSION MBRC'HANIS ....... Car-Lot Distributers and Growers' Marketing Agents 2lst and Perm. Aye. Pittsburg, Pa. F. O. B. transit sale and distributing agents for El Centro Fancy Melon Growers' Association, and Heber Fancy Melon Growers' Association. We are specialists in marketing all kinds of green fruits and vegetables, cantaloupes, tomatoes, aspargus, egg plants, Bermuda onions, celery, grapes, etc. We desire to negotiate with Associations and all shippers who wish their shipments marketed in an UP-TO- DATE manner. We will guarantee you best results. Let us, hear from you. MAKE US YOUR MARKETING AGENTS for your future crops. Our connections in every leading market are the best and gives us an outlet for marketing your produce which is unsurpassed. Get in touch with us. H. B. PEARSON, Field Manager Office in Valley State Bank Building, El Centro, Cat. Aapociated with Crutcbfield, Woolfolk & Gibson, Inc., Chicago 111. Where Beech-Nut wnere Sliced Bacon Do You C%? Buy Your /^^b^\ brandsyoulike §Hg|^Hp| Vs^p^L- Our goods are f /HHR always Fresh... \ llifpY Satisfaction in \ *nrTp( every order we /T* I * / SC11» •V. ';-. • • ' BC^dr^Nllt OUR PRICES Sliced Beef ARE RIGHT - PAYNE & HAMILTON Dry Goods and Groceries EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA Lumber Prices Reduced Oregon Pine Reduced $6 to 9 per M, White Fir, Madera, * $5 * " Redwood >, / $1 NOW IS THE IMB TO BUY { L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. T. B. Blanchard, Agent El Centro, a California V V