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The Imperial Press.
VOL. V.
Published at the center of the greatest irrigated territory In America, In the heart of the Colorado desert, San Diego county. Southern California, 67 feet below the level of the sea. Under present canals, 250,000 acres: under irrigation
system when completed, 400,000 acres. Adjacent to irrigated land in Arizona and land to be irrigated by the National Government from the same grand Colorado river which will make a combined body of more than a million irrigated acres.
OUR FRIENDS ARE ALERT
Movement Against Colorado Grabbers Assuming
Formidable Proportions
Strong Sentiment Shown by Business Organizations— The Press and
General Public AgainSt Move to Defeat Reclamation Work
on Lower Colorado River
In our issue of the Press of Sept. 16th
we took up the matter of one, D. H.
Moffatt, a multi-millionaire of Denver,
who, through his control over the Colo
rado courts is trying to prevent the car
rying out of the plans of the Reclama
tion fcervice for the control of the wat
ers of the Colorado river. Some of our
readers criticised us for publishing this,
on the ground that we were setting up
an impossible contingency, that the Re
clamation Service could handle the mat
ter all right, and defeat Moffatt and we
were injuring the Valjey_by calling at
tention to the subject. Regarding this
proposition we would say, that within a
few days of the publication of the mat
ter in this paper the subject was men
tioned and the statistics used in every
Los Angeles paper and in the papers of
San Diego, Riverside and San Bernar
dino as well.
Also those of Phoenix and Tucson,
Arizona. The Los Angeles Herald and
Express published editorials on the sub
ject, strongly advocating prompt and
decisive action to give the Reclamation
Service the power to control the entire
watersheds of the rivers of the^ arid
land states, with power of eminent do
main over all property needed for their
projects.
The Times published a lengthy arti
cle, giving all the statistics enumerated
in our article and a good maiiv of its
facts and urging action on the part of
the Los Angeles people in regard to the
matter.
The San Diego papers trave the matter
considerable space and protested against
such a flagrant violation of the public
welfare in favor of a rich and unscrupu
lous millionaire.
The Phoenix Republican, after giving
the facts and statistics, adverted to
the movement in the Southwest against
this action of the Colorado Court and in
a review of our article of September
16th, quoted liheially from what we
had to say and characterized the entire
matter that we published as being a
singularly truthful comment on Colora
do political conditions. They also
strongly supported the move tor organ
ized opposition and protest from the
people of Cali for n in and Arizona-.
The Tucson papers published the sta
tistical matter concerning tlii 4 ! detriment
such course would lie to the develop
ment of the country along the lower
Colorado ami jr«*ve t lie movement to
overthrow Moffatt, thyir hearty support.
That the matter is considered of great
importance to the well are of Los An
geles by the business men of that city is
shown by the following, from the Los
Angeles Herald of last Fri.lay, Sept. 22nd :
"The j os Angeles realty board at its
semi-monthly ineeting and luncheon
recently took formal art ion relative to the
ultimate reclamation of possibly a* mil
lion :icres of California land now classed
as desert waste and* for United States
control of hundreds of thousands of sim
ilar acreage in other states.
As a result of the interchange of views
on a subject fraught with great interest
not alone to Los Aiigelee, but to the
state and nation, ami after the facts rel
ative to a recent lawsuit in which the
United States government was' defeated
by a private railroad corporation were
laid bare, the realty, board, by unani
mous resolution, authorized the ap
pointment of a committee to include
the president of the board, for the pur
pose of conferring with Senator' Flint
and Congressman McLachlan and if ad
visable arouse public opinion and secure
legal aid in protecting the interests of
COLORADO RAILROAD VICTORX.
Brief telegraphic dispatches told re
cently of the victory achieved by the
Denver & Northwestern railroad, known
in Colorado as the Moffatt road, over the
United States ma suit involving the
right of way through the Gore cannon
in northwestern Colorado. A similar
right of way in Brown's park is also in
volved.
The United States reclamation ser
vice had located reservoir sites at \ these
points. The railroad and the reservoirs
could not both utilize them.
The United States claim is that enor
mous public benefits. are dependent up
on the reservoirs; that without them
perhaps a million acres can 'never be
reclaimed from the desert, which, under
irrigation that is entirely feasible by
means of these reservoirs, can be made
to equal the fondest dreams of the found
ers of the Imperial country, and that
the Moffatt road can just as well change
its route and get through the mountains
without monopolizing these particular
canyons.
lii fact, it is understood that the
United States surveyed au^tlier^ equally
practicable route and brought it to the
attention of the railroad officials, who it
is intimated had reasons other than
those alleged by them for desiring the
monopoly.
INVESTIGATION INSTITUTED
The importance of the reservoirs to
California and Arizona, and even to
Colorado, seems to have been ignored
by those most concerned. When the
subject was brought to the attention of
some of the officers of the realty board
it was decided to make a thorough in
vestigation" of the subject, and as a be
ginning the board invited J. B. Lippin
cott, engineer at the head of the United
States reclamation service in this dis
trict, and J. Donald Campbell, an irri
gation expert engineer, who, until the
la^t four 3'tars, was a resident of Colo
rado, to attend the board meeting
yesterday and aid in elucidating the
problem.
Mr. Lippincott, whose name has be
come very familiar lately in connection
with the owen 4s4 s river water proposition
explained that as a United States of
ficial his utterances must be somewhat
restricted. He confined the statement
ahead}' made as to the contention of
the United States in the suit above
mentioned, however and explained
that reservoirs below the Grand canyon
of the Colorado are not feasible anil
that consequently while 400,000 acres
are irrigable perhaps without the reser
voirs in question aw much as 1,000,000
acres could be irritated in dry years by
such regulation of the supply, while
in wet years the amount conserved
above the average would be applicable
for increased future use and as a pro
vision for emergencies.
COLORADO OPPOSITION ASSURED
Mr. Campbell considered Mr. Lippin
cott's estimates very conservative and
declared as a former citizen of Colorado
his belief that the people of Colorado,
when impartially informed as to the
facts in the case, would oppose the ef
forts of the Moffatt interests to deprive
the government of the opportunities for
reclamation offered by the proposed
reservoirs.
Without taking into account the im
mense acreage in other states affected,
it was stated, the ultimate triumph of
the railroad Would mean the loss of. half
a million acres of land tributary to* Los
A ngeles alone, an amount of acreage
equivalent to double that now under
••Water is King— Here is its Kingdom."
IMPERIAL, CAL., SATURDAY, feEPTEMBER 30, 1905.
irrigation iii Southern California.
Mr. Campbell said that he. agreed
with the.remarks of several members of
the board, who expressed the belief that
no subject of more public importance
than this could demand the attention
of the realty board. From his personal
knowledge of conditions in northwestern
Colorado he confirmed the statements
already made. }
It is almost certain that an appeal
will be taken from the decision of the
court in Colorado, under which the
Moffatt road assumes, to have acquired
sole control \of the sites in question ,
and it will be the purpose of the com
mittee of the realty board to arouse
other public bodies and the people of
Southern California at large to -the im
portance of representation of their in
terests in the case, providing thiit fur
ther investigation justifies such action."
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, which is one of the most power
ful organizations of its kind in the
United States, is also taking up the
matter and no doubt at their next meet
ing will throw their great influence
jiLto ; tlieifi^;^fQr^^->ieyel6pjrieiU^
the lower Colorado." Senator Flint'and
Congressman McLachlan have been
interested and will take up, the matter
in Congress and do valiant service for
the people against the graft and. craft
of Millionaire Moffatt. And Governor
Pardee has asked the Reclamation
Service tor a detailed report on the
situation, giving all the facts.
It is understood to be his purpose, on
receipt of thi 8 information, if the im
portance and seriousness of the matter
seems to warrant it, to ask the gov
ernors of Nevada and Arizona to join
with him in calling a convention to
meet at Los Angeles some time before
Congress convenes and organize to ask
such legislation as will defeat this
sciienie of Moffatts. From -this it can
be seen that our powerful friends are
aroused and the crafty, grafty Moffatt
will be met and overcome. But our
people are interested in this movement
and it is right the Valley papers should
discuss it and keep our people posted
on such matters from the standpoint of
the pioneer home builder, battling with
the desert, in the integrit "" >vKose.
heart and strength of wlip all
the hopes of the future an. r :n<_'.l.
IMPERIAL PEOPLE INJURED
Los Angeles Automobile Disaster In
jures Prominent Valley People
The Los Angeles papers of Tuesday
last all contain accounts of the deadly
work of the automobile and the mfracii
.lous escape of some and serious injury
of others in a .mix upon the streets of
that city in which Imperial Valley peo
ple played leading parts. Mr. E. K.
Green, who was driving the automobile
at the time of the disaster, is the owner
of a fine farm near Keystone, four miles
north of Imperial, and his son, Floyd E.
Green and wife, have lived- there for a
year or more past. The son, and wife
had been spending the summer in Los
Angeles. This disaster- is only what
might be expected, as when people get
to running automobiles they get speed
crazy and their only ambition is to make
the telephone poles look like a picket
fence. . ' : x .-- ~
"Five victimsof automobile speed man
ia, two screaming worm n, a year-old ba
by and two men were hurled to the side
walkout of E. K. Green r 8 touring car
on East Firet street yesterday. Sam
King, a sixth victim, and the most un
fortunate of all, lies at the point of
death in the Emergency Hospital.
E. K. Green, a wealthy engineer of
1504 West Eighth street, according to
witnesses, was racing down East First
street. At a curve in the street he
steered across to the wrong side of the
roadway. The machine struck King,
an oiler for the Los Angeles railway,
and tossed him twenty feet. King fell
on his head, unconscious.
Meantime Green had swerved his au
tomobile to avoid running over King
and the machine crashed into a tele
phone pole. Two screams rang out
from Green's wife and daughter-in law
as they were thrown to the sidewalk.
The baby feil on its head. Its escape
was miraculous, as it was only slightly
scratched. All the others were bruised
and violently shaken up.
Witnesses say that, Mr. Green was
racing his machine with one driven by
G. E. Platt, vice-president of the Belle-
Vernon Farms Company. Both were
going west and turned the curve on the
wrong side of the road.
In the automobile with Mr. Green
were Mrs. E. X,* G.reen^JEloyd Green,
Mr. Green's son, Mrs. Floyd Green and
the infant girl.
STRUCK WHILE AT HIS WORK.
Mrs. E. K. Green was severely shaken
and her right arm badly wrenched.
Floyd Green's hand was sprained, but
his wife was only slightly bruised.
Sam King, who lives at 3218 East
First, was standing at the corner of
East First street, where the old power
house was located. The street turns
there and King was at the bend. As he
stepped into the road to oil the car
tracks the auto cut sharp across the
corner. The lamp of the auto struck
King, doubling him up. Mr. Green
then swerved the machine, and in do
ing so struck a telephone pole. The
front part of the car was ' smashed and
all the occupants thrown out. '■,
Nearly , alJLjth ej^ witnesses agree Jthat
Mr. Green wasracing with Mr. P|att.
. Mrs. Ida Gardner, who lives at First
and Breed streets, said:
rt l saw both automobiles speeding
down First street. The red one, owned
by Mr. Platt, was in front, going at a
rapid rate. The one behind was trying
to keep up and. l don't think the man
in front knew that the other one was
racing him. I said to m}' husband that
some one would get hurt by one of those
autos when they struck that bend in
the road. I wasn't abitsurprised when
I heard of the smashup."
Mr. Green denied that he was speed
ing. But he admitted that he turned
the curve on the wrong side of the road.
* "It makes me furious to hear these
people talking like that about the rate I
was going at," lie said. "I was not
driving too fast. I was just coming
along at an ordinary rate, driving very
carefully, as I always do."
Mr. Green and his family were coming
in from Santa Ana. Floyd Green and
his wife live in the Imperial Valley and
were coming in to spend a few weeks
with their parents.
Mr. Green formerly was known as the
only. windmill man in Los Angeles. He
has made a fortune out of windmills.
He first introduced them into Southern
California. His plant was at the corner
of Buena Vista and Ord streets. He
sold out a few years ago and became a
consulting hydraulic engineer, residing
at 1504 West Eighth.
The ambulance carried Sam King to
the Emergency ' Hospital at once. He
was found to have sustained a fractured
skull; a dislocated shoulder and bruises
all over his body. His condition is pre
carious. say thedoctors. Heisexpected
to die at any minute. The Green family
went home in another auto and Mr.
Green had the damaged machine taken
to the garage. Repairs »to it will cost
about $200. V '
Sam King lives at 3218 East First.
He has a wife, but no children. Detect
ive Shearon has begun an investigation
of the accident. ,It is expected that
the Los Angeles Railway Company will
take steps to prosecute Mr. Green in
case it is found he violated the ordin
ances. Mr. Green, however^ declares
the man will not suffer without recom
pense."
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