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Imperial Press
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AIWRKSS: Imm:kim. Pmkss. Imper
ial, San Picjrn County. Calif.
Saturday. June 8. I*ol.
Thk visit of Phksidknt Mc-
Kinlkv to the Pacific Coast
will be forever remembered by
all the people. So it should be.
He made himself dear to the
hearts of everybody by his broad
Americanism expressed in his
public utterances and exemplified
in all his private and public ac
tions. His visit will be of the
most interesting 1 pages in the
historr of the twentieth century.
All honor and praise to the noble
Ruler who is himself ruled by
the sentiments of the people.
According to the newspaper
reports from San Diego, the peo
ple of that city are indeed be
coming enthusiastic over a con
nection with Imperial. The pro
posed wagon road seems to have
been run down by a railroad, and
it is now an extension of the;
Cuvamaca railroad into the Im-j
penal country. The party which j
was here from that city few days
since, it seems, stirred those peo
ple upon their return home, as
they had never been stirred be
fore. They are now of the opin
ion, and rightly too. that today j
is the time for action, and not i
tomorrow or next week. Thisj
country is sure to spring from ;
desolation into a country of won
derful productiveness, filled with ,
homes of the ideal type that will |
be inhabited by a prospenous,
happy people, as anything can
be, and that the volume of trade
that is bound to seek markets else
where will be large; goes without
the saving it: and that the first
market offered to these people
will be accepted, also goes with
out the saving it; hence the ne
cessity for San Diego to be up
and doing.
GARDEN IN IMPERIAL
It is not here today nor it will
not be here tomorrow, nor even
next week, but inside of thirty
days from now Mr. Jackson, a
professional, gardener formerly
from Florida, hopes to have a
garden planted to cabbage, let
tuce, onions, radishes, celery, and
in fact everything usual in a well
kept truck patch. This gentle
man has had broad experience in
this business, and we look to see
wonderful results come of his ef
forts. This fall he will plant
considerable ground to winter
garden truck, including strawber
ries etc.
During the last half century
no state in this United Union has
been so extensirelv advertised as
has California. The work has
been done by traders, land spec
ulators, railroad companies and
everybody else. Hut nothing
succeeds like success, and the
success of Mr. Jackson's garden,
along with others that will follow
his, will be an advertisement for
the Imperial country that will
impress itself upon the minds of
the people.
Exaggeration is so common in
advertising new countries that it
is expected. However, it is not,
and has never been, the intention
of the promoters of this enter
prise, or of this paper, to repres
ent this country as being ffreater
that truth and justice will war
rant. A plain Matement of facts'
is all sufficient. We believe *.he
half has not been told of the won
derful resources which lie hidden!
in the soil of this region. The
Imperial country will be adver
tised through the abundance and !
excellence of her productions.
Thk board of supervisors has
ordered the county surveyor to:
survey the road from San Diego
to the Imperial country, and the
chamber of commerce has prom*
ised to raise the money that is
j lacking to put the road in good {
shape. This is a good more.
Nobody will contradict that. A !
move for better roads is never
out of place. Hut while it is
true that the wagon road is badly
needed and will serve to turn the
tide of business in that direction,
it is also true that a railroad will
be required, and at once too. if
this country continues tributary
to San Diego. A stage line be- 1
tween the two places will be a
great convenience and can handle
the business for a few months.
Next year, however, fifty stage |
lines can not handle fifty per!
cent of the traffic and each year
will double the business; and
a railroad is the only final solu
tion of the proposition.
ANOTHER RAILROAD
It now begins to look like San
Diego county is to have railroads
to spare. They are coming from
every direction. The I/Os Ang
eles Mining Review is authority
for the following:
A dispatch from Santa Ke, N.
M., last Wednesday, states that
incorpation papers of the New
Mexico-Southwestern Railway
Company have been filed in that
city. The stated object is the
construction of a railway (180
miles) from Xl Paso, Texas, to
the New Mexico-Arizona border,
where it will connect with a road
to be called the Arizona South
western, to be built to San Diego
Cal. If that road is built it will
open uy a lot of new mining ter
ritory in San Diego county.
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Notable among the men con
nected with the reclamation of
this arid region is the name of
George C. Hunt of Los Angeles.
Mr. Hunt has a large tract of land
near Cameron lake, and has been
at the Cameron camp several
days. He spent Tuesday night
here on his return to the city.
Before leaving Wednesday
morning he said that he never
saw any work progress more nice
ly than that of putting in the
canal, and said it would bo ready
to receive the water from Salton
channel inside of one more week,
[at which time the water would
be there. In fact he said the
the water has already reached
that'j>oint, and only awaits the
finishing touches of the canal
work, which are being put on
very rapidly. He thought water
ought to reach Imperial in one
week after it is turned in from
the Salton, which means that the
water will be here in two weeks.
While at the camp Mr. Hunt
let from 1,000 to 1,500 acres of
land to men who are working on
the canal, which will be planted
to feed stuffs at once. Mr. Hunt
gives these men the use of his
land this year free, for which he
deserves much credit.
This end of the canal was com
pleted Wednesday, extending
through thetownsitc to Mcsquitc
lake.
Ekstkkn men who don't come
to Imperial to live make a mis
take; a mistake which causes
them any amount of unconscious
suffering. Imperial has a cli
mate which doesn't necessitate a
man's jamming one end of him
into gum shoes and the other end
into an umbrella, three days in
the week, just in order to avoid
the effects of the weather; in win
ter our sun attends strictly to
business and in summer our ven
tilation is unsurpassed; the river
in front of us isn't forever trying
to break over its banks and give
the whole town a mud bath; mos
quitoes and concomitant malaria
are not lying in wait on every
grass blade. Repent of your
misdeeds, you at the east, and
come to Imperial; we will wel
come you with the gladdest of
GEORGE C. HUNT
glad hands. There is not a phys
ician in town and there has never
been a death in the town. Aside
from health we have soil that in
richness is unsurpassed on the
Globe. Come along!
PRESS NOTES
Newton Crook, of Wayne county,.
Ohio, beat a the record of the Chicago
urofe*«w>r. He »ay» he's never kissed
a woman, never u»cd liquor .or tobacco
and never had a razor on hit face, or
had hiit photo taken. He's either sin
gularly free from minor vice* or el««
he'll chum up alongside old Ananias
when he croftftc* the divide. One
thing iii favor of hi* veracity i* that
he ha* lived to be <»8 yearn old without
the lightning chasing him, but there
wa»a half ton mctocr fell in Maryland
the other night -may be that, it wan
after the all too straight Crook and
missed its way. BlPaso Herald.
Texan, Louisiana, Arkanv** Oklaho
ma and Indian Territory, jmssrss a
tjreatcr number of agricultural and
horticultural reaourccH than any ntate
or states, territory or territories, in
the American Union. It would not In
far wrong to nay that thin section can
produce profitably all that other utate*
can produce profitably, and in addi
tion all which they cannot profitably
produce. For thi» reason crop diastcra
do not seriously affect the South wont
except in circumncrilK'd localities.
When there are so many birds in the
flock the farmer in sure to get no me of
them every nhot.— Texan Farm and
Ranch.
We fail to nee why California wan
not added to the above lint, an our re
sources in agriculture and horticulture
surpass that of any state in the Union.
Any question on this line will be for
ever nettled when the Imperial country
in in a good ntatc of cultivation. It
wan perhapna tyi>ographical error thai
California wan omitted.
The California Kainiu (Irowern' As
sociation in meeting at Fresno on the
18th. of May decided to reorganize up*
on an entirely new plan. The growem
will lease their vineyard* outright to
the combine for a term of three years*
The growers will attend to the raining
of the crop and the asnociation wiU
market it. The consideration for the
lease U to be $10, for which nhare* will
tie Untied. A canvann will now be
made for slgnltures to the new con
tract. If a large percentage of grow
em should remain on the outnJde the
association will cut prices to force
them in.