Imperial press and farmer., 1902-03-29
No. 50

basis. and other similar companies as they are put in operation for other portions of the Settlements will be placed on the same basis regards water rights and cost of water.
 What are the prospects Of a railroad being built to connect Imperial with the outside worId7
 Any locality where 100000 acres of good land are brought under irrigation and cuitiva- tion-or even 100000 acres. for that matter can have railroad. for the business is there to attract the road.
 The Imperial and Gulf Railroad Company has already been incorporated, and the veyors are now at work locating the line from Imperial to a connection with the Southern Pacific at what is now known as old Beach. about four miles west of Flowing We'll This station, at the junction of the Beach road is to be known in the future Imperial Junction.
 The capital stock of the company is s7OO,OO0, divided into TOO shares of $1OO each. Of this amount $500 900 have been subscribed by the incorporators. and 10 per cent. of the amount $30. .OO0-has been paid into the treasury of the company, and this money is to be used at once : in grading and bridging the road from Impe- rial Junction. to the town of Imperial, dis tance of about thirty miles.
 It is proposed to extend the main line from Imperial in a southerly direction to Parnga and Caexico. and thence to the head of the Gulf of California, with one branch line to the new town of Bluelake, located the eastern shore of Blue Lake, which branch line will be about 10 miles in length; also another branch line to the town of Eastside, a distance of about fifteen miles The total length of the line inside of the United States will be about seventy miles.
 The Board of Directors Of the Company is composed of w. F. Holt. president of the First National Bank of Imperal J. H. Braly, presi- dent of the Southern California savings Bank A. H. Heber president and general manager of the California Development Company F. c. Paulin general manager of the Imperial Land Company and Edwin A. Meserve. attorney-at- law, all of Los Angeles, except w. F. Holt who is a resident of the town of Imperial.
 The officers of the company are w. F. Holt president and general manager; J. H. Braly, vice president; F. C. Pauin, secretary, and A. H. Heber. treasurer.
 The money in the treasury of the company is sufficient for grading and bridging the road as far as the town of Imperial. and this work will be commenced without delay. and it will be pushed to completion.
 Mr. w F. Holt has been in correspondence for some time with Kew York capitalists who propose to take the bonds of the company after the grading is completed. thus furnishing the money to complete the road and supply the rolling stock.
 The building of this railroad and its branches settles the fact that the town of Imperial is to become the commercial center of the Imperial Settlements. surrounded eventually and at no distant day by 5OOOOO acres of irrigated land in this State to say nothing of more than half as much more south of the International Boundary line in Lower California. What about the San Diego Eastern Rail- road2
 . The survey for that proposed railroad has been completed from San Diego over the Coast , range to the edge of the desert (March 20,