The Imperial press., 1904-10-29
RAILROAD MEETING SATURDAY

perial Valley have met the dclcga- ton uf san Diego business men with its plan of the San Diego, Imperial Valley | X Eastern Railroad. That for mhich ] the city by the sea has sought 30 long in vain, ardently welcoming every pros pcct of ealizatiou-something that ! should open it's splendid harlor to the . commerce oi the world and release it from the curse of railroad monopoly, ! now is on the high road To become an ! accomplished fact.
 Imperial Valley has started the ball . roling-with gathered impetus will Il l sweep along till thr thunder of it's re- verlerations along the mountains will . wake "The Seven Slccpcrs" of san . Diego from their slumbcrs and fierce . them to either join forces with it's pro- moteru or be ground beneath its weight. '
 The railroad committee appointed at the Farmers Institute, together with ] n larger "Committec of 25' has been m . close consultation for she past few days . with delegation of business men from ! San Diego, who presented plan for i the building of Il railroad between san ] Diego and the Imperial Valley, extend ] ing on la Yuma. Successful gatherings have been held in Calexico, Brawley, Sisl,ec and ioltvill. and il mass meet ! ing of the whole Valley at Imperial | Saturday afternoon was the culmlna- ton of movement for organization that is now perfected and working in good order.
 The Methodist church was filled with !. an audience of those sturdy pioneers ! who have changed this desert from n 1 wilderness to garden, and turned the ! abiding place of the rattesnake and ] horned toad into vast fields oi barley, ! wheat, corn and alfalfa.
 w F.. Wilsie, chairman of the rail- ] road committee appointed at the Farm ! CTS Institute, presided. In his intro ductory remarks he quoted from his 1 paper at the Institute, proposing that l the people build and own a railroad to | San Diego themselves. He stated that l within a short time after the publica- ton of his paper in the San Diego 1 Union, letter was received from Folsom Bros. O., and after several l communications on both sides, Il meet . ing between representatives of that company and the railroad committee appointed at the Institute, had been held in Imperial. At that time plan for building a railroad had been pre- sented, and as amended, this would be laid before the people today.
 fTanclS VI. IsllpNA, bl F'aH IlcSbs ~ . mem bcr oi Folsom Bros. Co.,, was in troduced, and explained the situation. Mir. Elliott began by saying that the gathering-place was especially propi- tious, in place for the salvation of mems souls, the plan for the salvation of the Imperial Valley would Ike pre- sented. That which would be said there today would mean more for the material welfare of the Imperial Valley than anything else that would ever be spoken in that place
 The buccaneers of old holding prison CTS for ransom were compared m vivid manner to the corporations of to- day who gather tribute from the pco- pie.
 San Diego for thirty years has been shut off from the world except at the pleasure of the Santa Fe. who tells them when passenger rates are conn plain0i of "Then walk" And when freight rates are excessive, "llaul it out yourselves" Collis r. Huntington had made the boast that he would make the grass grow in the streets of san Diego, bnt today the grass Is growing on his grave and San Diego Is still there.