The Imperial press., 1905-09-30
WTTLESS WISNER'S VAIL
MisGt Member of the Reclamation Service
 BIoviates Against Imperial Valley

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 privately owned irrigation works as compared with those the Reclamation Service will build. If so, it is to be regretted that he saw fit to make such radically false statements and to mis- represent what few facts he did use. There is nothing on which to base any such assumptions as he makes.
 The entire flow of the Colorado river tor at least eight months in the year will all be needed to irrigate the lands along it's lower course and if MT. Wisner don't know it, it is because he refuses to read the statistics prepared with such labor and exactitude by the Ser vice of which he is member. The magnificent plans of the Reclamation Service for the control and utilization of the waters of the Colorado contem- plate the impounding of the flood wa ters of this stream by the construction of gigantic reservoirs in the state of Colorado. Even now, public opinion is being aroused to remove all obstacles i'll the way of the realization of this wonderful undertaking.
 When the plans of the Reclamation Service are complete the Colorado river will be simply great main canal for the purpose of carrying the waters of it's immense drainage area to the arid lands along it's course, where they will be taken out and used for irrigation. By this means there will be no floods nor overflow of waste water to go into SaltOn Sea or anywhere else. Is Wisner trying to "knock" the Reclamation Service in behalf of Moffatt and the gang of grafters who would thwart their noble work?
 To the stout hearted and loyal pion- eers of Imperial Valley, the venomous attitude of this man toward our enter prise is beyond comprehension. Used as we are to the open hearted and noble men who represent the Reclamation Service i'll California and Arizona: men of lofty minds, whose hearts are wrap- ped up in their work, men above ieal ousy and above reproach; it is shock to think of Wisner as colleague of these, our friends.
 So far as We can learn this man was never in this Valley, knows nothing of our people or our country. Perhaps if he had visited our Valley and met our people, he would have been less free with his direful prophecies In his ignorance and spleen he made those assertions, thinking perhaps that there by he might magnify the work of the Reclamation Service. But in the end. he predicted a worse failure for it than for the Imperial Irrigation Company" as he calls it.
 And now, since Mir. Wisner has had his fling into prophecy, the PRESS will essay the role. We predict that the work now beeng done by the California Development Company will be success full and that the water will be under control and no more of it coming to this Valley than is needed, by the first day of January 1906. We predict that we will never have any floods to fill up the Salton Sea again but that after January l, next, that "sea" will begin to fall and will continue to do so till it is all gone. We predict that Moffatt and his band of grafters will get "done up" and that the Reclamation Service will carry out it's magnificent plans for the control of the Colorado river and the utilization of it's waters. We pre- dict that before the twenty years Wisner mentions have passed. this Valley will have a population of 100000 souls and will be one of the richest agricultural regions on the globe.
 We are sorry for Wisner because he cant enter into the western spirit nor believe in the great creative work the west is doing. Frozen up in his Detroit home, how can he believe in the great things that are being done bey ond the ice bound rocks of that forbiddine When Wisner is, forgotten, Imperial Valley will be famous for the richness of it's soil, the wealth and
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