The Imperial press., 1905-08-05
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 John E. High of Silsbee was in town Thursday and reported Blue lake falling one inch every A hours.
 July Weather
 Maximum, 124 on the sixth; mini- mum, 62 on the first and fifteenth. Mean maximum, 110.06; mean mini mum, 74.45. Mean for month, 92. 2.25. Total precipitation, .07. Clear days, 2S; partly cloudy, 3. H. x. Dyke, Volunteer Weather Observer.
 Chamber of Commerce
 There will be meeting of the Inn perial Chamber of Commerce on Tues. day evening, August 8, at the office of the Imperial Land Co.,, at o'clock. There will be several important matters to come before the meeting and full attendance is desired. H. N. Dyke, Secretary.
 Latest Overflow News
 The latest measurements of water going to waste into Salton Sink made by Hydrographer w. V. Hardy, of tue Reclamation Service, are as follows: Aug. 1, New river at Calexico, 822l sec. it. Aug main canal waste way, 289 sec. fit. Aug slough near Signal mt, 5sec. it. Aug. Salton channel, 3551 sec. 1t. Aug No canal waste way. 27 sec. it. Total flowing ill Salton Sea, 1903 sec. it. The total last week was 13524 second feet showing a decrease for the week of l43l second feet. On last Sunday, July 30, the total diversion of water from the Colorado river by the Imperial canals was 15,700 second feet. Mir. Hardy estimates the flow of the irrigating canals in Imperial Valley to be about 1000 second feet, making with the amount going to waste total of about l3 ,000 second feet. He is puZzIei to account for tbe other 2,700 second feet and thinks there must be small channel leading from the Imperial
 
 | Colorado river, through which this water escapes. With the further fall of the river this would cease, and prac- tically all that is diverted reach the Imperial Valley The water has fallen at all points during the week except the Salton channel shows slight increase. Profitable Wheat Crop
 Mir. J. N. Woodland who lives in the Silsbee neighborhood about eight miles southwest from I'm .,eriaI is one of the farmers who raised Philippine wheat the past season and he is not regretting the fact, either. Philippine is the new variety of wheat that resists the des- troying influences of rust and makes a crop in any season no matter whether wet or dry. This wheat has quite a history. The first of it that ever reach ed the United States was sent to San Bernardino, Cal, in 1898 from the Philippine Islands by one of Uncle Sans boys in blue, who sent fev grains of it home in d letter. Mir. D. G. Whiting came into possession of the seed and planted it. The first crop was almost entirely eaten up by neighbors COWS foraging on it. Just few grains were saved and planted the next year. This time it was forgotten and harvest ed in with the rest of the crop and mixed, making it necessary to go back and gIean the patch it had1grown on to be sure If getting pure seed. This time the quantity available was hardly a teaspoonful of gram. Rather strik- ing evidence of the hard luck that attends haphazard seed introduction Then Mir. Whiting brought it to Im- perial Valley and by car eful attention increased the stock of seed until last year he had seven acres. From him MT. Woodland got seed and planted ten acres last winter. He had it threshed few days ago and it turned out lS2 sacks of splendid, plump wheat .ssweigh- Ing 132 pounds per sack of 2114 bushels. This wheat MT. Woodland disposed Of to his neighbors for seed and after keeping what he needed for his own fields sold the remaining forty-seven
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