The Imperial press., 1905-09-30

from a two weeks trip to San Bernai- dino. He says the outside people have begun to recover from their yellow journ- al scare about Imperial Valley being flooded and no longer expect to find fins and scales on people from this country.
 Rev. J. F. Tout writes us he is in Ventura packing up to move here and expects to arrive with his family within two weeks. He also asks us to an- nounce that Rev. Ernest ThOrl quest will preach in his pulpit at tine Christian Church on next Sunday morning at eleven o'clock.
 Supervisor Jasper in his new position of Secretary of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce will go to Portland and take charge of tile wonderful exhibit 1 of precious stones now at the Worlds Fair As the fair will close on October 14, it will keep MT. Jasper busy till l about the end of next month to get this valuable exhibit packed and brought home. San Diego County is becoming noted for it's great and valuable journal inc and kunzite mines, and also has deposits of valuable gems of other kinds. Tn the forthcoming report of the State Mining Bureau, Mineralogist Aubrey will give due prominence to these San Diego County deposits, and will endeavOr 10 show their value and extent
 Arnold Reef, who has been foreman in charge of the PRESS office since last December, has resigned his position and will join his family at their home i'll San Diego, next week. Mrs. Reef and thoir com PoUYnnnd wont fo San DIQOO about month ago. Mir. Reef will take a much needed rest for month or two before again engaging in business and it is hoped that he may decide to return to this Valley again. He is first-Class printer, a careful, competent and reli- able man and the PRESS takes this meth cd of publicly expressing it's apprecia tiOn of his services. When we took up the newspaper work 1t was without pre- vious training or experience and we re- alize how valuable Mir. Reef has been to
 ls while we were being broken into the harness.
 Resident Engineer Perry, of the Cali fornia Development Co.,, accompanied by D. l.. Russell, went to Pelican Lake and the Number Eight Heading, this week, to see what sort of shape the floods had left things in there. They found that the slough that formerly led from Pelican Lake to New river has got to cutting out that an over-pour has formed and a channel about twenty feet deep, has been washed from New river back to Pelican Lake. This cutting is still going on and unless the water is stopped from flowing through there It will cut the channel back to Pelican Lake, lower the outlet and drain out and l destroy this beautiful lake. The chan l nel of New river has also cut out deep 1 gorge and rendered it practically impos sible to put dam in this stream for the Number Eight heading. Itis there 1 fore suggested that dam be built across the outlet of Pelican Lake and the wash ing of the channel above referred to, stopped. Then the water i'll this lake could be kept up high enough to supply the Number Eight canaland the surplus taken care of by means of waste gate. The water could be diverted from New River at a point west of Blue Lake and carried through Bull Head Slough and Badger Lake into Pelican Lake. This would keep up these lakes and make fine fishing and hunting grounds, as well as furnish Number Eight safe and ample supply of water from a lake big enough to serve as a settling basin and thus furnish them clear, settled water.
 Agricultural Official Visits Valley A very much interested visitor to im- perial Valley this week was Mir. M. 4. Carleton, of Washington, D. C., who ] holds the very important position of 1 Cereslisi in the Division of Agrostology
 of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. l Carleton has travelled over practically
 all the tropical and arid countries in the
 world in his search for valuable grains
 and forage plants adapted to the arid
 regions of the United States and is one of the best posted men Tn the govern
 ment concerning the grains and forage plants that are being introduced by the
 Department of Agriculture, and the parts of our country to which they are adapted. He says there are at least twenty new varieties of alfalfa that the government men foundgrowing in Egypt 1 in Algeria, in Arabia, Syria aud Turke- stan, that would be excellently adapted 1 to the climate and soil of this Valley, and he expressed surprise that they had
 not been introduced. He also told of several varieties of wheat and barley l that was found in the rainless regions 1 that grew on very little moisture and
 produced excellent crops. He told of one crop of barley he saw in Arabia