The Imperial press., 1905-05-20

Early in the history of this com pany
 F. C. Paulin became it's executive head. This company having been organized by
 people who were also interested in the Calliornla Development Company, it WAS assumed that It would work with and support that company. However, Mir. Paulin saw in thIs innocent little company the magic Jimmy with which he could plunder the California De- velopment Company. cripple the de- velopment of the Imperial Valley, and build up fortune for himself out of the deals he could thus be enabled to put through. With an eye single to the qualification of hls own avarice this man has been the evil genus of this ell terprise. He became director of the California Development Company and it's vice president.
 From this point of vantage he has organized numerous schemes by which the assets of the California Develop ment Company have been sold to com panies in which he was interested for very much less than they were worth, his Imperial Land Company getting it's com mission of 70 per cent on the miserable pittance allowed to the Cali fornia Development Company, and his new company, to which the stock would be sold, then selling it 10 the settlers for four or five times what 1t cost them. So consistently has this scheme been worked, and so successfully, that the chief beneficiary of these deals is riding in all automobile, living in fine style, and has three hundred dollar rugs on his floors, while Mir. leber, the man who has manlully tried to carry the burden and fulfill the contracts of his company, has loaned his own money and personal credit to the California Development Company and is poorer man now than he was when he took up this work.
 Not long ago Paulin sold out his stock in the California Development Company and became practically sole owner of the Imperial Land Company. Il owever, he still holds his position as director in the California Development Company, and is therefore still powerful to work to the detriment of this Valley, if such course should be to his advantage.
 Even now he is in conspiracy to turn Mir. Heber out of the California Devel- opment Company and cripple or wreck the enterprise in order to further some dark scheme of his own
 Thls man has made his fortune out of the people of this Valley in these water stock deals. The money the people paid and which s ould have been available for building the canal systems, has been pocketed by him and by his devious schemes, leaving the California Dev,l- opment Company unable to meet It's obligations, and the settlers of the Val. ley unable to get redress
 He will now oppose the plan of Mir. Heber to give back to the water compa- nies their unsold stock, for he will nce his graft done away with. We believe the people will prefer to buy water st. ck and put their money where they wil get the benefit of it, rather than have any more Panlin graits worked on tn, m. There is very grave danger that lhe scheme to wreck the California Delrl- opment Company, and throw it's affairs into chaos will be successful, unless the people come to the rescue. We alain congratulate the people on the fact that there are sixty days in which these at- ters can be discussed from every stand point, and we hope large number of very interesting facts will come out in the discussion.
 We hope all sides will be heard. .. In the meantime, remember, we can not irrisate the Imperial Valley without water, and that the vital question is how Shall we get it, and make sure of it. It is desirable and necessary to banish tie gralters, and the PRESS cries out upon the blood-sucking ieeches who have fattenen alike on the California