The Imperial press., 1905-09-16
IMPERIAL VALLEY GRAPES
Wonderful Results Attained By Pioneer NitiCulturiStS in
 This Valley

| Ofdpe growing 0Xp0fllu0nCS, SD Idr ds l they have Deen conducted Ill thIS Val
 ie1, nave been exceptionally successful so uuuCtl SO that It llaS presented new problems never before encountered Ill ! UnIs line oI horticulture.
 our climate with It's practically con tlnuUuS growing seaSun Is causing the Vines LO produce three crCps Ol grapes per year. Ine first crop on all varieties Is at least six weeks earlier than ill the great oan Joaquin Valley and Fresno uIsLrIct 0ulLaua, Thompson Seedless, and hItewater grapes rIpened Ill lm- perIal Valley the latter part of June and the second crop was ripe on the same vines by the middle of August. Muscat gtapes rlpen their first crop by Llle first of July and their second the last of Aug ust.
 All of these varieties produce as heavy yield the secUnd crop as at the first And both crops were fully as large ds Vines ot similar age and size produce anywhere else III the State. And BOW Lne third crop Is growing on all these Vines and will be ripe Ill October. Thls crop also promises to be q full one and there Is no reason at all why 1t should not mature perfectly and be just as good trulL as the rest of the crops have been.
 The later varieties of grapes such as Hamburg, Black Prince, COrnichon and Uhe like will produce two crops per year These varieties ri pen their first crop early in August and the second crop Is now well on the way towards maturing and will doubtless produce a fine crop OI perfect grapes.
 Nl,iI ranchers have put cut vineyards the present year and they have all done excellently, the honor of pioneering the industry seems to belong to Anton Pamek and w. s. Corwin. Both of these gentlemen planted small vine yards last year and the vines this year just reached the normal bearing age. Through some unfortunate circumstan ces Mr. C"rwin's vines were stunted for the want of water s" did not have full opportunity to produce to their best, but they did exceedingly well con- siderIng everything.
 Mir. Panek's vines were more fortu nately situated and certainly dId ex- ceptionally we'll. He has seven acres in vineyard and number of varieties, everyone of which did we'll. He sold all of his first crop to the local market at six cents per pound and the second crop at three and a-half. We haven't been able to get the figures on what his output has been, but he promises ms a detailed statement at the end of the season, except that he says that he can only include about four acres in the estimate, the crop on the remainder having been given away to visitors, stolen by Indians and nightly providers who likes good grapes and knew where they grew. At the prices Mir. Panek received it is easy to see that he has first-cIass thing and it is apparent that a vineyard in Imperial Valley will beat an orange grove in Riverside as a money maker.
 All our Valley needs is for the Cali fornia Development Company to com plete it's works, SO that no anxiety will hp felt on the score of water control. When that is done we have such a magnificent Valley of fertile lands and such a wealth of business opportunities as to place us in a class bv ourselves, supreme in the field of colonization.