The Imperial press., 1905-07-15
SATURDAY. JULY 15. 1905.
IMPERIAL VALLEY TRIUMPHANT

This is a great old world, and Imperial Valley IS the greatest place in 1t. Here. as in no other place can the hearts desire of the strenuous man be realized, for of d verity. there is ''some- thing doing all the time" in Im- perial Valley. Last year the. water supply was too short for time, ana we were posed before the public as a famished and dried out community, laid deso- late by the failure of our water supply. Before that time we had been advertised as lot of fanatics rushing to certain des- tructlon by trying to reclaim d worthless waste of alkali desert. Now that the superb courage and iudOmitable faith of our pioneers have conquered the wild wastes, washed out and over come the deadl y akali. and dis proved every evil assertion made against our chosen Valley, and have shown this to be the cream of all the arid west for farming and home building, we find our selves once more posed before the linel' ght of public print as victims of dire disaster by des- tructivc floods.
 Our Valley is an enigma to the man who has never seen 1t. wonderland concerning which he seems to be willing to believe any story, no matter how pre- posterous, and generally the more preposterous the better 1t suits him. However. despite -p9Ptsl;sE- ignorance and the readi- ness of the sensation nongerS to exploit all the unfavOrable re- ports concerning this Valley, we point with pride to the fact that though 1t all and in it all Inl- perial Valley has never failed to make good. And as 1t has been in the past, it is now, and will be in the future. Imperial Valley will continue to make gOod". Don't be the least bit alarmed about the reports that the Colorado river is turning its course and will flow into the Salton Sink and drown us out The people of this Valley are not the kind to be drowned out. The New river and SaltOn chan rel are able to carry the entire flow Of the Colorado river during any stage of the river from now till next April, and for great deal of the time either one of them would carry 1t and not flood. Therefore, there is no danger whatever that anybody'S ranch IS going to be destroyed or his live stock drowued. The water is beginning to recede. and the future will show an iu- crease in the number of those whose ranches are not flooded. Imperial Valley lacks long ways ol beiH4- Calamity Flat" as the yellow journals endeavor to make Ii appear. We over come tie evil effects of the alkuli report and all the not weather and hot air stories we had to confront in the carly settlement of the country. we lived through the water shortage and single handed overcome its evil effects. now, with the most powerful corpnrat10u III this state as vitallv interested in controlling the water situation as ourselves. and bending every energy to its speedy accomplishment, we need feel no uueaSineSS as to the out come. Rather let us the more plan and work for that great future which is ours. let every farmer prepare to SOW all the alfalfa he can. let the business man make ready to do double and quadrUple the business he has m the past. and let the be- lated land buyer delay no longer h''f make haste to possess him.