Imperial Valley press., 1907-08-03

nCnbSs 5ohb AO DhH DioBV dhN HHu Hh abstract mpany make an abstract of title to the lots. It shows that Mir. Paulin and the companies he is inter ested in own I134 lots that stand in their names, to say nothing of those that they have mortgages on. The Fl Centro Land Co.,-figuring on who is going to be benefited by this-the Fl CentIo Land Co. owns 672 lots, only about half of what Mir. Paulin and his companies now own in Imperial Who is to be benefitted most by the county seat question? If we have to benefit an outside corporation by these matters, these figures show the Paulin compan- ies will be benefited almost double if it goes to Imperial more than if it goes to Fl Centro. will leave it to you which you think ought to be benefited.
 The other lots in Imperial that do not belong to the Imperial Land Co.,, very big majority belong to non.resi- dents. The majority of the largest business houses belong to non-resi- dents, the brick blocks nearly all belong to non-residents.
 There is another thing that has been hammered a good deal; that is tax lodging. That is purely matter of juggling with figures. The property in Fl Centro the first of last March was practically all incompleted. There were only one or two completed buildings.
 The ice plant was hardly started, the machinery was not there. Mir. Moul' ton told me that strictly speaking they ought not assess the building at all as there was no machinery there at all. told him to assess it as there would be soon. Mir. Wentworth has harped on that great deal. He has quoted the bank fixtures assessed at $150. to $2OO. They were not bought on the first day of March. We were doing business on an old dry goods box and we would be glad to sell those fixtures for half of what they are assessed at. Is there any excuse for man, let alone a minister of the Gospel, getting out and making statements of that kind? Here are the bills, if anybody wants to look at them. While I am on that subject I have been told and 1 can hardly believe thing like that, state ments have been made refecting on the bank and it's management. We are holding in all the banks of the Valley about 50 per cent reserve and 9 per cent is considered good safe banking. I have been in the banking business 22 years and have never had failure in spite of the fact that last year we had about as hard condition as we could have and not get up against it.
 Now, in regard to this saloon letter. That was such a rediculous thing on the face of it. I understand some people at Imperial believe it. 1 do not believe anyone else takes it seriously. In the first place MT. Howe says l was seen frequently with this man Roberts. l never saw the man but twice. He came to Fl Centro and introduced him. self and said he was Mir. Roberts from Los Angeles. Said he was looking for location for cold storage plant 1; asked me to show him over the ice plant, which did. l talked with him on the cold storage and tried to en- courage him to put it in. l know a cold storage plant is needed in the Valley and that it would be good in- dustry for the town. The poultry business, the egg business, etc. all need it, but not single word was said about saloon liquors or anything of that sort. The only other time l saw him was when walked up into the hotel at Imperial and spoke to him and asked him what conclusion he had come to in regard to this cold storage proposition. MT. Howe says himself that this man was at Imperial looking for location for saloon and trying to get saloon license. He said his brother, the busi- ness manager of brewing company in Los Angeles, suggested that he could get valuable saloon license in Imper- ial now that it was to be the county |