Imperial Valley press., 1907-07-30
THE SITUATION
El CentrO in the lead and the Best People in the Valley On the
 Right Side

paper had special man out here on the San Diego excursion who has since taken a great interest in the
 Imperial Valley, and at the time he was here he realized that Fl Centro was the coming town, and h sum ming up the situation he speaks as one who is tho. ouehly familiar with his subject.
 The situation in the Imperial Valley at the present time is warm one, speaking both from a political and weather man s standpoint The nomi- nation of thirteen candidates for the county offices by the non-partisan con- vention last week precipitated the real fight that of the county seat.
 While there are number of indepen- dent candidates already in the field by petition the interest does not centre about theirlittle fights. It is generally conceded that the entire ticket named by the nou-partisan convention will be elected
 Fl Centro made an effort, as did Inn perial to control the primaries which elected the delegates to the convention, Fl Centro succeeded in a most decisive manner. It was the first real test of strength between the two leading towns in the contest. Brawley was alone with II delegates. Outside of these Fl Centro had every delegate in the house, aside, of course, from those of the city of Imperial
 This Convention IS an expression 0: the majority of voters in the valley at the present time on the county seat question, it is conceded. The work teat Brawley and Imperial are both doing now is to undermine the strength of El Centro and win for one or tue other places the coveted honor. EL Centro it seems, will not lose any of the strength she has gained and the vote on August 9th will no doubt con firm this harmless prophecy.
 It has been whispered that, failing in the county seat fight. Imperial will take to the courts to nulIify the election. claim some discrepancies in the pub lication of the election notice thus giv- ing Imperial the chance, should she SO desire, of causing no end of trouble. However, legal lights explain, that the notice requires but one correct pub licatiOn before election and the procla- nation may yet be put in the proper type, thus thwarting the plans of the disgruntled There is a feeling how ever, that Imperial will do anything to block the game, should it be 8 losing one for he
 The candidates are visiting arhong their friends all over the valley. The support of tue entire non-partsan tick ct for Fl Centro is no small item in the fight. Imperial asked openly for no offices as was the case with Fl Centro, and neither place is on the lists.
 The general outlook for the Imperial valley on a whole was never better The wonders that the farmers are able ] to report after harvest of each crop in 1 the way of actual cash profits are hard to believe. The price of land per acre is already on the upward trend The fact that person can buy land for $75 per acre and make S2O0 clear in one year from that acre makes others won der why land is not on the skyline in | prices The wise people are in the | valley now securing the best bargains. 1, Others who fear the heat are staying | away until fall and will come in for | what is left, However, the fact re. mains that there are hundreds of | ranches of large acreage that will have . to be subdivided to meet the demand . soon. These subdivisions are already . taking place close to the various towns.
 The first actual cash sale of land at bl00 per acre was made near Fl Centro ast week, 100 acres of fine ground going for tl0,000. It is agreed that within a year this same land will be worth that much more.