Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-26
COTTON PLANTING
 NOW A CERTAINTY Assurance of Gin and Con- press Establishes New
 Industry in the
 Valley
Forty Acres of Cotton on Land With in City Limits of Fl Centro-Amer- ican Nile Company Will Bring in Carload of Seed From the South.

Forty acres of snowy cotton right on the townsite of El Centro and ad- joining the Southern Pacific railroad, so that it may become a show-pldce for every traveller through the val ley is a plan for which details have been arranged during the past week. That El Centro is to become the cen ter of Imperial Valleys cotton activi ties seems certain. With it's stands and compress, it will assume the ac- / tivities in this line of industry so no- ticeable in the larger towns of south ern Oklahoma and through the Texas cotton belt.
 Denver D. Pellet has secured lease from the El Centro Townsite Company of tract of forty-fOur and three, eights acres lying east of the South ern Pacific Railroad, and between Main and Orange streets, which will be planted to cotton next spring.
 MT. Pellet purposes planting the en- tire tract as one body, and then cut ting out rows through the field where the street lines run, so that sight seers may be able to drive through the field on the various streets and get close view of the cotton in it's various stages of growth.
 The American Nile Cotton Company is proceeding with the details of it's organization and will have a gin and compress in readiness for handling next seasons crops at Bl Centro.
 One of it's first moves will be the shipping to Fl Centro of a carload of the best cotton seed from Texas. This city has been designated by the State Board of Horticulture as one of the four quarantine stations in California for the fumigation of cotton seed i'm ported from other States. All cotton seed intended for planting in the I'm perial Valley must be inspected and fumigated here by the local represen- tative of the State Board of Horti- culture, w. E. Wilsie. This precau- tion is taken to keep out the boil weevil, which has proved a source of much annoyance in various Southern localities.
 That acreage to be planted to cot ton next spring will exceed recent calculations is evident From all di- rections come reports of small tracts to be seeded until the aggregate will probably reach 4000 acres.
 One of El Centro's merchants inter- ested in the development of cotton raising here states that out of forty ranchers interviewed in his store re- garding their next seasons crop, twenty-seven annou1iced their inten- tion of planting cotton, in small tracts. Texas men say that this is all that is required to firmly establish the cotton industry in Imperial Valley, as they are certain that the coming seasons showing will bring about an immense acreage the following year
 C.. Lazenley, an extensive grower of cotton at Greenville, Alabama, is in the valley this week, looking over the situation, and it is probable he will secure lands here for spring planting.
 T. Abe, a Japanese rancher near Heber, will plant 100 acres of cotton next spring, and F. J. Eddy, southwest of El Centro, plans to have from eighty to one hundred acres. Reports of smaller acreage to be planted to cot ton are coming in from all directions.