Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

prepared to put it in commission, but the steam plant is not completed and Superintendent Paris says it cannot be put in running order inside of nine ty days.
 The situation created by the warning corporations was depicted concisely in the following resolutions, adopted by the El Centro Chamber of Com merce on Tuesday night and wired to Judge Wellborn and the Los Angeles papers:
 Appeal For Relief.
 Resolved, by the Chamber of Commerce of Fl Centro, Imperial County, meeting by the light of candles in school house wired for electric lights:
 That this body, representing the citi- tens of the County Seat and the settlers of this district, respectfully brings to the attention of Judge Wellborn, of the United States Circuit Court, the injurious con sequences following literal enforcement of his order of injunction, directed to the company supplying water for the substan- tial needs of the people for domestic and irrigation purposes and such other lawful uses as the same may be and is applied to.
 The canal supplying water to the plant of the Holton Power Company has been closed by order of the court. This action extinguishes the lights of five towns stops work in all the creameries in the valley; shuts down a brick-making plant, requiring thirty horse power; closes a large steam laundry; stops the wheels in machine shops; shuts off forges and supplied to the people by butchers; threatens the loss of 22OO tons of ice now on hand and deprives the people of that indispensable commodity; shuts off the domestic water supply of at least one large town; checks industry of all sorts by depriving of light and power territory twenty five miles long by twelve miles wide, containing a population of at least 15, 1000, and works great injury to a thriving, industrious community with out doing the slightest practical good to a single human being. No relief by means of auxiliary steam power is possible in- side of ninety days, and then the cost of light and power would be prohibitive.
 Resolved, That we believe the Court was not fully informed of conditions when it sought to dry up Salton Sea by in junct on; that we are assured that if all inflow of water were stopped, the natural subsistence of the sea would not restore the salt works to view for many years; that an inflow from the overfowed lands through New River, independent of all canals and works of man, now exists and is sufficient to maintain Salton Sea as a permanent lake of considerable area, and is not controllable by order of court; that therefore the injunction against wastage through irrigation and power canals is ineffective as a measure of relief to the Liverpool Salt Company, but is disastrous to the people of Imperial County and a public calamity.
 Resolved, That we protest earnestly az sainst being ground between the mill stones of litigation and subjected to needless hardships that a club may be plac ed in the hands of one private cor porati ton for the coercion of another; and we respectfully but emphatically insist on recognition of the public good as para mount to private interests, in law as well as in civic policy, and appeal to Judge Wellborn to take all the facts into con sideration and relieve Imperial County of the blight of his order of injunction.
 Absurd Injunction.
 As club held over the c. D. Go. to induce settlement of damage claims, the injunction against the discharge of water into Salton Sea may serve a purpose. On the theory that the c. D. Go. was primarily responsible for the break of the Colorado's bank, which was held by the court as established, it may be logical in law to order the company to refrain from perpetuating the damage. From every practical point of view, however, the injunc- ton is futile and serves no beneficial end
 It is impossible to supply, through a canal system sixty miles long, just enough water to irrigate Imperial Val ley farms and no more. It Is impos-