Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-24
CLEARING THE LAND SITUATION.

Imperial Valley settlers impatient people, Their for
 ude under harassng and menacng conditions has been % ues encountered by those to whom they must look for been unusual They have been patient knowing that all obstacles must be in time and that ths TecaeJ desert too important and too big proposition to De aDado because of setback short of utter destruction of it's irrigation system. , he virtue patience carried extremes becomes vice mpe Vag 6as come ond He to ond % the mood to ask pointed questions and to demand that public servants either do he promptly give better than any yet advanced TOT failure Excuses not acceptable and will not quiet the de mand for diligent performance. .-,1 1., ley reesabshng the lines and marks of survey supposed to have been made half cenufy ago ana m e pre en erprs The should have been completed years ago. and
 should be possible now to land claims with exactude and certainty according subdivisions But it not possible in cases and because oi the difficulty % o
 irrigated regions and making country o1 small farmS ana
 Patents cannot for claims which the requisite reclamation and improvement work was completed long ago. ing formal approval of the finished survey
 Having the active assistance of United States Senator Flint discover what being done to put end this situation and why definite of early relief Obtained some information not satisfaction from officials They have learned that because o the lack o the General approval of the Imperial was likely to be
 Responsibility for needless delay having forth between Washington and San Francisco sufficiently to that when prodded the side it is possible to get and quasi promise of relief by the first ot January IS
 
 getting the attention of government officers and putting the matter before them to insure their better understanding of the situation and realization of what their action or n action means to the people of this region.
 Approval of the will go long way toward enhancing prosperity and expedng the development of Imperial Val ley In another also Federal officers can help to dpe the noises about Hand frauds all out of proportion to the size the they have found Prosecution by interview has popular with ambitious politicians since Heney system and of the professed graft hunters have the unhappes to imagine that they secure con- by denuncaton without the ornaty of trial in court
 Perhaps there is of persuadng inducing grand making loud and offensive noises with his mouth should be possible to shut off the publicity which IS the end and aim of his performance.
 If the Angeles press understood that there founda the story of upendous frauds and would take the ascertain the nature of the charges which indictments prectedand the character and motives of wtnesses would longer permit itself to be used the promotion of individual political ambition to the detr thousands of and honest who have had against tremendous odds in making homes the des and nothing but justice and square deal from the which invited them undertake the great work of reclamation.
 Imperial Valley objection to make to the prosecution of any reorted to fraud getting possession of does protest emphacay against oOse exaggerated assertions that fraud tans land enures generally
 this county Let the prosecuting officers bring their trial in instead of in the and ubantiae their sensational charges by convictions.
 MORTGAGE TAX; THE CINCH THAT FAILED.