Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-13
IMPERIAL PLANS
BEST OF ROADS
COUNTY HIGHWAY COMMITS
SION is SELECTED
CEMENT ROCK DEPOSITS ARE
CONVENIENTLY NEAR
5rawley's Freight Business Is Double
That of Year Ago-Largest Horse
Market in Southwest Near
Calexlco
BY HUGH X. HARTUNG

BRAWLEY, Cal, NOV. lO--1mpeTldi
valley is at the formation stage of
development and good roads are at
tracing the attention of the trustees
the ranchers and the booster agents
The anxiety of planters to reach the
| shipping sheds quickly when the late
melons were ripe brought the ques-
ton forcibly to the growers.
The waste of time. the wear and
tear on horses, harness and vehicles
and the delay in reaching the Market
when prices were most profitable never
were realized greater than recently
when the roads happened to be in
their worst condition.
| Wideawake chambers of commerce
and improvement oF7eers are taking
of petitioning the supervisors to con-
struct several model stretches or road
beds so the entire community may
have an intimate knowledge OF the
value of such a road system to the
county.
1t is said there are concrete, sand
and rock deposits at several points
in the valley, and these should offer
splendid road-making material.
Spur tracks could be built easily
to these understanding points to as
sist the engineers and contractors in
constructing such a system of roads.
A body, comprising r. H. Benton
of Imperial, Walter K. BoWker OF
Calexico. and George A. Carter of Ell
Centro has been selected as high
way commission to study all phases
of the road problem and formulate
plan of action for Improvement.
Shipping Doubles
Double last years business is the
weeks report of Southern Pacific
Agent w. c. Eaton at Brawley.
During the week fortysiX cars OF
freight were unloaded at this point,
the commodities consisting mostly of
merchandise, seed, hay, hogs and sup
plies for farms, home and business
houses
1t is apparent in the valley a car
shortage is expected because of the
rapidly increasing business in all lines.
Instructions have been sent into the
valley by railroad officials to have all
cars promptly unloaded so they may
be restored to traffic as soon as pos
sible
Many of the incoming arrivals from
eastern and northern points are rela-
tives and friends of settlers and bust
ness men here who, backing their own
confidence have persuaded their kin
bred to come to the land of promise.
Fast as they come they are swal-
lowed up in the back country which
for miles invites the tillers of the soil.
Their presence though is quickly felt
at the postoffice and in the stores,
banks and business houses, the best
barometers of trade.
Absorbing Water Stock
Encouraging signs of progress are
found in the negotiations looking to
the sale of the California Develop
ment company's canal system by the
settlers of Imperial valley through
their mutual water companies.
Stockholders of district No. 1 water
company have considered certain ten
tative arrangements to vote for an
issue of $4,000 shares of additional
stock in No. 1 company.
Saturday committee consisting OF
D. G. Aplin, w A. Edgar F. s. Web
ster, E. S. McCullom and w. E. Will
sic met with General Manager H. T.
Cory at Calexico, to reach a settle
ment favorable to both sides.
How best to extend and maintain the
bitches most proftablv and other feat
ures of management viii enter into
the final price of the system, and the
Southern Pacific Railroad company
If terms can be determined in fair
ness to all concerned.
AS a Horse Market
Imperial valley is proud of the
horses raised on its fertile soil.
Thousands are sold at the semi-an-
| nual sales, visitors coming from Los
Angeles and the north, and from
Yuma east, to invest in horsef1esh at
these gatherings.
The recent sale on the C. NJ. ranch,
the immense prof. erty held by Los An
geles capitalists beyond Calexico,
showed an average of prices a little
higher than at previous sales, with
| Auctioneer Sam Watkins of Los An
geles on the block.
General Manager Walter Bowker of
the ranch has waged an advertising
campaign that has made the c. NJ.
ranch widely known as a source of
| supply for the horse and the cattle
market of the southwest and of the
Imperial valley.
At these sales as many as one thou
sand head of horses are sold in one
| day, the company furnishing a barbe-
cue for the visitors and seeing to their
| ranch,