Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-14
Valley Plantations Make Tex an Growers Open
 Their Eyes
American Nile Company Buys Gin and Press to Handle Crop, and Oakland Mills Are Ready to Take Entire Pro- duct of Imperial Valley Cotton Fields.

Within three weeks the machinery for El Centro's first cotton gin and compress will arrive here from Dallas, Texas, and by September 25 the plant will be in readiness to begin it's sea- sons work.
 J. A. Bachman, a cotton expert from Round Rock Texas, arrived in El Centro on Sunday morning to confer with Joseph R. Loftus, of the Amer ican Nile Cotton Company, in regard to the first plant here, and as a re- suit MT. Bachman carries back to Tex as a contract for the immediate de- livery at this point of a two-suand seventy-saw ginning outtt and hy- draulic compress of the doupIe- box pattern, generally known as the Mur- ray outfit, and conceded by cotton growers to be one of the best of cot ton handling machines. The plant is built by the Murray Gin Company, of Dallas, Texas, and the original cost at Dallas is $500. When set up and ready for operation, the plant will represent an outlay of about $3500
 It is proposed to secure, if possible, one of the large packing sheds in El Centro as a temporary building for the gin and compress, and thus save time in getting the plant in readi- ness. It is probable that by the open ing of the second season the company will have it's own building, located on it's land south of the Southern Pa cific stock yards, in the southeastern part of this city.
 The plant to be installed here will have a capacity of twenty five bales per day It will be operated by fifty horsepower electric motor, the power to be furnished by the Holton Power Company.
 Mir Bachman, while here this week, made a general survey of the valley cotton fields and as a result is en- thusiastic over the crop prospect. He says that as far as his observation ex- tended he believes the cotton fields now have an average of two bales to the acre and the growing season will continue for several weeks
 He advises that planters should all low their fields to continue growth un- til at least the middle of Septem- Der. The matter of proper irrigation is the chief one to be studied in this valley. Where insufficient moisture has been given the plants. they stop their growth and send out the fruit" at the top of the pant MT. Bach man believes that in such condition but little irrigation should be given the field until the bolls are properly matured, and that the field may again be thoroughly irrigated when it will probably make the second setting of fruit. He notes that in some cases the crop has been given too much wat CT, and in these fields the weed has turned yellow. This has also been the case where the land was not properly leveled.
 As a whole, says MT, Bachman, the Imperial Valley cotton crop is the fin est he has ever seen, and he has ab- solute confidence in this valley prov ing one of the best cotton regions in the United States,
 It is estimated that when plants set thirty bolls on an average, the field will produce a bale to the acre, and in some of the fields examined by MT. Bachman he found the average was 100 bolls to the plant,
 MT, Bachman is accompanied by Rae Oliver and S. T. Marshall, Texan cot