Imperial Valley press., 1909-11-20

tive energy came into Imperial Val ley this week and got as busy as a dynamo in a power house. w. F. Holt brought the load in his private car Francisco. There were really two carloads, an extra Pullman being coupled to the "Francisca" to carry the overflow. The cargo consisted of the Governor of California and stock holders of the Inter- California Land Company, representing a capital of $3,200,000 invested in a project to de- velope and colonize 32,000 acres of rich delta land just over the Mex ican boundary in the domain of the C-M Company
 The syndicate was organized by that human dynamo, Gen. M. HI. Sher- man of Los Angeles, and the members made it a condition of investment that the affairs of the company should be managed by the Little Giant of Imperial Valley, w. F. Holt. MT. Holt, therefore, is president and gen. eral manager of the company. It is the purpose of the company to es- tablish a town on the line of the railroad, probably at or near Coco pah station, and to reclaim and put into cultivation the entire tract of 32,000 acres. The land is all under the main canal of the valley irriga- tion system and has water rights by virtue of the terms of the Mexican concession to the c. D. Go. The com pany probably will put in cotton; sugar cane and beets and other crops on a large scale and establish var ious industries, but the details of it's operations have not been worked out yet.
 The visitors arrived at the Califor- nia- Mexico ranch near Calexico on Tuesday and were entertained hos pitably by Manager Bowker. They inspected the lands below the line during the day and had a feast of
 
 hacienda in the evening. Wednesday morning the party came to El Centro and made a trip to Holtville, where the Governor was received by large delegation of citizens and all the school children of the city at the station. Governor Gillett talked to tI,. I, I@ f,,sN Ir 0e oil the kids in Holtville. After inspec- ton of the power plant, the visitors returned to El Centro where another delegation of school children and cit izeEs met the Governor at the sta tion. The Governor climbed upon baggage truck and made another lt- tie speech to the youngsters, and then shook hands with all of them and talked with them as if he were the big, jolly uncle of every kid in the bunch.
 An informal, free for-all reception was held in the lobby of the Ore gon, and at noon the visitors and few El Centrans were the guests of Gen, Sherman at dinner. There was no formal speech making at the din ner but there was much talk about cotton, the visitors having an un- quenchable thirst for information on that subject. After dinner the visi- tors were driven out to cotton plan tations and to ranches where they could see the products of the val ley
 Governor was held in the opera house; at 6 p. m. the party dined at the Oregon, and at TAO the carloads of capital, enterprise and good fellow ship were coupled to the northbound train and were whisked out of the valley.
 J. Stanley Brown acted as chair man of the meeting at the Opera House and after some songs by the school children and music by the De- Legro Orchestra Governor Gillett was introducted by MT. Brown and was enthusiastically received by the au- dience.
 The Governor said:
 N Gov. clIIett's Speech
 T cannot convey to you the great pleasure I have experienced in the last two days, in going over this new section of the State and oh-