Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-06
Two Thousand Acres Are AL ready In Site For
 This Year.
American Nile Company Will Die tribute Seed and Put Up Machinery to Handle The crop--Managers Con fident of Success of New Industry in the Valley.

The American Nile Cotton Company proposes to create a distinctive name for tho Imperial Valley cotton on the markets next fall and winter. It is the purpose of this company to give particular care to the grading and handling of the valleys product and to use every possible means to create for 1t the reputation of high class material.
 It has been decided that the stand ard bale will be adhered to, making a bale of about 500 pounds, which will be compressed direct from the gin.
 carload of the selected Mebane Triumph seed, secured in the vicinity of Lockhart, Texas, is now on the way to Fl Centro, to be distributed by the American Nile Cotton Com- pany to Imperial Valley growers. This car will contain fifteen tons of seed. sufficient for the planting of 2000 acres of land.
 Seed for another 1000 acres will be secured by this company from other points, and this will include several selected varieties of the short staple cottons,
 These varieties will inculde the Simm's Improved, Cooks Improved. Cleveland Big Boil, ToT1e's Early and Russell Big Boil cott&.
 On the Melo1ai16 ranch of Joseph k. Loftus 175 acres will be seeded to the Mebane Triumph cotton, and especial care will be taken in the scientific preparation of the land and methods of cultivation throughout the growing period.
 The American Nile Cotton Company expects to open permanent office in El Centro during the ensuing week, and Charles Stevens will be in charge of this office. MT. Loftus will spend much of his time in the field look | ing after details of the distribution of seed and arranging for the erection of the cotton ginning plant. etc. Among those in the immediate vi- cinity of Fl Centro who will plant cotton this spring, in tracts ranging from five acres to two hundred acres are the following:
 F. N. Burger, J. F. Buttram, Hand & Pellet, R. H. Portiss, Joseph R. Lof- tus, I. N. Stevens, A. J. Snee, J. L. Adkins, l.. Poston, F. s. Webster. Chris Beck, Harold Bell Wright, Paul Roman, Earl Hartzeler, R. L. Greer, l.. D. Srack, B. E. Forester, w. E. Wilsie, Fred Lynch, Will Brown, U. S. Handley, c. E. Jones, s. F. Wiels, JI A. McCassie, Mcclure & Davis, George A. Carter, True Vencill, Ira Aten, George Nichols, I. A. Morgan. D. R. Crawford, F. G. Havens, H. R. balcom, F. w. Waite and W. R. Wal drup, Prof. G. A. Ragan, E. H. Me Donald, B. Bennett, A. F. Andrade, H. D. Wilson, Mir. Edmonds, J. Stanley Brown.
 MT. Loftus comes from tour of
  the Southern cotton states more con. fident of the success of cotton-grow- ing in Imperial Valley than when he left. He took with him a number of samples of the cotton raised in the valley, which created a great deal of comment among the southern cotton growers as it is very much superior to anything they can raise in that part of the country They had never raised anything in the South of such quality, with such long staple and with such texture and gloss.
 Another point in favor of the valley cotton Is that it is not rain-beaten and discolored as much of the southern cotton, the rainfall being so light in that part of the valley 1t Is not neces- sary to pick the cotton immediately after ripening as Is the case In the South. There is also no need to be afraid of the boil weevil, or any of the other pests which have devastated the southern fields. As there is no rain fall at all in the summer .n the valley. and only an average of two and one half inches ip the entire year, 1t win be possible Ao give the cotton just Nhn v-IvkA a...a....k .a ...kr.. "A kto ..f..t.k