Imperial Valley press., 1909-01-23
Proof That Valley Conditions are Peculiarly Favorable
 to Fibre Crop,
Prospects of Large Profits in Egyp. tian Variety-GoVernme Will Help Yuma Indians to Get Start in the Industry on Reservation.

A display of cotton made this week in the windows of the Press office Is of more than passing interest, as 1t demonstrates the claim made for Imperial Valley cotton that it can be picked right though the winter months, with scarcely a stoppage un- til the crop is cleaned up.
 This cotton display is of bota the Texas and the Egyptian varieties Each lot of samples was cut from the bushes on the property of eX-judge Ansel Smith, in Fl Centro, last Satur day, and cotton men declare the Tex as specimens are among the best that have been produced in this vicinity
 The cotton hangs bright clean and long, from these open bolls, none of 1t having been lost in either the winds or rain of the past two months. It has stood the winter weather with out a particle of damage, and shows that it is possible for continuous cot ton picking to proceed through all this period and that rush to gather in the crop is not necessary.
 Interest in the seeding of land to cotton next spring continues to mani fest itself on all sides. Present out look indicated that Fl Centro and Holtville districts will be the princi- pal cotton growing lands this year. However, one successful year of cot ton growing on commercial scale in Imperial Valley will doubtless intro duce it as a crop in all sections of the Valley.
 Egyptian Cotton Figures.
 Imperial Valley lands under skill full cultivation, says the Los Angeles Times, will yield three times as much cotton per acre as the Southern States and cotton of the Egyptian fiber will sell for more than twice the price of good southern product Here is an ad. vantage of six to one in our favor. Ii seems that the Egyptian cotton from an acre of Imperial Valley lands should sell for about $1725O This takes no account of the cottonseed oil or of the refuse, all of which is now merchantable product;
 We produce about 13,O00,00O pounds of sea island cotton @ year, and eX. port about 100000 pounds at 26 to oautc o mound
 We imported last year 69,246,S1O pounds of Egyptian at about 23 cents a pound; 2,691,81O pounds of Peruvian and 2,83O,4l0 of Indian. Here are about 74,OOO,000 pounds of foreign cotton imported, all at high cost. If we can grow that in Imperial Valley and sell it at 23 cents a pound, it will bring here $17,O00,- 900, a year But home production of the raw material would be followed by larger manufactures of the finer fabrics now for the most part imported from England and German.
 Superior to Ordinary Cotton.
 Samples of Southern cotton grown in El Centro were sent recently by Stanley Brown to the Coates Thread Company in Rhode Island and were submitted to the company's expert grader, who evidently assumed that it was Egyptian cotton and reported that it was unsuitable for thread, being very little superior to ordinary American cotton"
 Indians Will Grow Cotton.
 Indians on the reservations along the Colorado River will soon be exten- sively engaged in cultivating cotton, according to G. P. Rixford. expert in the Federal Bureau of Plant Industry. The government will furnish the seed for the Indians on the reservations and encourage them in the new industry.