Imperial Valley press., 1910-07-09
COTTON MACHINERY
 WILL ARRIVE SOON Buildings for Eight Gins and an Oil Mill to be Con-
 menCed at Once
Imperial Valley Oil and Cotton Com pany Orders Gasoline Engines For Motive Power and Elects George c. Walsh as General Superintendent and Construction Engineer.

An important meeting of the Impe- rial Valley Oil and Cotton Company was held in El Centro on Wednesday, the outcome of which puts the con- struction enterprises of this company well under way, and assures great activity in preparation for handling Imperial Valleys second commercial crop of cotton.
 The company decided to proceed at once with it's buildings for the gins at Fl Centro, Brawley, Holtville, He Der, Redwood, Imperial, Mobile and CaleXico. The construction of the buildings to house the cotton seed oil mill at El Centro, will be under taken later in the season, as the inn portant matter right now is to have the gins in readiness for handling the crops as they come from the plantations.
 Eight Samson gasoline engines for motive power were ordered from the w. L. Cleveland Company, of Los An geles, through the local agency of the Delta Implement Company. Three of these are seventy-five horsepower. These will be stationed at the gins to be erected at Fl Centro, Holtville and Calexico. Five are fifty horse power, and will be located at Rock wood, Brawley, Imperial, Heber and Mobile
 Secretary Shrack was instructed to close orders at once for the gin ma- chinery, and this will soon be on the road as there will be little delay in forwarding shipments after the order is placed. It is expected that this ma chinery will be on the ground by the first of August and that the engines can be placed in position by the first of September. All the gins will be in readiness for operation by the first of October
 The oil mill machinery will arrive at El Centro about this date, and will be set up as speedily as possible after ties arrival.
 Work on the various gin houses will begin this month. The site which will probably be used at Fl Centr0 is a strip of land on the Blackington land, north of the ice plant, in the curve formed by the junction of the Holton lnterurban Railroad and the Southern Pacific. At the meeting this week Division Engineer Burkholder, of the Southern Pacific, was present to dis cuss plans for a spur track to the proposed buildings. If this is granted by the Southern Pacific the site pro- posed will be utilized.
 On the Fl Centro site win be erect ed the gin, which will be larger than the gin building used last season; a seed house, a hull house and a build ing to house the oil mill Each of these last tlTee buildings will be oOXZOO rect, and VIII make a notable addition to Fl Centro's industrial dis trict.
 At Wednesdays meeting George A. Carter resigned as general manager and George c. Walsh, an expert cotton machinery man, was elected general superintendent and construction en- gineer
 From all parts of Imperial Valley good reports on the cotton crop con tinue to come in. Tn many fields the bolls are we'll formed, and the late plantings are also making a vigorous growth. All indications point to a splendid cotton crop in Imperial Val ley this year.