Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
CaLexico
(By O. B. Tout, Editor Calexlco
 Chronicle.)

Calexico was born of a corporation but is a child of the soil, a sister of seven other children thriving like the country lads and lassies, close to na- ture and growing with promise of coming might.
 Calexico, as community, is like the young man endowed with common sense, an ambitious pat3o3e in life and with an uubounded supply of youthful energy.
 At present Calexico has population of about 1000 people. Just across the line" the sister town of Mexicali has half that many more. The country population tributary to Caxerico num- bers about 4000 souls. This country population stretches across the fer tile irrigated alfalfa and stock ranches barley fields and coming plantations of cotton for twenty miles east and west and fifteen miles north and south. There is room, in this one part of Imperial Valley for the comfortable and profitable existence of {. hundred thousand people. Room to grow? There is no limit.
 In 1908 the town was incorporated as a city of the sixth class. In not luite two years the municipality has caused to be laid about two miles of cement sidewalks, graded the princi pal streets of the town and made building restrictions that look ahead to the final realization of the dream of being the most beautiful city. The citizens have voted nearly $40,000 bonds and the money is now being ex- pended on municipal domestic water system, a complete fire department, the improvement of city parks, etc.
 As to becoming the richest sister of the family, Calexico again points to the immense area of tributary ter ritory, both in the United States and Mexico. This city is the center of distribution for all goods that enter Mexico. Immense purchases are daily made for outfits that are developing land on the Mexican side. The mines in northern Mexico also give Calexico much trade. The farms all about the city send their teams in one pros porous stream to Calexico for sup plies. For instance, during the past on the reclamation of 32,000 acres of virgin soil sixteen miles south of Cal exico at Cocopah. Here huge colony with all the appurtenances of a town, factories for preserving and canning fruit for the Mexican trade, etc., is being established. The California Mexico Land and Cattle company owns nearly three -quartersn of a million acres of land that Is being brought into use. It now grazes immense herds of stock that are shipped from CaleXico.
 Being on the international boundary line also makes Calexico an important railroad town.
 A new departure in the agricultural line about CaleXico is the intention of some sixty farmers to plant cot ton the coming season.
 The acreage about Calexico, in Im- perial county, will be about 5000. Across the line there will be probably 5000 acres planted. A live local cot ton growers association has been formed and will finance gins, ware houses, etc, and will join in a cen tral organization to work up the seed of the valley into oil.
 Cotton is expected to be a great paying crop and may become the one staple around which all others will reVolve in Imperial valley.
 At present the farmers about Cal exico are gagged in raising fine cat tie, hogs and sheep; conducting dairy farms, chicken ranches; raising bar ley wheat, grapes, alfalfa; maturing fine orchards of deciduous fruits; raising early vegetables for the mar kets and building homes that are com fortable and worthy of country much older than the Imperial Valley
 Points of vantage might be enumer- ated that would fill the rest of these pages, but it might all be summed up in the statement that Calexico Is alive; is growing normally and with out boom features; is ready to offer strong Inducements to new settlers in order to increase the population; is ready to take advantage of every fea-