Imperial Valley press., 1910-04-16
BOOSTERS FOR THE VALLEY
San 0iegans Return With Tales of MarVels Seen in The American
 Nile Region.
(San Diego Union)

Tired, tanned by the tropical rays of the sun which beat down upon them during their three day stop in the Imperial valley, aptly rechrist- ened by the boosters "The Imperial Inland Empire" the one hundred San Diego business and professional men who left Saturday upon the special train secured by the local chamber of commerce for the campaign for business with the sister county, have returned.
 (''Tropical rays" of the sun raised the temperature to 92 on Sunday and to 76 on the other two days. But it is the proper thing, of course, to talk of fierce heat whenever Imperial Val ley is mentioned. Ed. Press.)
 With the returning boosters come tales of a land of milk and honey; of prosperity and of resource that put to shame the far famed valley of the Nile, also the assurance that San Diego is to share in the prosperity that | is being most beneficently showered upon the inhabitants of Imperial county.
 Automobiles, driven by the pros porous valley folks, were placed at the service of the visitors and many miles of excellent roads, bordered on either side by verdant fields of grain extensive vineyards and sturdy fruit orchards were traversed. In this way did Imperial county welcome the boosters and thus were the resources the fertility of the soil and the tena . cious industry of the settlers un- folded.
 TO say that we marvel at the won ders you have accomplished but poor ly expresses our feelings" said ex- Mayor D. c. Reed, in an address at the Oregon hotel in Fl Centro but have used the strongest language that my vocabulary contains.
 "I admire your country and fore see the greatest future for this sec ton that one could desire, but still more do I admire your sturdy men who have fought back the desert, made the forces of nature their slaves and make a paradise of this once arid region.
 That I did not see the future of this country years ago and that I did not take up land here for myself causes me to doubt if really knew good thing when I saw it in those days"
 President George Burnham of the San Diego chamber of commerce and Secretary Rufus Choate both express ed their qualification over the results of their campaign into the valley. MT. Burnham stated yesterday afternoon that the treatment accorded by the people of Imperial county had been more than cordial, that their desire to meet the people of this county half
  way in the establishment of business relation that would mean millions of dollars to both counties was every where evident.
 "The stars and stripes which we all love so well should be proud to wave over so rich a country and so fine a people as we have known since we left San Diego" said Mir. Burnham. Think of what has been accomplish ed by them! A desert is made a paradise, and, over obstacles which to many would have seemed insurmount- able, they have fought their way to success; they have created through their brains and their brawn a country for themselves and it is a country of which all of us may well be proud T
 Every San Diego booster who visit cd the valley became a booster for the valley, for every booster found Inn perial county, yet in her infancy, a thriving, resourceful section, thickly settled by the highest type of Ameri- can settlers, supplied with mercantile houses, hotels and all other facilities of a character that no county of a much greater age need be ashamed of