Imperial Valley press., 1910-10-29
About Five Hundred Bales Turned Out By Valley
 Up to Date
Indian Pickers Treat Gathering of Staple as Sedentary Job and Prove Unsatisfactory. Japanese spinners Bidding for the Crop and Paying Fourteen Cents This Week.

 ginned in Imperial Valley so far this season, and seven carloads have been shipped out The Fl Centro gin has handled more than 400 bales, CaleXico about sixty and Holtville more than thirty The, Brawley gin will begin operations next week, and then the new gin at El Centro will be put in commission and the old gin moved to Heber.
 Three carloads of cotton were sold this week to Mr. Kimbara, represent ing Morimura, Arai & Co.,, of Yoko- hama, at IA cents a pound. One car load was shipped to Oakland by MT. Chappell, who paid 1880 net to the grower. The Japanese spinners will take all the Imperial cotton they can get, and so far they have paid the h. .ghest prices.
 The Valley has some advantage over Texas in the matter of freight rates fThe rate from Texas is S5 cents a hundred, 10 cents for compressing for ocean shipment and 40 cents steamship tariff, or $1.35. The rail road rate from Imperial valley is 65 cents, with an equal amount by steam ship, or $1.50, due to the fact that no compressor has been established on the coast to reduce the size of the bales. Mir. Arai, who is in Los Ange les, said to the Examiner that he would arrange, if possible, to install compressor in the valley this year that his company might take advan- tage of the freight tariff on compress ed bales, which would reduce the rate to S. cents less than the Texas rate. The. cotton shippers are also seeking lower freight rates from San Fran cisco.
 Los Angeles will not be considered as port for shipment due to the condition that the railroads demand as much for transporting the cotton to that port as to San Francisco.
 The experiment. of importing Indians from Arizona to pick cotton has not proved satisfactory, partly because most of the thirty Indians brought here were picked up in the streets of Yuma and are not in the habit of hustling at work. Their scheme is to get enough cotton in sack to make a comfortable cushion, and then sit down on the sack and pick the bolls within reach, holding a branch with one hand and carefully extracting the lint with the other. They pick very clean cotton but only from forty to seventy pounds a day and their wages barely pay for what they eat They do not like the work and they do not satisfy their employers. Supervisor Odle, of the Indian labor bureau, ad- Y,if hof hn lon nnt4 b well, and no more Indians will be sent here The Hindus, however, are doing well and are said to be satis- fled with the job: They pick much faster than the Indians and make bet ter wages.
 The Imperial Valley Cotton & Oil Co. moved it's office yesterday from the Oregon building to it's own building east of the track. The walls of the seed house are rising and machinery is due to arrive in few days. EXca- vations for other buildings are in progress, and thirty eight men are at work getting the plant into shape, Material is now unloaded on the ground from cars on the new switch. Stock of the company is now in de- mand and business men are trying to invest money in the oil mill, but stock can be issued only to growers in eX- change for seed
 Some growers, who did not sign up for stock are selling their seed to the Imperial gin people at $l5 ton, and the seed is sold to cattle raisers for feed at the same price By this ope- ration the growers are losing the oil value of their seed and foregoing a profit of $l5 to $2O ton above the S15 in stock that they could get by joining the mill company. The seed is just as good for feed after the oil is extracted, and the grower, the Im- perial ginners and the feeders are simply throwing away the oil and the larger part of the value of seed, The Imperial ginners are figuring on handling 200 bales and are ordering