Imperial Valley press., 1910-11-26
.OLD KING COTTONS
 BEN|F|CENT REIGN
Government Agent Says Valley Will Become Famous for
 Its Staple
Fifteen Hundred Bales of This Years Crop Already Ginned. Japanese Buyers Looking to California For Future Supply. Oil Company to Sell Limited Amount of Stock.

Limited Amount of Stock.
 Up to last Thursday night, the de- livery of cotton bales from the gins in Imperial Valley was as follows: Fl Centro, 760; Holtville, 31S; Calex- ico, 3O1; Brawley, 175; Cup to We'd nesday) Fl Centro new gin, "A; total 1873 bales.
 A defective foundation has sus- pended operations at CaleXico, and the gin will not be running until next Thursday. All the gins, except the one at Imperial, are under engined and cannot be run at full capacity. The error, it appears, originated with the first gasoline engines used in gins in the South, the nominal rating being 60 h-p., the standard of 60 having been established by steam engines. Next year. 100 h-p. engines will be installed at all gins.
 The Imperial Valley Oil & Cotton Co. held a meeting of stockholders on Thursday to consider the proposed amendment of bylaws permitting the sale for cash at par of enough stock to bring the available capital up to $1OO0OO. No opposition developed. The meeting was made continuous to permit all stockholders to vote, and up to yesterday noon 213S shares had been voted affirmatively. Only 157 more shares are required to make the necessary majority.
 MT. Chappell, buyer for the mills at Oakland, ships a carload of cotton from Brawley today. The price yes terday was 1860, and that was the basis upon which the carload was bought This makes 12 cars bought and shipped by MT. Chappell. Yester- day he bought from Harold Bell | Wright ten bales of first class, clean picked cotton grown on the Tecolote ranch. Clean picking pays, as cotton like Wright's brings the top price.
 Many pickers have arrived during the week and helped relieve the scar city of labor. Cold weather on the coast makes the valley look good at this season to people who want to work out of doors.
 Special Field Agent J. E. Richards, of the statistical bureau of the U. s. 1 Agricultural Department was in Inn perial Valley last week inspecting the cotton crop. On his return to Los Angeles, he was interviewed by an Express reporter, and said:
 The yield in the Imperial Valley this year will fall far below the eX pectations of the most sanguine. The yield will be below expectations be- cause of the ineXperience of the grow CT, rather than because of unfavorable conditions.
 When the grower has learned from experience when to irrigate, when to cultivate and how, l believe you will see results in Imperial Valley that will attract to the California field cotton growers from every part of the United States.
 "The culture of cotton is just like | the cultivation of any other crop. It requires experience, and there are those who have gone into the Imperial Valley to raise cotton when they did not know the first principles. The re- suit was as predicted They failed. But the success of the Imperial Valley has been gained by those who knew how
 There is no reason why the Impe- rial Valley should not become famou ! for it's cotton It has the long seasoi and an easy market. It's only problem is that of labor, and that may be over come in time"
 The Express attributes to MT Rick ards also the statement that 800 acres of cotton was harvested last year, and that this year Hess than 10000 acres are in cotton, although claims are made that there are between 2O,O00 to 35000 acres sown."
 No claim" of more than 10000 acres ever has been made by anyone having the slightest knowledge of the matter The best information avail able indicates that about 16OOO acres were seeded and about 12,OOO acres cultivated, The statistical bureaus crop report of "9s per cent condition"