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Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31
Olstemper

In all its forms, among all ages of horses
and dogs, cured and others in the same
stable prevented from having the disease
with spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bot
tie guaranteed. Over 100000 botths sold
last year. $50 and sl.OO. Good druggists.
or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted.
Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co.,
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31

Al. GEN. LEONARD WOOD
in his forty-ninth year, one Of
the most picturesque figures
In the whole United States
army, this month assumes
the duties of chief Of staff of
the army. " ="
When Leonard Wood
ceased to be doctor in order
to be a soldier he may not
have considered the profound
difference In philosophic
viewpoint of profession
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31

The rich, as We reckon them, and
among them the very rich, in a true
scale would be found very INDECENT
and needy.-Emerson.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31
The Innocent Victim.

Il believe" said the blunt individual.
'in speaking my mind and calling a
spade a spade"
Yes" replied Miss Cayenne. Many
are that way. The tendency is what
corrupts the vocabularies of so many
parrots"
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31
An Absolute Necessjtv.

WifeyT7Yo on told me the other day
we must. avoid all luxuries and con-
only.
Hubby-That's so, my dear.
Wifey-Well, last night you came
home in a cab.
Hubby-Yes, but that was an abso-
lutte necessity.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31

Takers Of the United States Census
willuse Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen
because it is always ready and sure.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31

walking. DR.. Wood had struggled
to rise from the pale anxieties of
his profession by serving as SOL
dier; Mr.. Roosevelt had tried to
live down the effete influences Of
a Harvard course, and fashionable
New York social connections, by
becoming ranchman on the plains
OF North Dakota. Each was eager
for distinction, mad for manly ad-
venture. There was but two years
difference between their ages.
Together the man who was to be
president of the United States and
he who was to be chief general of
the American army walked and
talked, day after day. punched each
others bodies, whackeG each 9TH
er's heads, with singlesticks,
wrestled. ran, rode side by side and
lived the strenuous life to the ut
most.
The earth danced beneath the
feet of the comrades as they talked
of everything that might open the
path of useful adventure and glory
to their strength and courage.
They looked into the seeds of time
for signs of dangers to be desper-
ately encountered and honors to be
won.
Then, as the prospects of war
with Spain seemed to approach re-
ality, the spirits of the two rose.
Day after day and week after week
Leonard Wood and Theodore
Roosevelt racked their brains to
see how they might get into the
war both felt sure was coming.
They tried to get into the Seven
ty-first regiment of New York as
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trained to keep men alive and profession trained
to kill them.
' The born adventurer seldom Analyses himself,
but seeks glory where the world gives it; and if
he should choose brave death in red coat be-
fore brave life in black one" the responsibility
must rest upon society. which gives such unequal
honors to those who heal and those who slay.
Twelve years ago Leopard Wood was an assist
ant army surgeon. To-day he is, the senior gen.
eral of the United States army, and chief of staff.
Gen. Wood is easily the ablest soldier the
tion has produced since the civil war;" said for
mer President Roosevelt IF should become
involved in tomorrow don't know where l
should look for man TO take his place He would
be the one man to take command. ...-... .-
1t is said that Lord Cromer, the great
British regenerator of Egypt, was SO impressed by
Gen. Woods work in Cuba that he expressed re-
gret that he could not have such an administrator
and organizer to succeed him in office
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31

Vanity is due to leak in ones wis
dom tank.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-31


Leonard Wood is an adventurer of
the true Elizabethan. type. Whether
chasing murderous Apaches through
the mountains, creating a govern
ment in Cuba. or forcing order and
civilization~upon the Mohammedan
savages of Mindanao and Sulu by
armed force, he has always been a
master.
Dr.. Wood might have proved a
failure. Gen. Wood has been a sue.
cess.
He is tall. straight and broad.
shouldered. He has small waist.
the bulging, muscle-padded chest Of
gorilla, arms like a blacksmith.
and thick, powerful hands. He can
walk like a bull moose; jump with
the Quickness Of cat; box, wrestle
and fence like a professional. AL
though he is 40 years old, it is doubt
full If there is a man in the whole
army to-day possessed of more
strength. energy. skill and endur-
ance.
Scotch. Irish, and English blood
mingles in Leonard Wood. His ia.
ther descended from William White.
who died on the Mayfiower, through
Peregrine White. the first-born of
Plymouth colony. and from William
Wood, who was Plymouth free
holder in 1929 His mothers strain
goes back to the Hagar family, who
came from Ireland in 1884 and set
tied at Watertown. Mass. and to that
patriot greatgrandfather. John, Nix
on, who commanded a company at
Lexington, regiment at Bunker
Hill. and brigade at Saratoga.
His father and uncle were country
doctors, the sons of a stout New
England farmer who kept tavern
and owned much wooded land. His
father served as private soldier in
the civil war and was sent home
from the field permanently invalided.
To get rid of malaria the doctor.sol.
dier moved his family to the sandy
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

has erected a mission-style grammar school of eight rooms; Imperial has added grammar school and is to dedicate next week a high school building which would be a cridit to any community in Southern Califor- nia; El Centro has erected a large elght-room two-s story grammar school; CaleXico has built a two-story struc- ture which provides ample room for the school work of the border town; Holtyille has in course of construc- tion $65000 union high school build ing, and has acquired a substantial grammar school building; Heber has fallen into line with a fine structure; and here and there all over the valley one sees examples of country school buildings that must inspire the be- holder with appreciation of the set tiers intent to make the Imperial County public school second to none in Southern California.
 The school districts of Imperial County have issued bonds for con
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
FL cENTRo CREAMERY COMPANY

No one enterprise has done more to bring direct returns to the farm CTS and dairymen of the Imperial Val ley than the Fl Centro Creamery G., organized and established by the farm CTS of this section and leased to
 F. J. Peacock secretary and manager of the plant. The Fl Centro Cream cry Company dispatches teams every day to pick up the cream at the diff ferent dairies. The farmers using sep arators and retaining the skinned milk for use on the farms. Some idea of the extent of the business may be had when it is known that the con- pany is distributing about $7OOO a
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their business as a side line to some thing else in order to make a living
 This is a pioneer community; 1t Is on the frontier. yet the social con ditions are less like those supposed to be characteristic of the frontier than are those Of New York Imperial County started out dry" and 1t re- mains sober, peaceable, orderly and decent. There are no border rufians, no truculent toUghs, no drunken roy sterers to disturb it's peace. If 1t were not for the occasional incursion of hobos along the railway, there would be hardly any use for a jail. Having no saloons, the Imperial Val ley towns need no policeman. A sher- iff and two deputies can attend to all the criminal business of 8 county larger than some eastern states, and have time to burn on their hands.
 Although on the frontier Imperial County is not crOde. It is not wild and woolly and the manners and customs of it's people are not primitive. Its towns are built substantially and some of them have fire limits within which no combustible structures may be erected. They have brick hotels, bus mess blocks and theatres. Here are no shack towns with false fronts. Inn perial County has good schools for it's children and regards school af- fairs as of paramount importance. For entertainment and instruction, lecture courses and concert series are main tained, and N Centro, for example, has a better organized orchestra than many cities of ten times its size can boast.
 Imperial Valley is the best piece of agricultural land occupied by white men on the face of the earth. 1t is becoming one Of the richest, most prosperous and highly productive re- gions ever known. It is a good coun- try to live in, and it is inhabited by people who know a good thing when they see it. but it is hard for most of them to comprehend fully the great ness of the valleys destiny. Good land is dirt cheap now at the highest price asked. One of these days, stand ing room in Imperial Valley will be at a premium.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
Church Work

Imperial Valley is well provided with religious organizations, and has several well-appointed church edifices. Everyone of the incorporated towns has church buildings, while in at least four of these plans have been made for the erection of other build ings of this character.
 At Brawley the Methodists, Pres byterians, Baptists and Catholics have established church work. Each of these denominations has its own building, and the Catholics have se- cured land for the location of a paro- chial school.
 Imperiars first permanent building was a Christian Church, structure which was a notable landmark for several years and which was destroy ed by fire last winter The Metho- dists have a good brick church edi- flee in Imperial, and the Episcopal ans, Catholics and Christians have plans on foot to erect buildings.
 El Centro has a Presbyterian, a Catholic and a Methodist Church. Funds are now being raised for a new Methodist church edifice and for one for the Christian church, which now
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definitely on adding the first year of regular college courses next fall.
 It Is situated two hundred miles from any institution giving collegiate work, and is seven hundred miles from an institution in California which offers advanced agricultural courses. This fact, together with the present total high school attendance in the valley of two hundred as com pared with seventy of last year, shUH < Q consistent student growth for he school.
 The instittte owns 240 acres O. land which is new under cultivation. This land, under the management of the institute, will not only offer excep- tional advantages for student labor but will furnish an excellent income.
 The Institute is meeting general ap- proval all over the valley and is re- ceiving general financial support.
 Water Company No. 1 gave the in stitutlon it's decided endorsement by passing a bylaw at It's stockholders meeting, February S. allowing the institute to irrigate it's lands without the purchase of water stock for each acre of land.
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valley may be irrigated from the La guna Dam, and be open for settlement subject to the restriction imposed by the reclamation department. At pres snt these lands are not open for en- try, and if they were it would be i'm possible to obtain water from any system now in operation.
 As in all countries, the selling price of a farm depends upon the character of soil, improvements and location. Thrift and industry will make any farm pay anywhere in the valley, but since pioneer conditions still prevail to some extent. the more progressive farmers usually feel that they are entitled to all the advantages possi- ble to be enjoyed in new country. The farms within easy reach of the butcher the grocer. ice man and daily mail usually bring larger prices, when they change hands, than farms of the same class of improvements further from these c0nYenienees. Such farms, with good soil and well fenced sell
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
Land Values
By J. 8. PARAZETTE

The day of free lands in Imperial Valley is over Everything that is worth retaining has been entered. Titles have been examined with mi croscopic care and all claims that showed irreguIarity in the records have been contested long ago. The resur- vey was completed more than year ago, and claim boundaries are now well established. Final receipts are being regularly issued in the older settlements, a' and annual proofs ac- cepted without protest tn the new. The uncertainty of titles that for years clouded the valley is practically a thing of the past. and land buyers today can be assured of receiving eX- actly what they purchase. Where if nal receipt is issued the purchaser can obtain a certificate of title from an old and responsible guaranty com pany of a neighboring county This is the condition of all tracts now ir- rigated or to be watered from the canals of the California Development Company.
 It is possible that in the future the nigh lands On the east side of the
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

holds it's meetings in the Holt Op- mentioned above, Fl Centro has or ganiZations of the Baptists, Church of the Brethren, or Dunkards, and Chris tian Scientists.
 Holtville has the handsomest church buildings in the valley. It possesses Methodist and Christian Churches that are a credit to the East Side town. Here also the Catholics will erect a church this spring. East of Holtville the Friends have a church, and the Church of the Brethren will erect a church edifice in the district northeast of Holtville.
 Calexico has Congregational and Methodist church buildings and this spring will acquire Catholic church. Heber has a Congregational Church organization, and several outside points have recently been organized into churches by this denomination
 One of the handsomest churches in the valley is that known as McCabe Methodist Church, southwest of El Centro. It is of hollow concrete blocks has stained glass windows, concrete floor and modern pews and church furniture.
 Pioneer church work has been or ganized in various country school dis tricts by representative of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congre- gational Churches, and a representa- tive of the American Sunday School Union has organized union Sunday schools at several points.
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struction purposes amounting in the q ygregate to s245, 700. Steps have been taken for further expansion, and sev- eral of the country school districts within the ensuing six months will provide for new buildings.
 Can the districts afford these im- provements? Let the answer be the following statement of the assessed valuation of the districts made one year ago-and then consider the in- crease in wealth during the year This assessment, which is made on the ba- sis of forty per ceht of the actual valuation, reads:
 Brawley Inside. $297 ,9OOOO; Braw- ley Outside, S11,t4465; Calexico In side, 346,72200; Calexico Outside, $572,O0512 El Centro Inside, $676,- S4S.00; El Centro outside $321 ,376.0O; 1; Holtvlle Inside, $312,4S7OO; Holtville Outside, 2O3,214.00; Imperial Inside, S5O1, ,7O2.O0; Imperial Outside, 760,669. .- co; Alamo, $275, ,9S4.53; Adair, $104, . S370O; Alamitos, $91 ,5O1OO; Central, $133, S4S.00; Colorado, $9,5S300; Deal, S250, ,499.OO; East Side, $49O052.5S; El- der $52 2,633OO; Eucalyptus, $132, 2,250.0 .00; ; Heber, $114,0S2.00; Jasper $109,8S7.- = %; Magnolia, $579, ,403.62; Mount Sig nal, $113,05000; Picacho, $545, ,104. 36; l; Rose, $105,097.00; Silsbee, $397, ,979. - 01; Spruce, $4S7, ,OO2.45 Sunset Springs $347179.75; Verde, $296,5 ,579.93; Wide Awake, $56,1S6.00; Total, $9,496, ,S04.OO.
 Prof. J. E. Carr, who was the first teacher in this valley, is now the County Superintendent of Schools. That he has a personal pride in their expansion is natural. The law re- quires the Superintendent of Schools to visit every school at least twice a year. The great extent of terri tory thus covered may be seen when it is noted that from El Centro the Superintendent must travel seventy miles by railroad and then fifty three miles by stage line to visit the Palo Verde schools, and almost as far to inspect the schools of the Picacho district.
 Naturally, school work in some parts of the county has brought about unique conditions. For instance, at Old Beach for some time an old freight car was used for the school house. A half of the car was fitted with seats for the pupils, while the other half made a home for the teacher. In the Palo Verde district the building has had to be abandoned at times because of the high water in the Colorado River, and the school has been coAducted in open air; and in the Picacho district a section of the school has been con- ducted at the mines, so that children
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
Public Schools

The first public school in Imperial Valley was opened under the shade of an arrow weed ramada, about three miles north of Calexico, in the spring of 1902. It's pupils were gathered up from the sparse settlements of the desert, some of them riding eight miles to the school on burros and ponies.
 Today-less than eight years from the beginning of school work in Im- perial Valley-the country has twenty nine school districts, four high schools, with the fifth one forming, and eighty teachers are employed in the elemen- tary grades. Pupils come to the schools in automobiles, and have the advantage of all the latest equipment and methods of instruction. The peo- pie of Imperial Valley are preemin- ently proud of their public schools.
 And but the foundations have been aid for the magnificent county school iystem that is to be. Witness the progress of the past year, and the )lanS now maured for further eX- )ansion:. Within the year Brawley
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of workers there might get benefit of regular instruction.
 The high schools have carried the regular State course of study, and al though too new to be regularly ac- credited for entrance of graduated students to the State University, ar engagements have been made for such entrances upon the certification of the principals of the high schools of Im- perial, Brawley and El Centro.
 At Imperial a more comprehensive course of study than usual has been adopted by the high school, including instruction in manual training and do- nestle sciences and a course in prac- tical agriculture. '
 Imperial Valley residents also have warm regard for the Heber Col legiate Institute, an outline of the work of which institution appears in another portion of this edition. In connection with this school series of experiments is to be carried on by a representative of the State Ex- perimental Bureau, and the practical knowledge of agriculture thus afford ed is a special advantage to students
 The Imperial Valley Business Col ,~ge has established itself at Imperial providing full commercial courses.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

were used on the work, and he built probably 25 miles of the canals now in use. The first lumber yard in the valley he established at Imperial, haul ing the lumber from the nearest rail road point, Flowing Wells, by mule team. This yard supplied material for all the early houses and stores in the valley. Later he sold 1t to the Kerchoff -Cuzner Lumber Com pany, a Los Angeles corporation that still owns It..
 When the freighting teaming days were over, MT. Carter secured the contract for grading the railroad from Old Beach to Imperial, distance of nearly thirty miles. The irrigation company paid for much of the con- struction work on it's canals with wa . ter stock, and at one time MT. Car ter owned over 200O shares. In ad- ditioh to organizing and Incorporating the Imperial Lumber & Commercial Company, He was one of the organ izers of the First National Bank of Imperial later disposing of his inter- est to Leroy Holt, the present presi- dent.
 MT. Carter's name has always been prominently identified with every pro gressive move in the valley and it fig ures upon the direction of many of the most progressive business, indus- trial and financial boards in the coun- | ty.
 A section of land lying a few miles east of Imperial is one of MT. Car} ter's early holdings. This fine pie9e of property has been leased for num- Der of years and has been brought ts a high state of cultivation. Several other smaller pieces of property are being cultivated under MT. CarteTs personal direction, while in Yavapai county Arizona, he owns one of the finest stock ranches in that section of the territory.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

for from siO0 to st5O per acre, and land brings from this price all down the line to BIO per acre for fairly good assignments under irrigatine ca nals but without improvements and perhaps from 10 to 15 miles from a railway station.
 After purchasing claim of the cheaper lands. S25 per acre must be paid for water rights, and consid- erable expenditure of time and labor is usually necessary to prepare the raw land for crops. The better i'm proved lauds at higher prices are more economical for the reason that the time spent without immediate pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
CALIFORNIA CREAM
 6 BUTTER COMPANY

Many of the successes made in ranching in the Imperial Valley have been made from dairy herds. There is no section of the state that offers the inducement to a dairyman equal to those presented in this valley One of the most important factors in de- veloping dairying in the valley has been the California Cream & Butter Company, of Los Angeles. As pio- neers in the valley, the company has established reputation for correct test, honest weights and prompt pay ments that has resulted in it's es- tablishing a business that disburses from $15,OOO to $1S,OOO among the dairymen of this section, each month. Wagons are sent out each day to collect the cream, the dairymen being provided with separators SO that skim med milk may be retained for feed ing hogs and calves on the ranches.
 w. J. Purcell, the California Cream x Butter Company's representative at El Centre, is one of the company's old employees, He has an extensive acquaintance among dairymen of the valley and in guarding his company's interests he is building up the dairy mems.
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sure to realize. my thoughts went back to 1901, when, as an agent, I sold the lots, the site of the tile plant, the alfalfa mill and enough more to make 560 acres. at $13.5O per acre, including water rights. I remembered that 1 told the buyer that in ten years time the land would be worth $60 per acre. and thought l was approach ing the limit of probability, and I maryeled that in the early settlement of the country land values were so little understood, but in view of the later developments, true values re- ceiye less appreciation now than then.
 Since 1901 the valley has grown fn- to the best dairy country in the known world. It has produced abundant crops of the earliest grapes and as fine quality as ever were sent to market. It grows perfect oranges ripe in No- yember and lemons that are unex-