The Parker post., 1911-12-09
PALO VERDE VALLEY
is A LITTLE EMPIRE
Great Agricultural Development Has
Been Accomplished in Past Few
Years-Crops of All Kinds Success
fully Grown Here.

for pleasure to take a traveller from
the train at Glamis out across the
little rocky desert to start on sixty
five-mile automobile trip over ris-
ing rock-lined, heavily ribbed country
to a height of some thirteen hundred
feet, across long hog back" and
down into the valley that is now look
ed upon as one of the most promising
little spots for future homes in Cali
fornia. Most of the men who make
that trip are earnest, Industrious
men who are looking for homes They
are willing to forego some of the most
cherished comforts of we'll settled
communities and cities and take az
big part as may be i'm the making of
a new community and the develop
ment of what will within few years
be Palo Verde county
Along the road from Glamis toward
the summit of the Black mountains,
it is an interesting trip. Nor is it as
dreary waste as might be expected
by the stranger whose cursory glanc
at a map indicates that it Is a "des-
ert." To the lover of the beautiful
soft greys and browns of southern
California, this trip is a delight, en-
ivened as it is with the interesting
bits of information about many things
including the ''Paymaster" gold mine,
show white across the winding road,
whose graceful curves were first pick
ed out by the native Indians who in
tested the Colorado river country
from Palo Verde to Parker. And it
is a beautiful and inspiring sight to
reach the summit of the hills and
catch the first complete view of the
Palo Verde valley and the mesa with
their background of blue mountains
forming an irregular border brok-
er. by. the. 50, gap in the noftEs
western segment, where the Col
orado comes into the valley. 1t is no
white stretch of sand, but a valley
well covered with green and pale
grey vegetation. Cottonwood, mes
quite, with here and there Palo Yer
de tree, abound. Arrow grass and
other shorter vegetation covers the
valley in profusion, indicating that it
is good soil and productive by ma
ture.
1t would be impossible in a short
newspaper narrative to give an ade-
quate idea of the great agricultural
development that has been accom-
plished about and near the town of
Blythe city, which Is in the center
Of the 10000 acres Of the great Blyth
ranch, owned and being sold off by
the Palo Verde Land & Water compa-
ny. Earnest pioneers wind their way
into that beautiful and fertile valley
in wagons, hauling their household
goods, implements and live stock
distance of sixty-five miles from the
Southern Pacific and forty-eight miles
from the Santa Fe. They have come
and settled to the number Of about
eight hundred souls, scattered over a
large area
The town of Blythe City is a live
little place. 1t has as fine a hotel as
could be found anywhere away from
the intimate touch of the city. There
are numerous stores and business
houses. There is new cotton gin
now in operation, a sawmill that
transforms the cottonwoods into lum-
Der and brick yard in which some
of the finest building brick ever put
into wall is being made. There is
substantial little bank with thriving
business and increasing deposits, a
school house that has already been
outgrown by it's seventyfive pupils
and number of attractive homes.
are lined with twenty-five-foot cotton
woods that have been planted only a
year and half. One side of the
street is used at a time, while the 9TH
ar side is being irrigated from the
water company's canals and kept in
the best of condition.
The town lots are pretty we'll di;-
posed of. A frontage of $50 feet on
Hobson Way sold the other day for
$4,000. There are not many residence
lots left near the main part of town.
In addition ito the present store build
ngs, two good bricks will be erected
in the very near future on the tract
above referred to.
Out in the country in all directions
little farms are being cleared. We
noted with particular interest the fine
appearance of the ranches of the
people well known in this district