Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-08
Town Site Office at DixieIand

GIeS 10 JHe National orange SlON To
be held at San Bernardino.
Town Site Office at DxieIand
An eight-room building to be used
as the office of the DiXieland Town
Company will be completed at the new
town of Dixieland this week. George
w. Nichols will be sales agent at the
town and Will locate there at once.
Ira Aten is to be selling agent for the
town site in FL Cenrro.
City Realty Sales
Ernest w. Snow has purchased lots
F and H in block 3, located on Broad
way, west of the Date canal, and con-
tanning three acres each. Mrs. Mary
Corners has purchased lot : of block
IS. on Olive street: and J. Raymond
Fowble has purchased lot G. of block
., on Broadway, west OF the Date ca
nal, containing three acres.
Plan Big Date Farm
The MoyeT- Gilbert Date Company,
incorporated, Of Los Angeles, is pre-
pairing 10 plant the largest date farm
III California at Thermal, in the Goa
chella valley Il will cover 800 acres.
The owners have been employing -
men for some time in clearing the
land. The contract for preparing the
land fer its crop has been awarded
to the Crummer-Martin Company,
grading contractors of BraWley, for
$4,000
final Certificates Issued
The United States land Office has
issued the following final certificates:
To Anderson b. Derrick, lots 13 and
Il, section 1G. and the east half Of
the southeast quarter Of section Il,
township Il south, range II east. by
the resurvey; 10 Sarah a. A. Dickin-
son, the south half OF section IS, town.
ship u south. range - east: to Alice
l.. Raymond. the south half of section
- township II south. range 10 east,
being tract iii.
Goes to Algeria for Date Palms
The American Date Company is pre-
pairing TO send its man, w. c. Cutler,
to Algeria for date palms soon. says
the Submarine. ]. r. Ramsey, presi-
dent OF the company, went to Los Ang-
eles 10 make final arrangements for
the trip. The American Date Com
pany is the largest date company in
the valley, and has the ten-acre John
son date garden, which is fruit bear
ing now, and has several acres OF
voung date palms set out last sea-
son.
interesting Experiment
Enterprising Japanese cantaioupe
growers are trying out new plan for
producing early melons, and the eX-
pertinent is being carried out on SUI
ficient patches in different localities
to demonstrate it's feasibility for tu-
ture use. The scheme consists III COW
ering the young plants will small pa
peg boxes or thin oiled paper, upheld
by wire loops. The papers have their
edges covered with earth TO prevent
them from being blown away.-Braw-
ley News.
Complain of Flooding Roads
Much complaint is made Of the food
in. o. roads in the northern part Of
the valley. A party OF automobilists
had TO travel twenty-five miles the
ether day TO get 10 Brawley from
Westmoreland less than eight miles
distant. Roads were travelled and
then retraced 10 find way out that
was not flooded, but in vain, and the
first of this week it was reported that
all the roads between these two
points had been flooded and auto trav-
el must be suspended until the roads
dried.
iiert Fredinnick
A quiet wedding took place last
evening, February Z, at the Presby-
terian manse. Anthony Hert Of El Cen