The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-01-18
BLYTHE NEWS.
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for the first time a new industry has
been established in the valley. Local
dairymen believe that within the
next few years the butter output will
be the most profitable product OF the
Palo Verde. They base their pre-
dictions on the remarkable growth OF
the industry in the Imperial valley
Dairying in that district has, within
the last five years, grown to en-
ormous proportions. 1t is said that
the Imperial valley is the greatest
producing district in California.
SHORTER LINE TO CLAIMS.
Workmen under the direction OF
Neil Hinckley and E. S. Macarthur OF
the Palo Verde Motor Transit com
pany are busy blasting rock and grad
ing up cut-offs on the Glamis road
which will shorten the route approx
mately four miles
The first cutoff will leave the
present road about three miles be
low Palo Verde and take a direct
line toward CLAIMS, joining the old
eliminate the wash at the lower end
of the valley and avoid the overflow
district.
Another new stretch of road is to
be put i'm between the we'll and
Glamis. 1t is estimated that each Oh
these cut-offs will save about two
miles
Neil Hinckley has been working fol
several weeks securing right-of-ways
for a road down the canal to Ran
nells and the completion of this to-
gether with the shorter route below
will save approximately As minutes
ON the Blythe to Glamis trip. 1t will
also mean much better road as
the highway along the canal can be
Watered and kept in first-class shape
Riverside and Imperial counties
will assume part of the expense OF
the work in the valley but Hinckley
and Macarthur are building the new
mountain and mesa road OH their
own resources.
WoMAN's CLUB RECEPTION.
The WOman's improvement Club OF
Blythe will give a reception i'm Blythe
on Friday evening, January "a. The
reception will be in honor of Ray
mcnd Cree, county superintendent OF
schools, and joseph T. Daniels
county Librarian.
The object is primarily to boost fol
club house here, with quarters fol
our branch of the county library, and
! the women will bend all their efforts
until the library room and club room
are facts.
The club, with Mrs. Norton as Iii
brarian, has been working for the
library all this fall Books may be
had from the county library at River.
side and from the state library at
Sacramento. These books are ship
ped at state expense and are changed
every month or two. Every person
lis entitled to draw books and people
of Palo Verde valley should be very
glad to be able to get reading mat
ter in this way. At present the
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but DIT is crowded there, and the 10
cation is not the best, so better quart
ers are desired.
ADD BEAUTY TO PALO VERDE.
Tree planting time has arrived fol
the valley and from now until April
hundreds of fruit and shade trees viii
be added to the local setting.
The success of apricots, peaches
figs, prunes and date palms, which
i'm several parts of the valley bore
heavily last year, their third year
has proven to the settlers that these
fruits will be money-makers for this
valley and plans are under way to
set out large acreage Within the
next two months.
E. H. Weimers, is probably one OF
the most enthusiastic fruit men i'm
the valley. He lis clearing his land
with the expectation of putting 20
acres of it to apricOts.
The new freight service has made
the successful marketing of fruits a
certainty.
Probably no, fruit among the hun
dreds of varieties that have been
planted has shown a more thrifty
and fruitful growth than grapes
These mature here nearly a month
earlier than on the coast and should
prove especially profitable ON this
account.
Among the matters taken up by
the Chamber of Commerce at its
last meeting was that of planting