Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-25

DO, LOO, Has Los Angeles county,
perhaps in way as great as San
} Diego's efforts, for while Los Angeles
has greater resources the demand for
other big undertakings has been tre-
mendous.
The route to San Diego from Impe-
rial valley is assured, and the route
to Los Angeles via Salton sea and
Mecca is already in existence and en-
tirely feasible. But there is another
route which later will be heard from
and that is road which at the proper
time every citizen of Imperial valley
and of Los Angeles and San Diego.
too, should get back of and push to
completion.
That route is via San Felipe and
Warmers. Some day, and not so very
far distant either, that will be a ia
vorite road to reach the mountains
and the sea, San Diego or Los Ange-
les, serving equally every interest of
this great valley.
Area of Imperial Valley
Considering Imperial valley as it
will be within the short space of five
years, knowing that the completion of
the east side canal means the irriga-
ton Of land all the way to Imperial
Junction and to Salton sea, and that
the completion of the Thistle extern
sion on the west will add many thou
sands of acres to the irrigated district
northwest of Brawley, we can readily
see that the present geographical CEN
ter of the valley will move northward
to somewhere in the neighborhood of
Brawley. A line drawn east and west
just south of Brawley will be 21 miles
from the north extreme and the same
distance from the present Mexican
line.
North of this line there is already
under irrigation contiguous to Braw-
ley 10000 acres, the authority for
this statement being George Wade and
Frank Beal, your former and present
supervisors. There are also $4,000
acres coming under Number Eight dis
trict, which extension will probably
be made next year; also 10000 acres
that can be reclaimed by No. 8 extern
sion beyond the length now arranged
for. Then there are 10000 acres
now being brought under water in
No. 3 system, to the northeast of
Brawley.
This makes a total acreage as fol-
lows: No. district extension in 1914,
$4,000 acres; No. 8 district eXten-
sion, future, 100000; No. 8 district,
now under consideration, 10000;
Brawley area actually under irriga-
tion, 10000; north of the geograph-
ical center, total, 346,000 acres.
South of the center line, the same
authorities are responsible for the
statement that there are $4,000 acres
of irrigable lands north of the Mexi-
can line.
The grand total of these areas then
is 633,OOO acres of irrigable land for
Imperial valley, and if these lands be
estimated to yield net income of
only $25 an acre per annum the future
production of the valley would be $751;
100000 year, and probably even that
is only half of what it is actually
capable of, even though we average
the bad with the good.
This is only a glimpse into the fu
ture of this wonderful land, and the
one element which will do more to
bring about the best results for the
entire valley is a get-together spirit,
all boosting for the ultimate good of
the valley, all striving to one end and
one thing at time. If every man in
this valley would put his shoulder to
the wheel on any one project, work
ing in harmony with every other in
terest, there would be no question
about the result.
In this particular case let us get
behind one road to Yuma; let that
road be south of the sand dunes or
north of it, as best seems to the in
terest of this convention. Then when
we have that road let us all get busy
on another one for the opposite end,
meantime not forgetting that west
ward, too, there is another road to
build, and that via San Felipe and
Warmers.
The following are the conditions
along the present ocean-to-ocean high
way route, and over another route
which has been designated as the "all
Imperial valley route"
Conditions of Present Route of the
Ocean-tO-Ocean Highway
Mileage of road to be constructed
or improved on the present route of
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