Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1914-02-27
FROM SUNNY CALIFORNIA
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Then comes Brawley of about 1000
Considering everything / believe Brawley
has great future. as well as the entire
Imperial Valley. | saw the farm of !. D.
Hale. and | would not be surprised if
Dodge does not double his money on his
farm inside of three years. Land is
changing hands and prices are going up
all the time. and see no reason why this
land should not in short time be mere
valuable than the land around Rocky
Ford.
On our trip down we had daylight
trip; we passed through one vineyard of
over 1000 acres with its own bonded
warehouse. There is said to be thirty
thousand acres of grapes in that one vi
cinity and oranges everywhere. For
sixty or seventy miles from Pasadena. it
is vineyard, orchard and flower garden.
then we cross low range Of mountains
and then miles and miles of desert and
then comes the Salton sea. that lay there
for ages slowly drying up. leaving great
bed of salt. A large salt plant had been
established and they were shipping out
trainloads of it when the old Colorado
river, miles from there. overlooked and
tore channel in some places more than
half milo wide and finally emptied in
the Salton sea, destroying the entire salt
works and plant and filling the old sea SO
full that the railroad had to tear up
miles of It's track and move the entire
g..
the sea. Salton sea is now about go or
20 miles long and from % to 90 miles
wide. Beyond and south of this won
derful sea is the great Imperial Valley.
irrigated by water from the Colorado
river. The overflow from the Colorado
river has been stopped. but the great
chasm over fifty feet deep in most places
still remains and is now used to drain
the waste water from irrigation back to
the Colorado river.
Now about Pasadena, the home of
millionaires and paupers. With popu-
lation Of 10000 it is strictly a residential
town, not as much commercial business
being done here as is done in lots of
towns of 10000. but with more miles of
paved streets than any other town of its
size in the world; with more than 10000
automobiles. many of them costing
$4,000 and $4,000 and up; with many
residences costing from 100000 up to
S500,000; with hotels whose furnishings
alone cost more than a million dollars
stamp this town as a millionaire town; as
a truly good place to have good time
and spend your money. Delightful eli
mate, splendid water and not any more
costly than other places to live. Yet
there are lots Of poor people and a great
deal of poverty. Yes this is the the town
of Bob Burdette. who says that he mar
ried the first time for love, the second
time for beauty. and the third time for
money. Well his present wife guess
ability to take care of it and Bob too.
And Lucky Baldwin. that traded nice
riding horse. saddle and bride for strip
of land three leagues wide, extending
from mountains to the sea. He left his
estate to Two daughters, who are each
building castle costing about half
million dollars each. All this immense
estate is worth on an average of S 900
an acre. Then we have the widows of
President Garfield, General Logan. Geo.
W. Childs; and the old Catholic Mission.
San Gabriel, with its old adobe houses
more than hundred years old and the
oldest and largest grape vine in the
world.
Yes, Pasadena is rich in great many
things, but her mild climate and wonder
fulsunshine makes her the natural plea
sure garden for all who are able to come
and live here. and yet after all there are
so many flowers and oranges and so
much sunshine and climate. that | i'm
agine a man would get tired and would
hunger after a variety and it must be
fearful hot here anywhere away from
the ocean in the summer, but it is WON
derfully nice here in the winter.
| was down in the Imperial Valley on
the 9Th and 9th Of February and Mr..
Bostwick took me out in the country and
stopped and we went into strawberry
field and ate great big juicy berries right
off tho vines, and new peas and potatoes
and fried chicken. all ripe and mighty
good; and then when we went back to
town | saw in the paper that it was
down to 6 below zero. 1t made me
thankful was in the land of sunshine
and flowers. 1t seems to me that the
land in the Imperial Ialley. where they
don't have any freezing weather and
scarcely any frost; where they never
have to feed their stock: where they can