Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07

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Edgar Bros. Realty Company fulfills
the prediction which has been made
since the beginning of things in this
valley. In the subdivision of the Will
sic ranch into small farms the prob
lem is approached with a definite pur-
pose and a definite plan. The pur-
pose is to demonstrate the practica-
bility of intensive farming in the I'm
perial Valley and the definite plan is
to instruct those who may become in
tereSted in these tracts how they may
make a living off of five acres, and,
in fact, make a five-acre tract equal
in producing ability to an
eighty or one-hundred acre farm un-
der existing methods.
The subdivision of the Wilsie ranch
has been under consideration for a
long time. Mr.. Wilsie himself has
given more thought and patient re-
search to the higher standard of cul-
Valley. He has had the cooperation
of the United States government in
demonstrating what can be done or
small acreage and during the past few
years there have been many expert
mental plots on the Whsle ranch
which have caused state and even ma
ton wide attention. Within the past
few months the United States gov
ernment has acquired ten acres of the
Whsle ranch, adjoining the tract
which is to be subdivided by the Ed
gar Bros. Realty Company, for the
demonstration of the date industry,
and in making this demonstration
there will be available all the rel
sources of the Department of Agricul-
ture to bring this to the highest de-
gree of success. The Whsle tract has
peculiar and extraordinary advapr
tages in point of location. 1t is TIN
first station out of Ell Centre on the
San Diego & Arizona Railroad and
of course it is the expectation that
San Diego will become the market for
Imperial Valley garden products.
The ranch~is divided by the Ell Centre
and San Diego state highway and the
quality of land for garden purposes,
as determined by experts, is. pro-
rounced to be the best The McPher-
rim ranch, just north of the Wilsie
ranch, is one of the most highly
productive ranches in the valley and
about half of this ranch is already
riven to the production of garden pro-
ducts. r.
The Wilsie ranch has been selected
for a demonstration, first, of the
pract;cability of raising certain fruits,
such rs grape fruit. olives, apricots.
figs. dates and other fruits adapted
TO the sort of climate which prevails
in. the Imperial Valley. These fruits,
where grown in an experimental wav,
have produced abundantlv and made
it certain that thew would he profit
able for commercial production At
this place also will be made a Begin
rino of great egg and poultry in
dustry. For the practical poultryman.
ten acres of this high quality land
situated as this ranch is, would be
III" foundation of a fortune. Of course
it has alreadv been demonstrated what
can be done in the way of asparagus
and any person taking up this in e.
dnstry. conscientiouslv. and giving it
the attention and business ability
which is called forth to make a sue
cess of any other line of business.
will easily make good living and
save money on one of these tracts.
During the past two or three wears
it has been proved beyond peradven-
ture that strawberry culture is a sue
cess in this valley, when the straw
berry grower makes use of the vari-
eties which are suited TO this climate,
which varieties are well known. The
same is treu of all ordinary vegetables
and these can be played upon the San
Diego and Los Angeles market at a
time when they command the highest
prices.
The development of the fruit in
dustry will naturally be slower in it's
returns than the garden products and
roultry industry. but the location of
this pronerty, almost within FL Cen
tro, on the main boulevard and a sta
= tion of the San Diego & Arizona,