Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-15
Secretary Lane On Colorado River Situation
Compton Tells
Of Expos Work

81 don't lhiuk there's q gIace ON the
Pacific Goa. which has puIc .ha pos
sihllIies Of Imperial Na'#N We naN
feel diseoutented al lHne aHa husl-
ness conditions may not seem u Ire
.u-i Whsi He would lis. 10 aavc them.
but one has only 10 go some place
else. aad zee Whs eyaduaas ale
there. To f.ad ou hoN much better
things here are than aIsyWGoje.'
Those were the words of NJ. II.
Compton. vino returned this morning
from @ months soio1rn at the san
Diego AID SAN Francisco eNpoaitions,
c>toiIue Jae merits OF Imperial Val
ley.
Most or lbc 9 months vas spent At
SAN Francisco. where Compton has
delivered iul'y 25a lectures. So be has
i 'car,o .len 10 ec some Imperial
}alls, climatic. shall make my
home IL Saolo.,' ho s2id
Tho people VIII whom I talked
were universally Interested ~ imper-
ial Valley he continued, but unfor-
tun3tolY most oi tbCm had arranged
their Itinerary when leaving home and
there was no WY fer hem 10 get
here. II the san DIEGO ~ Arizona
road bad ien completed scores oi
people would have visited the val
.erhcn. too. the fact that Imperial
Valley j. 600 mile. iIom SAN Fan
cisco hsd somelhiu. 10 do with IT,
Nlay o. .hel did view the farm lands
In the northern pa. o# the tate. hu,
thar W. oaiy because ,he were With
i'm a short distance hy iail from syn
Francisco.
aTh whole p7a'f'c coast is going
to feel 5be results Of the eNnost'lons
in 1916. Many who csWe 10 tie fan
came nltt ON a pleasure arp ara
partly 20 pioneer to ess q roTecb
first hand improsio ef the poasIhih-
ties mo thc Wnst and many oi them
are connie back There IS 40 qEe9-
ton bu Ore, he faf. rave heen
tremendous advertisement H7I ihs
West, hat. like 4 o1eaI many ashef @a-
yertisemcnts il WI, Jake some Gma
to feel tic results.
aThe..-5 aas been sc"a. they h5
had he possibilities presented 10 th'm
hv lecture and hv literature. ed WbV
theE 90 lse, taer viii thin., aEoa The
fae.s eh..h tEs- have learned AID
gempeIo' #en >.Hh the conditions
which exist ID 1er own DISTRICTS
Tie f,iHa 06ra. be compared To The
Salvation ArnV. ore could hardly
eav hai sod W4s beng saved eXerN
d. Int lie seed is beirg p.aiatc3
and .le effects VIII he Ielt later.
"Tnc cypos.tiou= are not coin" T.
effect or'e those Vho have actual y
visited tnem. Thy are Going 10 in
fluence others through what VIII be
told lo them by noiehbers Wao dla
come and through the transfer Of the
literature distributed st Inc fs|Hs.
"Condtions have improved vastly
and that j. cong to have someenuE
to do with the immjgHatia1 Into the
West. Persons who have money are
not r0ino . loose it with Tie freedom
with which they would under normal
conditions. but affairs have readWstee
themselves To- new order o. Things
and the country IS IN degree be-
coming accustomed 10 H. There l.
.nrosperitv In the East hEt that alone
wonld not have broueht people to th'
coast unless there Was some large
added attraction loyiaea thai Wncf
normally exists and for HAT reasol
the cyno-..oas have proved a grea
success.
"Thcre Is general jntefes. in th'
valley. I'm the - laetme9 "hieh
delivered there were fully 100 per
sons nresenf III each ono, and ii take
! mighty interesting talk to hob
! lhat many persons when there ar'
daily aurar,'oas going ON outside
marv Of 0hcn q stones throw AVA
fror tie au.lnr where the lecture il
bainr held. A land may he p!aynl
T. outside so The strains float. IN I'm
window and disturb lHo audience, o
aaof Of ba.Uc.bios I'm the harbo
mar Ire czchmp,ng eaiu.es. But aft
or the lecture .s eee. MANY Of he IN
dioace remain lo a.z uoo .'ant, 2n
d lbst ras. a'oaa H. indicative" hat the
are interested in r. valley
r. Tris Is Coua."n's 'rat VISIT To IN
VALLEY since he 'ef0 a. "a represents
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