Imperial Valley press., 1915-11-22
RAISES QUESTION OF
PROPERTY INVOLVED

When the contract of February S,
1915. between the southern Pacific and
the district was signed, it was claimed
by that agreement the district would
acquire all the property of the Cali
fornia Development Company, on both
sides of the line, except the farming
lands in Mexico. Also, that, as 10 the
Mexican lands. The district would have
them for two years during which il
should survey out aud locate all the
bitches, roads and everything il would
ever need, and then deed back To the
Southern Pacific the remaining lands.
There was no hint about the district
not getting the lands and other prop
ertv mentioned in Judge Bordwell's de
cision. In fact, both CoukUng and
Hamilton told me the district would
get all that property, which, ! under
stood, was the same as that published
in the Progress sunday morning. Al
that time, | called attention to the fact
that such property was not directly
mentioned, and could only be inferred
as among that included in the contract,
but was expressly assured that il was
all included and understood clearly by
both sides. The contract is wordcd
so as to leave the matter open. for
there is no mention of such property
i'm the list of things decided TO W. j.
4 H.
be turned over To the district by the
Southern Pacific, as sci forth in Sec
ton of the contract. Section Is of
the contract expressly reserves all the
property of the California Development
Company decided by il 10 W. J. Doran.
/ trustee except that mentioned in Sec
tion L. That would seem to limit the
district to Just what is mentioned in
/ Section (. and there certainly is no
real estate mentioned in Section /.
That being true, ii is clear that the
Southern Pacific is holding out about
a million dollars worth of property
/ that Conkling and Hamilton always
have claimed the district Will get un-
der this contract. This matter is now
further clarified by Holabird making
a demand upon the Southern Pacific
FOR the return of this property Ia the
California Development Company, and
also added interest for all the time
since II was turned over 10 poran, az
urcgating about II 800, od0. THAT this
disclosure is a surprise 10 thc people
of Imperial Valley. is certain, for We
have relied upon The attorney and
president of the district 10 see that We
get what we buy. However, This is not
+ the first surprise we have had.
When the contract itself was entered
into. we found out for the first time
that it had already been bearing in
interest, to the tune of Sl52,5oo, was
tackled on to the purchase price.
That was explained away by the
/ statement that, ae the judgment pore
interest, We must pay ii in some form,
so that got bV Now comes the dis
closure that we arc getting short
changed in the deal to the tune of
at least a million dollars and that Is
more than we can stand for The dis
trict board has 10 right to give away
the bonds for any such junk a that
drScribcd in the contract. unless 1t car
rics with il all the property described
in Judge Bordwelis decision and sub
stantiaIIy as published in the Progress.
ANY claim that we understood that We
were not to get the real estate and
Iothsr property included in the deeds
to W. J. Doran, trustee. is untrue, FOR
tbrouch9u all the time since that
Icontrart was made it has been atOutlN
claimed by Conkling & Hamilton, 10
my certain knowledge, that the dls-
trict would receive all that property
under the coutract Now, what rs the
I,uswcr9 Either Coultlng has been
guilty Of double dealing and while at
torncy for the district has worked the
matter 50 as To give the southern
Pacific million dollars worth OF
propcrtv out Of the value for which
we voted bonds. or else we are MOI
entitled TO the property If the ilrsi'
then Hamilton mu+t he recalled, 50 As
to dismiss CouklinE, aud if the sec
ond. Hamilton must be recalled in Or
der to thwart the dead and stop the
plan to swap off the districts bonds
for about 10 cents on the dollar.
ADV. +. q. hAN h'>''
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