West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-01

hhtS over tue WOTbl IOduS ever
passed over Some places the roads
are entirely washed away and we
were compelled to travel over trails
cut through the roads for mile. The
bridges are all out and in crossing
streams our car had to climb grade
of 80 degrees. Cuyamaca Lake lies
between the three high peaks of the
Cuyamaca mountains at an elevation
of $500 feet above sea level and inn
pounds 20,O0O,OO0,0O0 gallons. The
water is conveyed to the city by
flume which runs through tunnels and
over high trestles. It is the most
beautiful body of water 1 have seen
and the surroundings are simply
grand. At a point between the lake
and Julian one can see Imperial val
ley and the Salton sea, which lies be-
low sea level. Julian is the center of
the great apple growing country and
is a delightful place to live.
We arrived at Encanto at $3.50 p. m.
very tired but with excellent appe-
tites for dinner. saw some fine
herds of cattle and horses in the buck
country. The Cuyamaca ranch con-
tains Ia 900 acres and Warmers ranch
$4,000 acres. These are the largest
and there are many smaller ones
where cattle and horses are raised.
The Oak Zanita ranch of 5000 acres is
for sale. A rancher can keep a large
number of cattle on a ranch of that
size and with no cost for feed the
year round. Indeed the only cost is
for herders. He ought to make
money.
There is a sugar factory in course
OF construction at San Diego, and a
large part of the mesa land will be
planted to beets, which grow without
irrigation.
The Hercules Powder company has
large plant at Chula Vista and
Swift & company have erected a plant
in the city for the purpose of manu-
featuring potash from kelp. The
Swift plant is now at work. They
have a reaper that cuts the kelp six
feet under the water and its daily ca
pacity is five hundred tons. The pro-
duct will be used largely for fertilizer.
I met Mr.. John Liston in the city
yesterday. His son Earl, who came
here with him has gone back to Peu-
bio, Col ]. W. Kelar and Charles
Ayers. formerly OF Morgantown, are
living in the city.
Major Langhorne has made a sue
cess Of his raid into Mexico killing
six and capturing 75 bandits and re-
leasing tive Americans captured by
the bandits during the raid. The oc-
cupation OF Mexico by our troops will
not amount to snuff unless the army
is reinforced and goes on and COM
pletes the pacifcation of the country
Just as soon as the army retires the
raiders will be back on the border
killing and F9bbing as before.
The pursuit of villa was a failure
from the start. The expedition did
not get of for a week after the Co
lumbus raid and Villa had ample time
to put distance between them and Sc
curely hide in the mountains. The
18Th cavalry was all there and could
have starred Immediately and hung
on hts TANKS and rear anq forced him
to battle and held him until reinforce
ments arrived and motor trucks could
have kept up with supplies. But an
army on the international border can
not be successfully commanded from
Washington. / think like Senator
Fall, that now is the time to go on and
complete the job The country Is not
prepared for another fasco like the
occupation and abandonment OF Vera
Cruz q year ago. The militia Of
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are
now on the border aua California Is
modified and ready for the call
which they believe will come soon.
We have not been visiting the ex-
position much during the winter but
will soon start IN to make up for lost
time.
Politics are waking up now and
will soon be quite lively, but we Of
Encanto we're annexed to the city on
March 81 and are now interested in
getting our water system taken over
so that we Will again gei water at 10
cents per ! 900 gallons instead Of IS
cents az 81 present We are to at
tend the mayors c0snoi next week
and hope 20 close 80 up.
Respectfully.