Imperial Valley press., 1920-10-20
The Imperial Valley of California
BY REV. CHAs B. AUSTIN. D. D. of TOMS RIVER JERSEY

tiace can portray. Not oi.iy this hote
but all the hotels in the city are fillcC
this season, and the s:"pus GROVE
HAS to be accommodated in private
homes.
Imperial Valley lies below sea levei
from q few feet to one hundred ano
twenty-five feet, joining IL on the
,:orth tho Salton sea, as It is called
les 2Go feet below the sea level. North
east and west are moutains, on the
east flows the Colorado, so much high
or than the valley that no dam is
s:eeded to provide irrigation. All that
it REQUIRED is the tapping. of the river
10 secure all the water they need. The
;n.lual rainfall of three inches is sup
ecfluous. The waters of the Colorado
20 distributed through broad canals
INTO irrigating bitches ana thus tc
hundreds Of thousands of acrcs Of land
with future promise that the numhar
vii reach at least 4 million.
The Imperial Valley is now classPd
:yith sucn spots on earth IS Damas-
Gus, with its neighboring Syrian des-
/ III iiiSS StEi''L Stii Dti@
adisc, and with the River Nile. Indeed
nna hears it said thai "tha Nile has
nothing on Imperial Valley The
melting SHOWS Of the Rockies flowing
under the title of the Colorado. is
making the Imperial Valley land
flowing with milk and honey. Honev
is literally one Of the staple products
there. the crop in a recent year netted
value cf S135 .00G. A syTlin is MANI
factured from the cactus, which by the
evolution of Mr.. Burbank. was made
spineless, which is ground up, the
iulce pressed out and with the addi-
ton Of some sugar. makes 4 popular
del.cacy when served On buckwheat
cakes on the tranocontinental diner.
ard asking no odds of maple syrup.
As to the milk one has only to see
the big herds of Holsteins and Jer-
sevs to believe that the dairy product ;
are rich and bountiful. To show t.a:
the Imperial Valley will have some
thing - say about the h. G. cf :.
we have only to report that the nrc-
ducts OF itc sell have advanced h9
ieaDs and bounds. The estimate for
this year is at least 60 millions. a new
:ailroad financed by the SDrecke!e
has Just been completed. and it ey-
tends from San Diego as far south -
the haundary line. at Calexico. Fira
concrete roads have ben laid dow
in several directions At the terminus
of the mountainous and Rocky road
Of nine miles on the way from San
Diego to El Centre, after enc crosses
& fine concrete bridge, there stretches
q bread concrete road for 30 miles. In
this valley the soil is busy 365 days in
the year, so there is only one growing
season twelve months long. In 1918
there were grown 50,000 tons of al
falfa, the crop We may consider first
This may be cut seven or eight times.
50 rapid is its growth. Cotton is very
large crop, 1G cars shipped daily is
freGHant at CaleXico. The product OF
one big ranch in the neighborhood is
worth fifteen millions in a good year.
net returns in a year are 500 an acre;
# = be the Durango or long staple
cotton. which is SO valuable for certain
manufactures, it is worth $3.50 an
acre, including the seed S165 an acre.
The cotton seed meal is valuable fer
tattening the cattle. so much so that
the cattle. themselves are sometimes
facetiously called a part Of the cotton
crop. 1t is an inspiring sight to see
or one side of the road a great field
of cotton, while on the other side of
tha road is lux2riant barley or al
falfa field, and in the distance are du-