Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-15
FOUNDATION FOR
LARGER CITY IS
seen in FACTS
Many Business Houses in
HOltville With Trade
Of Big Section
FACTS OF HOLTvILLE

Dairy center of Imperial Valley,
producing nearly 10000 pounds OF
butter day.
Population 1000 In incorporated
city limits alone.
Strong public schools.
Good public library.
Eight church organizations.
Ten miles Of paved streets.
Artesian water from flowing
wells.
Complete sewer system.
Strong Chamber Of Commerce.
Community Center at city hall
surrounded by beautiful city PARK.
Good railroad facilities.
On, Ocean to Ocean highway.
Fine tourist camp.
Holtville, metropolis of the great
Eastside, dean of Imperial Valley
farming communities, is also the
gateway to the valley over the south
route of the transcOntinental high
way.
With n population of little over
1000, it is yet one of the most pros
porous communities of the valley.
A typical American community,
Holtville and its surrounding ranch
ing area is peculiarly free from what
is known and rated as the foreign
element.
With full and complete business
houses, which supply every require
nent of the city dweller and rancher,
Holtville is well situated with rela-
ton to the possibilities Of Il material
increase in the population of the
city, and the addition, in time, of
many more business houses.
| Strong Banks
Two strong banks, the First Ma
lti0nal and tho HOltville Bank, are
financial institutions of strength,
and the regularly issued bank state,
ments show that the financial status
of the community is one which will
compare with that Of any other com
munitv in the state, and in most in
stances will exceed others.
Natural advantages there are at
Holtville, which make it q desirable
place in which to settle, and where
1.-THE active and progressive man ol
woman may be assured a reasonably
prosperous era in the pursuit o1
farming or other endeavOr.
l. Going east on the transcontinental
auto route from Holtville, there are
six miles of go6d dirt road to the
high line canal, and from there on
inine miles. have been paved. Within
the last week q contract was let fOI
the laying. of an additional fourteen
and One.half miles Of paving, max
4 ing a total of over twenty-three
miles of the finest roadway in the
|wOrld ready for travel some time ia
the near future. ..
4, So. Big Hay Crops
| Alfalfa, greatest of forage crops
IS the foundation of-all prosperity in
This community, and, due TO its rank
Igrawth, the largest and substantial
deirying industry is able to make
the wonderful showing with which il
is credited - ~. .....- t... g..
]. Thousands upon thousands of acres
lin this section are devoted, exclu
tsively to this wonderful hay crop
(which here seems to find conditions
ideally, suited to its best develop
ment. .... t.s., ....
r. With from 200 to ESQ carloads OF
baled hay shipped from this point
yearly, more than 10000 head OF
mileh cows and young dry heifers
are being pastured and fed, beef cat
tie and sheep being raised and fat
tened on it, as well as hogs ranging
and feeding in the fields where it is
grown, easily proves the claim made
that it, and it alone, is primarily
Irresponsible for an income in the dis
ltriet Of more than a million dollars
ANNUALLY.
| Material increases in acreage
planted 10 alfalfa are being made
this year, as lands, restored by drain
age, again give evidence of produe
itivity, and it may be safely asserted
that in the season to come the pro
duetion of hay will be half again a.
large as in years past.
] From 10 to Is carloads of onions
are shipped out Of Holtville to east
ern markets annually, of highest
quality, and always in demand.
| SMALL FARMS INCREASING