Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-10
Goes
After Opposers
To Colonization
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:. Rogers Of Kansas City bring farm
colonists to Imperial valley ?on-
dcmu this practice in no uncertain
.el,rs, an6 it is their desire to ut
'his time warn all lana owncts 10
refrain from giving long terra op-
tions on their properties, unless the
option fcrms presented for their sig
natures ara the regular printed forms
with he options running to l.. C..
Smith md a. Stanley Rogers, doing
business US Smith & Rogers. These
names are printed plainly in tn"
first paragraph of all the authorized
forms.
Ia my estimation the thing that
will hcn,fIt Imperial Valley more
than my ether one thing Is 20 sell
10000 acres Of our land to actual
trainers iIom the middle-w2st and
elsewhere. believe there az 90
coo acres, owned by resider' and
nonresident owners, which can prop
erly be tetmed excess land. BY
that mean land that under present
conditions cannot be farmed Irefit-
ably to ;rI owners or to the people
Of this county. This land is all
good productive soil, and as it
lacks is farming of the right kind.
With act'.al farmers on this acreage
Imperial Valley will have what 1t
has always needed most-pJ?Gia,
ton; working the land to the best
advantage.
IL believe that an increase Of our
population to the right proportions
will be the means of reaching all
the other solutions of our problems.
"Tke 11esent move to get new
populatltn of the right soft Is 10
my MIND, one of the greatest oppor.
tunitie, We have ever had i'll all
the history of Imperial Valley The
firn Of smith & Rogers is spending
a barrel OF their own money-.o get
this colonization project under way.
This money had to be spent before
they could even start to get any re-
turns; and it is now up to th9 pro-
pie Of the Valley to give them the
fullest possible cooperation.
Need Practical Farmers
"The reason / term it one of our
greatest opportunities is that we
were fortunate enough to find peo-
pie with the practical experience and
the capital to start the movement.
1t is not costing the general pubic
of Imperial County one penny-the
Kansas City people are spending
their COED money. and lots of it, on
a chance that we will cooperate
whit them and enable them to realize
on the investment, which really IS
no investment at all on their part,
but long-chanee gamble. They
haze in the past put over large col
onization projects in other parts of
the country, and they will succeed
IN this effort and make money for
themselves and for the whole popu-
lation of Imperial Valley if that
population will put their shoulders
10 the wheel and do their part.
so far, there has been little real
headwav because Of the many OBJ
staclcs that have been put III the
way of the committee of local men
handling the home end of the pro-
iccf. All we are asked to do it to
list n part Of our excess land at
fair price. The clonization agency
will do the rest at no expense to
ourselves.
Gwen if we do not sell the land
of any particular individual within
,he period of the option, that indi-
vidual will get the benefit Of their
selling other lands. There will be a
new market value placed on all the
good land in the valley by reason
IF some of it having been sold at
prices somewhere near its real value,
end every landowner and citizen of
imperial Valley will profit and bene
fiji by the activity.' re--