Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-29
By A. II. KELLER.

Imperial Valley, located as she is
Sithin % miles from the best :iar
Dor in the Pacific southwest, 2 lit
tie over 200 miles from the magic
+. city Of tho United States, crossed
by two continental RAILROADS,
! irrigated by the waters from the
watershed Of the western slopes OF
i the Rocky mountains carried through
the channels of the mighty Colo
| rado, kissed by desert sun, stands
without peer in the agricultural
! fields Of our country.
A little over. age (now in its
,ttwenty-third year., is the home of
! $4,000 people occupying nine pros
porous towns and villages, and seat
| tered over a farming area of 500,-
| 000acres. She boasts of go up-to-
date school houses, representing a
total investment in school proper
ty of 1886, ,445.0o, where 10.573
young Americans are learning their
reading and writing, and everything
else required i'll the present-day
school curriculum. She has so miles
of paved highway, costing approxi-
mately $1.5G0,0c0, and 25000 miles
of irrigation canals, representing q
cost of 100000
Our cities are modern and up-to-
date. evr striving to do those things
which make each one happy and
! contented liz his own hometown.
In the mad rush for gohl-the
49er, and the emigrants who follow
oil an N
this great desert of the past, that
this valley was destined to be
producer of the first magnitude,
that the mother lode was near the
surface awaiting the hand of toll,
and out of it was to be coined
i Imperial, and we, of its faith,
believe " that in all that is good,
Imperial excels.
A Car for Every Person
/ We boast of an annual protlue-
tion of nearly one ear for every
man, woman and child within eui
borders, and in this we known we
! have no superior, and L dare say,
! few equals.
| Our winter climata is an ideal
one, and for eight months of the
year L know of nothing better either
east, west, north or south. The
other four months are warm, yea,
iot.-not impossible, us many no
doubt have been led to believe, but
we need heat; it is our ,ehicf asset ,
and our stock in trade. for are we
not Nature S hot house?
We are producing lettuce, spinach
peas, onions and vegetables galore, !!
starting in early December, and |
continuing ON to March and April, !
when asparagus, strawberries and
tomatoes command the peak Of !;
prices, followed by the first peach
es, apricots, figs and fruits of all
kind.
Our "Imperial Iceberg Lettuce"
is too well known to need introduc-
tion. II is the standard of perfec-
tion in the markets of the east. So
popular has it beeome-we find that
we are not the only section now
claiming to grow the Imperial
brand.
Our famous caEtaloupe and the
Imperial Klondike are ON the way |
10 markets late in May and early
N June, and our Thompson Seed |
ess, Malagas and other grapes are
IN the market early i'll July. Our |,
toow, needs no man S
ipology.
During the year 1928 soma
773O carloads of lettuce, 1926 |
cars of cantaloupes, 1855 cars
of other melons, So cars of
grapefruit, 206 cars of grapes,
PCS cars of tomatoes, 1875 cars
of pears and 273 cars of aspar-
agus and miscellaneous vege-
tables were shipped from this
valley.
Our valley boasts of $4,000 dairy
ows, producing Il dairy income ON
923 basis, of $4,000. We have
.reen feed the year around. I'M
erial County stands fifth in the
tate in dairy production. Duringt
he present time we have many
housand steers brought from out
ide states for fattening on ourj
inter feed, to be sold during the
ext four or five months ON thel
os Angeles market.
Much Cotton Raised
Last year s cotton amounted to
10000 bales. The figures furnish
4 by our local chamber of COM
erce, show a grand total in pro-
uction for the year 1928 of $780,
31,49l.00
1t took men and women of brain,
rawn, and determination ito work
ut the salvation of this desert
and to them we owe debt
gratitude that never can be re-
aid; yet, ms much as has been dopei
| the past, wt are still in the
Ioneering stage. 1t remains for
nose who shall come After, to de-
'rmine the full value of our lands.
lany problems are yet unsolyed.
he building of the Boulder Dam
thin the next few years, the in
'eased acreage of irrigable lands :,
ade possible, the dividing mp Of
lr lands in tracts of from len 70
acres, will make room for ten
mes our present population, yea,
AXE it possible to support a poPu-
tion of one.half million people
The lands Of orr vallsy, con
ssidering productions are tho