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Show V. r 1 22 Feet. A Below Sea Leval. (By J. 0. Wheelon.) Cnlexico, CalM May 18, 1910. Leaving Garland Saturday 1 11, morning, May 14th, 4,000 -feet 'r4 above sea leval, and dropping into the Imperial valley 122 feet bolow sea .leval Monday evening, even-ing, May lGth, is "going clown some," andwhilol have notyet met tbo red man with horns and trident, it seems about hot enough for him. Wo have just returned from an automobile automo-bile ride of 95 miles, in which wo covered a district about half as large as the state of Rhode Island, examining canals, head-gates, head-gates, flumes and controlling works of all kinds and discrip-tions, discrip-tions, passing miles of alfalfa, barley and cotton fiolds, seeing an asparagus field from which the owner had just finished harvesting and shipping four carloads of asparagus this season; sea-son; barley in stacks and the . second crop of alfalfa being cut. "We passed more than a dozen dairies' whore 25 to 100 cows at each wore pasturing in the alfalfa fiolds. At one place wo stopped the owner was milking milk-ing 60 cows, but does not own a mowing machine and has not fed 10 tons of hay during the ' last four years. Ho has 100 acres. of alfalfa and when one pasture gets short or dry, he turns them into another with feed up to their eyes this going go-ing on winter and summer. They harvest barley and plant cotton as soon as the land is irrigated and plowed and will pick the cotton this fall, thus gottiug a crop of barley and a crop of cotton inside of twelve months. The valley wo passed over today is as smoothe as a billiard table (if you have over seen one,) tipped up on a slope of 7 feet to the mile. We noticed where somo water had flown into the road and had followed the wagon wheel track for more than a mile. The wagon had turned down a cross-road and the water had followed the track; I presumo it is still going. Wo passed a flock of Angora goats in a big field that had recently been clipped of their feathers. In the conter of the field was a stack of hay and the goats had eaten around it until it resembled resembl-ed an umbrella. Mr. Haddle-bird, Haddle-bird, the receiver for the canal company, pointed out this stack to us aud stated that that was the kind of mushrooms they raisod hore, so you can easily see how ho got his job. Mark Austin is here with us, but x stated that ho was anxious to got home as he felt sure if wo stayed hore a week longer, we never would bo able to toll the truth again. Thursday, May 19th, wo took fv.... a 75-milo ride to see the repairs fV mado at the great broaoh in tho V Colorado river that throataned the valley to years ago; also visited the new 15-mile levee now in course of construction. The Mexicans give a grand bull - fight in our honor Sunday May 22, and Monday wo leave Caloxico in o u r homeward journoy. |