Show 6 Today Come Bring Dring Your Money MoneT Tim The Imperial Valley alleT A Belier SAhara The Ille Enchanted Mesa By fly ARTHUR BRISBANE SE Copyright 1926 by The Th star Company YUMA TUMA Arizona April 21 This 21 ThiIs Is ie written at the tho th end of ot a 00 mile trip through thi southern outturn Cali- Cali California fornia from Los Angles Angeles In an automobile with the th top down In liall all countries you should see se the tho cy C as 05 well as a the th earth One OnIs Is as magnificent as oa the tho tn other The Th road rod leads through San Bernardino to Brawley on through the marvelous Imperial Valley Vally to the Little LIttI Sahara At t California's southern end nd where whre sand hills ore are ar piled high as mountains and the Colorado river rushes rushs past the th boundaries of where Mexico M Call Call- fornia and Arizona meet met I To see sc the African Sahara with Ith Improvements while seeing Amer Amer- America ica lea first make m k this trip At the th ond nd of a mile mlle run you bump for for miles over ov r a rough plank road laid across the th shIfting mou mountains of sand Eight feet fet wide tide Is the road And If It In the moonlight you drive off there you stay until help comes coms They Thy are ar building a perfect stone slone road across the sand sands now so hurry No time or space to describe anything In detail Each of the miles mile should have hav t at least Iut one column all to itself The distant mountain Are ar covered with snow gigantic trucks with heavy traIler thunderIng along alone carry carry- carryIng carrying carrying ing each Ilch 20 tons of alfalfa to the Los market over hundreds of oC miles of absolutely perfect con con- concrete con concrete crete crele roads includIng a wonderful Ion loni II stretch beside tho the Salton sea eta ea It Is a country In which valleys vallys have hav been ben mAde mad from dealt dead desert Hundreds C f thousands ot of desert acres have ben been changed chanced by bywater bywater water from the th Colorado Into th marvelous fertility of oC the th Imper Imper- Imperial hal ial Valley Not to know Pacific coast from end to end Is not to know your own country Come out here hereIt If I you ever go co back it will be bo to gather up your assets and brin I them Ihm back with you ou Secretary Work will wIlt be In this thriving town next Sunday He PresIdent Coolidge and the th nation may be proud of the work that the Interior department has done all through this regIon Won Wonderful Wonderful Irritation irrigation projects are aro now flow actually In work workIng Ins order and the department rules enable the th lit lIt lIt- lIttie lit tl tie lie man to buy his hi 20 or 40 per per- per perfect C feet ct acres with water supplied perfect title titia from Uncle Sam for easy payments and to 10 preserve the th land for the man that wants to ilvo IIvo and work on onIt onIt onIt It No bIg i concern can gObble cobble It up and speculate at the th little mall expense Every Ivery man will be he Interested In recent experiments with ith Hh irrigation In this region They may double Irrigated fruit crops and then bene beno- bene- bene benefit benefit fit the tho th entire world George SI M Hill a as able a fruit grower IrOW r as the country possesses says Plants are like men They need to- to get eel really rally hunGry really thirst without ever being under undernourished nourished Under such conditions they do their best work It has been ben the th custom to irrl- irrl Irrigate cat Irrl-cat gate on an iron-clad iron regulation basis keeping the ground always moist water always alway within reach of the th tree roots Now we w welt walt until Irrigation irritation Is absolutely necessary nee necessary essary and let the tho th tree tre tre work hard hard- harder er or for Itself Those grapefruit trees over there ther under former conditions would be b four week behind in irrigatIon and they will willbe be b all the th better for tor It It We W test teat the soli soil regularly for tor moisture never nover let the th tree actually suffer But we w hold back the th water until the leaves leave are ar almost ready to wilt Then turn In the th water and watch the th tree thrive and the fruit In size and color Trees Tres have hav ben been be n treated with Irrigation and fertilizer like lice the tho rich mans man's child always stuffed always tired of good things That ought to change with children or of orthe the rich It will change chong with trees The Th experiments will vill continue Isely directed and there ther Is rca ra rea-aon rea son to hope that old year Iv grapefruit trees treos tr s will Increase their yIeld from five to ten tn boxes per tree tre Mr Ir lUll Hill is II I too busy to an- an answer answer an many letters Write Writ to the tho agricultural department at Wash Wash- WashIngton Washington Wash Ington or to the th experiment sta- sta station sta station tion Uon of the th University of ot Arizona at Yuma Come Corn out to this country travel up and down In It from the th Mexican Mexican can north border bordor beyond Seattle through California Arizona New Mexico Colorado Washington Oregon Every word In that list ot of states stands stand for a great trat em- em empire em empire pire The population of ot this thi great treat state otate tat of Arizona Is only and the th Mesa near her with the valley vally below could easily teed twenty millions This western Pacific coast land landIs landIs landIs Is the th land of opportunity There TherIs Is success Int Interest rest In life happi happi- happiness happiness happiness ness for tor anybody willing g to work and bring brine enough enouch money to start But Dut you must come provided with enough to start Honest hearts heartland and willing lands ands will not start a citrus grove trove or an alfalfa ranch witHout capital Gt Get It and bring It here Imagine you that have hav neverseen never seen sen een this enchanted Tuma Yuma Mesa MOIa a table taki land where orange grow row rowers ers era have hav no smudge pots because they have hav never nver had a frost where whre they never n vr spray pray or fumigate be- be because because cu be-cu cause they thy have hav no Kala scale cale or other insect pest pot to worry them and where the th government watches every tv ry plant fruit or seed sed that enters Its territory to keep kep k out danger dancer As AI a sample of what desert land can do when water Is pumped up from below consider the th little 40 40 ncr 40 acre ranch that Henry H nry A bought bough from rom 0 O T McCoon Brad Brad- Brad ley Icy ley the th first year 40 acres of pecan nuts with cotton colton between the rows row of o young trees trel tree His cot cot- cotton cotton ton col-ton ton paid for the th land the th pump pump- ing pumping pump plant and the th young trees tre the year ar Last year h he took 17 bales bal s of cotton from 37 acres more than two bales bale to the th acre And here her the th loll olt oil weevil Is 15 un- un unknown unknown un unknown known and the th state stat Intends that It shall remain unknown Save Sav your money let get a car travel see c your own country study It It prove all 11 things hold fast that which ii 10 I good rood Get Gt your own spot pot and hold on to It No one on knows knowl what what the th wealth of Jt this country Is II to be Near Los Loll Angeles the th Standard Oil drills deeper through an art exhausted oil sand and and from the th deepest d p t welt well w known get geta c ta a a usher gusher spouting barrels a day And that's nothing A thousand such uch gushers would be b insignifIcant compared with the th wealth hidden In this statement The Th Boulder dam project will lock up In the tho th canyon above the dam enough water to provide feet acre which means enough water ater to over 2 acrea one on tot toot deep dep That will be b It 8 times time as AI a much water as the th Roosevelt dam sup piles and the th new bIg bl dam darn should bo be named Calvin Co lIdge Ilia Iii administration will put It through with perfect fairness to Arizona and California and the th or of e coast know It and appreciate |