50 1HE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Fifth. A school district has been established, and a school is 

 now in operation with a competent teacher, and over twenty scholars 

 under a temporary brush shade supported by nine posts. This tem- 

 porary structure was made because the law required the school to be 

 opened by a certain date, and there was not time to build a school 

 house. 



Sixth. A large number of families are now moving into the set- 

 tlements, taking in teams to work on the canal system for a while, 

 afterwards to be used in putting in crops and improving the lands of 

 the settlers. 



Seventh. A railroad is the next program. Already the Los 

 Angeles, Imperial and Arizona Railway Company is being incorpor- 

 ated to build a standard guage railroad from Yuma through the Im- 

 perial Settlements in a northwesterly direction to Los Angeles, or to 

 a connection with some other line of railroad that will give entrance 

 to Los Angeles under favorable conditions. On this line of railroad 

 are located the towns of Imperial, Paringa and Calexico. This com- 

 pany also proposes to-construct a branch line from the town of Imper- 

 ial in a northerly direction through the town of Ranchita to a connec- 

 tion with the Southern Pacific; also a branch line from the town of 

 Ranchiia down through the Eastside Settlement on the east side of 

 Carter river, through the towns of Eastside and Ganges, to a connec 

 tion with the main line at Imperial, or some point on the main line 

 south of that town. Work of grading the line from the Southern Pa- 

 cific in a southerly direction throughout the towns of Ranchita, Im- 

 perial and Paringa to Calexico will be commenced in a few days, and 

 this portion of the road will be pushed to completion as soon as pos- 

 sible. ' 



Eighth. From the best information obtainable, there will be 

 50,000 acres of land under the Imperial Canal system put under culti- 

 vation during the coming season. 



Ninth. The towns of Calexico and Imperial are already platted 

 and the lots in these towns are now on the market. The towns of 

 Ranchita and Paringa will soon be platted, and building operations 

 therein commenced. Another season will probably see Eastside and 

 Ganges commenced. 



This is a summary of work thus far done in reclaiming the Col- 

 orado Delta and in developing the largest, and what promises to be 

 the most flourishing irrigation settlement for general farming and 

 stock raising to be fonnd in the United States. 



What of the products? It is definitely known that alfalfa, barley, 

 and wheat will do as well here as anywhere; that more alfalfa can be 

 grown to the acre here than in any other known section; that as a 

 cattle and hog country, no section will produce more feed for convert- 



