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tULLETIN 458, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



stations about 80 per cent of all the cotton originates, the average 

 distance will be 100 miles less. So great a decrease in the distance 

 probably would have the effect of reducing the local rate to the 

 Pacific port, with a cpnsequent lessening of the through rate to 

 New York and to European ports. 



Fig. G. — Map of the Imperial Valley. 



The Imperial Valley is served by a -10-mile branch of the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad, which extends south from Niland to Calexico on the 

 Mexican boundary. (See fig. 6.) Connecting with the Southern 

 Pacific at El Centro, the Holton Interurban, an independent railroad, 

 extends east to Holtville, a distance of 10.5 miles, and west to Dixie- 

 land, a distance of 13.7 miles. On the Southern Pacific Railroad are 

 located seven gins and two compresses, the compresses being at Im- 



