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SPECULATIVE SCHEME Bt Land Bill Not Approved In California. "I am glad that action to exclude California from tho Smoot bill has been taken," said Gen. Frank C. Trescott, Register of the government land office, In discussing the bill now pending before Congress to give homesteaders the right to take up 320 acres of government land Instead of 160 acres. The bill is about to be reported favorably In the Senate by the public lands committee, but it has been held up temporarily by Senator Flint until ho determines if It Is not desirable to exclude California from its provisions.

"The public land laws are sufficiently liberal now," continued General Prescott. "In the Imperial Valley, for instance, some land is worth a thousand dollars an acre and it would not be right to allow Individuals to take up more than they can already. It is simply a speculative scheme to make the laws broader." TROPIC BREEZES. Blowing to San Diego From "Col." Johnson Is There. Dulzura may be as promising a mining district as the San Diego papers say it is, and the Los Angeles papers may be all wrong in declaring it a fake, but it is "to laugh" to see the Union quoting "Col." J.

Lovick Johnson as "one of the best known mining engineers in the country" and giving columns of space to an interview with that genial dispenser of tropic atmosphere. "Col." Johnson, after an exhaustive investigation lasting a dayln- two, pronounces Dulzura "the most extensive and richest gold bearing deposit in the world today. There is such a volume of tonnage in prospect it far exceeds any district in the world." The enthusiastic colonel, not long ago, had "the richest placer ground in the world" about thirty miles from Mojave. He was going to get the nuggets out with a steam shovel, and demonetize gold. CANADIANS LOOKING AHEAD.

Five-Eighths of British Columbia In New Forest Reserves. The opponents of the national forestry policy in the United States; have laid special stress upon the streams Of American home builders flowing across the line into Canada. They have dwelt tearfully upon the loss of national strength caused by a cruel government, which, by forbidding its citizens to make homes on its woodlands, drives them to a more hospitable foreign land. But now the government in British Columbia has put into forest reserves at one stroke a hundred and fifty million acres as much in that single Province as all the forest reserves of the United States put together. The entire area of British Columbia is less than two hundred and forty million acres, so that the government has reserved in.

one block about five-eighths of all the land in the Province. Yet Senator Heyburn of Idaho wails piteoualy because the United States government has put about two-fifths of the area of his State into National Forests. In British Columbia there are practically no timber lands in the market. The lumberman who wishes to cut trees must deal with the Government. Lands not in the forest reserves may be leased, subject to a royalty on all timber cut.

It is to be noted that the enlightened policy which gives the people the control of their own timber resources is carried out by the local government of the Province itself. Un like some of our Western States, British Columbia does not hang back in sullen protest while salvation is forced upon her by a distant national authority Collier's. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Usual morning service next Sunday at 11 o'clock. The address will be on "Responsibility For In nee," after which will come the ordination of the newly elder, Mr.

A. T. Morrison. In the evening the evangelist, Moiuthan, will preach, this being the first of the union evangelistic iiigs. Everybody 8.

I. WARD, Pastor. For thornless cactus and information regarding the variety of peaches to plant and how to cultivate them for Best results in fruiting call on or a(U dress Imperial Valley Nurseries. Wm. Kelly, Prop.

4tf REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Imperial Town Co. to John E. High, con. $(0, lot 8, blk.

18, and lot 3, blk. 38, of Imperial. El Centro Lnnd Co. to J. Hoffman, con.

$10. lota no and 31, blk. 25, of El Centre Agreement nnd rtrceipt between the $fo. lot 8. Wk 1S.

nnd lot .1, blk. of Imperial. 1 UMi Co. to .1 H. Hoffman.

$10. lot ti, Wk. of Kl nt Ix-twrm Hrawley Town and Improvement Co. and J. M.

Giant for lot blk. 117, of Hrawley. Agreement and receipt between the Draw ley Town and Improvement Co. and J. M.

Giant for lot 2, blk. 117, of Hrawley. Bond for deed, Charles C. Ames and Addtson B. Robinson to Enoch W.

Rankin. con. $18,025, upon Issuance by V. S. I -and Office at Los Angeles of re ceiver's final receipt to C.

C. Ames; he shall execute and deliver deed to Enoch W. Rankin for the S. of the N. W.

"4 of sec. 31, N. E. of sec. II, and W.

of N. W. of sec. 32, twp. 16 R.

16 K. Imperial Valley Improvement Co. to Otis W. Seeley, con. $10, lot 11, blk.

24, of Imperial. con. $10, lot 11, blk. of Imperial. El Centro Land Co.

to W. 0. Recor-i. con. $10, lots 25 and 26, blk.

81, ami lots I and 10, blk. 41, of El Centro. W. H. Ham and Elizabeth A.

Ham to Jesse B. Oriswold, con. $10, lots 11 and 12, blk. 79, of Brawloy. Silsbee Town Co.

to John R. High, con. $10, lots 12 and 13, blk. 09, of Silsbee. Imperial Town Co.

to John E. High, con. $10, lots 9 and 10, blk. 81, of rcsubd. of blks.

67 to 88, of Imperial. Varney Brothers Co. to Frank T. Thing and Sam A. Thing, con.

$1200, lot 13, blk. 58, of Calexico. W. C. Patterson and Virginia M.

Patterson to Herbert D. Field, con. $375, lots 30, 31 and 32, blk. 38, of Holtville. Imperial Town Co.

to C. C. Long, con. $150, lot 7, blk. 74, of re-subd.

of blks. 67 to 88, of Imperial. Judson King to R. Holtby Myers and William M. Tisdale, in trust for Home Investment Association, con.

$660, lot 12, blk. 6, of El Centro. Mrs. Sarah H. King to R.

Holtby 6, of El Centro. ts. Sarah H. King to R. Holtby Myers and William M.

Tisdale in trust for Home Investment Association, con. $660, lot 13, blk. 6, of El Centro. Patent U. S.

A. to Eva J. Miller, assignee of Charles E. Miller, N. E.

of sec. 24, twp. 16 13 S. B. M.

John P. Fisk and Elizabeth H. Fisk to Lee W. Pfost and Otis A. Pfost, con.

$5600, N. E. Y4. of sec. 24, twp.

16 R. 13 S. B. M. P.

A. Rust to Fannie Holt, con. $10, lot 5, blk. 36, of Holtville. W.

F. Holt and Fannie Holt to D. H. Chaplin, con. $10, lots 28 and 29, blk.

21, of Holtville. Imperial Valley Improvement Co. to Varney Brothers con. $10, lot 7, blk. 92, of Imperial.

Daniel A. Wheeler and Josephine Wheeler to Harriet A. Richards, con. $10, S. E.

of the S. W. of sec. 22, twp. 15 R.

15 S. B. M. El Centro Land Co. to C.

C. Bradford, con. $10, lots 1, 2 and 3, blk. 7, and lot 7, blk. 6, of El Centro.

Thales D. Stewart to John G. Lenz, con. $10, N. E.

of sec. 11, twp. 14 R. 13 S. B.

being desert land entry No. 2035. R. A. Holt to Philip A.

Rust, con. $10, lot 16, blk. 36, of Holtville. C. H.

Church to Ed E. Boyd and Elmer H. Mitchell, con. $10, Alamo tract No. 25 of Holtville.

D. W. Wickercham and M. N. Wickercham to John Kunz, con.

$300, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17 and 18, blk. 40, of Holtville. Imperial Valley Improvement Co. to C. S.

McWhorter, con. $24,000, S. W. hi of sec. 4, twp.

16 R. 14 S. B. M. Toil Stephen to J.

M. Kahrimanian and W. K. Kahrimanian, con. $10, lot 12, blk.

85, of Imperial. True Vencill and Arley Vencill to W. H. Sullivan, con. $10, lot 14 of Vencill's subdivision.

A. G. Hubbard and Lura A. Hubbard to W. J.

Seat, con. $10, und. half of Alamo tract No. 6 of Holtville. A.

G. Hubbard and E. D. Roberts as executors of the estate of E. H.

Spoor, to W. J. Seat, con. $450, Alamo tract No. 6 of A.

G. Hubbard and Lura A. Hubbard to Eugene Hosklns, con. $10, und. of Alamo tract No.

9 of Holtville. A. G. Hubbard and E. D.

Roberts, executors of the estate of E. H. Spoor, to Eugene Hoskins, con. $450, Alamo tract No. 9 of Holtville.

Call and examine the plum trees, bearing size, and almonds that will bear next year, and get Information about what to plant, when to plant, and get prices on everything, freight free. Kelly's Nursery, El AA' AM tro and Imperial. 44tf See WEBER for Milking Machines Cream Separators, Boilers and Engines, Milk Cans and Milk Tanks Cream Coolers Everything used in Dairies, Creameries or Cheese Factory O. Jl. Weber Manufacturers and Importers 555-557 S.

Los Angeles St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. wVjTHE STREETS IF OF EL CENTRO were palm avenues well, come out and see us, and we will tell you about It. Wo have the prettiest Call fornia Pan Palms, (Washingtonia ro- busta), heigh th, 5 to 9 feet; price, $1.90 to $2.00. One-half mile' north and two miles west of El Centro.

EL CENTRO NURSERY CO. JOHANSEN BROS. Ernest F. Barry BUILDINGJCONTRACTOR BLUE PRINT PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS Furnished at Reasonable Rates Building Done by Contract or Percentage Office: BROADWAY, EL (CENTRO, Partial List of Stock on hand at Imperial Valley Nursery Pears, Apricots, Quinces, Nectarines, Sweet Chestnut, Pomegranites, Sim- ond Satsuma Plums, Peaches, Japanese Persimmon, Honeysuckle, Tuber Roses, Blackberries and Dew- berries, Orange, Lemon and Grape Fruit, and first car of Eucalyptus will be in next week. Call now and get bargains.

Can spare a few thousand Malaga and Muscat Cuttings. Wm. Kelly, Prop. El Centro and Imperial WANTED! If you have 40 or 80 acre tracts improved or unimproved, bring or send in your description. If your price is right, your money is 1 V.

E. Stockwell El Centro, Cal. Grape Cuttings For Sale All the leading Malaga, Muscat, Tokay, Rose of Peru, Red Emperor, Black Malvoise. All home grown. Guaranteed true to name and free from disease.

Also rooted vines of Muscat and Rose of Peru; best varieties for home use. Call at the ranch 3 1-2 miles Southwest of Imperial and see the vineyard, 50 acres in full W. S. Corwin. 39tf '08-Seed CaJalogue-'OB If you have not received Johnson Musser Seed Co.

's new catalog, write for it at once and get your name on our mailing list. Johnson Musser Seed Company 113 N. Main Street Lob Cal. EUCALYPTUS RED GUM--SI)GAR GUM 6 to. inches, trans- TA planted, delivered to any point, a hundred Express prepaid; well packed.

$23 per delivered by express HENRY SHAW 320 River Santa Cruz, Cal. ffl a ALBANY irT 1 I TRUE PERCHERON I Weight 1670 Pounds jj One of the best all- round draft stallions jj I in the Valley Will make the season of 1908 at the Depot Stablet jl I in El Centro and at the Shepherd Ranch, three 8 miles west of Holtville i Limited Service For The Year Make'your bookings with I C. E. HUBBELL, El Centro, or at the ranch lj i C. A.

BECK, Manager THE IMPERIAL COUNTY ABSTRACT CO. Of El Centro, California Is now owned and controlled, solely, by Ira Aten, Geo. W. Nichols and F. B.

Fuller, we having purchased the entire stock in the owned by F. G. Havens and V. We now have a complete record of all land matter con- cerning government lands in the Imperial County. We are here for good straight business and for the upbuilding of the WONDERFUL IMPERIAL VALLEY.

Let usjnake an abstract of your land. GEO. W. NICHOLS, President F. B.

FULLER, Secretary IRA ATEN, Treasurer ARTHUR the Bay Thoroughbred. Arthur K. is a blood bay with black points; has a kind disposition, weight 1150 pounds; was bred by Dan McCarty of Fresno, foaled May 21, 1901; sired by Trade Wind (Vol. 6, American stud book), win- ner of the A. J.

St. Ledger and Great Metropolitan handicaps. Trade Wind was imp. from Australia by Senator Dam Victress (1888 and 1893 Goodwin's guide old bay she holding the Lancashire cup for two years; also producing Jim Brown. Victress was imp.

from England by J. B. Hagins. Arthur K. will make the season of 1908 at our ranch 4 miles west of El Centro, on Silsbee Terms $15.00 for season; two or more mares at reduced rates.

For further particulars and records see us. GOOD PASTURE FOR MARES. Owned by G. DENNY Imperial Herd of Purebred Holstem Friesians: Head Your Herd With a Good BiiD. A few choice young individuals for sale, sired by Ignaro Dekol, No.

23,538, and Michaelis Mechtheldus, No. 30,173. These animals are of excellent breeding and it will pay you to investigate. Herd Hermana Ignaro Dekol, No. 36,520.

Sire Ignaro Dekol, No. 23,538, sire of 9 A. R. O. daughters, Ist prize at Sacramento State Fair.

Hermana No. 1007 pounds of butter 1 year; Ist prize and sweepstakes at Sacramento State Fair. G.W. Belden, Holtville, Cai. mar 14-may IW.

Holt, Pres. Q. Webster, Cashier I CITIZENS BANK I HGLTVILLE, CAL. Paid up Capital, $25,000 8 Your Patronage Solicited 8 i 1 I accommodations extended to customers I sistent with Conservative Banking Business.