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APPENDIX.

The following is a tabulation of the receipts and shipments in carload lots of merchandise in and out of the Imperial Valley during the year 1919:

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Gross value, 1919, Imperial Valley and Lower California farm products.

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24, 281

$437,000 966, 000 2, 532, 000

Asparagus

Barley

Butter

Cantaloupes

Cotton

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Cottonseed hulls.
Cottonseed meal.

Cottonseed oil.

Grapes

Grapefruit

Honey

Hides

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Lettuce

Manure

3, 377, 000

9, 208, 000 20, 713, 000 22,000

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10,000 17,000 6, 000 67,000

295, 000

132, 000

57, 000 132, 500 276, 960

1, 479, 000 111, 000

105, 339

160,000

51, 509, 539

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The only items on which we have figured the value are the ones which we have knowledge of having been shipped out of the valley. Believe that fully $5,000,000 should be added to the gross value of Imperial Valley crops, 1919. This to cover less-than-carload shipments which moved out of the valley by express or trucks, of which am not in position to figure the value.

Shipments from Imperial and Coachella Valleys, season 1919.

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Increase in live stock, crop acreages, and property values in Imperial County. The following table is compiled from official reports of the State board of equalization, which are based on the annual census of county assessors:

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Field crops:

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Total assessed property value. 312, 148, 180 319,067, 433 $25, 739, 973 330, 744, 665 $35,859, 028

$40, 350, 450

1 96, 040 75, 292 61,217

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Alfalfa, 125,000 acres. "In the alfalfa our showing is for old alfalfa only and does not take into consideration the alfalfa which is sown in 1919, which probably would be 25,000 or 30,000 more." (Wiley Weaver, Imperial County assessor.)

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SECTION 1. The legislature believes that land settlement is a problem of great importance to the welfare of all the people of the State of California and for that reason through this particular act endeavors to improve the general economic and social conditions of agricultural settlers within the State and of the people of the State in general.

SEC. 2. The object of this act is to provide employment and rural homes for soldiers, sailors, marines and others who have served with the armed forces of the United States in the European war or other wars of the United States, including former American citizens who served in allied armies against the Central Powers and have been repatriated, and who have been honorably discharged, to promote closer agricultural settlement, to assist deserving and qualified persons to acquire small improved farms, to demonstrate the value of adequate capital and organized direction in subdividing and preparing agricultural land for settlement, and to provide homes for farm laborers.

To carry out the objects herein stated there is hereby created a State land settlement board to consist of five members appointed by the governor to hold office for a term of four years and until their successors have been appointed and shall have qualified: Provided, however, That of the members first appointed two shall be appointed to hold office until the 1st day of January, 1918, one until the 1st day of January, 1919, one until the 1st day of January, 1920, and one until the 1st day of January, 1921.

The governor shall designate one of the members as chairman of the board and director of land settlement. The secretary may or may not be a member of the board. The board shall appoint such expert, technical, and clerical assistance as may prove necessary, and shall define their duties. It shall fix the salaries of all employees, with the approval of the State board of control. The four members of the board shall receive a per diem for each meeting attended, and the chairman shall receive a salary, said per diem and salary to be fixed by the State board of control, with the approval of the governor. The members shall also receive their actual necessary traveling expenses in the discharge of their duties.

The said land settlement board shall have power to cooperate with and to contract with the duly authorized representatives of the United States Government in carrying out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. The State land settlement board, hereinafter called the board, shall constitute a body corporate with the right on behalf of the State to hold property, receive and request donations, sue and be sued, and all other rights provided by the constitution and laws of the State of California as belonging to bodies corporate.

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