Transcription:
2 with the Sierra Club this year but I am afraid that I could not get off from my work. I am holding the position of assistant
secretary for Imperial Water Co No 5. this office is at a place called Holtville some fifteen miles southeast of the town
of Imperial. I have been troubled with catarrah for a year or more and it was steadily getting worse so I decided to try the
desert climate for awhile. I am in hopes that it will help me. This is a very dry, hot climate, 120 at times, and ought to
dry the catarrah out of the system. There has been a wonderfull change in this country with the bringing in of the Colorado
river water. Something over 125,000 acres has been placed under cultivation in the four years since it opened and it gives
promise of being a very productive section. The soil is all silt deposits