San Diego, Cal. Jan. 17. Monday The train lost some time during the night and at day-break we are four hours late, leaving in the Imperial Valley to the east of Yuma. Some from 30,000 acres are under cultivation being irrigated by Colorado water. The land is a fine silt, below sea-level and as flat as a table. Of beauty there is none, neither the jagged ranges (tiny affairs) nor the thick trees of the city. Still truly the frontier in a state of settlement. As the train gets to about three miles of the cut the silt begins to have patches, and the land filled with many small mounds bearing cactus plants that blocks the wind from salt and sand. Near the cut all irrigation fails away, the lands is rife with vultures and dupl pullies and many scurves. Everywhere the tajadas hit into the cut and slope gra- dually into the Imperial Valley. Recently there have been heavy rains and the harvest rushed but in many places. At Christmas time there