San Diego, Cal. Jan 17. Monday The train lost some time during the night and at day break we are two hours late, San Jose in the Imperial Valley to the east of Yuma. Some from 30,000 acres are under cultivation being irrigated by Colma's water. The land is a fine silt, below sea level and as flat as a table. Of beauty there is none, neither the farm houses (tiny affairs) nor the brick mess of the city. It is truly the frontier in a state of settlement. As the train gets to about three miles of the cuts the silt begins to have pebbles, and the land filled with many small masses heavy woody plants that breaks the wind from salt and sand. Near the cuts all irrigation falls away, the lands is reptile with roots and deep gullies and many orchards. Everywhere the railways cut into the cuts and slope gradually into the Imperial Valley. Recently there have been heavy rains and the haster washed out in many places. At Christmas time there