By January 1910 Watts had a population of about 2,500, "well improved streets, a fire department, a weekly newspaper" (the "Watts Advertiser," owned by W.F. Schubert), and it was completing a $12,000 city hall. It had "the best of public schools, churches of the leading denominations, the principal fraternal orders, a chamber of commerce and a good government league," of which J.H. Hurley was the president and W.C. Street the secretary. In 1910 J.B. Traughber was the city marshal and tax collector, and A.B. Waddingham was the city engineer. In 1910, C.H. Dodd was the mayor.