The Arizona sentinel., 1897-10-02
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seven of which were granted as, follows:
 1. That the company should have upon the ground and ready for work before any labor was furnished, first class machinery of the latest improved patterns, to cost not less than $20,000.
 2. That the company should give to the Territory a suitable bond that it would complete the canal. 8. Tbat the company should re- move earth each working day that would cost double the amount of the value of the prison labor furn- ished by the Territory to the com pany.
 4. That the company at their own expense erect and have in readiness for use suitable barracks to accommodate all the prisoners that should be worked at the head of the canal.
 3. That no prisoner should be sent to work upon the canal whose escape in the opinion of the sup erintendent would be probable.
 6. That the Territory should not be compelled to purchase any water that it did not desire tc use and what it did purchase should be at price no greater than is paid by other patrons of the canal. '. That the Territory instead of the company should keep the time of the prisoners.
 8. That no prisoners should be worked at any other place or at any other work except upon the canal
 Every one of these propositions except the second, the company acceded to. The governor waived that for the reason that in his opinion the acceptance by the con- pany of the first and third requests was sufficient guarantee of good faith on the part of the company. This contract as amended, in the opinion of the governor, IS not only fair to the Territory, but the gen. eral policy of working the prisoners has his hearty concurrence.
 The appeal case to the United States supreme court will, therefore be dismissed. It will be dismissed for several reasons. First, because the governor does not think the policy of obstruction pursued by the last administratlon-after the highest court of the Territory has approved the contract-is either right or for the best interest of the Territory. If it was not dismissed on motion of the Territory it would be on motion of the company, for the reason that the appellant, Hon. NJ. J. Nugent, refused to sign the appeal bond; and second, because it is believed to be best for the Territory that the contract should be executed in good faith. The expense to the Territory in carry ing out the contract will be nominal. |. There will be no extra guards employed ; no tools furnished by the Territory, and the clothing and food for the prisoners while at work will cost little if any more than now. If the canal is built it will bring under cultivation a large amount of the finst citrus fruit land in America, that today is valueless. It will add two or three millions of dollars to the taxable wealth of the Territory, several thousand inhabi- tants and make southwestern Ari- zona one of the highest parts of the Territory, The Territory owns over 2,000 acres of land that can be watered by this canal which can be cultivated by prison labor in such manner as to make the prison self sustaining. The talk about prison labor coming into competi- tion with honest labor is but the vaporings of demagogues. The friends of those whose lives have been taken; the people whose prop erty has been stolen or burned: the sufferers from the many crimes which have been committed by these prisoners; the honest, indus trious laboring man and the over- burdened taxpayers who have to !