Arizona republican., 1900-08-14
WATER AND NOT TALK
Is What This Community
 Particularly Needs
There May Be Many Theories For Procuring Permanent Supply But Only One Is Practical.

A man from the Buckeye country in
 town yesterday, said: q believe We ought to vote $5OO,OOO worth of boI ds if
 We can get water storage by doing it. I don't want to be quoted in my name now, for in my part of the country there is some opposition to the plan, for down there we think we have all
 the water we need and do not want to pay taxes on bonds for the benefit of the arid part of the country. Many of my neighbOrs are not far-seeing enough to comprehend that some time the Buckeye country will need water stor- age as badly as any other part of the country. Some of us realize it and | more of us will before this agitation stops. I think in the course of a cOu- i pie of months Buckeye would cast a 1 large majority for the bonds.'' MT. II. L. Chandler. who is interested In irrigation. said he was not opposed 70 a bond issue for the purpose of res arvoir construction, though he was not
 entirely in favor of an issue of $500, i 900 for the purpose of acquiring an in ! terest in the enterprise; he would pre- i fer a bond issue by the county large enough to build the reservoir. How l ever MT. Chandler said the need of water was so extreme that the earliest l and most practicable way of obtaining I permanent water supply ought to be adopted.
 A Phoenix business man said: q am ] in favor of The Republicans plan as ] the best ona and the only one that l ever promised anything but talk and more talk Talk isn't water and caC- ! 1 0f the last month, think. has served ! good purpose and has certainly ! aroused an interest in water storage l never felt before. IL has served an- ! other good purpose. 1t has called out 1 g great variety of other suggestions | entirely impracticable because they in volve the unanimity of the community, l something that can never b secured 1 Let us prove the impracticability of ! these plans which can never amount ! to anything more than theoriZing and ! dry talk when really wet water is wanted. Then we can go ahead and | get water
 ] MT John Y r. Smith, when asked | for an expression on the bond issu | said: Ut Is mere waste of time t0 | keep talking about the need Of water | storage That is one thing that prac- l tically all agree upon. As for bonds it i Is my opinion that they can be author | izad by the legislature even without vote of the people if that body should l elect to SO legislate. But in my mind ! what is more important to determine is 1 T plan of action A half million dol ! lars would be mere trifle for the | county to pay foy good reservoir and i the benefits that would follow its con- 1 structiOn would make the bond tax a i matter of small significance. As for | myself I would rather see the county vote bonds enough to build the entire | reservoir and own it ourselves. I be- licve tho county could well afford to do I it and that the results would Ill short time provo the economy of the enter ] prise. At any rate some plan should ! be decided on before anything further 1 in ihe ma5ter Is attempted"
 Sclim Nicholson said: eve all be- ] lieve in water storage and want 1t. We l have come to a point where 1t is ne ! cessfty. The farmers want it, and whatever will help them will help the | business men. As for the different plans proposed I have nos investigated i them closely and do not know when one would favor, but as for the main | question. do we want water storage! 1
 would answer yes. and We could at- | ford to pay even a million dollars Il necessary to assure it.
 The Native American the Indian l school paper has announced itself as | in favor of a bond issue for the con l struction of a. storage reservoir and III | it's last issue under the caption, Act l Sensibly." it administered word or re- | proof to those who never have any | thing to offer for the betterment or the ! condition of themselves or Jhelr nelSh- | bors but who are ready to throw cola water on every honest effort made by others. That paper says: Tn reply uo ] the insinuations that have been seat | tered broadcast recently, impugning | the motive that actuated him in adVo- 1 eating a bond issue in aid of the stor-
 .aee. reservoir, Editor Randolph of The Republican indulged in well tempered | editorial that reflects credit and honor upon him. There is no reason to be- lieve that there are any ulterior mo- tives in the advocacy of the bond is
 sue. Some people delight in crying
 Wolf! wolf. when the cry is crim- inally dangerous. Just now such cry is being raised against the proposed bond issue. Gentlemen, why not a.! sensibly in this matter? Let us get to- geth r. examine the question without pr iudicc and then decide what is best
 to do. Let US do something to save ou" fields and orchards from destruction
 and all kinds of property from ruinous depreciation. The situation is too seri-
 ious to reject any such proposition as
 that proposed in the present bond is sue."
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