Arizona republican., 1903-11-22
Arrogant Demand To BeIet
 in on the TOntO Fund
THE PARTY THREATENED
The Head ofthe Trust Also Threatens to Secure the Passage of Law For biddins Government to Manufacture Cement for Its Own Use.

Washington, D. C., Nov 2I.-(Spec,aD
 With in connection with the Tonto res
 ervoir. if the gentlemen who guide its
 destiny are to be taken at their word.
 Mir. Geo Stone. president of the Pacifl
 Portland Cement company of San
 Francisco and Mir. Henshaw, treasurer
 Of the Standard Portland Cement Go.
 appeared before Secretary of the Inter
 for Hitchcock today and made a bold
 request for the privilege of furnishing
 the cement for the proposed reservoir
 If for any reason the secretary should
 noe fit to accept thel- ve,w of the situs-
 ton tho people of the Salt River val ley might expect to pay an extra mil
 lion for the privilege of creating a res ervoir. Mir. Stone who is by no means a
 fiIntd. shrinking person told the sec
 retary that it would be to the detri-
 mont of the republican party if the geo. logical survey was permitted to carry out Its plan Of having the cement thab
 is to he employed in connection with the building of the reservoir manufss.- tured at the dam site. He presert,.s live reasons why the goverUrnert should not enter into competition with the cement trust as follows:
 First, tho government cannot make cement at the site as proposed Sec ond, if 1t makes cement there as pisn- ned it will he of inferior quality Third. IT cement should be manufactured there successfully it would be the means of destroying the ceme nt industry of the country as wide awake people wouiI
 bo certain to go into the manufacture. or cement and thereby cheapen tho
 cost of the product. Fourth. it woIlG he illegal for the government 70 r,auu- facture cement. Fifth. If it should t,ir, out to he legal the cement trust would ! undertake to get a hill through con l gress making 1t illegal for the govern
 msnt to engage in such an industry While the above may sound strang... Il is but a weak transla ton of remark made today hy Nr. Stone at the inter 1 io: Jcpa artment. The secretary fisterel
 attentively to Mir. Stone and promised to take the matter under consideration | In view of the fact that cement may ha antfactured at the dam site for about two dollars and a half a barrel. and that the price asked by the cement | inclination is about nine and a half dollars barrel and that the total
 amount t!.at would be required IS ab-ut INO hunQTeu thousand barrels. the t=-
 sue Involved IS seen to De of great iro- portance Mr. Stone conveyed the idea Ito the secretary that in all probability i the net price of cement laid down at
 the dam site would not exceed five dol 1 lars a barrel.
 It is said that not less than million dollars is involved in the question
 whether the existing plans of the ds- 1 pertinent shall be followed. The cement people undoubtedly ae very much in earnest and will do their utmost to carry
 their point. It behcoves the people of i the valley who will have to foot the
 cement bill In the end to make it clear
 to the secretary that they approve his original plan to have the cement manl-
 factured at the dam site. and that the cold blooied scheme of the trust should l he turned down. Fortunately the sec 'etary is a business man and it Is un-
 likely that he will be influenced by tho spacious arguments of MT. Stone ard
 his associates. The matter will come up again next Monday
 | c. C. RANDOLPH