The Imperial press., 1905-01-07

lows:
 "The Imperial Valley Water Users Association tO contract with the holders Of Mexican lands for the delivery of GO0, ,OOO acres feet of water tO those lands at the end of this main canal, (the main canal from the Laguna dam tO the Mexi- can linc), the remaining portion of the water to be used in the Imperial Valley. The water that is used in the Imperial Valley to lJe paid for in tlsy; regular man ner as provided for in the Reclamation Act. The Imperial Valley Water Users Association tO collect 90 cents an acre foot (the price agreed upon under exist. ing contracts between the Mexican land owners and the California Development Company, for the delivery Oi water in Mexico, this water to be delivered on reasonable monthly schedule to the Mexican lands and no first charge to be made for the cost of the work on main canal in the United States, the owners of Mexican lands to guarantee to accept this or some definite less amount of water when offered. This G00,0OO acre feet of water delivered to the Mexican lands will irrigate between 100000 and 200, ,0OO acres in Mexico In view of this delivery of water and the non-payment by the holders of Mexican lands for con struction charges including storage reservoirs that will have to be built in the United States, the Mexican land owners to relinqush any further demand for water for their lands and to assist in the negotiation of new treaty with Mexico, considering this an equitable division of the water between the two republics in view of the mutual granting of perpetual rights of way concessions by the two countries, the two republics mutually agreeing to perpetually main tain open and free for their respective use portions of the canal system both in the United States and Mexico that are each essential to the perfection of this entire enterprise, the owners of the Mexican land as well as the Mexican government to relinquish any further demand for water for their lands from the Colorado river"
 The bug-a-boo letter of Gleason, which was composed and written by hIm. and dictated by him to my stenogra pher and type written on my letterhead, was nothing more than an offer to the Otis syndicate on the part of the negotiating committee of the Water Users Associa- ton, Subject to the approval of the board of directors of the association and the approval of the government to carry out the plan already outlined by MT. Lippincott, as above stated, viz: That such lands should have 600, 900 acre feet of water annually, enough for l50,OOO acres, instead of the 2,000,0 900 acre feet per annum, enough for their halfmillion acres for which they were claiming water; they to make this concession in consideration of having their water freed from silt and delivered in q sub- stantial canal system.
 It will be seen that the LipplncOtt memorandum not only did not cOntem- plate the Mexican lands paying any base charge to the Water Users Association for so-called water right WHICH THE MEXICAN LANDS ALREADY OWNED under 1 the Andrade contract with the California ! Development Company, but did not contemplate any base charge to 5e made upon the Mexican lands out on ac- count of the cost of the Laguna dam and