Arizona republican., 1906-02-15
PROSPERITY IS CERTAIN
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 That disposes of the action of the meeting. but In the meantime there had been numerous speeches, all of which were inspiring and educational. Chap lain Scott reported somewhat of the activity of the executive committee during the last two or three days He said he had called upon C. J. Hall, the local representative of Judge Steele. and asked him a few straight ques- tions which MT. Hall had answered in the most pleasing manner. One was if the farmers would be permitted the use of the canal without rent or wa ter charge MT. Hall replied in the affirmative. Another was that if the company did the work and the farmers bought the certificates. could they be utilized in paying for water. MT. Hall said he thought so but was not sure.
 That however, is no longer pertinent. as the other plan has been adopted.
 Then he asked MT. Hall if the com pany would be as cautiously kind in he event the farmers made the ex tension, as 1t had been during the ca nal cleaning and repairing by lending 10 the farmers tha use of the canp equipage and other necessary nara
 phernalia. Mir. Hall replied in the af
 tirmative to that question also. saving the company was willing to help the farmers in every way it could con sistently to ward off the disaster that threatens them. Engineer Parish had also been interviewed concerning en- gineering questions. He had informed the committee that the proposed ex- tension as he had surveyed it called for canal twelve feet wide on the bottom. that t would carry C. 400 inch es Of water. that with a brush dam at the proposed head. to cost approxi- mately $5,000, the expense of the total canal and dam construction ought not to exceed $16.000. Another speaker re- ported that the inquiry respecting the cost of zanjero service during the. summer. which would also have to be undertaken by the farmers, had result ed m an estimate of $7.OOO, making total expense bill for the project of approximately S23,OOO. It was also brought out that last season water was sold under the Arizona for 1000 acres of land at $1.5O per acre. which is more than the expense of this under taking
 The question of how to raise the money was given considerable atten- ton. Dr. Foss said that if each acre paid the usual water rental of S15O there would be more than money enough. Chaplain Scott said that was true. but called attention to the fact that the farmers would not get as much water in any event as they had hoped to get when they bought the usual amount though they might get equally as much in the actual deliv- cry if 1t could come regularly. C. F. Berger wanted to know if they would be assured of the water in the summer, yx-h bar f+ replied that they would be assured of some water an the time. and before when they had paid a big price for i. they got none. Other speakers thought the merchants should be asked to con- tribute. They had much at stake as well as the farmers. MT. Etter thought the merchants could be depended upon to do their part when the time comes. as he has never seen the town of Phoenix go back on any project yet when 1t came to the crisis. He thought though that the farmers should be the first to subscribe as they were most directly interested and the merchants could come in when needed or called upon. as they had done in the repair ing of the canal. and quite liberaIIy, too. Messrs. Geo. AIkire Ralph Mur- phy, E. l.. Jack. and several other gentlemen all participated in the sym posium of expression as to the best methods of raising the money.
 In connection with the financial side of the question it is understood that there vii! be TO delay on account of funds. Those who have been giving. the project most attention have already perfected plans for the raising of at least sufficient money for the begin ming of operations. There will not be a moments delay after the prelimina- ries are disposed of. Indeed, only for MT. HiITs request of yesterday it is likely that operations would have been started today. The work must be paid for, of course but with the enthusi- asm now apparent the matter can be easily handled. There may be some ranchers who cannot raise the ready money, for, as one man expressed it yesterday, their bones have been pick ed for at least four or five years until there is mighty little left on them. But others can raise their proportion and all are willing to. At most, it will be no greater expenditure than the an nual contribution that has been made to the Water company heretofore and the merchants of the city will see to it that the enterprise does not fail through lack of means. Let the ranch CTS move and they will find the town behind them.
 One of the most interesting speak CTS of the day was MT. Etter. He was on the floor several times and always talked to the point He not only talk ed logically. but good naturedly He said he did rot wat to be considered water fanatic, but he undoubtedly had water on the brain-and none on his ranch. He wanted to do something to shift to water aro"nd whera it would do some good. MT. Etter pointed out the wisdom of the project being carried on by the Protective assOcia- ton. saying he was acting on legal ad- vice in doing so. That, however, did not bar others from helping, who were not members of the organization. They