Arizona republican., 1906-02-01

in no instance has it been necessary to back up and start over. IL has also announced many things in advance of actual occurrence, that later trans pired and some perhaps that did not, but in both instances, unless the facts were fully verified and warranted not to rip, raved or run down at the heel; they have been announced as rumors or reports or possible alternatives, given only as an illustration that if one thing failed there were yet othe.' avenues of hope.
 In line with that statement this pa per will now proceed to tell some things that have not yet been publish ed, as among the very strong possibill- ties of the case but the reader should take due note of the fact that the pub licatiOn is q report and not an official announcement. People want water news and in the absence Of verified facts the Republican can speculate as much as anybody. though it does not do so to the compromising of any of cicial or any interest
 The thing referred to just now is the possibility of what the government wall do in the event it's negotiations with the water company result in the buy ing of its property. It has been state1
 
 A counter offer was returned in ef. feet that the water company would take that figure for the majority hold ings. The original offer was again rendered in response, without com ment The secret of all this lies in a report that has been extant among those best posted. ever since the meet ing here of the appraising commission. That is that the government wants to buy the whole property and do with 1t just as it pleases. It will not deal with a majority and a minority interest for the reason that in any event it Is no1 likely the government will require all the old canals in it's business of wa ter distribution. It does not desire to buy the water company out and let the minority holders hold the sack. Neither does it care to buy of the minority holders, something il will never have any use for. It does de- sire to buy the full right, title and in terest in everything from the Arizona Water company, clean the slate and start a new system after it's own ideas of water distribution. That system it understood in a general way was recommended and briefly outlined by the appraising com mission in its report to the government, as Ine lucas OI lIle con- mission concerning the most feasible and economical distributing system. That recommendation, according to report, was in effect that the joint head should be retained and the upper half of the MaricOpa canal utilized to a point somewhere in the vicinity of AL hambra where a connection would be made with the western half of the Grand canal, the cadastral and other surveys showing that the levels were adapted to that project. Then every thing south of this newly formed canal could be cared for by it. Everything to the north would be watered by the Arizona canal, which would be en- larged or repaired to meet the needs of the case.
 But in the event the government does not buy the Water company's' inter ests, it was suggested that the Arizona could be very feasibly paralleled and in place of the amalgamated Grand Maricopa ditch, some satisfactory ar engagement could no doubt be made with the Appropriators. Should that alternative prove impossible, there is still room enough and the government has money enough, to dig another canal just where it wants it, to serve the present purpose of all the old canals and the Appropriators' too, for that matter.
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