Arizona republican., 1906-02-13

subject, being both a land owner and merchant, is heartily in favor of the project to get the water by means of the cutoff. J. w. Doris who is similar ly situated expresses similar views He
 does not want to see anything done that
 can in any way complicate negotiations
 but he is as devoutly anxious to see some project under way for getting water quickly as is anybody in the town. M. c. McDougaH said that the
 need of water is so very apparent that he would favor the plan to get it and get it at the earliest possible moment
 There were others both in official and private life who expressed very similar views. But there is small need of en- larging the list of names, the project
 being so eminently imperative that u
 suggests itself to aH.
 Though it is no new story it is timely
 to touch again upon the things tha.
 make a water supply this season SO necessary. Tn the first place many uf the farmers under the Arizona have
 their all at stake. And their all is mar
 velously shrinking under the series of misfortunes that have befallen them
 Should it prove a dry season it is not
 unlikely that most of their trees would perish, while lack of water would eli-
 
 matter of pasture and stock raising
 Aside from the farmers, the most ser ious hurt tO the business men would ensue through the failure or but partial success of the beet sugar factory this
 year. It -s admitted that unless there
 is a good crop Os beets raised under the Arizona canal the supply for the
 initial run oe the new factory will be very short indeed and the consequent success of that enterprise will at best be postponed until another season. The failure to raise these beets not only hanGicaps that project directly
 but the employment that would be giv- en to hundreds in the raising of large beet acreage, would be lacking and thereby a resultant loss to every class of trade. On the other hand it is not yel to late to hope for salvation. With prompt action sufficient water can be secured for the raising of a good crop of beets. But the action must be prompt, not by reason If any present water scarcity but to .r.- duce the farmers to plant the beets. | The seed car be sOwn even as late as the latter part of March but the farm. CTS will not plant it unless there is some assurance of at least a limited water supply. Beets require less water | tiAe~44 eA4lS ON--ti tAOp bUL they iGtA 444C some. MT. Myers of the sugar company says that with two irrigations, Or heavy soaking rains, after the beets are up, a crop will be assured. More water perhaps would be better but that much is necessary. It might be pos sible from present indications that the beets could be grown with natural rain | fall this season but it is too precariou ! 8 hope to ask a farmer to depend upon. | The present rains. tO"ether with the | fact that the ground has been well 1 soaked all winter, make conditions to l date all that could be hoped for and
 would serve the purpose during plant | ing and sproUting time. But with the l assurance of two irrigations later on i there ought to be a S2O0.O 900 crop rais- | ed under the Arizona this year That would not only relieve the farmers l temporarily and inaugurate their pros perity. but it would assure the sue | cess of the sugar making enterprise which means SD much this year. for if | it is a success this year it will derqon- strate a permanent prosperity. It is l hard of course for the farmers to dig I'D another twenty thousand dollars | but there is little doubt that they can | depend upon the cooperation and help
 of the town people for whose prosper | ity instant action seems equally as im~ i perative.