The Arizona sentinel., 1907-08-07

no duties to perform except that of levylng assessments upon the homes of the valley to pay sala ries, and then chasing the poor rancher to collect the money he so badly needs himself to pay his own legitimate water bills. until you most completely fill the little boys definition of CHAOS-"a great big pile of nothin' and no place to put it"
 As to the call for convention and the pamphlet authorized to be published by our association setting for the facts and condi- tions and the necessity for this convention, will speak for them selves. They will enable the in teliigent reader to arrive at a just conclusion as to the real conditions-Mr. Bondesson'S crit icism to the contrary notwith- standing.
 That the delegation to the Portland congress are by MT. Bondesson called traitors is an indication that even two years ago some were awakening to the fact that our real best interests were in jeopardy. It is to be re- gretted that sufficient number did not yet realize this fact as to be able to cause the reclamation service to change policy that has proven so destructive to our interests. What our convention can and will accomplish in the way of relieving the situation by which we are now burdened time alone can tell, and we are willing to leave it to the unbiased delib- eration of all parties nearest in interest.
 Our association membership consists of AS actual water users, each one of whom is simply striving to get water on his own land and in the cheapest manner possible. It is not our intention to make a personal defense of any individual or of the merits of any canal leased by our asso- citation; but MT. Bondesson con- tinues to make uncalled for and false statements, while cracking us over the knuckleS as an aSSo- citation, and we are forced to enumerate facts that the we'll informed are already cognizant of. Our esteemed fellow citizen, ex-County Supervisor $. B. Kinds, is our regular secretary. During his absence MT. J. B. Ludy has acted as assistant sec retary, and as such has the con- tidence and esteem of the board of directors, under whose author lity all his duties are performed. MT. Ludy's familiarity with the canals of the valley and his ex- perience as practical irrigator, based on faithful service for his company and the valley for the past eight years, are too well known by the farmers and busi- ness men of Yuma to need any defense from us, further than to say that their work in the devel- opment of the valley is now part of the history of the country and familiar to all who fairly investi- gate. When Mir. Bondesson from his sinecure position finds nothing to do but continually run down Mir. Ludy and all who have to do with the canals, he simply shows his narrow minded prejudice and jealousy of what ever success may be attained. Himself not a farmer nor at tempting to farm, he has become the double weight rider of the already over burdened commu- nity he so grotesquely imagines, in his conceit, that he is protect ing. It is only with strangers to the situation that his false state. ments concerning the canals and the farmers can possibly have any effect. But it is by such un- fair methods, of burying the truth under pile of rubbish and miS-statements that MT. Bondes- son is contributing to bring the reclamation service to ridicule