Arizona republican., 1908-06-30
SALE OF DELINQUENT
 W. U. ASSN. LANDS
1t Was Very Modest and Quiet. Af- fair, Therefore Highly Satisfactory
 in Every Way. . .
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The annual sale of acreage property delinquent in payment of the annual assessment made by the Salt River Valley Water Users association to which it is signed for payment of it's proportionate cost of building the Roosevelt dam and auxiliary projects, was held yesterday morning and it is most gratifying to announce that it didn't amount to much. This annual sale is an event that one respect is very like a police court fine in that
 the smaller it is the better one likes it. If conditions were perfect and no member of the association was either neglectful or short of money. there would be no sale at all. But as it is there was little more than the formality
 for ,only about one per cent of the 21O,- 900 acres signed to the association was sold, and in all probability all this will be redeemed in the near future. The total amount of the annual as-
 sessment was S10,500 and less than
 $1OO of it remained unpaid yesterday morning.
 The first year after the association
 was organized there was sale of quite
 large acreage as the members had
 not yet been brought to even an ap-
 proximate appreciation of the import
 ance of membership in the association
 and the great value it gave to their lands, while some, it is stated with re-
 gret, had not yet placed complete con fidepce in the ability of the govern
 ment to make good" Last year the
 sale amounted to great deal less,
 only thirty-one individual land own CTS being on the list, and all but two
 of them eventually redeemed their pro-
 perty. In yesterdays sale the proper
 ty of only twelve individual owners
 of the total of twenty-one tracts went
 under the hammer and it is altogether
 likely this property will all be redeem ed. ----' ---s,-
 It is a splendid, almost a unanimous, demonstration of great many pleas ing things, among them confidence in the government, in the Water Users association and its management, and
 in the future of the valley Indeed it is quite likely that almost every indi- vidual concerned in the sale was a
 victim of his own negligence, rather lacking any confidence in any of the things mentioned, or else he was a little pressed for money and preferred to let the matter go by default, re- deeming later and paying the interest. The interest charged to those who go delinquent-is is four perent cent per month and twenty five cents for each tract sold. For instance on 160 acres
 the assessment -is--ss--and twenty five cents added for the tract. In six
 months it would be twenty-four per cent. If the holdings were large it would be a big interest and well worth
 looking after but as the assessment and acreage is small in each case, even f with the terrific interest charge the amount does not become very great in a reasonable length of time so re- demption is quite-easy and does not scare the holder very much if he does
 go delinquent. It will be a matter of much greater imibrtanee - when the payments for the reservoir begin in
 addition to the incidentals. At the pres ent though the cspdition of the asso- relation and it's members is about as near an example of perfect and satis- ] factory cooperation. as one can find anywhere where so large number of people with varied interests are con- cerned.