Arizona republican., 1909-07-20
ARGUMENTS MADE FOR
 4 WATER BUILDING
THE QUESTION CONSIDERED AS
 MEASURE OF ECONOMY.
Water Users Association and Its Work Part of the Governments Re-
 quirement of the People.

At the office or the Sat RlNer Naley Water Users association, the following statement was given out yesterday, as a condensed form of the arguments for the construction of water building:
 Introductory.
 1. At the Water Users meeting on Wednesday, the 14th inst, there were several men who said little or nothing but were strongly in favor of Water Users building, and whose acreage in each case exceeded the total acreage of all the "antis" put. together.
 ?. The reclamation service is the best friend this valley ever had: do not kick it down and out.
 3. While having hard times, remem- Der that all things come to them who wait and hustle while they wait"
 4. With few individual exceptions. this valley is right now enjoying greater prosperity than ever before.
 g. He howls lOudest who has least at stake.
 6. Keep your eye on the man who is everlastingly crying graft. graft" :" and is everlastingly suspicious of his neighbor.
 '. The man who is constantly fighting spirited citizens better be watched.
 8. Sarcasm, misrepresentation and coarse wit is not argument and. in the long run. does not pay.
 Why Erect Water Users
 Building?
 L Because it is a first class busi ness proposition.
 9. Because the rent for the Water Users association and the Reclamation Service will in twelve years pay for the proposed new building and lot.
 9 In about two years We will be called upon for the first of the ten annual payments due the government under the terms of the national irriga- tion act. and for the next ten years fol- lowing, we will have about all we can well carry.
 4 The Reclamation Service work and the Water Users association is so closely associated and intertwined that to locate them in separate build ings would increase the cost of trans acting business, which increased cost the Water Users association would ultimately have to pay.
 ,. As the Reclamation Service force, both engineer and office, de- creases, the Water Users association employees will increase in like propor- tiOn. The canals must be looked aft CT; improvements must be constantly added: power houses will be erected calling for new employees, large amounts of money will be collected. disbursed and cared for: and the growing business will be developed.
 6. There are now thirty employees, all told, in the Reclamation Service and Water Users association offices. These offices are poorly arranged, in- convenient and lily adapted for trans acting the present volume of business, not to say anything of future growth. '. The Reclamation Service have no fire proof vaults and there are valu- able records. maps. field notes, books of accounts, etc, etc, all of which are in daily use. all in daily jeopardy The more important of these are kept in fire proof vault at Roosevelt, there by causing inconvenience and extra expense. Engineer Hill estimates that in case of a total fire loss, it would cost more to replace these valuable records above referred to than to erect a S300OO building and to buy an $SOOO lot. And some could not be replaced at any cost.
 8. The entire cost of the proposed building would be spread over the next ensuing two years and would not re- quire, including lot, additional assess ments to exceed the following:
 For 10 acres soc per year.
 For 20 acres 100 per year.
 For 40 acres 200 per year.
 For 80 acres 400 per year.
 For 16O acres 500 per year.
 As planned, ample space has been reserved for q farmers room. Here