Arizona republican., 1909-06-08
THE CAREFUL SURVEY
 0F MR. PATRICK
An lntimation That His Vision Was Clouded by Self-lnterest.

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir:-H. R. Patrick. who lives on
 the Tempe road after a careful survey of all the lands south of Phoenix. finds
 that the 12,000 acres adjacent to Tempe are larger than the 37,OOO acres of az | ricultural lands situated south of the
 Center street bridge site
 The friends o1 the Center street
 bridge are not surprised nor alarmed at the result of Mir Patricks careful
 survey" The same careful survey of
 the situation was made by the Tempe bridge committee, when it gravely in- formed the people of Maricopa county
 that the s50.000 bonus was a fake that it would not be forthcoming when wanted, -et the cashiers of the three large banking institutions of Phoenix certify over their signatures that it is almost all available at the present time. This committees further care
 ful survey of the existing conditions ascertained, as did MT. Patrick, that D. B. Heard and pr. A J. Chandler contemplate building an electric street car line across the Center street bridge from Phoenix to Tempe and Mesa:
 that these gentlemen propose to con- struct road that would leave Mesa out of it's line of traffic Now comes Doctor Chandler and D. B. Heard and over their signatures say that when an electric street car line is constructed from Phoenix to Tempe, over the Cen ter street bridge, it will go direct to Tempe and Mesa, a conclusion every fair minded man had arrived at as a matter of business. The Tempe com mittee, like Mir. Patrick after a care ful survey, further found that the only beneficiaries of the Center street bridge on the south side would be the employees of the Heard farm-then comes the south side residents in parade which shocked the fine sensi- bilities ot Mir. Patrick, and some 300 citizens demonstrated by their living presence that hundreds of bona fide residents lived in that section and would be benefited by the building of the Center street bridge; one hundred children manifested by their presence in the parade on that hot June after noon that the careful survey made by the Tempe committee was unreliable, and made for purposes other than just. That parade swept away every vestige of argument set up by the opponents of the Center street bridge; it told by the living presence of hundreds of men, women and children, that the asser- tions made by the Tempe committee were untruthful and unjust
 Now comes the Tempe bridge com mittees Trump Card, H. R Patrick. and tells the people of Maricopa coun- ty that after careful survey he finds including Tempe, who would be bene- fitted by the Tempe bridge, is larger than the 37,000 acres south of the Cen ter street bridge site, and that the 5000 people who reside on the 16.000 acres above referred to. are more nu- merous than the 30000 people, who will be benefited by the Center street bridge. MT Patrick's farm east of Phoenix. on the Tempe road, looks bigger to that gentleman, when look ing along his transit sight, than does the entire city of Phoenix, with It's 10000 people, and the 37,000, acres of cultivatable lands south of Phoenix. with it's hundreds of men, women and asking the people of Maricopa to build them a bridge so, like other citizens of the county, they can have the benefits and advantages of Phoenix. it's mar kets, schools and churches; where medical aid can be had for their fami ..