Arizona republican., 1909-05-05
J. [. GOODWIN CR|TC|sEs
 THE BOARD OF TRADE
An AIIusion to the Disposition of the
 Bartlett Heard Tract.

11 the EGitor 0f The Republican:
 Sir-When I read this morning in Toe Arizona Republican h proposition
 trade at the annual meeting of the T;Eer Us ,rs' association, l thought
 If another article ] read in The Re- publican d 9ew days ago. This last article told of dinner given by Dwight B. Heard at his Center street h0lri,. An, 'ng the guests was F. H. Newell, director of the reclamation service. Speaking of the progress of the Salt River valley, among otier tni: ss, M Newell said. ITO that end the people of the valley should crC outrage irlmigratton, bring in as mal small farmers and land owners as possible. lot rncr,. -spc culators, but people who are to live upon and till the land" Mir. Newell intimated in the course of his remarks that to do this successfully, the large land owners should not seek to elevate the price of land too rapidly. The small farmer can only be induced to come by having it shown to .im ttat the move will be Co hIs financial interest. He is entitled tn a part of the un- earned increment in value as well as
 
 already been greated benefited. When l read this article l thought
 how unfair and unjust the board of trade of Maricopa county are treat ing the communities in some parts of the county, for 1t is 9 fact that the board of trade of Phoenix, as 1t is sometimes called. is not the board of trade of Phoenix, but the board of trade of Maricopa county and there | fore it is unjust that this board of trade should take sides and work for any one portion of the county as against the other as they are doing | for the Center street bridge. 1t is the business of this board to en- | courage immigration, to assist the | immigrant in getting a home at as ' reasonable a price as it can be Ob- ' tained, but instead of this. the board
 of trade of Maricopa county is en-
 couraging the tax payers of MaricCpa
 county to vote for a bridge that will | benefit to the greatest extent the | Bartlett-Heard Land. x Cattle Co, a corporation.
 This corporation owns land across ! the river at the foot of Center St. This land, in extent, is about five
 miles long and two miles wide: that | is, this company owns practically all the land from the mountains on the south to the river on the north and east and west a distance of five
 miles. Now, if the board of trade
 were just in what they are undertak- ing to do, they would ask this com pany and other private individuals, who own land that is held for specu- lation to the amount of about ten thousand acres, to place their land upon the market before the bridge is built. They should require these par ties to advertise that they have seg- regated their land and have now placed it upon the market at a req sonable price and say to the public,
 Tn the next few months there will be a bridge built at the foot of Center street that will enhance this land from s10 to $50 per acre. If you buy now, you will get the bene- fit of the raise but if you wait until after the bridge is built, we will get the benefit of the raise.'
 Will they do it? Read the state made before the Water Users asso- citation yesterday. The proposition advanced was that the Bartlett Heard Land & Cattle Co, would sign up their lands and turn over their ditch to the Water Users association on condition that the government would extend the time for disposing of the excess land above 16O acres for five years time.
 The company stated that it de- sired to cut the ranches up into forty acre sections, improve them, and sell them off on long payments, working out the details of an ideal rural set tlement. This could not be done by the time the government will require the disposal of their excess holdings in the valley. The speaker believes it will be a good move in the inter- est of the valley not to throw that much excess land onto the market so soon, in addition to the acreage that must be disposed of in other quart CTS"
 Now, l will say to the tax payers and the citizens of Phoenix, you can judge from the statement made by