Arizona republican., 1909-06-10
TAR. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriontef
 " Cream or Magical Seautifer
A CORRECTION.
To the Editor of The Republican: {:

To the Editor of The Republicans:
 Sir:-I think it but fair, that l be granted space again. as an old settler and taxpayer of Maricopa county. to reply briefly to your correspondent of the Sth inst. who refers to MT Pat rick's Careful Survey" and used that phrase more than half a dozen times, several times in connection with the Tempe bridge committee.
 I did not use the phrase. careful survey" in any communication, and have never met the Tempe bridge com mittee, and therefore can not fairly be considered as the Tempe bridge com mittee's Trump Card Your cores pendent also makes other wrong quo tations of my statements, all of which go to show the unfair methods being pursued by the adherents of the Center street bridge.
 Not little worse was the slur made over the signature of the Center Street Bridge Committee" over my property on the Tempe road one mile east of Phoenix, which they designated as my "forty-acre gravel farm.' This does not affect the quality of my soil. which invite anyone to examine as to it's adaptability for farming, fruit growing or gardening. Such unwar- ranted articles are entirely unfair to the taxpayers and show the reprehen- sible methods being used to get votes for the proposition the writers favor
 The boosters for the Center street bridge still urge the needs of 300 or more people on the south side trbu- tary to Center street bridge.
 Now, without any careful survey, can state that there are over 25O fami- lies who live on the land that they own. in the district lying east of Phoe- nix. between the east line of the city and the cross-cut canal, on whom a great hardship would be worked by building the first bridge at Center street instead oc at Tempe For ex- ample. a family living northeast of Phoenix are anxious to send a daugh- ter to the Tempe Normal the coming year and. being in moderate circum- stances, desire to use their own team in stead of by rail. They find the dis tance by the Tempe crossing is seven miles. while by the Center street it is six teen miles. Now, compare the num- Der of families in this district with the number twenty-five families) on the south side tributary to Center street.
 The value Of property on the south side adjacent to Center street. esti- mating the increase at $37,000. upon which the taxes at PIG on the $1OO. would amount to sS,l92 net gain per annum and show that that would soon pay for the cost of the bridge This is based on the assumption that there are 37.000 acres of land to be increased SIC per acre, but take off the Indian lands, 5000 acres, 14.00O acres home stead. and 19.0Q0 acres of untaxable land. from the f37, ,OOO acres and there remain 1S.000 acres Of taxable lands that would help pay for the bridge if taxes were levied now Let us take another view of the tax situation. The total valuation of property of Maricopa county for 1907 was S13.161, ,6S7, and for 1908 was ?13,967795. an increase of sS07.10S for the year. It can be safely that the increase in valua- ton for the year 1909 will be $1.500. 900 and for 1910 at least S1.750.000. The taxes on the increase this year at the same rate would be SS2, 400. and for next year s37,S0O which is quite enough to build the bridee. so that and fairness might point 10 building bridge at Tempe now to accommodate the population now on he ground ready to use it and who nave paid taxes for years 10 make Maricopa county what she is. and wait -wO .-ears to start the Center street oriige when there may be d large pop llation to use it.
 Let me repeat that it is water and cultivation that will develop and in ,rease the uncultivated lands of the iouth side and it seems folly tD )uild a bridge now at d point that is laSSable most of the year. iuStead pF