Arizona republican., 1909-05-30
ANOTHER LETTER
 BY JAS. GOODWIN
PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO SOME STATEMENTS IN
 CENTER ST. PROSPECTUS.
In Which the Claim Is Made That
 Some of Them Are False.
Tempe, Arlz.. May 27. 1909.


 the voters of Maricopa county entitled The Center Street Bridge" I do not want to go into personalities, and if
 use the names of two or three gentle
 ment who are connected and interested i in the publication, I do not think it i will be called personal. for when any man becomes the servant of the peO- |! pie, or is elected to fill an honorable
 position by the citizens of any com munity. I think 1t is nothing but fair
 that the citizens of the community
 have right to place themselves in the right light.
 As l have been informed, B. A Fow- Ter of Phoenix is chairman of the Cen ' ter street bridge committee. B. A. 1 Fowler is also president of the Water , Users association. He has allowed to be published in this circular, with his
 consent and knowledge. things that
 are incorrect relating to the Tempe ir-
 rigation canal, the shareholders of the canal and the citizens of Tempe. Be fore I quote what has been said I wish
 to say that many of the shareholders
 of the Tempe canal also belong to
 the Water Users association. Take
 w. J. Kingsbury of Tempe, for in
 stance-he is interested in something
 like 1000 acres of land. and the fact is that part of the land of Tempe and
 adjoining Tempe is signed up in the
 Water Users association. There are
 very few stockholders in the Tempe Canal company but what have some : interest in the Water Users associa-
 tion. These facts are well known to | Af- st ia
 seem a silly proposition for a man to
 vote against his own interest. Quot
 ing from the Center Street Bridge cir
 cular:
 The Tempe Irrigating Canal com 1 pany. being joint stock company. is ! practically a large corporation and is
 the very foundation of Tempe itself.
 It transpires that the Bartlett Heard
 formerly Wormser lands, are liable to
 come into the reservoir through the ! medium of the Water Users associa-
 tion. The Tempe Canal company and | it's stockholders do not seem prepared
 to join the Water Users association l and put their lands under the reser- vOir May it not be possible that their | objection to the Center street bridge is based in part upon a hope that by defeating that project they may
 succeed in keeping the Bartlett Heard
 Land and Cattle company out of the association and their subdividing their | property and thus avoid being all alone
 in their independence?
 l They are doubtless aware that the
 Bartlett Heard company unequivocally l stated that neither the bridge, or no bridge. at Center street will influence | their decision in regard to the sub | dividing of their San Francisco lands Mark you. they refer to the Bartlett
 Heard lands under the San Francisco canal. As it has been often stated | through this controversy the Bartlett | Heard people are owners of about 1000 acres of land south of the river from
 Phoenix. The circular above men | toned is sent out for the purpose of impressing it upon the public that all
 these lands have offered to come into the reservoir site. but from the best | information that we have been able ' to gather, they have only offered to | turn over the San Francisco canal and come in with the lands under this canal.
 Now. I want to say to the voters of MaricOpa county that only about one | half of this 1000 acres of land lies un | der the San Francisco canal-the other part of the 1000 acres lies under what | is known as the Wormser extension of the Tempe canal. in which the Bartlett Heard company are sharehold- CTS to the extent of seven and one eighth shares Thus in addition to the Tempe water this portion of the 1000 acres are supplemented by the Tempe pumping plant of which they own some thing like one and one third interest, and also a private pumping plant of their own. This body of land that does not lie under the San Francisco canal is perhaps one of the finest bodies of citrus and deciduous fruit lands to be found in the Salt river valley. The lands lying under the San Francisco canal are a much inferior class of land. The original source of the water of the San Francisco canal was from the river below Tempe. At the present time all the water that flows into the San Francisco canal flows through the Tempe canal, and the amount of water that is received from the Tempe canal through the w OrfnSeT ullCn ana lHe pumping plants. I have not heard, nor do I think that any of the taxpayers of Maricopa county have heard, that the Bartlett Heard land people are going to turn over their rights in the Tempe canal. and their interest in the pump ing plant to the Water Users assOcia- tiOn. I know. as far as I have heard, that MT. Heard never was, nor is he at the present time, in favor of giving up his rights in the Tempe canal and going into the Water Users associa- ton, and it is a known fact that he has done more (being one of the larg- est stockholders in the Tempe Canal company to keep the canal from join ing the Water Users association than any other one man in the county. so after all. as I have said before, If he did go into the Water Users associa- tion with his San Francisco lands, something over 5000 acres of the finest land. and the only orange land that the Bartlett Heard Cattle company owns south of Phoenix. would still be withdrawn from the sale These facts