The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-10-28

worth OF your property, OF your as
| sets, school houses, academies and all
| that they find fault with only three
| cases, am not going to take the
| time now but / am going to have 1t
1 printed and I'm the papers about each
1 and every one of them, and let me
say TO you that / have just received
word today that the citizens of the
| Lost River project and that they have
/ signed statement that out of all
1 those families that he talks about
there are only so families living there.
| Now, they will have water there in
| 1911. The next Is the Goose Creek
| project; we have a statement from
them the same as the other and we
| will have this out for you to read,
showing that the Goose Creek people
came TO me on three different occa-
slons, and they had three meetings,
and / protested against that farce
because / thought that $50 an acre
was enough; and then they sent
committee Of is citizens up there,
representing the people Of the entire
valley, asking me for Heavens sake
to LET them save their homes; that
they have lived there for 20 years
without water; that they can stay
there until the railroad comes when
their land will be worth 800 an acre.
Now I want to tell you. my friends,
that the first canal I built In idaho
made good money at 1t, and the next
canal built sold the water for $15
an acre, and did not make as much
money, and why? Why because the
first one all that I had to do was to
plow out the burrows and make the
ditch. Now at Twin Falls, follow me
closely, now at Twin Falls for the
first canal they put 1t at $25 an acre.
and II irrigated 100000 acres of land.
the first eight miles of that canal did.
II irrigated 100000 acres of land, and
they estimated It cost 100000, and
the canal that they put at S65 an acre
irrigates only $4,000 acres Of land
and the first eight miles of it cost
S2S0,090. Don't you thing that that
makes difference In price. Another
instance; 1t happens that in both cases
have had something to do with 1t;
exported the King Hill proposition for
eastern men and / told them not to
take It, for they couldn't sell 1t for
less than SIS an acre. Now, Hammet
came here--he is the man that made
100000 down in Oklahoma--and he
came to me and he wanted that pro-
1ect at $65 an acre, l said, Charley,
you can have 1t in minute, but you
won't make any money on tt--you
can't--and he said / have 100000
that / made in Oklahoma in two
years, 100000, and he showed me
the deposit slip. Well he commenced
it; he spent his 100000 and he
hasn't finished his canal yet, and he Is
today in hospital for nervous prostra-
ton, worrying over 1t down there in
Portland, and / want to say to you
men tonight that If he was to come
UP here and give me his certified check
for $4,000 on any bank in this coun-
ty that / would not take that job off
his hands.
Now, l want to talk to you for
few moments on the loans. He talks
about three loans. One was to Mr..
Mosely. Mr.. Mosely had made an APP
plication for a $4,000 loan. Now, l
wanted to buy a farm down there,
and have bought one since, and
looked up the farm; and l wanted
the Mosely farm myself--it is a
strange thing that l should have
something to do with the King Hill
project, but that Is true--I heard that
he wanted to make loan and l went
and looked at the farm myself, and
said II will sell If l have to, but I
would rather make a loan" And l
offered him $4,000 spot cash for that
farm on which we loaned $4,000. Now, |
those of you who know me pretty
we'll know that l offered $4,000 for 1t
less than it was worth. But I offered |
$4,000 personally for that farm that
night at Grangeville, my friend, |
Borah heard of it and heard that |
Governor Brady had recommended |
the loan, he said without seeing 1t |
that he would take up their notes |
and pay them $4,000 for it. Well, |
will go him one better; will pay off
the $4,000 loan and give any man in
this audience $4,000 to get that |
farm for me.
Now, the next is the case of the
Rev. Chalfant. He says that we loaned
him $4,000 on 80 acres of land. Now,
| own farm close to there that I
have bought and I paid $500 on acre
for the land, and I bought 1t and 1t
has no improvements on it and Mr..
Chalfant's land has an orchard on it
that is worth $500 an acre.
1t seems to me that this is abso-
lutely unfair, and I could go right on
down the line and show you in many
other instances that 7 have given
personal attention to these things.
And now want to make a statement
to you right now. I want to say to
you that any banker in Boise will
write to any citizen here, l believe,
and will tell you that I am personally
responsible for every loan that the
land board has made since I have
been governor, and I want to say to
you tonight that II at any time or on
any occasion II any loss comes
any fault of mine In this adj
that l will pay off the
loan myself; that's what I will do.
Now the next thing that he talks
about is responsibility. He says that
Governor Brady Is responsible for all
these things" He says that he is re-
sponsible as the head of the state gov
arnment, and as the chairman of the
state land board; that Governor
Brady Is responsible for the acts of | {
he board, that he represents the adj l
and upon his shoulders
$ horne the burden of the states af-
airs" Now, that Is what he says
,bout me, that is what he said to you
n closing his address, and you will '
it; IL you don't, Just read it l
n the paper, 1t Is all right for me to /
10 responsible. 1t is all right for you '
o hold mo responsible, but what t
bout him? Listen to what he says. {
rhis is what he said in closing: ST '
'annot accomplish these matters t
lone; I must have the support of the 1
'arious state officers IL am to carry t
nut these reforms, IL these reforms | i
re to be carried into effective execu-
ion l will need the assistance and eff
orts of those who are in sympathy '
With me. and I ask of you the same