Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-06-02

that affect the water The Receiver can do all
the companys officers can do In fact the keceTersn was was
You knew Of the financial condition of the Golden Drift Mining
when the contract made and the Hood came after
wards.
To Fourth statement facts will that is opin
ion that there is more irrigation sentiment in Grants Pass today
than there fact people positively anxious
for it. have personally been here about two and know
plans your company put except Williams deal and
your present attempt to force experiment the public in the
shape of an irrigation district.
My experience with corporations that if Directors will
put up the big end of the required is appeal
stockholders and stockholders right such attitude
say you do not feel like taking the leadership and bringing
800 stockholders not let the other 293 try their hand
at it? They could do less business than company has
ing money them
You say you do not want sell without
unless the buyers furnish never been clear to
the community what the Williams gave you
water supply or where an irrigation district would
In answer to Fifth Statement Won say Won do
not want to defeat our efforts and in reply will that will
WORK and spend money along acous lines that increases the
business as was lined in 1909 pump in the
Gches Ihe plant is now in condition to the
the water '"' u'''"'' can De maze ready to receive
We have no particular desire acquire your property except
mess methods compel us to find the used
you are not going ahead with the irrigation lands The use
or the plant would give an income and e m
benefit TO our underlying investment
t Reerrns to my comPanyYou saywhenever it has shown
10 oe on sound financial basis which compes me to call
the PuGcs attention to the following The Golden Drift
of
he community They are at this time increasing that invest
ment They have the largest monthly payroll Of any concern
ment iron and lumber They largest buyers Of hardware
h nave he arseSt grocery and butcher accounts They
power ~ ~ P "'eoS-"o'e and
The investment of $4,000 more by them in tb ono4,. .
che VIII give the public better system and better service
an any new concern give except investment Of s5O0
OOO You have Cmnoriy stockhoders with Won and an %
our money already invested your county agains tba
POSSIBILITY OF looking for and finding crowd that will in
source while the of River with prodnciy
& Wv yearly are flowing under the Sixth bridge and
a,s ~ Se, ana Whch you apparently do Use
tauSe W our ownership and personal prejudice Your attitude in
on viii be easily offset increase in value Of tb ] VS. lo now
rights and power rights owned by the Golden Drift "
m RHpFms to your first paragraph your proposition will saw
,hat the bitches In their present condition of no use to MS T
stoEbodors' % oe Spent en- them would expend my
income from such system of bitches matter of the future and
in pronc ,TuSpes h ices would advise the investment money
VIC" would REQUIRE an actual sale the property or the
US to showing our financial ounduess will say that va have
o' 10 meet every requirement of own poportv rndor
& e mo w'a,ogahe conditions and right TO presume that we
g3od "orNns unit such as We have to begin with b
yenen'e or necessity We have attempted to n your on
1t is policy with u.s. as nTmbor I tgn, % % OF your stockholders
customers and thew nyos5 vi ,nem would De our future water
for it, '"F' '''" READY ana willing to pay fair price
Our offer has never materially changed from the offer made r.
You before You made the Williams You had tbe righ m
su'h deal and II had uo opposition us We do ij E
ny you Wao' to lore' ON us, lwth large amount OF
OF no investment by Mr. Williams except money fnDsb w
maps and pictures w '''' ''''" NO.
You told the people the irrigation district business would be
organized u three weeks months of the host ~ r a.
have elapsed Has been that anybody able IN sol
soooooo Of goton district bonds when the best irrigation
district bonds are going begging for buyers cents ON th
dollar and n the meanwhile the land being parched by the sun
because u the failure available An IRRIGATION ais
Uct Eastern Orecon, embracing acres which wo
orsauted without opposition has been unable sell its bonds
This project has CONSUMED fully three years time DO th
people here have 20 wait TO have try the experiment