Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-11-30

do something for you, and I want t
 say that there are fourteen states ir | the United States that are in exactly
 the same condition that you are in. These lands are going to make uG
 one of the greatest states in the ua ion.
 1 talked ,his matter over with sena
 tors from Wyoming, from Idaho, from
 Montana, and from othe
 said: We have to get busy because
 the people of our country cannot make
 good unless we get statehood, and it is
 up to us to figure out some way"
 This did not come up in this cam
 paign. The Democratic candidates. some of them made fun; some of them suggested bond issue, and some of them one thing and some another.
 1 We will soon be state, and New Mexico will, and we will then have twenty-eight senators from fourteen states, all with the same interest, and want to say to you that that number can control any body of representa- tives in the United States In time 1 shall work out a solution whereby this money will be put back in such length of time that the people of this valley will never notice it. It is up to the water users of this valley, and they should have what they would like to have, and believe that if I repre- sent you in the halls of the United States senate, and Mir. Williams is in congress and Hoval A. Smith is the other United States senator, that we can get you anything you want.
 lave never made promise that I have not fulfilled; neither shall I do SO tonight.
 MT. Newell, of the reclamation ser vice, said to the board of trade at Phoenix that the farmers would have to pay this money back as agreed.
 We went ever through the Gila val l ley. and on over to Phoenix, while vas with Asst. Secretary Adams, of he Interior department. 1 put up the of the extension of time ,.i he repayment of irrigation money to Mr. Adams, and he stated that be would be willing to recommend that he people of the Gila valley, the Sar River valley and the Yuma valley he given twenty years in which to repay bis money.
 Isn't that worth working for?
 We will get the time if you will feet us.
 But, you know more about your ants than ], and I want to tell yol his, that if you will get together and ecide what you want, and I am your United States senator, I will get the aw.
 You want a bridge across the Colo ado river at Yuma. am in favor Of he good road movement. I believe It ill do more to promote the welfare f this territory than anything else
 I think every farmer, and every cit zen who has any business at all, hould encourage this highway I he- eve you will see within the next few ears highway leading clear across lis continent. You should get to- ether, and decide where we shall ave this bridge, because at no dis mt day you are going to have one of le best towns in the territory. Mr nith will have an opportunity to tel Ou what he thinks of the bridge, l ill not attempt to do so, but I want , tell you about bridge that I got | trough for my own county of Coco inc, and the bridge was forty miles dy from everything or anv' ody
 I went before the halls of congr ass nd asked for $60,OOO to build a 'idge there.
 Jim Hill got up in the committee ,om, and said:
 You cannot have anything" h But I did not quit there. I went IT rough. went back and asked thel1 il r 1000 to make an investigation, Il Id 1 got the amendment through. ent to the big bridge companies and II ley sent representatives with the a engineers. They went s' It to Flagstaff on the train, then they t into wagon, made long desert Id mountain trip, made an inspeo. " ,n, then they returned to Washing n. They said that the cheapest idge could be built for S6O.00O the