Arizona republican., 1911-10-28


 himself as being in a sense a part o
 the people of this valley. Other loca speakers were J. C. Adams and B A jFowler
 l The larger meeting in the Wate, Users building was presided over bv T r. Orme president of the Water Users laSsociation. He introduced Mir. Adams
 Whose speech was a. short one but !demonstrated great familiarity with the affairs of the local project The general theme of the oratory. both bv the visitors and the home people. was a discussion of the subject of extending ne tune of payment for project con- structlon. The encouraging feature was that all are agreed as to the desir- ability of such extension when the rid de Of how it may be legally done is satisfactorily solved
 MT Adams said that both MT. Fisher and himself think that ten years is too snort a period in which to raise such sum of money from the lands in this project and also that the cost of con- struction in many others would be bur Gensome if it had to be met in so brief
 
 in any way they can to secure acton )y congress, for an extension of time. hut until congress does change the law. ali they can do Is iC proceed to ad- rAinis ter it as they find it. Mir. Newell who followed said he realized that the Eovt rnment could not well expect the !arniers to make their full payments of enc tenth of the construction cost annually from the beginning. It is a new thing and will have to be studied out as the years go by. just as have the cons truction problems that have been presented. It was in this talk and by reference to the two years of grace secured by the delayed opening, that he Intimated his friendiness for the | plan known as that of graduated pay ments. and the longest possible exten- | sion of time before paymefts shall be- | l-in
 In discussing the proposed changing Ds the law permitting a longer period If payment Mir. Adams said that it is likely that any added time after the ten tcars would probably be on an inter sst basis He said that it was hoped 'ome plan could be enacted into law whereby those who desired and were Ible to. could repay the government in en %"1rS and those who so elected ould have a long extension of time by 'ayiDS interest The point made was hat this project. nor any other, can e considered by itself The law must e rIade to apply to all twenty seven , 7 ihem and their varying conditions. r here are still other communities de- z project construction, some , filing to repay the cost in two or lrec years, and as the money has been p"nt by the government with a view i Lars. if it is withheld longer interest q lould be paid for the use of it. q MT. Newell in his remarks also bore f, Dwr rather heavily on the owners of h rSe tracts under some of the projects, fl no had boosted the price of their i, nds beyond reason, so they were not u tractive to homeseekers, with the s ea of making all the profit and not a laring it with those who buy the land t. F homes. He warned the people of {, is valley against such a policy. He il id it had been his observation that cl lder most of the projects those who tC vned from 10 to 40 acres, and lived si ,on the land and cultivated it, usually o ct their payments promptly while ose who pleaded the hardest for an tension of time were usually men = ho were holding ladge tracts for spec atioh. B. A. Fowler brought out some points very interesting talk that had not t been toushed upon before. One as that as the project has cost four mes the originally estimated price, Q government ought to give kindly r to requests for an extenson. It is ue that the valley has secured a oject four times as good as original planned but it does not increase the of the acres four times ? thought if the government would tend the time at least to double what c law now demands the people would II be paying for construction twice fast as they expected to when work IS undertaken. MT. Fowler who is esident of the national irrigation rgress, also said that though that dy has thus far opposed any chang 2 of the national reclamation law un-
 it could be we'll demonstrated he ought the time had arrived for the ,king Of some necessary changes, pecially in respect of the time of yment. ard hc believed the congress 'uld take up the matter at its com 7 session.
 The visitors stated that they would
 willing to answer any questions ay could and improving the oppor- pity, remarks on various local mat $ were made bv C. s. Steward, H. I;ustrin and James Johnson. u