The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1912-07-20

ally whenever there is a univer-
sal demand for reforms, or reorgan-
ization of existing conditions, there
is some good excuse why this should
be brought about, for people are
prone to silt still, and go ahead UNI
der the lines of least resistance un-
til affairs reach such a condition that
drifting will no longer gain any head
way and some action must be taken.
Such is our condition today. For
the past four years We have Walt
messed the present water company
struggle along the best way 1T could.
If any one wanted water and would
come up to the terms of the COM
pany he could buy the stock and
the water was delivered as soon as
some way could be provided for its
delivery If he was off the Blythe
ranch the trouble of delivering the
water was a serious proposition; his
neighbors would not take stock nor
give rightS-of-way for bitches and ito
deliver him water the company had
to build some wonderful bitches that
were very expensive and unsatiSfac-
tory. No one was pleased and may
be the rancher received water and
again, maybe he did not. Anyway,
we know things have grown no bet
ter the past year, and the present
price of $25 per acre for what you
receive has proved am absolute bar
so far as locating any more water
stock lis concerned.
But we now have a grand oppor-
tunity to reorganize. The property
owners outside of the Blythe ranch
are a unit at least ON this question,
and che holders of stock i'm the Mu
tual company are ju9t as anxious, SO
far as we are informed, to help re-
organize the system.
Delay only hinders and makes mat
ters more complicated. 1t appears
to be the universal opinion that the
way to reorganize is under the state
Act 1926, which is known as the
Bridgeford act This will enable us
to go ahead and complete the system
at absolute cost to the land owner,
laUever chat may De, ami then there
lin be no just kick, as to cost, for
no one can put UP any valid excuse
when he pays only for what he re
ceives, and that only. Then, if the
ground is not worth the costs get
rid of the land and get out.
AS to how to settle with the Mu-
tual company, that must be worked
out after We are formed into dis
trict and have power to deal with
the company and it with us, but no
stakeholder lin the Mutual company
need fear that he lis going to be rob-
bed by going into a new district. If
you have been robbed it was when
you bought your water stock and
you will be paid for your stock just
what it is reasonably worth today,
and if that is all it lis worth why
should you expect to get more? You
might buy a herd of milch COWS and
pay $100 per head for them, but af-
ter they have proved that they are
not a paying proposition and you
want to sell them, you do not con-
slider what the COWS cost and how
much you paid for feed, but you take
What they are worth today. 1t is MOI
tire one who takes the stock at its
market value who beats you; your
loss is caused by the difference be-
tween the original cost, plus upkeep,
and the net result of receipts. Such
is the condition of our water system
today, and upon such conditions the
settlement should be made.
TO illustrate what | mean We Will
say that We have at the present time
80, 900 shares of water stock sold,
and that We find upon investigation
that the present system is found to
be worth 100000. Then each person
holding stock would receive for hiss
sock the sum of $40 per acre when
he surrenderS it to the new district.
Don't take these figures to be a val
uation of the system, for they are
used simply as an illustration. The
valuation can only be computed by
tho who are competent to handle
such matters.
Put you ask, What would be our
&C ndition when we form a district?'
Speaking as to the BridgefOrd act,
there is no such thing as stock or
shares, each landowner gets water
per his proportion of lands as
compared to the acreage of lands i'm
the entire district; that is to say
tha' if there were $4,000 acres i'm
the district and you owned 1000 acres