Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-05-09
.H0N. CALLAWAY TELLS STARTLING
 STORY OF DAM INVESTIGATION
CONGRESSMAN RELATES DISCOVERY MADE BY THE IN vEsIGATNG COMMITTEE ON THE ROOSEVELT DAM-EvIDENcE SUBMITTED TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE SHOWED PRO- sl SWITCHED SALT RIVER

1ndefeasible right to the use of water
 through the canals at $12.5O per acre.
 Taking all the water rights sold by
 the canal company, they amounted to
 $3,721,O 900. This entitled the water
 users to thereafter have water through
 these canals at about $15O per acre
 per year. The government in the pur-
 chase of the canals ignored these wat
 CT rights and paid the canal company full value for the canals and charged
 this up as part of the reclamation
 project to the land owners in the
 valley
 "On the other side of the river from
 Phoenix party by the name of Chan
 dle, way back in the tnineties, ob- tained control of 1S,O0O acres of land. He caused to be dug a canal that would irrigate this land, which cost, as he claimed, $3 per acre for the 18,- 900 acres; the entrymen who had se- cured their patents made conveyance of their land to MT. Chandler on his digging the canal. The government took this canal over at $1S7,OOO in cash.
 Substation on Chandler Land
 "The government also built from the power plant at Roosevelt an cleo tric transmission to Phoenix, dis tance of eighty miles, At Mesa, twen- ty miles from Phoenix, on the trans mission line, the government put in a sub-station and ran transmission line due south directly across these 1S,0O0 acres of land owned by Mr. Chandler. and near the center of MT. Chandler's land put in a sub-station on this trans mission line for the purpose of dis pensing power This sub-station was within half a mile of a town laid off by MT. Chandler on his land and also is used for the prpose Of furnishing power to seven different irrigation wells, five of which are on this land OlCC OWuCu Uy VhI OuduulCl.
 NO party, under the reclamation act, can have water to irrigate more than 160 acres of land. Mr. Chandler could not have the water to irrigate' his 1S,000 acres, but any party buying 16O acres from him had immediate right, under the reclamation act, to claim water for the tract, and could obtain it, provided the water was at all forthcoming. In his advertisements he claims that he has sold more than $1 ,250, 900 of land from this tract.
 "We could find no other excuse at all reasonable for running this line directly across Chandler's land than to furnish him the assurance of water The claim of the engineering depart ment was that this particular trans mission line was run in that direction for the purpose of furnishing power to pump wells on the Pima Indian res ervation and ten wells were put down at cost of $10,00O per we'll, on the Indian reservation, and this line ex- tended to those wells; but the Indians, from the first to now, including more than three years, have refused to al- low this well weater to run onto their lands, claiming that without being mixed with river water it will kill their lands, and these wells have nev- ar been used at all.
 Connection Is Tinted
 eve found that the engineer on whose recommendation this transmits sion line was built was engineer for MT. Chandler when MT. Chandler's canal was dug, and went from his ser rice into the government service, and hat he was also vice-president ot a oank in the town of Mesa, of which Mr. Chandler was president Last winter, when it was understood that m investigation was going to be made, his man, W. H. Code, resigned from he government service and moved 70 California
 "The committee adorned it's hear ngs at Phoenix, Ariz., Thursday fast t o'clock, to resume again in Wash ngton, where the investigation will 'e concluded"