The Parker post., 1912-07-13
NESTOR, IT'S
UP TO YOU
(By Ed. F. Williams.)


able style and will be of interest ito
many of our readers.
Well, Nestor, its up to you! Per
haps during the past three years, you
have i'm some mguarded moment, cast
redIhot obloquy, with envenomed
tongue on all that pertains to our
system of irrigation, or criticised
our levee system, or made satirical
jests regarding the capacity of our
canals, or shot damnatary invectives
at the management and stigmatized
their motives and morals. Perhaps
you have sometimes thought that
you who use the water, who buy the
right, who pay the assessment, whose
crops fail when the canal fails to pro-
vide an ample supply, whose home
may disappear when the levee breaks,
perhaps you have Thought that you
could build, maintain and manage
system better and at less expense.
Say, Nestor, if i'm the archives of
your cerebrum, you have an idea
planted am idea relating to the forma
ton of an irrigation system embrac
ing the entire Palo Verde valley, ar
idea to unfold to your fellow citizen:
that will assist them in the organiza-
tion of a system that will give every
water+lser a square deal, we'll, ON
July Is, at Blythe, let it sprout If
it be a good one, it will flourish like
pig tweed after the overflow and dis
seminate its seed broadcast.
On July 16 a meeting will be held
at Blythe to conisder how best ito
provide for the irrigation of the
Palo Verde valley. Every person in
the valley will be concerned dim the
transactions of that meeting, and
it is hoped, nay, presumed, that you
will be present.
The idea is not one of recent birth.
Ever since the beginning of the first
canal i'm the valley, every thinking
man has realized that sooner or lat
er we must organize system that
will provide irrigation for the val
ley's entire area, and that then only
wild We have foundation upon which
to build community which will br
SOlid permanent and progressive
Now that the swamp and overflow
dnoidnd i'm fo
vor of the SETTLERS, it is possible to
formulate plans for the building of
a greater Palo Verde valley.
Whether we will organize under
the Bridgeford act, the Overflow act
of March 16, 1909, or in a mutual wa
ter company remains for you to de,
eide; but there is one point ON which
nine-tenths of the people have a.
ready decided: The people shall own
and control the system, and bondI
shall be issued to complete it.
There is absolutely no smoke aris-
ing preSaging a fight with the pres.
emit water company. During the pas,
thirty days the writer has heard
large per cent of the valleys citi-
zens express themselves regarding
the organization of an irrigation dis
trict under one of the states irriga-
ton acts, and every speaker in hiG
mention of the possible transfer of
the present company's holdings to a
new organization, has, without ex-
ception, expressed himself as being
: in favor of reimburSing the present
company by the fairest possible ad-
justment for its water system. CAM
together i'm harmony and equity' 'is,
seemingly the slogan 1t is a heal
thy sign, an encouraging one, and il
portends success. Well, why mot?
It requires nerve and brains, mites.
times and good money to promote
and cOnSummate irrigation SystemG
and where after years of work anG
worry, one promoter has perfected
his system to where his investment
brings him eight per cent, three have
HIdue IdAIuI0S dllu nave Uo6n SepaT9t
ed from their maZuma.
When an irrigation system lis
built and controlled by a few men,
and stock is sold to farmers who are
allowed no voice in its management,
a few seeds of hell are sown broad
cast at its inception. The water user
is usually required to sign CON
tract made out by some honary grad
uate of a correspondence school of
law who demands the pound of flesh
with a Shylockian greed, legahzed
by a BlackstOnian form, that would
demand a Judiciary recall of Por-
tia. He lis required to give rights
of-way across his lands for every
thing that can be conceived by the
prolific brain of the water-seNer's at
torney, together with ALL that may
agitate the gray matter of his assigns