Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-04-24
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ANOTHER PUBLICITY SPASM.

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its spasmodic attacks that usually
follow any achievement that the
settlers of the tract through the
Canal Users Association accomplish
in the way of the fulfillment of the
contract which the company has
entered into with the settlers. That
paper, like some other subsidized
organs on the tract seems to take
delight in giving the settlers a back
handed slap about SO often, and it
took occasion last week under the
guise of undue publicity" an old
worn out phrase, to again assail the
settlers and then to add insult to
injury, have the effrontery to assert
with great deal of dignity that the
policy of the News had been strik-
ingly vindicated. Nindicated by
whom? Possibly by soulless cor
poration who are able to pour money
into its Golfers just so long as it IL an
object for them to do so. A com
parison Of the subscription list OF
this paper and our contemporary,
will show at glance whether or
not the News has been vindicated
by the settlers on the tract.
Its great flow of rhetoric last week
was occasioned by what it seems to
consider very frivolous matter
that had occurred at Boise relative
to the supply of water for the tract.
As to how unimportant this was
To the settlers it might be proper to
state here that at conference with
the company managers some time
ago the settlers were given to under
stand that they were not entitled to
any storage water, but that arrange
ments could be made to supply them
with this upon the payment OF
something like $500 per acre addi-
tional.
After long and expensive hear
ing before the land board that body
, decided that the company should
furnish 10, 900 acre feet of stored
water for the tract.
According to the company's owr
statements this decision Of the land
board meant a saving Of $500 pei
acre to every settler on the tract
To the man holding contract FOL
100 acres this meant 4 saving o.
over $4,000. Only trifing mat
ter in the eyes Of the News.
1t was supposed that this settle,
that matter until the legal represen
tatiye of the company quietly ap
peared before the board and stateC
that Mr.. Kuhn objected to the com
pany being responsible for the los
OF water from Jackson Lake to Mil
ner. AS this loss is estimated n
about 20 per cent or more, of cours
it was looked upon as very unim
portant to the settlers by the mouth
piece of the company. The settlers
however, took a different view of it
and after their objections it did no
take long for the company to with
draw this proposition, and as n re
suit the contract was signed up a
was originally made 10y the LAM
board.
The News, together with n fey
spectators and the company off
cials, lament the publicity given t
conditions as they have existed o
the tract. Yet the Times is in
position to demonstrate that tn
publicity given through its column
has resulted in more benefit to tn
tract than the silence, and wors
than this the deception used b
some in getting people here. 1t hs
proclaimed to the investor an
farmer seeking a new home that I'll
North Side tract has a progressi,
lot of settlers who are not willing
sit idly down and believe all that
told and promised them by II
company. but that they are alive
their surroundings and are demanc
ing what they paid for.
As result of this publicity, IL
Canal Users association through i
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