The Parker post., 1913-11-01
NEW PLAN FOR
CHUCKAWALLA
GOVERNMENT TO BE ASKED TO
ALLOW ENTRYMEN TO SELL
PART OF LAND TO AID IN FL
HANGING BIG PROJECT.

A unique and gigantic scheme for
the development of a vast tract OF
land in the Chuckawalla district in
the southeastern portion OF the coun
ty was unfolded last night by II. A.
Gilman, an attorney of Los Angeles,
and Frank Elwell formerly Of this
city, before an audience of interest
ed men and women that filled the
auditorium of the chamber of com
merce, says the Riverside Enterprise
The location of the lands which
it is proposed to irrigate and develop
was made plain by use of chart by
Mr.. Elwell, after which Mr.. Gilman
gave a clear explanation of the plan
for financing the irrigation system,
first needed to make this great sec
tion of Riverside County's board do
main blossom as a rose" the much
used term describing the transforma
ton of desert waste into fertile fields
How to Obtain Water.
Mr. Gilman said there are SOC, ,00G
acres of lands capable of producing
abundantly if watered, and proceed
ed at once to state what is being con
sidered by the entrymen now on their
lands. recently thrown open by the
government, which still holds the It'll,
to them. Said he, in substance:
''At the last session of the Califor
mia legislature, bill was passed larg
ly through the efforts of the associa
ton now created for the purpose OF
developing these ChuckaWalla lands
enabling the entrymen to organize
and bond the district for the entir>
cost of an irrigation system proposed.
Later it was realized that such &C
ton would burden the entrymen with
debt, with no further means left fol
development Of their individual prop
critics.
1T is now proposed to introduce
bill in congress for the purpose o
inducing the government to allow
each entryman to give up one-half
the Land he files upon, the land so re
leased to be sold and the money re
ceived from such sales to finance the
proposed system Of irrigation, this to
be established by creating dam sit
in the Colorado river at a point Sc
lected by engineers who have report
ed the scheme perfectly feasible.
1T is intended that the measure
desired passed by congress will pro
vide that the government place the
title to the lands in escrow, the lane
buyer will place the purchase prics
Of the lands he buys in escrow and
the entryman will also place one-haH
OF his possessOry rights in escrow
and when the contracts for the pur.
chase of lands sufficient to finance
the irrigation system are assured
these escrow are realeased, the trans
actions are complete and the buyer OF
lands acquires his title to such, be
fore the water is placed on the land.
Various details of the proposed plar
for making one-half of the lands pay
for the irrigation system first need
ed to make the tracts capable OF
crops were explained by the attor
ney who stated that there is still an
abundance of flowing water in th'
Colorado river, at times in the year
to supply the. storage reservoir pro
posed, that surveys have been mad,
by engineers and that there are fivG
available dam sites within $50 miles
Of the land furtherest distant. He
also explained that such a plan as he
suggested would enable the land buy
ers and settlers to build an irriga
tion system much more cheaply than
if the government did it, while the
entrymen and buyers would own such
system all the earlier.
- 10 Bond Lands.
1T is proposed, said the speaker
Ito sell one-half of these lands at $50
to $50 an acre, commission appoint
ed by government and the associa-
tion Jointly to take the minimum uni
form price upon the lands, which
would raise practically three-fourths
Of the estimated sum for the irriga-
tion project, $4,000, 900, then to bond
the district to be created for the re-
manning one-fourth of such cost.
have already been approached by
men interested in securing available
lands and by the consul of a foreign
country, the latter expressing his