The Parker post., 1913-09-06

agreed to secure the services of the
best engineer that could be procured.
In the minds of the pioneer reclaimers
of the Southwest, there is an engineer
who stands head and shoulders above
the rest: and the Gods of Fortune
were propitious when they decreed
that the Palo Verde valley should
have the services of that man. Our
engineer was asked to deliver the
goods meaning water And in that
delivery he was asked to bring fifty
per cent more goods through the same
already choked channel of delivery.
Regardless of the kicker, it is 3
to say that the goods were delivered
more rapidly and in larger pack
ages than ever before. ana. for that
matter more abundantly and more
| satisfactorily than in the nearby val
| leys where more time and money
have been expended in perfecting a
system.
He-the Chief-has delivered the
! goods, and he is now asked to double
the volume to meet the increased de-
mand for 1914.
The Chief was present at the di
rectors meeting of July 2l. He pre-
sented a. carefully prepared state
ment showing the work necessary to
be done during the next six months.
His estimate including suction dredge,
pile driver, concrete intake, several
miles Of levee and canals, office build
ings, telephone line, etc, called for
about $20O,0O0 and when the direc-
tors investigated the present avail
abe cash resources OF the company,
it was ascertained that the company
money with which to buy a postage
stamp 1t was also learned that the
lIthree golded balls had for the pre-
sent been removed from the Oxnard
Bank.
No, NestOr, these cruel directors
did not limit this assessment to
dollar and half share. It's three
dollars all right, all right; and one
OF them satirically remarked that by
the time this assessment could be Coz
lected a man would not have to pos
sess McAdooian grasp of financial
necessity to form misty conception
or the reason why a small assess
ment was not made.
Directors Hobson and Stewart sta
ted that they did not desire to gobble
up all of the glory incidental to ne
gotiating all of the loans for the com
pany and that they would not object
to any of the other directors stepping
out and narrowing forty or fifty
thousand. No one had time, however,
and while all were confident that
there were many stockholders in the
valley who would gladly do so, funds
were not available to pay for the tele-
gram
The engineer and directors agreed
that large, new and comparatively
straight canal beginning near the
the sluiceway and traversings ground
that lies west of that drift-cOllecting,
sllt-settling, velocity checking, tule
growing, blanky>blank, million dollar
settling basis known as Olive Lake
and Swine Slough is essential for the
future agricultural development of
the valley 1t was decided to do
this work at once, also to let con
tracts Immediately for a great deal
OF other canal and levee work ..
Space forbids a detailed mention
OF the many improvements provided
for. Sufficient it is to say that the
main arteries of our. water system
will, by the grace of God. the effort.
of Clark and the mazuma of the
stockholders be made and kept large
enough and clean enough to provide
ample flow of water in high river or
low, for all present water users and
others who may have scales removed
from their optics in time to replace
the salt weed with the cotton plant
before certain cOrpulent and avaric-
GUS water grabbers secure prior
right.
3Nestor, this matter of paying our
five dollars year in assessments
and then having no funds On hand
looks huge to you. 1t is hard to dig
UP the coin; and there are so many,
many other places on new farm
where the money is needed Truly,
this pioneer game has small rake-off
And yet the difference between paying
five dollars an acre for all the water
you need, or two dollars for half
enough water is all in favor of the
| five dollar assessment. And | tell