Arizona republican., 1915-03-02
REPLY 0F CITY MANAGER PARISH
 ID THE SUPPLEMENTAL CHARGES

voSANSASu Oy tliC OWIcI tIcIcOl, AuSuSl 1ben, to the city attorney, and said Iclty attorney, upon examination of said abstract of title ascertained that there was an incumbrance upon said land of some seven thousand dollars, represented by a mortgage held by the Valley Realty company of Phoenix, Arizona, covering the eighty acres of which said land was a part; and as- certained that the mortgagee would not release the mortgage from said land proposed to be purchased, unless the city would make a substantial payment to it and a guaranty to it of the balance of the purchase price; land thereupon the city attorney ad- 'vised this manager that it was not with the owner thereof with an option
 to purchase said land, and expend money thereon in the construction of qualification works, by reason of said lincumbrance and the said attitude assumed by the mortgagee and advised 1 hi mthat the interests of the city would be best protected by requiring nimmediate release of said mortgage as to said thirty-six acres. and the 1 immediate execution and delivery of a warranty deed therefor; and rec commended a straight purchase of the land for three thousand dollars, paying lone thousand dollars on the purchase price and taking time for paying the balance of the purchase price; and that thereupon this manager, in con-
 nectiOn with the city attorney and under his advice, contracted to pur- chase said land from said August Iben. the owner thereof, for the said sum of three thousand dollars, and paid upon said purchase price the sum of one thousand dollars, and agreed to pay the further sum of one thousand dollars on the first day of July, 1915, and the further sum of one thousand dollars on the first day of January, 1916, upon the condition
 that the mortgage upon said land Should be immediately released. and
 that said Iben should immediately ex-
 ecute and deliver to the city war
 ranty deed for said land; and that
 the mortgagee agreed to release said
 mortgage from said land upon the payment to it of the moneys to be paid therefor. And thereupon, in pur-
 suance of said contract, warranty deed. executed by the said Iben and wife, and a release of said mortgage as to said thirty-six acres, were ten .dered, both of which this manager ac- cepted, and caused to be recorded And this manager thereupon caused 10 be paid the said sum of one thousand dollars to said August 1ben. in the form of two city warrants for flve hundred dollars each, which were as signed by the said August lben 10 lthe Valley Realty company: and the
 remaining two payments of one thou
 sand dollars each due respectively
 July 1. 1915 and January l, lsle' were likewise assigned by the said August 'Iben to the Valley Realty company
 This manager admits that suose- uuent to the purchase Of said laho
 as aforesaid, he verbally reported 10 the members of the commission that the price of three thousand dollars
 for said land was as cheap as the same could be bought, and that II
 
 was reported to the commission. that
 while the said land might not be
 intrinsically worth three housand
 dollars. yet it could not be obtained for less from the owner thereof anu
 that to the city it was worth that price when the fact was taken into consideration that it was the most
 suitable and available land for the
 purposes for which it was sought
 10 be purchased and could be used
 most economically to the city in
 the disposition of the sewage which
 was intended to be deposited there
 on, and in view of the further fact
 that it would save the city money by the purchase of said land at
 said price as compared to what 1t
 would cost the city if it should ac- qure other land which would ne cesstate the erection or construction
 of artificial sewage filters. And said
 manager now says that said report
 the commission.
 This manager further says that
 he has no knowledge or information
 as to what the members of the com
 mission discovered subsequently, to the purchase of said land. as to the price paid therefor being exorbitani
 and greatly in excess of what it was
 worth and what it could at the time have been bought for had ordinary business capacity been exercised by , this manager in it's purchase: bu , this manager denies that the price , paid for said land was exorbitan CT greatly in excess of what it wa: worth at the time it was bought, ol - what it is worth now; and denies that said land could have beer bought then for any less sum or upoi
 more favorable terms; and denie'
 that he did not exercise ordinar, business capacity in the purchase O said land; and denies that said lant ] was not worth to exceed twenty-five
 dollars per acre; and denies tha