Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-12-09
BLANCHARD ADVOCATES SQUARE
 DEAL FOR THE H0MESEEKER

 Elephant Butte Water Users Association decided to em- ploy sales agent.
 To do this work, J. F. Findlay was selected. He is an odl-time resident Of the valley, and knows it from the big dam to the state line; he knows it's people (both Mexican and Ameri- can), and is familiar with local condi- tions A graduate of Edinburgh (Scotland) University, he is we'll equipped generally for his work. MT. Findley is paid salary, and furnishes a dependable little Ford" in which to carry homeseekers to see the lands in which they might be inteersted.
 The land owners under the pro- ject have been invited to list their holdings with the association for sale. No exclusive option has been asked, but it has been pointed out that lands are being listed from every section of the valley, and that those are cer- tain to be sold which offer the best terms, and which are listed at the most reasonable prices. After a stren- uous campaign waged through the Immigration Bureau, large number of the owners were induced to be sat isfied with stipulation of 6 per cent interest on deferred payments, where formerly and 10 per cent had been asked.
 In organizing and launching this work, the Immigration Bureau took IS it's motto "The interest of the pur- chaser is our first consideration" and from this basis it has not deviated In the newspapers, in the presidents monthly letter to the water users, and in various meetings that have been held over the project, the point has been stressed time after time, that this policy must be maintained; and the idea is fast taking hold
 A commission of per cent is now
 harged the landowner on the sales made. The money derived from the commissions is placed to the credit of the immigration bureau and is used to help defray the expenses of the i'm migration and publicity campaign of the association. It was hoped when the plan was initiated that the re- ceipts from this source would meet the additional expense of the new branch of the work by the close of the first six months of it's operation Less than three months have passed, and the sales agent is no longer lia- bility of the bureau. Tn other words,
 he commissions have just passed the aggregate expense mark of the sales department for the three months This is the way it works:
 A North Dakota wheat farmer came to Las Cruces. He had been "the rounds" of the real estate men in Ei Paso. He found nothing that suited him at a price that he was willing to pay He was taken by the immi- grafton bureau to see a number of tracts, and found the right one the first afternoon that he was out He ordered a deed made and abstracts drawn, and considered the deal closed The immigration bureau had not sev- cred it's connection with him, how ever, nor lost it's interest. An inves- tigation of the status of the land was begun, and it developed that this par ticular tract owed $250 an acre to the community ditch under which it would be irrigated, and that water could not be secured until the item had been paid. The North Dakota man was notified of the fact, negotia- tions were halted until the money had been paid, and the purchaser was saved the inconvenience and loss which he would undoubtedly have ex- perienced under another system of sale, for water rents are not shown on abstracts.
 It is useless to say that the pur- chaser appreciated the protection thus afforded him. Since then he has come back to the immigration bureau for advice with reference to the develop ment of the land. MT. Findley has helped him arrange for his clearing and grubbing contracts. He purchas- ed good land at a reasonable price; he is a satisfied settler, and he f going to succeed. Furthermore, he is going to be helped by the association in every way possible. It is a part of the policy.
 One more example will suffice: A young civil engineer, who has an ac- quaintance with soils and conditions over the various irrigation projects of the West, came here about six months