Arizona republican., 1916-11-05

cost; that the one who built it must
 keep himself reasonably within the re-
 quirements, the demands for which the
 building was designed, and build a building only adapted to that purpose
 and pay the reasonable cost-nit any , cost that might be imposed. That is the contention of the Salt River Valley
 Water Users Association today. That
 association represents now nearly three
 thousand different ranch owners in this
 valley.
 The Project Enlarged.
 There has been much talk about the
 greatly increased cost of this enterprise. When it was undertaken, the only
 works held in contemplation were the
 dam itself, the impounding dam-noth-
 Ing else. The government at that time
 told us that they would not build any
 distributing systems that they would not purchase any distributing sysems. , that they would not put any dams in
 the river, that all they would do was r the construction of the impoundlng dam Q , with what was the construction of q , power canal to develop power to be , used in the construction of the dam ; That power canal was estimated to cost, as shown in the reports of the en-
 gineers of the Reclamation Service,
 ninety thousand dollars Please re- member .he figures because shall
 have occasion to allnde to them little bit later.
 f AS time went on. the Reclamation s Service changed its theory-its attitude , and its practice with reference to the e acquisition of a distributing system. See
 position we would have been in had n the government adhered to its an- n nounced purpose not to acquire or to e construct a distributing system. We T would simply have had the water F stored. IL would have been brought
 downto the Arizona canal with all its a corporate control and grasp of that
 canal. and delivered to the farmers . upon terms that the Arizona canal may = have determined on the north side oi
 the river. and on the south side Of th, Y river as may be determined by tho U corporations that owned the Highlin' - AIilNit kilt shfAi NtAAiAAA ttAN sNN'eA N'f' V solidated canal, the Tempe canal. thu ~ Utah canal. the Eureka canal, and th' ' san Francisco canal, and-what is thu
 use of extending the list? That wate
 would have been completely in th'
 control, don't you see. Of private corpo y rations as to their charges for carry u ing the water2 The water may hav' Is been stored. it would have been re 70 leased and picked up by these canals 'e That was the situation that the peopi 't of this valley did not particularly en le joy In fact, l can remember that ther .e had been a bitter protest. bitter lega l. contest over the rights of these prfVat d corporations to the diversion and m
 carriage and distribution of this watei
 The government then changed It's polio .s and said. We will buy these canals. ., and then began long negotiations D. Granite Reef Dam.
 Dt At first. the owners of the Arizon r. canal offered to sell this canal To tn of government to be charged 10 us. 0 f. course for si.30Q. 900. can't go owe I'd line whole history of that matter hu at finally I was asked as the attorney TO pr inc association. to make an offer, an I'd I offered two hundred thousand dollar of | was as liberal as they were ne D. wanted n million and three hundre le thousand dollars. and I threw off on Id million one hundred thousand: an b. finally. what did they get? They SC st three hundred and thirty thousand dol ir lars You see, they raised my price r. little: but in addition to that. there ha ed to be purchased the Mesa canal, tn ne Highline canal. and the other canals | Id the valley They had to be re-construci t. ed. The old Arizona dam had gone ou .ls and you remember how often 1t did E
 out. Nearly every time the river wa
 up. out would go the dam. And tn If dam couldn't be put back until tn H. water run down and there was no wa he ter to dam. The farmers of this valle ed had said. We rebuild the Arizon at dam-never." They preferred to stic tt dynamite under ii and blow 1t out m. the water And yet the farmers al Dn build that Arizona canal. under nan O. 1t is true: and that was named Grani ey Reef Those very farmers who Ina
 protested so vigorously against the r' CT construction of the Arizona canal wel by on a hot June day, when you eou st poach eggs out in the sun, celebratir d. "a thousand of them-the completic ey of the Granite Reef dam-a dam thu ial had declared they never would col ct. struct But it was because the ArizoI u- canal was out of existence as a sept at rate entity It was because the Mar ne copa was out of existence as sept ,at rate entity. IL was because the othe 'ei were gone. IL was because a cleav
 r, had gone across this district. and q " district was divided up SO that eve r.., district had some portion of these cal i, l" als. So. they got SO cut up that th'
 couldn't wriggle at all. These pu ne, chases and the Granite Reef dam i in creased the cost of the project. Tn is- is one of the reasons that this proje' in instead of costing about three milli ,at or three million seven hundred al ed fifty thousand, - ran away above.
 if was because, my friends. we ask Ild more. It was because the governme ain did more than they originally conter they would do. and 1t was ju