Arizona sentinel., 1917-12-27

ley (El Centro) Progress should res urrect a vicious and vile story pub lished 21 years ago and give it wide publication at this particular time is past comprehension.
 The story alluded to was printed in the Progress Sunday December 16, a copy of which reached me too late to give it any attention in the last is sue of the ARIZONA SENTINEL. Above all times on earth to offer in suits to Yuma at this particular time seems to be the least propitious on the part of those citizens of Imperial Valley who have the welfare of that distressed and retrograting section at heart. However, the Progress has ever been known to be the personal organ" of that bunch of grafters who seem determined to force Imper1a! Valley back into its desert state, where cactus will grow so thick that a snake can't crawl through it, where iackrabbits will have to such cactus blossoms for moisture and where jackasses will bray their heads off for the lack of something to fill their gnawing innards. When that time returns to Imperial Valley the lands that are now worth several hundred dollars per acre will be gobbled up by these "grafters" at their own figures, and then a concerted effort will be made to solve the water shortage problem that now threatens the very existence of that great valley. But apparently not until then will this "bunch" cease it's abnormal desire to cast odium on Yuma Project, whereas, if they had the best interests of lmpe- rial Valley at heart they would at least try to rub the fur the in the right direction" whenever they have occa- sion to refer to Yuma.
 We over here can stand 1t If they can. Imperial Valley will find that Yuma can take care of herself when the proper time comes, regardless ot the eminent engineers" that valley may employ to try to besmirch the good name of Yuma, or to be-little UT unsurpassed irrigation project.
 Now. for a diagnosis of the article referred to. It was written, along with two other articles, for a "Sclttlsh magazine" 21 years ago by one G. G. Anderson, alleged eminent engineer" who was until recently one Of the "consulting engineers" of Imperial IT. rigation district, employed at the rate of s96OO per year, for office work and $50 per day and expenses when engaged in field work" making II convenient to be engaged in "neld work" nearly all the time from the day of his appointment until he was summarily discharged a few weeks ago, because of his open antagonlsm to the best interests of Imperial val lev. That's the gazabo who 2l years ago wrote the vilest indictment against Yuma that has probably ever been seen in print, and now since his discharge from Imperial Valley by some hook or crook his three articles to a Scottish magazine" are entrusted to "Scotty" Russell, who turns them over to the Progress for re-publlca- tion in the columns of that misguided organ of the "has beens" of Imperial Valley.
 This fellow Anderson spent much time in and around Yuma during this year. drawing his fifty bucks" and expenses per day from Imperial Val lev farmers as the "eminent consult ing engineer" of Imperial irrigation district. I had frequent occasion to meet him. I have often remarked to my friends that all I could see about him to justify his employment by I'm perial Valley was his aptitude in tell Ing ScOIJlSH SCOlAOo Io'' w
 older than Gladstone, but neverthe- less he delighted in telling them. He was one of those "bull head" Scotch men who imagnes he knows 1t all and then some more, just as his vile article in the Progress shows, for It was written when he had spent less than a week in what he terms the Desert of the Colorado" showing that he knew just about as much about this section at that time as he knew how to solve Imperial Valleys water shortage problem after drawing fifty bucks" per day for about a year-and that was absolutely nothing