Arizona sentinel., 1917-10-04

annie project, which extends into the state of Wyoming. There will then be two districts side by side receiving water from the same dam and reser- voir I can see where in the course of time that all will come under prac tically the same system and yet there may be three or four irrigation dis tricts all furnishing water to one dis trict organized years ago and yet above it is a water users association which is probably organized into a district That is a fair illustration of
 borrowing trouble; worrying about
 something that may never happen. 1 can account for that kind of reasoning or borrowing trouble, except on the
 theory that some people are never
 happy unless they are miserable. ID
 said that until recent years happiness
 consisted in making somebody miser-
 able. I have been wondering if hap
 piness on some projects consists in trying to make the reclamation ser vice miserable Qaughter), by bringing up ghosts of things they don't believe in and don't expect to see. I under stand how that might happen as suppose there are a great many peO- | lp1n rl,0 in ! ghosts yet are afraid of them. Oaugh- | ter) Probably some of our friends
 are worrying about what might hap
 ren for that reason.
 Now, I was somewhat interested in
 this injunction factor that has been
 suggested here, at this banquet to- night, with reference to the big dam
 in the Colorado river below here. One | said he thought they had secured an i injunction; another said he didn't think so; finally it was said that it
 was not an injunction because dis
 solved; and so on ad infinitum. That
 reminded me of what I heard today
 about Judge Works of California is
 suing an injunction against the Sou.ll-
 ern Pacific Railroad Company in per
 mitting water to run into the SaltOn
 sea. Uaughter) The injunction was
 issued and served and is probably ill
 existence yet, but the dear old water
 continued t; flow into the Salton sea
 just the same. Oaughter.) All the in
 functions in the world could not have
 stopped it. You would as we'll have
 tried, by injunction, to stop an earth
 quake.
 Before closing, I want to say, my
 friends, that this will not be the last
 visit we will make to the Yuma Val
 ley. Col. Fly while ill Washington
 convinced the reclamation commis-
 sion and many others that Yuma is
 a great country and that the mesa uI
 here is one of the great sections of the
 Yuma Valley, the very place where
 the Garden of Eden was located. Col
 Fly was so determined to convince
 me of this fact that he sent a large amount of grapefruit, which had beer grown here, and, while many of us would not eat it because we were afraid it might be considered bribery : it somehow, yes somewhere" was taken care Of It was not wasted Laughter) And I wish to inform , you that you can send all the grape fruit you like to Washington, leaving it to us to prosecute the 'bribor." AnC this is not limited to Yuma, let i come from California (your neighbo state or from any other valley, anC there will always be people in Wash ing ton with warm spot in thei hearts for you. Uaughter.)
 One thing I want to call attention : to at this time to show how persol can be misunderstood in making : public address Now I heard a grea deal said about what members of thu reclamation service represented year ago. I have looked into these charge T in detail, but not so far as this pro
 ject is concerned, and in most instan t ces, practically all, found there wa some misunderstanding about it. It i l not so serious anyway as has beel s contended.
 t But in endeavoring to profit by pas l. experience of former officials in thl |, service I have been making it poin t to make no addresses without havin S stenographer take down what 1 hay r. to say. Thus far I have not got int V serious trouble, but after listenin n this evening to what is charge against one former official not nov 7, in office I am reminded of what l. said during my visit here about tn D mesa project being built. I told yo n how I thought it would be built o l. how we are trying to build it. Tha