Arizona sentinel., 1917-08-09
MARK ROSE AND HIS ALL-AMERICAN CANAL FLOUNDERING AROUND IN SEARCH OF
 FUNDS FOR THE SURVEY.

ANoo@ "o~O crates are having troubles of their They need cash and need it badly As last they have made ap peal to the Imperial Irrigation district help them finance the proposed survey for the proposed canal butand here's the rub-the directors of the Imperial ir gaton district are apparently enhuSed the pro- posed aAmercan canal as Mark Rose thinks they ought to be- In fact joint meeting of Mark Roses directors and the Imperial directors but little if any encouragement was given that the latter would come across with one third of the for making the survey exacted by Sec retay Lane when he signed the muchtaked o contract with Mark Rose for the proposed a-American canal
 The esteemed Fl Centro Zanjero which has champion ed Mark Rose and of season. quite nsistent that the best of the Imperial irrigation district de- mand that the district get behind the Mark Rose scheme and push the limit the theory that Imperial Valley California to be free from the entangng a hance with the Mexican interests in Baja California With the Zanjero it is anything Oh Lord just can cut loose from Mexico.
 The editor of that esteemed paper goes far to say that all who oppose the Mark Rose scheme working in the direct of Mexico rather than in the best n terests of the land owners on the California side of the entent irrigation system.
 That rather broad statement and wholly erroneous so far as the editor of the ARIZONA SENTINEL is con- cerned My opposition to the Mark Rose scheme was plainly stated before the Reclamation commission year ago last spring. when met Mark Rose and his associates joint debate in Washington which time his scheme was knocked higher than GderoyS kite At that time he claim ed the proposed aAmercan canal could be constructed TOT S35OOOOO The Reclamation commission knew could be constructed for such if indeed the scheme IS at all feasabe In his recent appeal to Secretary Lane he put the figures at $6OO0OO0 and guaranteed to get rhe money with which make the survey He is now try ing to finance the scheme through the Imperial irrigation district and in order whip them into line his packers are charging that those who oppose favor the Mexican lands as against the American lands
 The charge is made that Lower California Mexico pays no part of the expenses of maintaining the present rigation system That is probably true, though don know whether it is or But if it is it must be rememb cred that the right construct the original canal through about 60 miles of Mexican territory granted part ment for the lands taken up by the canal system without which right Imperial Valley California would never have been heard of But that the largest garden in the world has been developed by of this aid from Mexico MT Rose and his friends to annu their contract with the Mexican government by constructing new canal which would deny Mexico the of the water she is justly en- titled to.
 As long however as the United States recognizes treaty rights it can be safely assumed that Mr. Rose and his associates will be permitted to trampe on these treaty rights for the original contract entered into in exact compliance with treaty with Mexico These gnts have been respected by Mexico from the day they were en- tered into between the Imperial irrigation district and the republic of Mexico
 It will be utterly impossible for all-Amercan canal to be constructed maintained along the Mark Rose lines until the waters of the upper Colorado and its branches conserved by of storage daS for the simple reason that there not enough water the critical period of rr gation to serve Yuma Project Imperial irrigation district and the 100000 proposed be irrigated by the Mark Rose scheme Somebody would have to suffer. What is the sense of opening up lot of land at tremendous cost only have the crops burn up they rpen ing to fruton Better by far level up and place under cultivation those lands already susceptible to irrigation
 Inasmuch as the Mark Rose scheme proposes to con meet with Laguna dam the people of this project will watch every turn made by Mark Rose and his fellow promo
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