Arizona sentinel., 1918-01-24

in cultivation the very earliest possible moment, bot
 from the standpoint of enhancing the wealth of this secto we'll from the stand point of producing that which most needed in the war-foodstuff and cotton with whc to manufacture explosives for the
 One more objection to opening the lands at thi time-tat of the high of construction materiaSca oe dismissed with the assertion that though the Of all construction material admittedly high ye the price obtained for the products of the soil hghe in proportion.
 oo one of these so offsets the other that in that particular than equalzed in favor o go ing right ahead regardless of the present high of Strucuon material. nothing iii any of the argu advanced against the propety of the early open justify its posponement until after the
 appears that from every angle at which the queSno may be viewed the time above all others for this Wor 10 begin, and sincerely hope it will be-
 1t may not be wholly of place suggest right here of already know that there several proposed units mesa any of which may be designated the first to be reclaimed apprehend that it will largely depend upon the attitude of the of private lands the mesa as to which will be the first unit be Within very short time after Chief Weymouth and MT Henny Denver their final report and recommenda tions will be forwarded to Director Davis The latter may or may O. K. these reports just they submitted Hs of fact will be the final recommendation Secretary Lane He may he may not raise lower the estimate Ot COnStuCtOn agreed Dy C1e weymouth and Mr. Henny But whatever his estimate of the costs is placed will more than likely be Kd by Secretary Lane It will then be squarey up the private land say whether they will be willing accept these costs and thereby place their lands the first unit If there necessary haggng the estimated costs it stands son that the reclamation officials will then select one of the other units be the first be constructed for both maining units composed wholly of government lands.
 As what the probable cost of construction will be
 
 before congress short time ago, when urging the enact ment of the amendment the present law Congressman Hayden estimated the at about $OO per acre.. In of the fact that the entire system will be constructed O pipes and concrened canals very safely be assumed that the costs will be nearer S2OO than $OO The costs for the Yuma Valley unit placed at $75 with not pipe cementined canal the entire unit It would therefore, stand suppose that the proposed pipe and mentned canal system together with of the necessary power and pumping plants will cost least double the amount expended on the Yuma Valley unit Of course very many without stopping give the matter serious consdea tion will argue that this is entirely much But they have probably visited the growing section of Cali forna and amiarzed themselves with the costs of those projects In almost every instance where they begun with the open ditch system they have gradually around the pipe and concretened ditch system which almost every instance has the long almost double what the would have been had they begun with the pipe and concreened system The peculiar soil conditions o the makes imperative that the first be the best ana that the pipe line and concrete system all the This not only gives infinitely better system bui materially assists in conserving the water take it, there fore that the recommendation will be strongly in favor the pipe and concrete system if it does than twice much the Yuma Valley system cost But as al ready stated except those who won't te know wha the estimated cost is placed at.
 It argued that because the money must be in hanc from the sale of public lands and from the proporonae cost to the private land owner that will be almost equiv oen confscaton to force the private lands pay thei pro within the three years provided by the law In that my friends are unnecessarily alarmed The WnSO