Arizona republican., 1919-10-28

served from the existing lines of the association. No funds are provided to construct these lines but the farm or is expected to advance the cost. It is safe to assume that under this program so few ranchers will apply for electric service that it will not take much electric plant capacity to supply it to them. A 5000 k. ". plant is ridiculous for such a purpose.
 It is possible to generate approxi- mately 1900 k. ". on the canals with out wasting any water from Roose- welt. We are only obliged to supply 3,100 k. W. under existing contracts and 6D0 k. ". more will supply the towns on the south side; this leaves 4,000 k. ". which can be generated on the canals and used by the farmers on the ranches in the winter.
 Due to poor management and the shutting off of several canals at the same time for cleaning purposes and other reasons we know nothing of last winter, but this parctice was unneces- Sary, according to the statement of a prominent consulting engineer for merly connected with the project who investigated the methods of operating the canals and plants. Last winter enormous amounts of power could have been generated which went to
 waste and also a large revenue was lost to the association because of the I poorly managed cleaning of canals. | More than enough power can be gen. 1 erated on the canals to supply our con
 tracts and all the farmers too, if the | valley system is efficiently operated l It will take many years under the 1 proposed program to get the farmers I to advance the cost of the electric lines | and then become users of power. The i program as now proposed is a bad | business undertaking, while the in- | vestment of s600000 for a steam plant l is unnecessary and will certainly re-
 suit in our assessing ourselves to pay | for it.
 President Wilkinson said in the Sun 1 day Republican they did not generate
 300 to 500 k. W. last winter. Why 1 doesn't he tell us what the minimum was then, or is he afraid to tell us
 farmers? Why does he not tell us why
 they did not generate more power 1 They had the water to do it with: where was it running?
 Yesterday I crossed the power cana two miles north of Tempe at p. m
 No water there to run the big plant a
 Tempe, and water running four fee
 deep in the river. No wonder the!
 cannot generate power if they won
 avail themselves of flood water.
 Why don't you run this wate
 through our power plants? Why don you put this flood water in the canal
 and let us farmers use it without cos while it is going to waste? You overhead charge is the same. The you will be storing some water her in the valley that cannot be caugh
 at Roosevelt, You will say, no doubt that it will put more or less silt il the canal system. Can a farmer d
 his work without soiling his clothes !?
 Let us have more water that i wasted be put through out canals fo power use and farm use. for ever
 drop of water that goes down the rive is forever wasted. Why did you no tell the people that the farmer tha signed the protest and was getting concession from the association tha he turned brace of wells to the as sociation that cost $15,000 for a 10 year contract for power and light O
 his farm. We farmers would like { 3 get a letter once or twice a year tell r ing us what becomes of our none, f All we get is a card condensed wit 2 figures. We feel we should kno- i, something about our organization. r Vote NO on steam plant.
 { O. S. STAPLEY,
 ! J. c. ENTZ,
 : CHARLES PETERSON,
 DONALD M'QUEEN, p ]. W. DAVIS,
 I ALMA MILLETT,
 [ J. J. FRASIER,
 F D. P. JONES