Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-20
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CONTRACT VITAL
TO Valley !. NEEDS

In so far as the financial end of the
Canal is concerned and with reference
to Objection No. 3, attention is called
to the fact, that Messrs. Holt, Fuller
and Hermon, heads of Ell Centre S
three banks, and unquestionably the
representatives of the strongest fl
nancial institutions in Imperial Val
ley, have each and all declared them
selves in public statements as being
unequivocally in favor of the ALL
American Canal plan.
Furthermore, the leading business
interests have followed suit, and the
list includes the names of such men
as George Anderson, George Varney,
Ben Soloman, Will Fawcett, and many
others, until this afternoon, if straw
vote should be taken, the result would
be practically complete roster of
every business man in Ell Centre and
the representative interests of every
other town in the valley. 1t is per-
haps not out Of place to again publish
the statement of w. F. Mcclure, state
engineer, together with the resolu-
tion last week adopted by Water
Company No. /:
Assuming that the suggested
9,000-secondfeet capacity canal be
adopted and provided for, and the cost
chargeable to the Imperial Valley
be taken as $29;576,0S2, and that it
be estimated that this canal will water
100000 acres of land, then the addi-
tional burden to the present Imperial
Irrigation District because of this
work would be slightly less than S33
per acre. This amount, in my judg-
ment, would not be at all burdensome
to the lands Of Imperial Valley now
included in the Imperial Irrigation
District.
(Signed "W. F. MCLURE."
I'VE, the undersigned members of
the Board of Directors of Imperial
Water Company No. / believe that
the contract executed by the District
and the Secretary of the Interior
should be ratified by the voters as
the first step necessary in solving
our water problems.
"To reject the contract may seri-
ously embarrass the Valley in get
ting an adequate supply of water
during the coming summer.
ITO ratify the contract puts us in
harmony with the government, and
we believe that if future develop
ments permit of better solution of
our water problems, our government
will assist US in such solution.
"We need assistance and co-opera-
ton in working out our problems, and
we therefore urge every elector to
vote, and to cast his ballot on Janu-
ary 21 in favor of the adoption of
the contract in order to show that the
people of the Valley want to work in
harmony with the government.
WILL S. FAWCETT,
w. W. COCHRAN,
r. W. CAMPBELL,
ROY E. BREEDLOVE,
r. D. M'PHERRIN."
The Ell Centre Chamber of Com
rnerce has also gone on record as IA
voring the ratification of the con-
tract and in published statements the
Chamber has urged its membership
and their friends to VOTE YES on
the contract.
For answer to Objection No. the
reader is directed to page 3, next to
the last paragraph, second column, of
the printed report of the All-Ameri-
can Canal Board, as published by the
Irrigation District and given free dis
tribution throughout the Valley,
wherein after due consideration of
ali the difficulties presented, the
board states:
"The board therefore concludes that
the construction of large capacity
canal through the sand hills is feas-
ible." Which means that the engi-
neers of the Reclamation Service, the
state, and the Imperial Irrigation
District, have all placed their stamp
of approval on the proposed construc-
tion.
Objection No. 5 has been the recipi-
ent of a great deal of discussion both
pro and con, but the fact still remains
that Imperial Valley by the ratifi-
cation Of the contract does not sur
render to Yuma prior water right.
By ratifying the contract Imperial
Valley settles once and for all the
matter of division of water between
Yuma and the Imperial Valley, in the
proportion of not to exceed % per
cent To Yuma and the balance to I'm