Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
APPEAL TO ALL
 TO HELP OBTAIN
 SAN CARLOSDAM
Executive Com m itt e e
 Point Out Need of En- listing Aid of Eastern
 Interests In Big Project


 Interests In Big Project
 FLORENCE. Ariz.. Nov 2s.-The
 San Carlos executive committee Is working unceasingly and untiringly to secure some favorable action that will bring about the construction of the San Carlos dam, and the commit tee desires to impress upon the mind of every person directly and indirect ly interested in this project the ne-
 cessity of providing the committee with funds with which to carry on
 the work.
 Since the publishing of last weeks article the committee has received |
 assurances of cooperation from |
 many sources. The coast cities and Ell Paso have been interested from a | | trade standpoint and are taking the | matter up actively. The League of |
 the Southwest has invited the com
 mittee to be represented at the River | | side conference. and the Western | | States Reclamation association short | ly will meet at Salt Lake, and an in- vitation has been extended to appear before that meeting with a view to interesting the association in the l San Carlos. These meetings should
 be attended, because if the San Car
 los is ever built it will be done be- | zona.
 l It will probably be necessary at a later date to send a delegation to Washington to appear before the sec- | retary of the interior in behalf of the San Carlos in case the general ap- propriation bill is passed for the re-
 lief of the unemployed, in order that
 the San Carlos will be one of the
 first projects started. All of these | f,-frl d. T
 but if the San Carlos is secured the
 people should and must understand
 that it will take money to carry on publicity campaign sufficient to in- . terest this entire country to the ex-
 tent of securing favorable action on it, and that they cannot hope to se- cure the benefits to be derived there from without helping to defray these
 preliminary expenses. If every per-
 son interested does not do his part, but waits for the other fellow, no one will do anything.
 If assessments cannot be paid in I full, each person should make ar f engagements to pay part thereof, and do everything in his power to aid the committee, which is striving with all
 its might to obtain results. Don't Q handicap it by neglect or lack of in r terest. Now is the opportune time to give your hearty support and CO.,
 | operation. Success depends upon help and cooperation. Every land own . CT, business man, professional man : and working man in intensely inter- O ested in this project: not only in the i, vicinity of Florence and Casa Grande, n but the entire valley and the Salt IT River valley. In fact, the proJect Is of statewide importance.
 v Senator Ashurst has introduced . senate bill 2611, which provides for V the appropriation by congress of $4,- Q 000,000 with which to commence the = San Carlos and which provides for ' the repayment of this sum at the = rate of S1,000,000 per year from the reclamation fund. This bill, unless = the committee of six can enlist the . support of Eastern members of the
 committee, will not be reported out = of the committee, so it is up to the . people interested to use every legiti- mate means to bring this matter to the attention of congressman repre- senting Eastern states.
 A meeting of the senatorial irri- gation committee is to be held this \ week and Senator Ashurst informs \ the committee that he expects to ap- | pear before that committee and to use N every means to see that any action H taken by the committed leaves with \ the secretary of interior the power
  \ Tn that connection. if the general ap- propriation bill is passed and the matter of completing these projects \ left to the interior department, it would be up to Arizona to see that the secretary considered cur San Car los an uncompleted project which needed and deserved immediate at tention, and to that end a delegation to Washington for that purpose would be essential
 Congressman Hayden informs the committee that the entire Southwest N ern congressman stand together or the irrigation policies of this South N western country, but that before any K of these bills are reported out they desire assurance of support in boti
 houses which will insure passage. b A letter from Senator Cameron states that he has had repeated con.
 ferences with Chairman McNary, ant | that as soon as any definite decision is arrived at relative to the policy tt
 be adopted to secure the relic \ sought that he will advise us.
 From the telegrams and letters re \ ceived from Senators Cameron anI \ Ashurst and Representative Hayden it is evident that they are doing al E that they can to obtain the San Car X los; but 1t is also evident and ap N parent to every one who will stol to think that the representation il \ congress, in fact the representation ' of the entire Southwest, Is small fl N comparison with the number of con ' gressmen from the entire Unite, \ States, and that they must have hefr Every industry and every individ \ ual, as well as every civic and cor N porate body in Arizona should do al that can be done to interest the Eas N fJ,, Of