Arizona republican., 1921-06-26
Suggestions To The Farmer
 By a Valley Pioneer and Expert

one and half million dollar plant. why? Whats wrong?
 In still another place you find a \ controversy as to whether it is the | right spirit to give public utterance | to such criticism of conditions all l legsd to exist in the s. R. ". w. A | of, the Salt River Valley Project be- | csAlse the third payment of two per cent has not been met. What is wrong? And why not? If we have not been able to make our third payment of two per cent why not ? IS it the fault of the land or the water. or the climate?
 Personally I think MT. Orme is s loyal to this valley and project as as a new conner has not yet learned to be. but if things are as he points out why are they and why not dis cuss them?
 The writer of this, about Is or r years ago, said before a meeting of. l the $. R. V. W. U. A., just then being formed, and construction costs and benefits of the project were be- ing discussed. That if the engineers did not provide for proper drainage l right from the start and that if l drainage did not go hand in hand and step for step with irrigation, in about 20 years they might as we'll kiss the S. R. V. goodby
 H The big engineers, Mir Hill. Mir.
 Davis and others were there. Also, Mir. Maxwell and others. They all
 conceded that the principle of my contention was fundamentally right. but the meeting was of the opinion that if I could not boost, I should at least not knock. Now I want to say right here that I am now and always have been a booster for this xyo lIatr hryf f1of not boost, don't knock that means shut up. Why? Can't you look the truth straight in the face? If we had started drainage Is years age and stopped over-irrigation in some parts of the valley, a whole lot oi
 good land that is almost worthless and unproductive ncfy, would be il as good a condition as ever, while
 now ruin stares in the face of 2 3 good many owners of such land a
 the present time and relief is very
 slow to come. Now tell me why
 who is to blame?
 A number of years ago the write al had an article printed in your pape with the caption of what is Wron, z with the Salt River Valley. He en
 deayored to show that at that tim
 the main cause was because we ha, E nothing to sell, and that there wa
 nobody so far from the market a
 the one that had nothing to sell. W X had then and have now lot c - produce to sell but never enoug E of one single commodity to mak
 a ripple in the worlds or nations F. market Then the sugar plant cam
 and went Sugar plants came a H the same time to Colorado, Utal n California. They are still there an
 have grown and multiplied-why nc
 here? The farmers said they coul Fl not make enough money because bi N companies would not pay enoug "a but big companies paid as much z U they could to compete with Cal # fornia, Utah and Colorado market H Was it the fault of the soil, u @ water or the climate?
 M About that time when few N us were fighting and trying to kes N the valN farmers at the task U growing beets and they would n
 or could not. One of the officia
 of the reclamation service, higher u
 in discussing the problem said E me, Why don't they, the farmer @ make any money?" I'll tell yo E God gave them the land, God ga E them the climate and God ga E them the water and then they thil E why in the devil don't he do t work too?"
 Is that the reason why the e K left the valley? Or because t E creameries would not pay enough f H the farmer to make money? Of cour q we all know how much work there 1 attached to dairy ranch, but {, & we know, how much surer it is, N the long run, than anything else HSl can do, when we have f2 months