White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-04-24
excess of what il should be.

excess OF what 1t Snoulo De.
A man who has farmed 10 acres
for the last twelve years in the
Valley, and doing his irrigating thru
the means of electric pumping, is
willing to make an affidavit to the
effect that over a twelve-year period
his power charges will average less
than $500 an acre per year. His farm
is situated in the heart of the project,
so that he can stand on his front
porch and count the houses of thirty
of the soldier-settlers.
The $20.0 per acre charged against
each tract for supervision and over
head should be reduced or entirely
cancelled against the tracts already
occupied, as great deal OF this
supervision and advice was of an ex-
detrimental nature and in many cases
proved to be erroneous. And as the
State has several experimental sta
tions to which the farmers can go
for advice, it lis not fair to those
on the project to charge them for
advice which in other sections of
the StateI.is given free. A reduction
or cancellation Of this item would
in great measure do away with
the discomfort among the men there
This $4,000 charge should be en-
iiitely removed on the tracts not
! taken, because the work OF that
nature already done on them is in
majority of cases valueless now
and if the office of the project man.
ager is closed, as it should be, the
settlers taking the new tracts will
not have the manager there to give
them supervision and advice and
therefore should not be charged this
item.
The restoring of public confidence
is vital to the completion of the
project, as the uncertainty of the
future is the most detrimental fac.
tor at present. With the completion
of the project, feel that its sue
cess is assured. Because, with Toe
tracts under cultivation, the facili.
ties for cooperative buying and mar.
keting will be greatly increased
thereby assuring great saving tc
/ the settlers in his purchasing ano
also getting better prices for his
produce on the market.
The settlers themselves should no,
in any case attempt to get legisla
ton or trade on the fact that they
are veterans. Their dealings shouls
be entirely upon a business basis
i and there should be no attempted
!, brow-beating of the State official.
because of the fact that they ar,
veterans, and any adjustments to b.
made should be based entirely upol
reasonable equity.
/ believe the project would Nhav
been completely settled year ag'
if factional differences had not arisel
!; among the settlers themselves.
If these misunderstanding and diff
ferences can be adjusted ard tn
/, sixty settlers now on the projec
PULL together as usit and CO
operate one with another, the fort
vacant tracts will soon be take
and everybody will benefit thereby
Finally, the lack of unity anon
the men themselves has done NOR
to hurt the project than anythin
else, and if they can forget thei
Y personal differences and pull to
gether, with the help from the ad
j,l.tments that know Mr.. Ba-ne
will make, IT,. project will soon b
A settle ar5 VIII the b Hiding of tn
e FJiest Ri W. Dam and the comm
n of better agricultur condition
e throughout the country, the projes
will be ,l,dit to the Stare {
Washington, to the settlers Their
IS selves, and to the American Legion