Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-22
CAMERON PROMISES SALT
RIVER VALLEY FARMERS
DEFERMENT OF PAYMENT
Especial to The Dispatch)


PHOENIX, Oct. 81. - Deferment of
this years payment of 5000 due by
the farmers of the Salt river valley
irrigation project to the federal recla-
nation fund, was assured last night
by United States Senator Ralph H.
Cameron as a relief measure for the
present depressed condition of the cot
ton market and other unfavorable ag-
ricultural factors. Senator Cameron
said that the annual payment would
be postponed one year without interest
or other expense to the farmers. He
explained that the relief would amount
to the removal of an assessment of
about $3.50 an acre.
Senator Cameron said that he was
informed that the assessment last year
was $3.50 an acre. which many of the
farmers found difficult to meet He
advised them that had the situation
been brought to his attention he would
have obtained a deferment then. He
emphasized the statement by declaring
that it should have been brought to
his attention.
Senator Cameron made assurance of
the postponement of the assessment
for the present year at meeting of
farmers in the Roosevelt district of
the valley just south of this city. The
meeting was we'll attended in spite of
number of major political rallies be-
ing held at other places in the valley.
Thet farmers received the senator cor
daily and gave enthusiastic applause
to his pointed remarks.
Senator Cameron promised the farm
ers that he would continue to work for
their benefit when he returned to the
United States senate, as he feltit to be
one of his major duties, atnasmuch as
Arizona was in great part an agricul-
tural state. AS evidence of his eff
cheney to get results, he points to his
success in getting, the San Carlos bill
passed for the building of the great
Coolidge dam across the Gila river for
the irritation of thousands Of acres of
land in the Florence-Casa Grande val
ley,
He also mentioned his achievement
in having reimbursement of more
than $3,000,0O0 made to the Yuma val
ley farmers. The senator then pro-
ceeded to severely criticize the cam
paign of his opponent in the senatorial
race. He charged that he was con-
Quoting what may be termed cant"
campaign. my opponents campaign is
filled with hardly anything else but
1T can't be done assertions" he de-
clared.
"Of course, it can't be done. if you
haven't the faith, the energy, the abil-
ity and the fight in you to do it," he
continued. my opponent is consist
emily crying that nothing can be done
on every vital problem that Arizona
has to face 1t is the same old howl
of 1911, when I promised Arizona
statehood; it is the same old yell of
1920, when 1 said a San Carlos bill
could be passed; it is the same old
groan of yesterday, when l told the
Yuma valley farmers that reimburse
ment of their $3,O00,OOO OF more could
be obtained. 1 have maintained in the
past that things, could be DONE and /
say now that they can be done.
"The word can't is not my language.
1 have proved it, I am proving it, and
shall continue to prove it. Send me
back to Washington and shall get a
tariff on copper, a tariff on hides, a
tariff on cotton, and protectionf for
anything that Arizona deserves. When
one is in the right it can be done. I
shall do these things for you," he said
in terminating his fiery address, which
he punctuated at every turn with a
swing of his clenched fist
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