Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-09
Judge E. S. Clark who the republican nomination
for governor in the Tuesday primaries.

eron who received a warm response
/ from his audience.
81 will be brief tonight" Cameron
said, 'for know you people are tired
| after the excitement of election and I
know you are fed up with politics.. I
am not going to talk politics-I am
simply going to confine myself to few
remarks regarding matters of vital in
terest to you people of Douglas.
"HovaI Smith has outlined to you in
full my stand on the Colorado river
question, and more than to say that L
shall expend the same effort in safe
guarding Arizona's quities in the Colo
RADIO that has marked my fights in
other Arizona issues, will not go fur
ther in tothat matter tonight
"I have taken up the idea of develop
/ ing Cochise county, have worked out
carefully formulated plans, and now
all 1 need is your continued support" "
This simple statement was followed
with burst of sustained applause. The
true significance of the demonstration
which followed this single statement Of
! lCameron's can be seen only when one
stops to consider his long record of
promises-each fulfilled. So remark
able record of achievement has been
established bv this Arizona legislator
that his promise to aid community is
accepted by that community, without
question, as meaning that his projected
enterprises are to become realities
ARIZONA produces more copper than
any other state in the union," Cameron
continued, "and Cochise county pro-
duces fore copper than any other coun-
| ty in the state In this copper realm
| your prosperity, your happiness, your
very livelihood depends either directly
or Indirectly upon the copper industry.
| "Unless steps can be taken to protect
| this industry from the competition of
! foreign countries where native labor is
| paid only few cents a day, within five
years, and I know whereof 1 speak,
your mines and your smelters will be
shut down and Arizona will become al
most overnight literally bankrupt.
"This may seem an exaggerated dec
laration, but it is the naked truth, and
J I can prove it, even though the copper
interests shy from revealing any such
alarming condition.
"The only remedy which can possibly
save Arizona's greatest industries from
Financial ruin will be the establishment
of tariff on copper. The establish
ment of such tariff will bring the
price of copper to approximately %
cents per pond and will mean, in ac-
cordance with the prevailing sliding
wage scale, that the wages of miners
and smeltermen will be raised to an
average of SO per day.
'T am promising you at this time that
| if you give me your continued support
1 will get you the copper tariff. 1t is
something that you must have, and I
can get it, If you do not give me your
continued support, Arizona may not be
needing United States senators in an
other five years-the state will be fl
:nancially dead.
F0rmuIates Plans
"In connection with nv statement
that 1 have taken UP the idea of de-
veloping Cochise county, L have for
mulated plans for another program of
development which will be of particular
interest to the citizens of Douglas and
the Sulphur Springs valley.
For some months L have been con-
sidering the needs of the Sulphur
Springs valley, a vast tract OF rich ag-
riculturaI land which it has never been
possible to fully develop, due to the
lack of sufficient water. Those farm
ers who have settled in the district
have tried every means available to get
the water at aNcost commensurate with
the revenue to be derived from the land
I Many Of them have failed. The cost of
a gasoline engine pumping plant of
sufficient capacity to irrigate the av-
erage sized farm is prohibitive for the
individual farmer.
ct long considered the feasibility of
building a dam, but have abandoned
the idea, not without first consulting
the best engineering talent available,
because 1 do not believe that the source
of water supply to such dam would
be dependable.
Federal Power Plant
Accordingly, the plan which I have
now completed is to secure federal
appropriation with which to build q
giant power plant in the valley. Such
a plant could furnish electrical power
to the farmers SO cheap that they could
easily afford to irrigate, and abandon
their disheartening eff orts at dry