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S LATEST MARKET REPORT 5 FURNISHED BY g j LATEST MARKET REPORT 8 g FURNISHED BY g g J. M. BALS2 E. F. SANGUINETTI ARIZONA SENTINEL Cotton 18c Milo Maze, ton ?55.00 Fetereta, ton $55.00 Alfalfa hay, ton $15.00 Barley, ton $52.50 Cattle 7c to 11c Hogs 9c to 13c Lambs . 15c Turkeys 24c Chicks 17V&C Eggs ' 30c FEARLESS CHAMPION OF CITY OF YUMA, YUMA PROJECT AND YUMA COUNTY Wheat, ton $64.00 VOLUME 47 YUMA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1917. NUMBER 15. YUMA PROJECT, ARIZONA-CALIFORNIA, SECOND UNIT -YUMA VALLEY UNIT-PUBLIC NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Washington, April, 6, 1917. 1. In pursuance of Section 4 of the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and of acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and particularly the Rec lamation Extension Act of August 13, 1914 (38 Stat. 686), public notice for the Second Unit of the Yuma Project, Arizona-California, is hereby issued, as follows : 2. Lands for which water will be furnished. Upon proper water-right application being made therefor, water will be furnished under said project in the irrigation sea son of 1917 and thereafter, for the irrigable lands of the Second Unit, shown on the following farm-unit plats, (ex septing, however, all unentered public land) , viz. : Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian T. 8S., R.23W. T. 9S.,R.23W. T. 8 S., R. 24 W. T. 9S., R.24W. T. 10 S., R. 24 W. T. 11 S., R.24 W. T. 10 S., R. 25 W. T. 11 S., R.25 V. San Bernardino Meridian T. 16 S., R. 21 E. T. 16 S., R. 22 E. approved by the Secretary of the Interior on January 15, 1917, and on file in the office of the Project Manager, Uni ted States Reclamation Service, Yuma, Arizona, and in the local land office at Phoenix, Arizona. 3. Limit of area for which water right may be se cured. The limit of area per entry representing the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon such lands is fixed at the amounts shown upon the plats for the several farm units. The maximum limit of area for which water right application may be made for lands in private ownership shall be 160 acres of irrigable land for'each land owner. 4. Application for water rights. All water-right ap plications must be made to the Project Manager, U. S. Rec lamation Service, Yuma, Arizona, upon forms provided for that purpose, and may be made on or after the date of this notice. 5. Classes of. charges for water-rights. The water right charges are of two kinds, to wit: (a) A charge against each irrigable acre to cover the cost of construction of the irrigation system, called the construction charge; and (b) An annual charge against each irrigable acre to cover the cost of operation and maintenance of the system, called the operation and maintenance charge. 6. Construction charge. The construction charge for said unit shall be $75.00 per acre of irrigable land, payable as follows : (a) For lands that were prior to August 13, 1914, sub jected by contract or otherwise to the provisions of the Rec lamation Law, said construction charge shall be paid in ten equal annual installments, the first of which shall be paid at the time of filing water-right application, and subsequent installments shall be due and payable December 1 of each year thereafter; provided, however, that if water-right ap plication subject to the provisions of said Reclamation Ex tension Act, or an acceptance of the provisions of said Act, be filed within six months from the date of this notice, said construction charge shall be payable in twenty install ments, the first of which shall become due and payable on December 1, following the date of water-right application, and subsequent installments on December 1 of each yeai thereafter; in which event the first four installments shall each be two per centum, the next two installments each four per centum, and the next fourteen each six per centum of the total construction charge. (b) For the remaining lands an initial payment of five per centum of the construction charge shall be made at the time of filing water right application, and the remainder of the construction charge shall be paid in fifteen annual installments, the first five of which shall each be five per centum and the remainder each seven per centum of the to tal construction charge. The first of said fifteen annual in stallments shall become due and payable December 1 of the fifth calendar year after the initial installment and subse quent installments shall become due and payable on Decem ber 1 of each calendar year thereafter. 7. Increased construction charge in certain cases. In all cases where water-right application for lands in pri vate ownership or for lands under entries not subject to the reclamation law shall not be made within one year from the date of this notice, the construction charge for such land shall be increased five per centum each year until such ap plication is made and an initial installment is paid. 8. Advance payment of construction charge permis sable. Any water-right applicant or entryman may, if he so elects, pay the whole or any part of the construction charge owing by him within any shorter period than that provided by the public notices and orders applicable to his land. 9. Operation and maintenance charge. For the year 1917, the operation and maintenance charge under this no tice shall apply only to the irrigable lands described in Sec tion 2 hereof not covered by valid water-rental contract at the date hereof; for the year 1918 and thereafter said charge shall apply to all of the irrigible lands described in Section 2 of this notice. The minimum operation and main tenance charge for the year 1917 and thereafter until fur ther notice, shall be $1.50 per irrigable acre, whether water is used thereon or not, which will entitle the applicant to two acre-feet of water. Additional quantities will be fur nished for 75 cents per acre-foot. All such charges will be due and payable annually on March 1, following the irriga tion season. 10. Place and manner of payment of water charges. All water charges must be paid at the office of the Reclama tion Service, Yuma, Arizona, in currency or by New York draft or money order payable to Special Fiscal Agent, U. S. Reclamation Service. 1 1 . Exclusion of lands by action of Colorado River Every water-right application shall contain the following provision: The applicant hereby releases the United States from any and all claims for loss or damage on account of (1) the exclusion of said lands or any part thereof, from the irrig able lands of said project, or (2) the failure to supply water for the irrigation of any part of the land hereinbefore de scribed when such exclusion or failure is due to (a) the de struction by flood, erosion, encroachment or other action of the Colorado River, of the levees erected by the Reclama tion Service along the banks of said river, or (b) a change in the location of said levees when such change, is consider ed necessary by the proper officials of the United States to prevent the destruction of said levees from the said causes. Lands so excluded shall be relieved from payment of all instilments of construction and of operation and main tenance charges which otherwise would thereafter come due from the lands so excluded. 12. Termination of water-rental contracts. All water rental contracts for lands covered by this public notice, in effect on date of this notice, will remain in force until the end of the irrigation season of 1917, and notice is hereby given that all such contracts will terminate December 31, 1917. Water will be furnished after December 31, 1917, only to lands for which water-right application has been made hereunder. ALEXANDER VOGELSANG, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. CONSTRUCTION CHARGES FIXED AT SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS The long loker-for "public notice for the second unit of Yuma Project" has been issued, as will be seen by the of ficial notice published elsewhere in this issue, and the "con struction charges" have been placed at $75 per acre, that be ing the amount of cash spent on the Yuma Valley unit, which does not, however, include river-front and rock-revetment work, this latter charge having been wholly eliminat ed. Nor does this charge of $75 per acre include "overhead charges" originally assessed against the Yuma Project, for these charges were also eliminated. Had both of these lat ter charges been assessed against the project the total would have been something like $105 per acre. The fact that the "construction charges" are definitely fixed at almost double the amount originally estimated by (Continued on Page Three) X X YUMA LIGHT, GAS & WATER COMPANY SCARED OUT OF ITS BOOTS. what's what. If the local company wants to furnish "clear" water instead of "muddy" water for irrigation pur poses, all well and good, but it must be furnished at a price not greater than that now charged for "mud dy" water. If any attempt is made to change the present law on that subject it will be well for the city machinery is so rotten and broken down that it can X quire. X X X i X X MAND YOUR RIGHTS. Listen: For the first 100,000 kilowatts Sanguinetti and Ewing sell the pover to the local company for TWO GENTS, that being the capacity of their plant over and above what they require to run their own bus iness. All excess of that amount is charged at' the rate of THREE CENTS per kilowatt, because when they furnish more than 100,000 kilowatts they are compelled to use more fuel and machinery than is required to produce the amount they themselves re- i ed for not exceeding THREE CENTS? Look at A. your last month's receipt and you will see that you ? have actually paid a profit to those highbinders and gougereof OVER FIVE HUNDRED PER CENT. Now just stop and think of it. SIX cents would net them over ONE HUNDRED per cent; but they are f not content with that small profit. They actually make you pay SIXTEEN CENTS per kilowatt, :: which they get for TWO, and never more than g THREE CENTS. Isn't that the act of a robber? How long are you $ going to put up with it? Are you going to let them rob you the same way in this irrigation water matter? Wake up, and tell 'em what's what. The ARIZONA SENTINEL threw a large-sized bomb-shell into the Los Angeles highbinders' camp in its last issue, and threw it with such force and pre cision that the scheduled meeting with the state cor poration commission was indeiinitely postponed. & TU 4-U n.4. : U J- X these columns came as claps of thunder from a clear sky. It was the blow that almost killed father. For the time being, at least, the local company will not dare press its claims to abandon the irriga- tion water service; it will not daje ask the corpora- tion commission to fix a price on its new water ser- $ vice at anything like what the company contemplat- 1 ed; nor will it dare ask the corporation commission to permit it to hawk bonds or stock over the country, with which to fleece the innocent "sucker." They have aroused the people to such an extent that any one of these propositions would almost bring on a riot if it were granted. The people have g been fooled just once too often. Another attempt along these lines and, well, the people will tell em council to think several timse before the change is $ put into effect, for the people have their eyes open at last. They know they have been ruthlessly robbed by the local company in more ways than on this water : question. Take the electric light system, for an ex- $ ample. What are the facts ? $ In the first place the rotten old rat-trap is so infernally rotten, from a physical standpoint, that for the past year it has bought all its "juice," or pow er from Sanguinetti and Ewing's ice plant. Their old , not manufacture its own power, therefore it had to purchase this power from the Sanguinetti 1 Ewing ice plant. At what price? X ' Say, good people, hold your breath till you know X the facts, then rear up on your hind legs and DE- That arrangement was perfectly satisfactory to the Los Angeles highbinders. Not one single cent over and above these figures has ever been paid San- g guinetti and Ewing for the power furnished. They were content to furnish the "juice" practically at g cost, in order to keep Yuma supplied with electric power and water. If they had not furnished the nec- & essary power the rotten old plant would have been out of .business long ago; Yuma would have been in darkness all this time, and the people would have been forced to go to the Colorado river for what g water they needed for domestic purposes. In the meantime what have the highbinders been charging fo.r the electric service they purchas- i ;,VV