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Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 11,233,248 bytesMr. Marten. If 40,000 acres of land were irrigated from the San Carlos Reservoir for the Pima Reservation there would still be some surplus water which might be sold to the Florence Casa Grande Water Users' Association, and in that way their lands could be irrigated, and at the same time the Government could partially reimburse itself. The Chairman. Would there be enough water to irrigate their lands? Mr. Marten. There would be more than enough water to irrigate their lands. The Chairman. That is what I wanted to get at. There being no further questions, Mr. Marten was thereupon excused. The Chairman. Mr. Brosius, do you want to be heard? Mr. Brosius. I just want to say one word. Mr. Marten has been here some two or three months and has collected a vast amount of evidence regarding this matter, which can be filed. The Chairman. It will be filed. The printed matter referred to is as follows: A few facts showing conditions in relation to the system of irrigation by well water at Pima Agency, Ariz., which the witnesses for the Reclamation Service failed to state to the subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, in considering the Indian appropriation bill, January 17, 1912, as shown in the printed hearings: (1)That $400,000 is still due to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association under their contract with the Government for the purchase of electricity to operate the wells on the Pima Reservation; that this is additional to the sum of approximately $500,000 already expended on the present unit of 10 wells, only 7 of which are complete. (See Hearings No. 1, before Committee on Indian Affairs of House of Representatives on H. Res. 330, Dec. 21, 1911, pp. 4, 5.) (2)That the present unit of 10 wells will thus cost between eight and nine hundred thousand dollars, and this does not include cost of diversion dam. (For cost of Salt River diversion dam, see Hearings No. 2, supra, p. 47.) (3)That the annual charge to the Indians for pumped water of $4 per acre, which Mr. Newell testified they would have to pay, is considered by white farmers as an exorbitant and practically prohibitive charge under present agricultural conditions in Arizona. (See Phoenix, Ariz., leading daily papers, lately published.) (4)That the white farmers under the Roosevelt Reservoir paid only $1.60 per acre as actual cost of reservoir water last year (1911), which is characterized as a high charge in view of the fact that farmers not under the reservoir system, who are organized into private cooperative companies take water from the Salt River at Tempe and Mesa in the Salt River Valley at a maximum annual cost of 60 cents per acre. (See Hearings No. 1, supra, p. 14.) (5)That the San Carlos Reservoir would irrigate a minimum of 60,000 acres, according to reports of Government engineers. (See H. Doc. No. 521, 62d Cong., 2d sess., pp. 71, 78, 62.) (6)That if these 60,000 acres should have to be irrigated with pumped water at $4 per acre instead of reservoir water the cost is seen to be $240,000 a year. (7)That if, on the other hand, this minimum of 60,000 acres should be supplied with San Carlos Reservoir water as proposed at $1.60 per acre, the same as farmers under the Roosevelt Reservoir are paying, the annual cost would be but $96,000. (8)That the difference in favor of a reservoir on the irrigation of 60,000 acres of land is thus $144,000 a year. (9)That in 20 years this difference would amount to $2,880,000, or enough money saved to construct a reservoir at San Carlos, according to Mr. Newell's own testimony. (Cost of Roosevelt Dam was approximately $3,500,000. See House hearings, Indian appropriation bill, 1912, p. 108.) (10)That other engineers in the employ of the Government have estimated the cost of a dam at San Carlos at little over $1,000,000 (Doc. No. 521, supra, pp. 60, 77.) and that the farmers under the Roosevelt Reservoir, organized into a protective association, have recently brought charges against the Reclamation Service, demanding an investigation by Congress of affairs of the Reclamation Service pertaining t