A TYPE OF IRRIGATION INVESTMENT. 



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SIPHON PIPE, BEAR VALLEY SYSTEM. 



AGE was invited to partici- 

 pate in the negotiations 

 begun in New York in Janu- 

 ary and continued in Cali- 

 fornia and again in the east, 

 from February down to the 

 present time. The eastern 

 stockholders appointed a 

 committee to proceed to 

 Redlands and confer with 

 the receiver and representa- 

 tives of the foreign stock- 

 holders. This committee 

 consisted of Dr. Paul C. 

 Skiff and ex-Senator James 

 Graham of New Haven, with 

 Hon. W. J. Heacock of Glov- 

 ersville, N. Y. These gentle- 

 men, at great personal sacri- 

 fice, devoted three months of 

 the hardest and most trying 

 labor and rendered services 

 to their fellow stockholders 

 which it would be difficult to 

 overestimate. Their promi- 

 nence in the communities in 

 which they live is doubtless 

 largely responsible for the 

 numerous holders of Bear 

 Valley stock among their 

 townsmen. If they felt 

 moral obligation to see their 

 friends protected in their 

 investment they certainly 

 discharged it very fully in 

 the course of the weary 

 weeks in which they studied 

 the constantly changing 

 aspects of the situation. 



MR. FOSTER'S GOOD WORK. 

 Mr. James Gilbert Foster 

 of London arrived in Red- 

 lands in December as a rep- 

 resentative of the European 

 stockholders and was shortly 

 followed by Mr. James Gard- 

 ner Clark, a lawyer of New 

 Haven, who had been retain- 

 ed by the same interest. The 

 negotiations at Redlands and 

 Los Angeles covered a peri- 

 od of nearly three months. 

 From the beginning all par- 

 ties concerned aimed to pro- 

 tect the capital invested in 



