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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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don't think the one-year redemption would have changed
the picture very much.
Would there have been buyers for the land anyway?
No, there usually wouldn't have been any buyers.
The fect that the farmer at that time couldn't pay
his taxes would have operated in the same way for a
new buyer. Also, the people who were farming the
lends et the time of delinquency were probably more
femiliar with them and better able to get a profit
out of them than anybody else.
So that you think thet to have resold thet lend immediately would have done nothing, even if you could
have resold it.
I don't think it would heave helped at ell.
I noticed that a proposed plan that Stephen Downey,
Cowell, end Hankins drew up for the association in
1932 suggested that delinquent landa could be redeemed without penalty. _
I don't remember that plan. It was probably proposed
as an emergency.
What was Stephen Downey's association with.s.
Stephen Downey was not connected so much with irrigation districts as he was with reclamation districts.
He wes a general ettorney in Sacramento, a very able