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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)

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Durbrow?: Baum: Durbrow:?: Baum: Durbrows of the reascns I was able to put it over was thet they all realized that, 1f I made it easy on the aistrict to pay the amount, the bonds would probably be better off market-wise. It would inerease the. price because the district would be less likely to default in its payments. Polis and Assessments After the rice collapse were the landowners able to continue to meet their assessments? Well, to some extent. A lot of the poorer land did not meet their essessments and that's the reason it was so herd on the district. Their income was very much depleted. Did these people who couldn't meet their assessments or those for whom it was very herd hold any resentment against the district or against you? No, The only trouble I hed was with a small group of landewners, mostly genersl erop landowners, e@ very small group. The trouble was that.the people who owned most of the lend didn't live on it and didn't have a vote, so later the control went into the hands of people who lived on the land, the small landowners, who were rather opposed to the rice growers.