Arizona republican., 1895-02-20
A Rio VERDE DAY.
An Imposing Banquet at the
Opera House.
1t Is AuthoritatIvely Given Out that
Work will Be Begun Within
Thirty Days.

Yesterday was distinctively a Rio
Verde day, on which was made known
more OF the plans of this canal COM
pany than had ever been known before.
The gentlemen from Minneapolis,
who had returned the day before from
the proposed reservoir site, were as re-
ticent as ever and local officials were in
their normal coLdition OF uncommuni-
cativeness.
Yesterday forenoon invitations were
extended by the Verde people to ban
quet at 8 O'Clock in the opera house.
The banquet itself was magnificent but
the attractive power was a curiosity
concerning the movements of the Verde
folks and hope that under the influ-
ence of warm wine the seal of silence
would be broken. It was SO broken;
the wine had nothing to do with it
though for there was no wine.
The Verde people simply announced
that they were ready to 90 to
work. It did not take long to tell it
and that was all there was to be told
and after all that was all that the visi-
tors really wanted to hear.
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Baker, Gen. NJ. E. Collins. Chaplain
Winfield Scott, Major ]. w. Evans, DIR.
W. L. Woodruff. Jas. A. Fleming, II.
E, Kemp, Wm. Christy, Walter Talbot,
N. A. Morford, Jas McClintock, j. o.
Dunb bar, A. S. Mills, C. R. Hakes, j. Il.
Hudson, G. F. Leonard, P. J. CLARK.
Local members OF the company were
President A. G. Sheldon, Secretary ].
K. DoolIttle, S. G. Symonds and Captain
P. P. Parker.
Visiting gentlemen ard officials OF the
enterprise were A. II. Linton, of Lang
don Linton & Co. the great railroad
cont actors Gen'l. Supt. E. Pennington,
of the $500 road; R. B. Langdon. of
Minneapolis; D. W. Grant, Faribault,
Mimi; S. R. Robinson, of Langdon
Linton. & Co; Frank L. Conkey, trea-
surer OF the company; Donald W.
Campbell, OF Denver, the supervising
engineer; Granville Malcom, Of Denver ;
L. Il. Wilson OF New Brunswick ard C.
]. Jones, of Tacoma, Wash.
Speeches were made by several gem
tlemen, but ;dr. Linton's declaration,
"We will be here at work on the enter
prise inside of thirty days," covered
the ground. Another speaker whose
reputation is national and who enjoys
the confidence of capitalists in the
United States and Great Britain, is
Donald W. Campbell, in charge of the
: engineering work lie began his re-
marks with tribute to the character oil
4 President Sheldon. after which he
descended to cold, wet facts concerning
the irrigation enterprise. The storage
reservoir, he said, would on initial con-
struction store enough water inone
filling to cover 22o 900 acres one foot
deep and that the average annual flow
of the river was 100000 feet. There
were felicltous speeches by Chief Jus
tice Baker, Maj. Evans, Chaplain Scott
and others.
At meeting OF the stockholders in
the morning the following board of di-
rectors was elected: D. w. Grant, A.
II. Linton. Samuel E. II. Robinson
Frank L. Conkey, Prosper P. Parker
! Samuel G. Symonds. Augustus q. Shell
don. The board of directors thereafter
organized by the choice of the follow.
| ing officers: A. G. Sheldon, president
A. H. Linton, vice-pre sident; J. e.
, Doolittle, secretary; Frank D. Conkey,
treasurer; Donald W. Campbell. super.
vising engineer.
, Executive committee: A. G. Shell
don, Frank l.. Conkey, P. P. Parker, s.
C. Symonds.
The Rio Verde contractors consisting
of Mr.. d. W. Grant OF the firm of D.
Grant & Co. of Faribault, Mimi, and
Messrs. R. B. Langdon. A. Il. Linton,
S. R. H. Robinson and F. L. Conkey oil
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