Arizona republican., 1900-09-01

2l5.0O0 acres under the present canals. The contract between the company
 and the land owners should also con-
 tain condition of agreement that the land owner or his successor should pay to the company ten cents Der acre | inch for the water actually received { and consumed by them. to be paid a, the end of each month.
 With contracts of this character | drawn up and signed between the ! company and tn land owner. and the 1 first annual paymen; Of $37500O paid in. i the company will be in d condition to place it's twenty year ; per cent. bonds, 1 for $3,0 900, which will enable it to push the work of construction as rap 1 idly as it can be done with due regard ! to economy and durability.
 With the money provided for und r ! this plan the work can be continued until We have reservoirs sufficient for ! the storage of the waters of the Verde | river a. well as the Salt river. I think 1 il also appears that the company will be 1 fully prepared to pay the interest and | principal of the bonds al the end of l twenty years.
 In this proposition I have not made any distinction between tn lands under the oldest IT the newest canals. Per haps it would be equitable to make some distinction. but I am of the opin- ion that before next winter all will be ready to join in the execution of the contracts herein proposed if it will se- cure the reservoirs. I am not hide bound. myself in this matter I am in favor f any plan or proposition
 that will give US the reservoir. whether
 by bonding the county. or otherwise Anything that the majority can agree upon will satisfy me if it is practicable and gives reasonable promise of sue
 C ss.
 If a committee is appointed by this
 meeting to formulate some plan of ac-
 tion. I hope these suggestions fl mine
 may be submitted to them for con
 sideration.
 THE COLORADO SCHEME.
 sam r. Webb raised general objec-
 ;ion to any reservoir project upon the
 theory that within the last two years
 there had not been enough water in the river to fill a reservoir. He intro duced the project of tapping the Colo
 rado. A gentleman. said he had lived
 in the valley five years ana each year had seen enough water run to waste ;n
 a day to irrigate the entire valley for a year
 The subject of silt was introduced and one man produced a thick layer
 the accumulation of a single ru:i. Chairman McCowan replied that si. h Il, F. success of water storage. Ther- were reservoirs in India which had been maintained for generation. There was no record of a dam eyer having
 been filled up to the point of useless ness.
 On the opening cc th= afternoon ses- sion the manner of constituting the committee to which the plans were t.
 be submitted was taken up. Professor A. J. McClatchie saw difficulties in Col. Christy's substitute. Mr. B. A. Fowler { favored the appointment of a commit tee of ten to select the committee of twenty five. and J. B. Hoover spoke for the caucus feature of the Christy sub Y. stftute. All this. however. was per mit,ed to go over for the time and sam r. Webb rein,roduced his project for turning the Colorado river into Mari copa county. calling 1t Salt river and creating another Grand canyon. This project was strongly supported by the 1 Tempe cOnting mt, Wh5 wanted all other plans held up until this one could be investigated. All the advocates of
 the removal of the Colorado. though none of them had ever seen it. had
 heard civil engineers say that it might be done.
 NOT IMPOSSIBLE. BUT Chairman McCowan said that noth-
 ing was impossible though some
 things were exceedingly difficult. The
 waters of the Colorado are but little above tn elevation of the Salt River
 valley. They flow in tie bottom of a canyon only 7.C0O feet deep. All that would have to be done would be to dig D ditch 1000 feet deep and from 150 to zoo miles long. Then there would be plenty of water for the irrigation of every acre of ground In The valley. The water of the Colorado. MT Me Cowan said, was not only useful for