Arizona republican., 1902-12-02
RETURN OF MIR. MAXWELL
Work on the Reservoir Project to be
 Pushed Vigo' Susly.

MT. George H. Maxwell returned to the city yesterday morning after an absence of two months. He will re- main here until the building of the Tonto Basin dam has been ordered by the secretary of the interior for he is confident that that order will be made. MT. Maxwell was accompanied by his private secretary Miss Henderson and today he will be joined by MT. Soto of his office force, an attorney of San Francisco. Phoenix for the next three or four months will be the cor respondehce headquarters of the Ma tional Irrigation association of which MT. Maxwell is the chief.
 Speaking yesterday of the prospect of Tonto Basin dam, MT. Maxwell said that no more work in that direction need be done in Washington. Every body there is in favor of it. It only remains with the people of the valley to comply with the conditions neces- sary for the construction of the dam by the government As soon as these conditions have been compiled with the necessary order will be made.
 MT. Maxwell was detained in the east little longer than was expect ed for a conference with President Roosevelt which he had a week ago yesterday. The conference it is un- derstOd related to irriga tion matters but the nature of it is not given out. He will take up to-day wit the water storage conference committee, the work he was engaged in when he was called away in October. The com mittee has been very busy since then gathering subscriptions to the storage | plan prepared by the committee. As | that was a necessary step before | another could be taken the time which Mir. Maxwell was absent has not been | lost. Subscriptions representing abou, 10000 acres have been obtained and the committee will be able to secure at least 10000 more. In the meantime the committee has also been busy witt Judge Kibbey in the preparation of the articles of incorporation of the Water 1 Users association. The articles are now almost complete but it was de sired to submit them to MT. Maxwell before their adoption.
 A meeting of the executive commit tee of the conference committee will b,
 held to-day but it will probably ad
 journ at once in order that Mir Max
 we'll may engage with Judge Kibbey
 in an examination of the articles.
 After their adoption more difficuI
 part of the work will confront the com
 mittee. That will be the securing O
 subscriptions to the storage reservoi rights. AS these rights will cost SIP. 3
 an acre payable in ten annual pay
 ments the business of getting sub
 scriptions will be slower than the ob
 taining of the subscriptions to tn
 plan of the conference committee. I
 is not apprehended though that ther
 will be any disposition to refuse {
 subscribe but that some land owner
 will hesitate before incurring tn |, liability, knowing all the time thoug
 that they intend to incur it.
 The next and last thing will be [ necessary arrangement with the cana . companies. That presents the mos complex problem of all but the mem bers of the committee have been look ing into it and have found nothing dis
 couraging in it. When all this ha been done the next move will belon
 to the secretary of the interior.