Arizona republican., 1903-04-19

tioned-attention was especially called to the fact that the lands of the Salt River valley were practically entirely in ! priVae ownership, and if water could be stored which the lands do not re- quire, there is public land to which it l can be carried; that the power plant will develop from three thousand to | five thousand horse power during the
 season it will be desirable to pump l water. and the plant after the con
 struction of the dam presumably will
 be transferred to the vs Hey. The op-
 eration of this pumping plant will largely increase the irrigated area" | (Applause)
 MAXWELL TALKS TERSELY. | At the conclusion of the directors address there were numerous calls for
 Mr. George H. Maxwell, and MT. Max well could not escape responding. He spoke but briefly, for, as he expressed
 it, there was no occasion for speech l making, but what he did say was very pertinent. He alluded to the mysteri-
 ous hints which have been set af1oat from time to time to the effect that landowners will be in some sort of danger if they subscribe for shares in the water users association, an anony- nous communication published in one of the papers the day before being in the same line. With an ironical refer ence to the fairness of a writer who would hide behind a fictitious signature | to attack the good faith of his fellow 1 citizens and misrepresent a simple sit | uation, he pointed out in terse sen | tences how impossible it would be for any landowner to be wronged under the plan which had been approved by the secretary of the interior. Not a | bylaw, not a regulation, could be made contrary to the regulations pre- scribed by the government for the op- eration of the reservoir, and it was sheer nonsense to contend otherwise.
 On the mooted question of security he explained clearly that by giving the required liens on the lands subscribed for, every shareholder was placed on an exactly equal footing, and the pro- lection thus given to all was one of the most commenda ble features of the whole plan. The government required security, of course, but it was not less l important to provide security and pro- 1 lection for the subscribers to the ar | ticles. A very great risk indeed might | be undertaken by some of the sub scribers should everybody have to rely on the whims and good nature of every
 land owner throughout all the years
 until the reservoir is paid for
 | Following MT. Maxwell. Judge Kip
 bey was called and made a very short talk. He said he believed the people had heard and seen the announcement of a new epoch. He felt as much grat- | S.yj md falt tbjS
 valley is fortunate in being the first
 to reap the benefit of the law making practicable a new idea and new order
 of things though he felt that the real 1 ization Of today is but an expected re-
 suit in the natural sequence of things. At the close of the forenoon meet
 ing the gentlemen representing the so- called minority asked MT. Walcott ii he
 would grant them d conference relative
 to amending the articles of incorpora-
 tion of the Water Users association to
 meet their views of a compromise. He f consented and at 9 o'clock the leaders
 of the minority, the press and some
 members of the majority together with
 George H. Maxwell and J. H. kibbey
 assembled for that purpose. MT. F'ow-
 Ter was asked to preside and after
 calling the meeting to order called
 Dwight E. Heard to set forth It's puf-
 poses which he did briefly and then
 asked Dr. Wilbur to speak. Dr. Will
 bur responded in a speech of some length dwelling upon the necessity tor
 harmony and tha belief that all differ
 ences might be compromised.
 ! Mir Heard then stated that the min ority had some amendments to present
 with their reasons for asking that they | be considered. He then presented five amendments and one new article he de
 sired added, believing that their in corporal tion would harmoniZe all the
 discordant elements. Two of the
 amendments were identically the same
 as the minority urged upon the stor-
 age committee previous to the adoption
 of the articles. A third made but a
 trifling and unimportant change and
 the other two were new, incorporating,
 however, a moulding together of the present articles and the minority's
 opinion of where they should be chang ed.
 These amendments and the discus sion of whether they should be consid- cred rather than their merit occupied the greater part of the afternoon dur ing which speeches were made by the