Arizona republican., 1903-06-30
BOOKS CLOSE JULY lsTH
lime for Signing Is No Longer an
 Indefinite" One.


 citation has been pleading with the landowners of this valley to come in and sign up. Owners of about three fourths of the cultivated acreage of the valley have done so; have placed thell- selves right with the government and right with their neighbors The other fourth has consistently held off. many of them satisfying their consciences that there is time enough yet; that the time is indefinite The Republi- can has as pc sistently pleaded that while the time was indefinitely long" it was also indefinitely short; that the ax must fall some time ii anything is CV-.' accomplished. for one chapter must be closed before another can be opened.
 Yesterday the day for sentence was fixed. Those who are now under con viction have just fifteen days more of grace and then-THE BOOKS WILL l BE CLOSED. It is now no time for idle barley. The handwriting can be seen upon the wall and there's nothing mysterious about it. It is good plain English and it is seriously spoken. The day of sentence has been fixed. There is no more indefinite time
 Every man who is now unsigned knows DEFINITELY where he is at. The board of governors met yester | day afternoon in the association rooms. | They transacted some routine business and talked over the situation. general | ly, but the important incident of the | day was the passage of a resolution after due deliberation and careful in- vestigation of their power to legally l sociation are entitled to consideration as well as those who have refused to sign and to whom all possible over lures have been made. They want to know when they are to see something accomplished in return for their CO., loperative and patriotic action There must be an end to the present condition of things. The board of governors therefore in the following language an- lnounced that on the 18th of July II would submit it's case to the govern lment:
 Be it resolved by the board of gov ernors of the Salt River Valley Water Users association that the president of this association be, and he is hereby directed to compile and make out a statement of the number of shares of the capital stock of this association. subscribed for up to and including the 18th day of July. 1903. and transmit the same, together with the application of this association. on behalf of it's share holders, for the benefit Of the provi- sicns of an act of congress entitled An act appropriatng the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands" ap- proved June r. 1902. to the secretary of the interior under the plans of it's articles of incorporation.
 That for the purpose of enabling the president to prepare such statement and application it is ordered that the books of the association for the recep- ton of further subscriptions for it's capital stock be closed on Monday. July 13, 1903.
 And the president is further directed to give public notice of the time fixed
 for the closing of said books, and that
 the statement and application be pre- scented to the board of governors for approval before being sent to the sec Iretary of the interior"
 [ But the patience of the associat ation is
 not the patience of one man. It is the
 best judgment of the best men in the valley and not hastily but very delib- erately arrived at. It is still the desire , that every landowner shall have due notice and an opportunity to person ally refuse the blessing that awaits all
 who will accept it, thereby clearing it.
 self of responsibility. The board. there
 fore, instructed the president to mai to every landowner in the valley who
 has not yet signed up a copy of the
 following notice and just as quickly as it is practicable to do so:
 Salt River Valley Water Users Association.