Arizona republican., 1903-05-31

Fifth. The distribution of stored or developed water during any irrigation season in proportion to the amount of the obligations of each individual water Cser, to be delivered to such water user for use upon his lands at such time during each irrigation season as he may request.
 We further agree, .while we greatly prefer to deal with the government as individuals Gas evidently contemplated in the Hansborough- Newlands acO that. if in the Judgment of the secre- tary of the interior he should prefer considering our petition as members of a corporation or association, and shall the articles of the Salt River Val , ley Water Users association be mOdi- fled to comply with the first four condi- tions named above and to provide that all assessments mentioned in said ar ticles shall be liens upon, and colleCta- ble only from lands suhs cl ibed with ap- purtenant reservoir rights, and shall provide that all liens created for the payments due the government for res ervoir rights shall run to the United States government as before mentioned in this petition, we will subscribe 10 such modified articles and become par ties to the same.
 The undersigned further represent and covenant that at the acquisition of such rights by them to the use of said water from said reservoir, they or their heirs or assigns shall 1e bona fide resi- dents on the lands hereinafter describ- ed, or occupants of such lands residing ;Y, ha s,aferhhnrhnnd rf e-af r,d will then be the owner of the same; and the wife of each subscriber. who is married, hereby joins her husband in all the covenants and agreements here in contained.
 This agreement shall have all the force of a binding contract as against the several persons signing the same and all the terms thereof be enforceable against him, and shall also subject the subscriber to all forfeitures and penal ties for performance of his ob!iga- tions herein as are provided by said act of congress or as may be provided by rules and regulations prescribed | hereunder by the secretary of the in terior.
 THE MEETING.
 It had been currently reported in | Phoenix and it was matter of gen. eral information on the South Side that there was to be an important meeting of water users under the Tempe canal to take action relative to the storage enterprise. Men prominent on both sides of the overshadowinG controversy were therefore interested in what might be done and shortly af- ter l o'clock, the hour set for the meet ing, there gathered in the odd Fellows | hall thirty-one people to see and to hear. Of this audience there were five ladies and a number of North Siders prominent among whom were Professor McClatchie of the experiment farm, J. F. Ivy, J. B. Hoover, J. D. Marian George H. Maxwell and M. A Stanford | There were also some Mesa City citi- zens present. J. W. Woolf called the meeting to order and announced that l the meeting had been called primarily as a meeting of the stockholders of the Tempe canal, to listen 10 the report O. a committee.
 He suggested that in the absence of the president of the canal a chairman should be chosen. J. Webster Johnson was selected for chairman. He repeat ed the statement made by MT. WooIf at SISdlGI ltilSlH, anu requested that all persons present not stockholders of that canal withdraw till the business of the stockholders had been completed after which the meeting would be ! thrown open and would follow the pleasure of those present. All save the elect then withdrew and perched upon th@ sidewalks. where an irrigation sy.n- posium was conducted for the next hour. During that time many others gathered in front of the building, and when the doors were finally opened an audience of probably somewhere be- tween 70 and 100 assembled.
 MT. Johnson, calling them to order announced that several weeks ago the stockholders of the Tempe canal decid- ed that the plan of the Water Users association did not suit them and committee was appointed to report plan of something better or at least something that would represent their views. That committee had made a partial report earlier in the week and in the executive session imIncdi.,;aiy preceding it had been finally submitted and adopted by all save one dissenting stockhOlder. The assembled audience. he said, had been invited to be present and listen to the reading of that docu- ment ana he hoped that all those of similar mind but who were not stock holders of the canal would unite with them in working to the end they had in view
 Clyde Stewart was then made secre- tary of the meeting and J. w. Woolf was called upon to read the report in question, which was the document that is printed above, and the adoption of Whiph dOa1ru1art hN- ,l qualified to viote is the sum total of the result of the meeting.
 The chairman again announced that the meeting at that stage was open to all who were in sympathy with them. whether under the Tempe canal or not and invited remarks. There was no
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