Arizona republican., 1904-03-08
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 by this working together which alone would be worth all the time and labor that had been spent. Tn conver@a ion with the chairman of the board of ~u- pervisOrs, the letter lad told him that in some way the people had been brought together as they had never: been before. MT. Fowler, continuirg, eaid that that bringing together con gtituted basis upon which they could all act now for the common good.
 MT. Fowler spoke of the passage of the Tonto road bill and pointed out the advantage of the road to the valley hut he said he would speak of that matter at anOther time. At the con c!usion of his address the following resolution was offered by Judge Baker and adopted:
 The warmest kind of thanks and gratitude of the people of the Salt River Vc'ley are hereby rendered to the Hon. B. A. Fowler, Judge J. H. Kibbey. Hon. A. P. Davis and Hon. George H. Maxwell for their unfaltering devotion and untiring labors in beh~lf of this people in the promotion of the great work of the construction of the Tonto dqm and in securing the benefits there of tc this people through the contract entered into by the government with the Salt River Valley Water Users association
 Tn the course of his remarks. MT Fowler read the following letter from the secretary of the interior to Director Walcott of the geological survey which is a synopsis of the memorandum of agreement:
 February, %, 1904 "The Director of the Geological Survey.
 'Sir:-With your letter of February 20, 1904, you transmit with accompany ing papers, the draft of a propos= q a agreement to he entered into by the Salt River Vslley Water Users asso- citation. a corporation organized under the laws of the territory of Arizona. and the secretary of the interior acting for and in behalf of the United States under the powers conferred by the act of June IT, 1902 (32 Stat, 3SS). stipuI- t. ing as to the rules and principles that shali govern the distribution and use of the water that may be stored by the reservoir now in course of constructor, upon the Salt river, near Tonto creek in the territory of Arizona.
 The proposed stipulation between the two contracting parties is prompted by the following conditions: The Salt River reservoir is being constructed un- der authority of the act of June r, 1902, for the purpose of impounding and conserving the waters that flew from the water shed tributary to the S9lt River valley, for the irrigation and re- clamation of arid lands The territory or valley that will be susceptible of ir- TigatiCn from that source embraces the same valley or territory de-igna ted in section 2. article f of the articles of in corporation Of said association as the | sat River Reservoir District" II i1 alleged that the association is compose l Of owners of sufficient land in said dis trict to utilize the water that may be stored in the proposed reservoir. who have by priority of appropriation, ac- i Quired vested rights. 2s to the use Of all the waters normally flowing through the natur7l channels of the rivers fed | from substantially the same sources as . the proposed reservoir will be. which rights are recognized and protected by the Stn section of the act of June r, 1909. Unless some agreement or under standing as to the distribution of al lit waters IiiclbE SNf-I ld Dlt Dy lledIS or 1 the reservoir can be arrived at, so that i itT use can be made uniform by ore l Tvstem, Q conflict between the users of the increased supply and the Ownars i oC the vested right in the natural flow of the streams would sem to te l inevitable.
 | The rights of the association and of the individual members there- 1 of to the use of water i iTcounded by said reservoir in 1 cluding the increased as well as the present available supply, are to be gov erned and controlled by the provisions of the act of June r. 1902. Said act must necessarily control in every par 1 ticUlar the action of the secretary of the interior, not only as to the con- struCtion Of the works, but also as to the | terms and conditions upon which use ! of the water will be allowed, and as to | the management, maintenance and op- | ere tion of the works. It does not ap- ! pear, lowever, that the draft of the 1 proposed agreement contains anything ] that is repugnant to the act, or that it { is rot fully authorized by the letter and | spirit thereof. The practical result of l the proposed agreement will be the en-