Arizona republican., 1905-11-19
lis Long and Patient Work Brought to Successful and armo- niOuS Conclusion and Submitted to the
 Wafer Users Council.

of the draft of contract circulated prior to the election to authorize its exc cution by the association. ''On page ' of this pamphlet the fol- lowing is found in the letter from the secretary of the interior to the di- rector of the geological survey:
 "'Unless some agreement or under standing as to the distribution of all the waters made available by means of the reservoir can be arrived at so that its use can be made uniform by one system, a conflict between the users of the increased supply and the owners of the vested rights in the nat ural flow of the stream would seem to be inevitable.
 "Unless adjudication of these indi- vidual water rights is carried through by the association, the main purpose of it's existence is not realized. It is doubtful, therefore, whether the de- partn:ent would undertake to operate the storage system in the face of the serious conflict of rights that must necessarily arise if no adjudication of these rights has been made.
 ''Very Respectfully, "(Signed) MORRIS BEEN.
 Supervising Engineer" Shortly after the receipt of the gov ernment letters, the question of the suit was thoroughly discussed in sev- eral meetings of the council of the Salt River Valley Water Users assO- citation. There was much discussion as to some better plan than the suit, but no definite plan was presented. | This general discussion before the council resulted in the passage by that body, on the 22nd of April, 19C5 1 of the following resolution: STIPULATION FIRST PROPOSED. Resolved, That in the judgment of | this council a concerted effort should at once be made to unite the owners of cultivated lands both within and ' without the association, on some form of an agreement as to the use of the natural appropriated flow of the Salt and Verde rivers. Said agreement to | be used as a stipulation in the suit | of Hurley vs. Abbott, ct al., and to | be binding upon all parties signing | such agreement.
 It is further resolved that to secure prompt action along the above lines we urge the immediate organization 1 of committee of sixteen as follows:
 
 | vice president of the association. the secretary of the association, the chair man of the council, seven members 1 appointed from the council, three members appointed from the board ot governors, one representative of the lands under the Tempe canal not in the association. one representative of l the lands under the San Francisco not | in the association.
 Said committee to prepare without delay a plan of agreement and stipU- 1 latiOn for presentation to the owners of cultivated lands.
 Amendment added:
 l Said committee shall be empowered to work out a comprehensive plan for all the lands within the association, if in their study of the situation they find such q plan feasible.
 Also, the chairman of the council and the president of the association were authorized to appoint the com mittee.
 THE COMMITTEE OF SIXTEEN.
 The chairman of the council and the president of the Water Users asso- citation promptly appointed a commit tee of sixteen as requested, and their first meeting was held on the 27th of April, 1905, nearly all those appointed | being in attendance. Public notice had been given requesting any one having a definite plan for the settle ment of the question of the right to the use of water to present such plan in writing to the committee of six teen for their consideration. Two ten tative plans were presented, one pre- pared by MT. Frank Parker and the other by MT. C. B. Wood. Briefly, both of these plans, after giving the Tempe and San Francisco their wa ter as now received, arranged for what might be known as a "step lad der plan" for the distribution of the balance of the water; these plans be- | ing d modification of the Kibbey de- | cree.
 During the consideration of the sug- gestions of the above gentlemen, the various contracts which modify or at | tempt to modify the Xibbey decree were fully discussed. and the commit tee decided that in order to intelli- | gently consider the very difficult question presented the facts as to the exact water distribution since the date of the T<ibbey decree, the acreage on which water had actually been | uSeU ana COpleS or all agreements rel ative thereto should be presented to the committee. These contracts, fig ures of water distribution and the 1 acreage served were obtained by a 1 sub committee and included the rec ords of the Water Storage commission | prepared by MT. Frank F. Trott and relative to the actual distribution of water during the past fifteen years. The Water Storage commissions tab ulated acreage records prepared in | 1901, showing the exact location of the acreage in actual cultivation at that time and the following contracts and tables relative to the distribution of water:
 Contract between the North Side ca nals and the Mesa and Utah canals.
 Table of court commissioners dis | tribution to the TempS and San Fran l cisco canals.
 Contracts between the Arizona canal and the Grand, Salt, and Maricopa canals for carrying their water in the | cross-cut canal.
 Contract between the Mesa and