Arizona republican., 1905-11-07


 COG. The board of governors directed a reply through it's counsel, tlat be- fore making an answer to the propo- sition or definitely acting on the mat ter, it preferred to await the meeting of the government appraisers in view of the fact that that board will con- vene not later than November 21, and perhaps earlier. That is the net result of yesterdays numerous conferences between the board of governors and others, and the situation last even ing seemed to be a very harmonious one all round, and as satisfactory to all interests as could have been hoped cor.
 When the board of governors met yesterday morning in their regular monthly meeting there were present. beside the members of the bO,rd, a C nlnittee from the board of trade and several other gentlemen repre- senting various interests. Among them were Lincoln Fowler, who was "ni- powered to speak both for the Ap~ proprators Canal Co. and as d merh- ber of a committee appointed by ,he Maricopa Canal company at recent meeting. pr. Foss and others were present as representatives of the Ari- zCLa Canal Protective association. Dwight B. Heard was also a party to the conferences of the day, represent ing the minority of the stockholders in the old canals. The members of the board of trade committee were w. D. I'ulwiler, president; F. T. Alkire. J. W. Doris, J. Ernest Walker, II. !. Latham, Vernon l.. Clark, J. c. Adams, c. H. Akers, A. Goldberg, Eugene Bra dy O'Neill, and J. A. Marshall There were perhaps some others wlose names were not secured, and the per sonnel is referred to only to show that the aggregation of visiting and | inquiring gentlemen represented near ly all interests and were altogether a very representative body of men, so that the final harmonious ending of the. days conferences may be under stood as suggestive of progress and universal peace, rather than of an armed truce. Neither were there any incidents of the day that could be described as hostile, as there was nothing but an interchange of confi- dences.
 Beside the gentlemen present, when the board convened it found in the hands of it's secretary, the following
 
 Phoenix. AriZ., Nov. 6, 1905.
 gro the Board of Governors of the Water Users Association, City: "Gentlemen: A telegram from H. R. Steele, receiver of the Arizona Water company. states that the bondholders will accept s350.00O for their canal in | terests, provided the government will take charge now and maintain works, etc. Respectfully, "C. J. HALL"
 The board of governors. in recogni-
 ton of the presence of the gentlemen l who were not members, announced that it had some knowledge of their purpose, and that it would be pleased | to give all the information it could, but that it desired. first, to give inn mediate preliminary consideration to the communication of Mir. Hall, and | to discuss a copy of the letter that | had been forwarded by Judge Kibbey | to MT. Fowler on the 2Sth in reply to the letter of the 23rd received from | MT. Fowler. Though the board had l directed the natur, Of Judge Kibbey's reply it had not yet seen the letter, as | he had formulated it. The board sug gested that if the gentlemen would | then retire it would be pleased to meet them in conference at 11:30 o'clock
 This was agreeable, and the board proceeded to the duties indicated, dis | cussing both documents thoroughly | and talking over at some length the | matter of the offer of the water com
 pany. It was brought out that the board with its present light on the | case still considered the price too | high, and it's suggestion concerning a valuation in the last letter to MT. Fow ! Ter was a fair expression of it's feel | ing; however, it did not enter so large | ly the feature of price as of other things. It was made plain that even if the offer was accepted at once, the water company is not in a position to turn over a clear title at once, and that would be a very necessary thing before the government could proceed. | These questions were entered into at greater length in the afternoon ses- sion.
 At 11:30 the board again received | the board of trade committee and the other gentlemen and there ensued a | heart to heart exchange of confidence es. The board of trade committee an- nounced that it's presence was mainly | a request for information; that lack of | it had developed an uneasiness of | feeling in many quarters and a belief that valuable time was being lost The committee desired to learn as much of 1 the actual status of negotiations as the board could impart, and rendered | the services of the board of trade in any way it could be utilized to further negotiations to a successful and satis- | factory ending.
 | The board of governors thereupon | laid before the assembled gentlemen the correspondence between Judge Kibbey and Judge Steele and Presi- 1 dent Fowler. The letter from MT. Fow- Ter to Judge Kibbey and the reply to I it were both read and discussed. These are the letters which have been re- | ferred to in these columns heretofore and quoted from in so far as they re- ferred to a price on the canal proper | ty, but not published for the reason that they include details that might | be considered confidential by both parties to the negotiations. They were not, however, so sacred that they may not be shown on request to those who l tcl