Arizona republican., 1905-06-20

appointed for the purpose named. This , however, with the distinct understand ing that the government will be under no obligation whatever to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the property to be appraised. It must be further distinctly and definitely under stood that if any purchase shall De made by the government it must oe ot property as an entirety
 Very Respectfully,
 F. A. HITCHCOCK, Secretary
 GOVERNORS MEETING.
 All members of the board of gover- ! nors except pr. Wilbur who is in Cal l ifornia. were present at yesterdays | meeting together with Judge Kibbey. one or two members of the council, and newspaper men by invitation MT. Fowler after briefly reporting the na- i ture of the news he had to imparL gave a detailed account of his actiVi- ties while in Washington, introducing various letters showing the nature O- | u, conferences held.
 He said that the going out of the Ari- zona dam emphasized the issue before the valley concerning distributing system and it occurred to him that the time was ripe for action, both in urging the government to take advantage of it's opportunity for driving good oar- gain and in placing before the Nat@r company the embarrassme of It's sit
 uation. for eventually it must self t9 the people anyway or lose its prop srry
 by depreciation in the event the water
 users were provided with another sys- tenn. After a short stay in Washington
 MT. Fowler went to New York where he met the principal officers and directors
 of the water company in repeated con : i ferences. He told them that it appear . ed to him almost providential Tor the ipeople that their dam had been lnJur- , ed. although he did not expect them tC
 bring their Christian spirit to quite SC high an appreciation of the situation
 The result of these early conference; was a plan which both MT. Fowler anC : the water company favored and whici
 was submitted to the secretary or tn z Interior but rejected. Correspondents = concerning this was presented to lh
 board yesterday by MT. Fowler but lis not reproduced here for the reasol
 that the plan having been rejected, tn
 correspondence is no longer of interes
 and would only be confusing. Subse
 uuentIy however there were repeate
 tconferences and various trips by MI
 Fowler between New York and Wash
 iington, resulting in the plan indicate
 Tn the OLlCldl COIIGSpOAANCAANN NSO'
 presented.
 - The forenoon was spent in discuss D. ing the full meaning of the propose CT plan. It was made quite clear that T a- proposition could be expected from u e. water company, that would be mol 1n considerate of the water users and K subscribed to by all parties. And oI r. of the principal causes for exultatiC
 is that the project is one of harmon IS, The water company and MT. FOWL all joined in asking the secretary of u or interior. to appoint commission to al D. praise the holdings of the water con IT, pany to be bought by the governme Ter at the price fixed by the government Ter appraisers, providing the government li- satisfied with the price and wants nd buy it, for transfer to the water use n- association at the same price It by noted that MT Fowler did not bind [ in association, nor did the secretary bi ,le, the government, but if all is satisfa in tory there is no doubt the governme in will buy it. and there is no mol nal doubt but that it will be accepted
 satisfactory by the people of this VI si- lev before the secretary of the inter all will accept it. MT. Fowler announC ter that he had reason to believe that ion three appraisers have already been act pointed for tnlS WOfh- put IL VIII oe- perhaps a couple of months before tf liX, will be here. Before they can p
 judgment there will need be gr Ari deal of preliminary work in schedul ital measuring, etc, and it is underst' that this has already been begun Ari~ subordinate engineers of the survey ital In respect of the proposed masol nal diversion dam to be constructed sor
 where in the vicinity of the Arlz' Ari- dam, it is to be a substantial constr itaI ton. one that it is believed will ne 1m- go out. Furthermore it Is to dlN
 the water used on both sides of the Ari~ yer and means the construction ater few miles of canal on the south
 and probably a little on this side, Om- in the event of the purchase of the / .her zona canal, for the ditch should ton larger and it's upper course might ish- changed. This diversion dam pro e of will be entered upon at once Iha'
 the engineers will at once begin u ap- prelirninaries, arranging for bed the
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