Arizona republican., 1905-06-11
WATER USERS CONFERENCE
Efforts of Farmers Under Old Canals
 to Secure More Water.

There was a very enthusiastic meet ing at the Board of Trade room yes terday afternoon of the water users under the Grand. Maricopa and Salt River Valley canals. It was presided | over by J. P. Orme as chairman and Nelson Bradley as secretary and the purpose of the meeting was to take
 steps at once for the securing of a bet
 ter water supply.
 There was much speechmaking of 9
 short and emphatic character, the farmers feeling considerably irritated l that they cannot secure water when
 there is plenty of it passing by in the river Their complaints were various and among them it was set forth that the brush dam at the joint head is not being repaired as fast as it should be, that the distribution of the water is not satisfactorily conducted and that the Salt River Valley canal particular ly is in no proper condition for carry ing an adequate water supply on ac- ! cont of the accumulation of sand. The result of the meeting was the selection of a committee of three water users under each of the canals to do certain things and the committees ap- pointed were es follows: For the Grand canaI-Sam F. Webb, J. J. Myers, T. Bone: for the Maric1pa canal-Henry Ware, c. c. Hurley, Dwight B. Heard: for the Salt River Valley canal-Nelson Bradley, c. T. Hirst and F. H. Parker.
 The meeting then passed a resolu- ton for the guidance of the Grand canal committee, directing it to call upon the water company and request that it appoint as zanjeros on the Grand canal, such person or persons as the water users through their committee might recommend. Later the commit tee held a conference and selected Sam F. Webb to fill this office, or to give the matter attention and see that the present zanjero distributed the water in an equitable and economic manner. Following is the resolution that was adopted authorizing the appointment of the committees under the other canals and instructing them as to a portion of their duties:
 Be it resolved that a committee rep resenting water users under Maricopa and Salt river canals here assembled wait upon the local representatives of the Arizona Water company without delay and present to them the follow ing definite request.
 That they continue work upon what is known as the Joint Head dam about four miles east of Phoenix using as large a force of men as possible until said dam is completed and made as tight as practicable.
 During the meeting a great deal was said by way of comment, concerning the controversy between the Water company and the Appropriator's Canal company and the meeting before clos | ing instructed that the joint commit | tees appointed make a. complete in- | spection of the Appropriator's canal enterprise from it's head gate down and report back to the farmers at another meeting to be held next Saturday, for
 their general information. The com mittee later set the date for this fn-
 spection as next Wednesday, leaving
 the office of Dwight B. Heard at 7:3C a. m.
 After the adjournment of the meet
 ing the Salt River Valley canal com
 mittee waited upon the water com-
 pany to ask it to clean the Salt cana.
 During the discussion of the contro-
 versy between the water company and the Appropriators, which as mentioned
 above was only incidental to the meet
 ing, Lincoln Fowler reported that he had just rendered to the water com
 pany $250 in gold for the narrow strip
 of land the Appropriators desire to run
 their canal through and which they
 considered not worth fifty dollars real
 value as land, and which also is the property the Appropriators are now re- strained from crossing by a temporary 1 injunction granted on the application
 of the water company to Judge Camp | bell in the absence of Judge Kent. It
 was learned last night late that Attor ney Thomas Armstrong, Jr., in behalf of the Appropriators had made answer
 to the complaint, that Judge Kent
 would be home on Monday and that an effort would be made to have the case given hearing on Monday. It was al
 so intimated that at the proper time condemnation proceedings would be
 begun for the possession of this land.