The oasis., 1907-01-05

Wednesday night the matter of the establishment of gauging station on the Santa Cruz river, about seven miles from Nogales, was again discussed at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Board of Trade. Estimates re- ceived from the Phoenix office of the United States Reclamation Service placed the probable cost of establishing and maintaining the station for a year, and doing other work preliminary to the construction of a reservoir dam at $30000.
 Upon presentation of the esti- mates of the cost of the work neces- sary to get the project under way, the Board adopted the following preambles and resolution, which, being drawn up by an agent of the Reclamation Service, explains many little points in connection with the procedure necessary in such cases:
 WHEREAS, The Reclamation law pro- vides that all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in vari- ous states and territories shall be re- served, set aside and appropriated as a special fund in the treasury to be known as the Reclamation fund, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irriga- tion works for the storage, diversion and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said states and territories and for the payment of other expenditure pro- vided for i'll that act, and,
 WHEREAS, We, the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade, believe that as result of actual work and esti- mates made, we have, i'll our immediate vicinity, storage possibilities and ir- rigable land that would be of inestimable value to our section of Arizona, and
 WHEREAS, A careful study of the situ- ation demands that preliminary to the
  age. a full knowledge of all physical conditions, and more especially the amoa it and quality of water available, is necessary, and
 WHEREAS, The demands for work of this kind far exceed the funds available for carving it on, and that as a cOnse- quence work is being concentrated in localities where the greatest interests are to be served, and particularly where cooperation is offered by the people or their legislature or local boards Of trade, it is hereby
 RESOLVED, By the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade that as an earnest of our desire that this prenmin- ary work shall be instituted at as early a date as possible we authorize the President and Secretary of our body to cooperate with the U. $. Reclamation Service to the extent of $300.00 or such portion as may be necessary, for the prosecution of this work during the calendar year 1907, along the lines sug- gested by the Reclamation Service officials, to be disbursed upon the usual approved vouchers and to be expended by the latter in making the necessary investigations.
 The material necessary for the establishment of the gauging sta tion has been already selected and the officials in charge of the Re- clamation Office at Phoenix have been notified by the secretary of the Board of Trade and will pro- bably be here next week to install the station.
 As the Board of Trade is com parativelv new and has incurred considerable expense during the past few months, the amount named in the resolution was not in thn trnacuru nt inc lima of tho