The border vidette., 1907-01-05
THAT SANTA CRUZ RESERVOIR.
Board of Trade Makes Arrangements
 to Pay First Expense of Work.

"Wednesday night the matter o
 the establishment of gauging station
 on the Santa Cruz river, about sever
 miles from Nogales, was again dis
 cussed at the meeting Of the Board o
 Directors of the Board of Trade
 Estimates received from the Phoenix
 office of the United States Reclama
 tion Service placed the probable cost
 of establishing and maintaining the
 station for a year, and doing other
 work preliminary to the construction
 of reservoir dam at $30O,O0. Upon presentation of the estimate of the cost of the work necessary 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 con nection with the procedure necessary Tn such cases.
 WHEREAS. The Reclamation law provides that all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands Tn various states and territories shall he received, set aside and appro- priated IS a special fund in the trea- sury to bs known as the Recla ama tion Fund, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion and develop ment of wsters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said states and territories and for the pay ment of all other expenditure provid. ed for in that act, and
 AL Santa Cruz County Board of Trade. believe that as a result of actual work and estimates made, we have, in our locality, storage possibilities and irrigable land that would be of inesti,nable value to our section of Arizona, and,
 WHEREAS, A careful study of the situation demands that preliminary to the construction of system of water storage, full kno wledge of all physical and more especially the amount and quality of water available, is necessary. and.
 WHEREAS, The demands for work of this kind far exceed the funds avaiIa ble for carrying, it on, and that as consequence work is being con- centrated in localities where the greatest interests are to be served, and where cooperation is of. fered 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 preliminary work shall be insti- 5uted at as early a date as possible, he cretary of our body to cooperate with the United States Reclamation Ser vice to the extent of 3O0,OO, or such portion as may be necessary, for the of this work during the calendar year 1907, along the lines oy the Reclamation Service officials, to be disbursed upon the usual approval vouchers and to be ex- pended by the latter in making the necessary investi gatiens.
 The material necessary for the sta blIshnent of the gauging station las been already selected and the officials in charge of the Reclamation office at Phoenix, have been notified oy the secretary of the Board of Trade .nd will probably be here next week o install the station.
 As the Board Of Trade is compara- lively new and has incurred consider lbe expense during the past few mouths, the amount named in the re- olutlon, was not in the treasury at he time of the adoption of the re- olution making the appropriation, Mr. Bracey Curtis, cashier of the First National Bank of Nogales. in a let CT forwarded to the officials of the Reclamation Service. guaranteed tho yment of the S300.00
 A letter from Surveyor General Frank Ingalls,, of Phoenix, was cad by the secretary, in which the urvey or general stated that his report m the Baca Float No. 2 land grant, vas sent to the department at Wash ngton, D O., December s. and he las not yet received any reply from the and office.
 P R. S