Arizona republican., 1909-10-28
Plan Devised For Answering
 Questions of Senators 4 DELEGATE CONFERENCE.
It Will Meet With Board of , Governors Nov. l When a General Mass Meeting Will
 Be Called For Discussion of Questions.

Some time ago the board of gov ernors of the Water Users association appointed a special committee for de- vising a means of making answers that would be representative of the views of settlers to the questions asked by the senatorial committee on irrigation. That committee yesterday made its report to the board and the report was adopted. In accordance with the plan each member of the board of governors was instructed to provide for the selection of five dele gates from his district, to meet with the board of governors at its regular session on November 1st and discuss the next step. It Is the plan at that time to formulate the ideas of the delegates on the various questions propounded and to call a public mass meeting. to be held soon thereafter. the date not yet being fixed. for general and full discussion of the sub ject so that the best views of the ma jority of the water users may be se- cured in making reply to the senate committee.
 On a few points it is known that there is a divergence of opinion. but where an expression has been had it has seemingly represented only few of the water users Such an expression has emanated from series of meet ings held in the court house. Yester- day three delegates appointed by that body to meet the senate committee were present at the meeting of the beard of governors, and were invited to meet with the board again on No vember 1st. in the hope that possibly sufficient harmony of views will be found after discussion to obviate the the necessity of presenting more than one set of answers to the questions of the senate committee.
 The report of the committee was long and comprehensive. dealing to some extent with number of the various questions and policies that will claim attention in the discus sions to follow.
 Judge Kibbey made a verbal report on behalf of the committee. consisting of himself. Joseph Cope and J. P. Orme. appointed to consider the matter of answers to the questions pro- pounded by the chairman of the com mittee of the United States senate on irrigation.
 Judge Kibbey said substantially that the committee had conferred upon the matter and considered it in it's sev- eral phases That as the committee report was verbal he asked that the other members should set him right if he should unintentionally misstate the conclusions to which it had come or the recommendation 1t wished to make. He said that courtesy demand ed from the association itself an an swer to the questions; that they were general in their scope. and probably would seem to warrant an inquiry in to every possible detail of the admin istration of the national irrigation act. as well as of the policy of the law it. self.
 He adverted to the fact that adver- tisements had appeared in the local newspapers that meetings were being called by the Water Users association when in fact such meetings had not been so called. That these advertise ments were misleading and involved misrepresentations, whether intention ally or not That the fact was that any water users had a right, either individually or collectively, to express their views in answer to the questions of the senate committee, yet it was de- sirable. and it was expected that the association should also answer the questions.
 There were many things to be con- sidered. He said in commenting upon some of the questions that it was un- fortunate. i'll advised and certainly untimely to agitate the question of the extension of the term fixed for the repayment by the land owners of the cost of the Salt River project That the suggestion that the secretary of the interior be appealed to to extend the time was based upon a misconcep- tiOn of the situation. The secretary cannot. If he would. extend the term. The law itself fixes the maximum term and no office can enlarge or ex- tend it.
 The Salt River project is not yet complete as We would like to have it. and as we have hoped to have it. It Is true that the reservoir is approach ing completion; the date for that probably being not later than July next.
 The Greater Cost.
 The Water Users Association was organized as necessary preliminary condition 10 the construction of any irrigation works by the government. It