Arizona republican., 1909-05-24
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 ORGANIZED Queen Valley DeVe|0pmentCo. Wi|||ncOrpoPate Tuesday ARE MAKING NEW LANDS Sixty-Six Homesteads Have Been Taken in one Town ship East of the Highland Canal. The Rejuvenation of Queen Creek Wash.
ARE MAKING NEW LANDS

1 For a good many years there have | been numerous attempts to in some
 way formulate a plan for the success | full irrigation of what is known as the Queen Creek wash and tributary l lands south and east of Mesa, but
 not until last Saturday, when the Queen Valley Development company was organized in the town hall. did
 it seem that the dreams of the home steaders had begun to be realized.
 No less than twenty-five inter-
 ested men met Saturday for the pur-
 pose of organizing a company and adopting articles of incorporation To lk-
 ing toward the further settlements of
 the lands around Higley ana in the
 Queen Creek section, better described
 as l south and E. Up to noon
 Saturday siXty-siX entries had been
 made in T. l. s. R. 6 E.
 In the beginning it might be well
 to state that a considerable amount
 of the credit and the bringing of the
 men together in an organization be-
 longs to J. Beal who several months
 ago took up a homestead in the vicin-
 ity of Higley, and who has since
 spent in the neighborhOOd of two tFfbusand dollars in sinking wells and making reservoirs and other improve ments.
 The meeting Saturday was called
 to order and J. F. Hepperly was made chairman and J. Beal secretary, temporary officers. NJ. J. Dougherty, of the law firm of Pomeroy X Dough- erty, was present and assisted in drafting the articles of incorporation which will be signed and acknOwi- edged this afternoon by the incor- pOratOrs and filed immediately, so that the company may proceed to business. The stock has a par value of S1OO and every quarter section of land within the district to be bound ed later is entitled to one share. The money is payable in installments at the office of the secretary, $20 be- ing due on June 1st. The stock sub scriptions which are notes bearing no interest and payable to the Queen Valley Development company were submitted for signatures and nine of the one hundred shares were inn mediately subscribed.
 Upon the adoption of the articles of incorporation which have no dis tinctive features other than any or ganizGtion for the purpose of de- veloping water rights, a permanent organization was effected as follows: President. P E. Fuller; vice presi- dent, Joseph A. Stewart; secretary and treasurer, J. F. Hemperly; man. ager, J. Beal; agent, Joseph Hastings. The board of directors selected are P E. Fuller, J. F. Hemperly. J. Beal, rf Dudley S. Lewis A committee to draft bylaws was selected, composed of A. l.. Hawley O. Merrill, J. Beal and P F. Fuller. - A very interesting feature of the meeting was a reading of a letter submitted by the Western American Gas company, of Phsenix, wherein they cOrroborated thef opinion held | by a number of the homesteaders to the effect that water can be pumped l at 90 cents per acre foot on 15 | foot lift.
 The letter in part is as follows:
 q read a very interesting article | in the morning Republican of May | goth in refard to proposed pumping | business south and east of Mesa City, | and I. note your figures for the cost | of lifting water in that vicinity i which I have carefully checked and l find to be approximately correct. In | with this matter, I beg 1 to advise that myself and associates | have invented within the last three | years a crude oil gas producer on which we have obtained some very | results. A plant has been in operation at the Pan American Ostrich farm now for something over two years. being used for various purposes at their ranch. About a 1 year ago we undertook to furnish the U. s. F. s. with a 100 h. p. equipment at Yuma for pumping water out of the Colorado river, which has now been operating since the first of last September and has given excel lent satisfaction and marvellous re- suits for an economical standpoint.
 We are getting continuously at this plant at Yuma, according to tn" government report, approximately b. D. h, per gallon of crude oil. I not tice your figures show about 7h b. h. p. per gallon of distil- late. so you can very readily see the great saving by using crude oil lulO SdS anu uStu III an inter combustion engine, as the ratio F. O B. cars Mesa, between crude oil and dsitillate is about to l.. I have a report before me from the reclamtion office of Yuma, which shows the fuel cost per acre foot. one foot as high as .012 cents, which would show on a scventh-five foot ift a-cost of 90 cents per acre foot for fuel only.