Arizona republican., 1909-12-07
MONTHLY MEETING Of
 BOARD Of GOVERNORS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN
 OFFICE BUILDING An Enlishtering Discourse on the Power Possibilities and Proba-
 biitics By Engineer Hill

At the regular monthly meeting oi the board oi governors cf the Mate. Users aSaociat.ol held yesterday. every member was in attCnGaicc anu the meeting was an important one, m the dissemination of information and as the probable imitation Of new feat ures Of the associations activity. The only move of this sort actually made was the appointment of d committee consisting of the president and legal adviser to t.-Ee the necessary steps toward bringing before the members of the association. at a special cleo ton. the question of whether the asso- ciatiOn shall build an office building for the use of itself and the reclama ton service.
 This action was taken after a lengthy discussion in which it was found that every member of. the board personally favored the erection of such a building. The board has the power to raise the money and proceed to build. but it is aware that there has been considerable opposition to the suggestion in various quarters. and does not care to exercise its author ity in that direction. It was the gen cral concensus of opinion that it would be better to leave the matter to q vote of the members and be guided by that vote. Various of them said they knew that there was some opposition in their districts. but they do not believe it is as strong as it was last summer when the question was seriously considered and protests were made. Joseph Cope. of the fifth district said that he had always favored such q building himself. but he knew that at one time his con stituency was very strong against it. He would then and probably would yet vote against it as governor. but he believed that if it were submitted to the members at an election. four fifths of his constituency would now favor it. As there was no levy made for such d building last spring there is no fund now and one will have to be voted or the governors authorized to raise the money in some other way. if they are to act by the direction of the members. which they seem de- sirous of doing In the nature of things the special election cannot be held until after the first of the year at the earliest
 Aside from the routine business the rest of the session was devoted to the consideration of the power possibili- ties of the projects and the best methods of utilizing them. Engineer Hill, who vas present, gave the board much valuable information in addi- tion to those phases of the power subject that have already been com prehensively discussed. and are quite well known. He pointed out one thing in connection with q suggestion that was made some time ago by Judge Kibbey in these columns. concerning the completion of the power plants or a portion of them. by the associa- tion, that probably few of the mem bers considered at the time. or were aware of
 It will be recalled that the sug gesiion was made that if the money necessary to complete the crosscut and one or two other proposed plants cannot be secured of the government 1t would he a good investment for the association to secure from the secre- | tary of the interior couple of years delay in the opening of the project; l that is the designation of the lands and in the meantime the members could tax themselves $2 per acre per year for two years. to raise approxi- mately s4OO.OOO to complete these plants It is roughly estimated that I it will cost s1O0 per horsepower tc build them. but that when built the power can at a conservative estimate be disposed of at $50 per horse power annually and probably more. It Is . believed that the s40o,000 suggested would be more than returned in twe