Arizona republican., 1910-05-03

the committee visited Phoenix.
 There iIas been a settlement of tht taking oyer of the Lee ranch by th' association. the association receiving Iht refor m cash S1.000.00 awarded IT condemnation proceedings and turn ing the land over 10 the reclamation service
 Receipts rom all sources during tho year have been s9.i14.12. and there have been paid out by means Of 22l warrants issued the sum Of s?.OSs?@ On account of not levying any assess ment for running expenses. the tota receipts have not been SD large as usual
 Time has been found during the year for the completion of the caro record system Of individual accounts which has now been brought down to date each account showing all the dates and items connected with that particular tract of land since the com mencYnent of the association. A start has been made in the work of adding I0 the cards the classification and year 3s shown by the Kent decision and this will he completed within a lew weeks
 Inquiries about the project. irriga- = lion matters and the valley in general still come in numbers. both by mall and in person and the work of answer ing them is no small part of the daily task The large numbers of transfers with their subsequent addition to the membership of the association, are also the occasion for many inquiries with regard 10 the standing Of the land in the association. these questions coming as well from the sellers as the buyers. IL has been the endeaVor to have the information desired in con- venienr form. for accurate answers and+to furnish. ii as speedily and cour Te0usly as may be.
 Respectfully.
 CHAS A VAN DER VEER.
 Secretary.
 The Retiring President.
 This being the last meeting of the board of governors during the term of the Hon. E. A. Fowler. as president of the association. and prompted here to by the long, faithful and efficient services Of MT. Fowler in that capac- ity. the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 Be II Resolved, That this board re- grets the severance by Mir Fowler or his official connection with this asso- citation. That mindful of the splendid service of Mir. Fowler extending over period beginning with the organization of the association. we hereby tender him our grateful appreciation of his splendid accomplishments. That we extend to him our hearty good will and the wish for the best that comes to any man conscious himself and ac- corded by us the credit of having con- scientiously. ably and with splendid service discharged his duties and ooh- gations to this association and to the people constituting it.,'
 After the adoptioD the resolution. Judge Kibber asked the permission of the board to make feT, remarks, and proceeded to speak as follows:
 We'll Deserved Testimonial. Mir. Pre- sident and Gentlemen of the Board:
 It is no doubt out of the parlia- mentary order that should say any thing upon the subject of this resolu- tion. In the first place l am not member of this board and can only speak with your indulgence, and again the resolution has been passed and so disposed of, and is beyong the point of discussion. l cannot, however. if | may be permitted to do so, refrain from saying word or two.
 The words of a resolution like this always seem perfunctory. and are all most always inadequate to express the real sentiments of those who thus endeavor to manifest them.
 After the history of the Salt River Valley Water Users association shall have been written, if it ever shall be written at all, it will elnbody the his- tory of the life and work of B. A Fowler for the past ten years. Dur ing all of that time, he has devoted his time. his energy and his splendid ability to the promotion of the ends and purpose that we have sought to accomplish by means of this associa- ton. He spared neither his time nor his money. Long before the organiza- ton of the association he had enlisted himself enereeticaliy and effectually in the cause of safe water supply for the lands or 1his valley
 l have had the good fortune to have been associated with MT. Fowler in all his work instituted under the fecidf1ttiOn act, ana pfODdDly tnere- fore know better than any other one can the extent and value of his ser vices. -s'-
 In 1902 immediately after The pas sage of that act, l compiled some sug- gestions of plan by which We might become the benefieiaries of the re- clamation act, and the first copy of it that went out of my office. was the one given to Mir Fowler and Coi William Christy in August 1902. From that time on I know the work of Mir Fowler. He presided over the deliber- atioEs of the executive committee that had in charge the formulation of our articles of incorporation. That com mittee met day after day for months. and al many times. we were beset with difficulties that seemed insurmOunt- able, but Mr Fowler met them with his unflinching zeal and persistence. Often it appeared that we were con- fronted by a solid stone wall over which. or around which or through which there seemed iio way to the accomplishment of our purposes. Mir. ] Fowler's unflagging energy and con ] fidence inspired others with like con e:l