Arizona republican., 1910-05-03
Tn. Retiring Board.

Tho retiring board of governors as scnbled iu the forenoon. with Pres i,Jeut E. A. Fowler in the chair aud Governor Kibbey the retiring legal ad- wiser and Charles X. Van der Ncer, secretary. also present. The final rou lins busfue.-s of the year sas attended to. including the reading of Inc fol lowing
 Report oi the Secretary.
 Phcenix Arizona. May 2nd. 1910. To tlIe Board of Governors of tue Salt
 River Valley Water Users Associs-
 ton:
 C:entlemeu Following the custom established last year. the following brief outline is presented of what has been done during the past association year Many of the items are brought to inc attention of the executive body of the association from time to time. yet their aggregate is. perhaps. not realized from this fragmentary report ing.
 There have been received and filed during the year. just closed 66 new subscription contracts ranging from one to IeO acres each and adding SS51 acres to the total now subscribed within the boundaries of the reservoir district which makes grand total of over 2i6.0O0 acres.
 During the past four months of the year there has been an increase of 30 per cent in the number of transfers of land ownership by decd Of record, which is the only transfer of property tho association recognizes. Tn the month of April alone. the increase vas A per cent in this part of the work. The total number of transfers for the year. 191. is twelve less than for the previous year but during that twelve months there were put on record large number of deeds from tine Ari- zona Water company. which did not indicate actual transfers of land to new owners as do the recent transac- tions.
 These two items showed in the mak- ing up of the register of voters for the recent annual election. that book con tainins this year 21S0 names as com pared with the 1929 last year. or an increase Of IS per cent.
 Work under the cooperation plan. which was started carly in the year on the Eastern canal. was suspended under that plan after certificates had been issued for seven monthly pay ments. and the work was completed aud pai0 for by the reclamation ser vice under another plan. This change relieved the association clerical force of some work in connection with the issuing and recording of the ccrtifi- cates.
 There has been made for the water service department Of the reclamation service 8 duplicate copy of the mem bcrship roll of the association. with descriptions of lands for use in the distribution of water. and with changes from time 10 time as transfers are recorded
 When the court was ready to an- nounee decision in the Hurley vs Abbott suit for adjudication of water rights. the association undertook the publication and distribution of the de- cree, pamphlet of eighty pages In connection with the plans for the dis tribution of water under this decision the association has been called upon for two lists of lands which have not been subscribed to the association. one for tho north side and one for the south side of the river. which have been furnished the court commits sioncr.
 There have been during the year twenty one meetings of the board of governors and three sessions of the council One of the meetings was conference w'iui Secretary of the h. ferior Baliingcr on the occasion of his visit to the project. A public meeting was hcld for the submission of an- sv,ers to questions propounded by the
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