Arizona republican., 1911-05-14

power will be delivered to the Mar inette Pumping company, which will have a line to the Marinette section to the northwest. The plant to be installed at the Arizona Falls can serve everybody in that vicinity. in cluding ScOttsdale. The plant on the projected new crosscut will serve the section east of Phoenix. Another power line will be run from Phoenix a mile and a half east on the Tempe road. thence north and west to the Indian school A similar distributing system will be erected on the south side.
 The thoughtful will readily under stand that the government cannot af- ford to build power line to each individual ranch and erect a trans former and other machinery and sell the power at a price the farmer can afford to pay, any more than it could afford to keep a special set of books with each farmer in respect of the matter of storage, and to obviate which the Water Users associat ton was formed. It is planned. however. to make the power available by ap-
 
 to each little community For in- stance. ten to twenty farmers living reasonably close together can form a little power company by themselves, with a little distributing plant and transformer. and then run their pri vate transmission line to the nearest substation of the government, which might be from two to six miles, and there have delivered to them such power as they need for their joint operations Each farmer would have his own meter and pay to his little company his rental for the power used. the company paying the gov ernment for the combined bill, unless. of course. it was a, district where power would be served instead of ir- rigation water.
 MT. Hill gave approximate figures as to the cost of constructing such little plants and transmission lines, the latter being from S400 to s700 per mile, depending on the size of the wire and the magnitude of the plant He stated also that the reclamation engineers would be at the service of any such little community Of farmers as might want to build plants, giving them all the information they might require of a technical nature. He also said that he was preparing a table or rates at which power would be m this manner sold to the farmers, and as soon as it is finished and approved bv the secretary of the interior 1t will be published The resolution passed by the council was that this plan and table of rates be published by the board of governors as soon as it is available. and supplied to each member. It is thought that such publication would set at rest the fears that some have that the gov ernment does not propose to furnish the farmers with power at cheap rates. and the theory that is persist entIy circulated by some that the cor porations and power companies are to get all the power and dispose Oi IL to the farmers at eXtortiOnate rates. It is true that all the power sold to large enterprises is that much extra revenue for the association, hut the members are to be protected and served first, if they want it, or rather enough will be saved for them if they want 1t.
 The question of readjusting the sal aries of the officers of the association was taken up by a motion to ap- point a committee to consider the mat ter. but the motion was laid on the table
 The amendment to the bylaws adopted yesterday reduces the penaItN on delinquent assessments from per cent to per cent per month during tho period of their delinquency. It IS hardly likely that there is sufficient time for the secretary of the interior to formally approve this law before the delinquent sale of the present wear but the attorney for the asso- citation said that he believed it could be made applicable this year by serv- ing each bidder on delinquent lapds with due and proper notice at the time