Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-08-14
SURVEY OF IRRIGATION
 SYSTEM ID START SOON

CIBOLA, Ariz, Aug. 11.-Consider of, roughly, twenty-five thousand acres organized into an irrigation district take the residue of it's people remain ing through the heat of southwestern Arizona summer; segregate them as : meeting of the Board of Directors of the irrigation district; shake them to- gether as a hungry bunch around a picnic dinner table; assemble them as mass meeting of citizens, and, final ly, convene them as stockholders of a newly-organized stock company, anC throw in the death throes Of the larg est rattlesnake ever seen in Cibola, for amusement, on the side as it were, and you have a pot-pourri of events sufficient to make the day memor- able and the heat thereof forgotten.
 Not so bad; eh? Perchance not Roderigo! By the Lord, 'Arry, there are more things to 'appen in Cibola than are dreamed of in thy Philoso- phy, 'Oratio
 The day was Monday, July 2Sth; the date of the third meeting of the board of Directors of the Cibola Irrigation District. The occasion was marked | by the most enthusiastic and public spirited meeting thus far held in the valley.
 | The Board Meeting
 The board in session passed resolu tions, in effect, as follows: Appointing C. A. Lindeman, of Yu ma. Ariz., attorney for the district | Fixed the salaries of the officer: of the district and of the employe on the survey crew soon to be Put in the field.
 Authorized the expenditure of funds for the purchase of supplies needed | in the survey.
 | Authorized the survey to commence as soon as supplies can be received in the valley
 The board meeting then adjourned Next in order of business was the picnic dinner The only matter of the moment around the tables was the slowing away of provisions; and they certainly did some stuffing!
 The Citizens Mass Meeting
 At the mass meeting plans were dis cussed relative to the supply of hay and grain needed when con structioI work is started on the canal system This discussion took the trend of as certaining whether or not it would b possible to place thousand acres un der cultivation at once, to raise barley hay or alfalfa. It was the opinion O some that it will be possible to raise all necessary feed in the valley, there by reducing the cost of same to con tractors and secure lower contract rate on the construction work Others hell that feed could be imported cheape when considering the expense of plao ing one thousand contiguous acres il shape for planting. Finally, an indus trial committee was appointed to ln vestigate the subject in detail and re rbrt to a mass meeting which will L called the latter part of August. Tn committee follows: Edw. DeWein chairman; A. D. Nelson, secretary Leo Frankenberg, Carl M. Bishop Nommels, l.. R. Birch.
 A petition was sent to the count! board of supervisors to appoint Joh1 Scribner as road supervisor of the d trict, in order that needed road il provements may be made at once. Arrangements were also made t. place the roads in the valley in shal for automobiles. This work will | done by the people at their own eH pense. The labor thus volunteeret by citizens will exceed the amount a propriated by the county. The count will thereby receive above three hun l uIGu WOl LII VI WOi h AOA NeAA - penditure of one hundred and II dollars.
 A party of automobile tourists, e1 route from San Francisco to Phoeni and the east, will pass through CibOlt during August, proceeding via Quartz site and BOuse. Captain Sinclair, 0 Parker and Ehrenberg, has establishes a ferry using his power boat and barge.
 The assessment of twenty-five cent per acre is due August 9, but suff. cient funds are already in the hand of the treasurer to permit immediat progress of the survey.
 CiboIa Development Company
 A stock company to be known the Cibola Development Company wa organized with an initial subscription of one hundred and twenty-one share of stock The charter members, il meeting assembled, elected A. D. Mel son as temporary chairman, and Ci