Arizona republican., 1913-07-20
proved as follows:

proved as follows:
 The first one will permit the as sociation to engage in the sale of power for any purpose and for pro- fit, thus removing the limitation set by the original articles, which re- stricted the use and sale of power to irrigation purposes. The second amendment permits the charge of the additional cost due to lifting water from the gravity level to higher level canal instead of making flat rate for all lands as was the case before The other amendment ap- proves the plan to charge the mini mum rate for water service against all lands for which water is avail able-that is where laterals and ditches are in service.
 As was stated before the election it was understood that the eXpres- sion of opinion regarding the advisa bility of taking over the operation and maintenance of the project eith- CT in whole or in part was merely of an advisory nature The plan having been approved by vote of nearly three to one and approval having been received from Washing ton that this vote will be considered
 
 water users generally, negotiations will now proceed toward making the proposition effective. As is probably known, joint meetings of the board of governors and council are provid- ed for quarterly by a bylaw of the association recently adopted. The first of these quarterly meetings, un- der the new bylaw, will be held the first Monday in August, and this promises to be one of the most inn pOrtant meetings ever held by the as sociatiOn. At this meeting it is de- sired to have a full attendance of both representative bodies so that the policy of the association may be outlined and tentative plans prepar- ed to guide in the negotiations with the secretary of the interior, looking toward the consummatiOn of this proposition. It is understood of course, that whatever agreement may be settled upon in the negotiation between the association and govern ment will necessarily have to be ap- proved by formal vote of the share holders before it can become effec- tive. Just what conditions may be laid down by the secretary of the interior are not known in detail at this time, but whatever they are it does not follow that they need be accepted and the agreement entered into, unless everything is satisfactory to the water users themselves, and they approve the papers by their vote.
 In connection with the management of the project it is well to refer at this time to present water conditions n 10 flow of the river up to the present date was on July II, when there were only 8S45 miners inches record ed in the river. When it is taken into consideration that there have been added to the irrigated acreage this year a total of 54,OOO acres over last year, making in cultivation ap- proXimately 1SS, 900 acres, including the lands under the Tempe and Utah canals, it may readily be seen where the valley would have been without the reservoir. The normal flow at it's lowest would have irrigated only 3500O acres or in other words with out the reservoir over 10000 acres would have been without water this month. As it was the maximum diversion was on Thursday of this week when there was delivered from the canals to the north side lands 59,OOO to the south side 31,0O0, under the joint head 2700 and to the Utah 1000 inches, making a total of 94,0O0 inches.
 When it is considered that the present crop year is the best the valley has ever had in all the princi- pal crops and that without the reser- voir there would have been practi- cally no production from 10000 acres, the value to the valley. in this one season of the use of the reservoir estimated on a cOnserVat tive basis would be at least three million dol lars.
 JOHN Pl ORME,
 President Salt River Valley Water Users Association