The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
BUSY DAYS
FOR ClB0LA
SURVEY OF PROJECTED iRRIGA-
TON SYSTEM TO START THIS
MONTH-RANCHE ORGANIZE
STOCK COMPANY.

valley OI, roughly, twenty -iA'o 'o"
sand acres organized into an irriga-
ton district; etake the residue OF
it's people remaining through the
mer; segregate them as meeting OF
the Board of Directors of the irriga-
ton district; shake them together
as a hungry bunch around picnic
dinned table; assemble them as
mass meeting of citizens and, finally,
convene them as stockholders OF 1
newly organized stock company, and
throw in the death throes OF the
largest rattle Snake ever seen in Ci-
hola, for amusement, on the side
as it were, and you have a pOt-pour-
ri Of events sufficient to make l.
day memorable and the heat thers
of forgotten.
Moi so bad-eh? Perchance not,
Roderigo By the Lord AIRY there
are more things 'appen in Cibola
than are dreamed Of in thy Philoso-
ply 'Oratio!
The day was Monday, July 2Sth,
the date of the third meeting OF the
board of directors of the Cibola Val
ley Irrigation District. The occa-
sion was marked by the most enthu-
siastic and public spirited meeting
La11 in no
The Board Meeting.
The board in session passed reso-
lutions, in effect, as follows
Appointing g. A. Lindeman, OF Iu-
ma, Ariz., attorney for the district
Fixed the salaries of the officers
of the district, and of the employees
OH the survey crew soon to be put
in The field.
Authorized the expenditure or
funds for the purchase of supplies
needed in the survey.
Authorized the survey to com
mence as soon as supplies can be
received in the valley.
The board meeting then adjourn
ed.
Next in order of business was
the picnic dinner. The only mat
ter of the moment around the tables
was the slowing away of provisions
aud we certainly did some slowing!
The Citizens Mass Meeting.
At the mass meeting plans were
discussed relative to the supply OF
hay and grain needed when con
struction work is started on the
; canal system This discussion took
. the trend of ascertaining whether or
. not it would be possible to place
thousand acres under cultivation al
once, to raise barley hay or alfalfa
!: 1t was the opinion of some that il
will be possible to raise all neces-
sary feed in the valley. thereby re
ducing the cost of same to cOntrac-
tors and secure lower contract rates
OH the construction work. Others
held that feed could be imported
cheaper when considering the ex
pense of placing one thousand con
tiguous acres in shape for plant
ing. Finally an industrial commit
tee was appointed to investigate tn.
subject in detail and report to a
mass meeting which will be called
the latter part of August. The com
mittee follows: Edw. DeWein. chair
man, A. d. Nelson, secretary, Leo
Frankenberg, Carl M. Bishop, John
Nommels, l.. R. Birch.
A petition was sent OF the cOun-
ty hoard of supervisors to appoint
John Scribner as road supervisor of
the district, in order that needed
road improvements may be made al
once.
Arrangements were also made to
place the roads of the valley in shape
fer automobile. This work will b
done by the people at their own ex
pense. The labor thus volunteered
by the citizens will exceed the am
OGnt appropriated by the county. me
county will thereby receive above
three hundred dollars worth of work
for an expenditure of one hundred
and fifty dollars.
A party of automobile tourists en-
route from San Francisco to Phoe-
nix and the east will pass through
Cibola during August, proceeding via
Quartzsite and Bouse Captain Sin
clair of Parker and Ehrenberg has
established a ferry using his power
boat and a barge
The assessment of twenty five
cents per acre is due August 25, but
sufficient funds are already in the