Arizona republican., 1913-11-18
SURVEY BOARD
 MEETS TODAY
Chairman Hanna Arrives and Calls His ConfrcGcs Together for Preliminary Meet Today; Big Prob lem Before Commission.

Following the arrival from Salt Lake city yesterday of Chairman F. L. Hanna of the Salt river project survey board, came the order calling q meeting of the board for organiza- tion at ten this morning. The other members of the commission are w. A Parish, construction engineer of the project and Frank Parker, for merly secretary of the Water Users association and more recently register of the land office for Arizona. The first meeting, q closed one for organ ization and planning only will be held in the board room, which the water users have offered for the pur- pose.
 Project limiting is a new experience to Mir. Hanna, whose reclamation work has covered practically every department of the game. T would like to see this work finished soon, but I don't see any chance of it." he remarked yesterday. He could not say just how long it is going to take 10 complete the work of sorting the eligible from ineligible acres and fix ing the bounds of the project.
 "Our work will consist of field sur veys and office work. the latter start ing at once. Although the exterior boundary line of the project has been fixed by the supervising engineer, We have the power to change it. But this is farthest from our plans. All our limiting will consist in discrimin- ating between lands" in various stages of priority. and having diff ferent sorts of rights. There will be certrain tracts excluded from the pro ject but so far as I know, there will he little change in the shape of the irrigated area.
 The work will be based on a study of water duty and water supply. Us 1 ing these two as factors, we can easily find the acreage that conforms to existing conditions of supply and i service, and in this way we approach 1 the end of our preliminary labors. | For instance we discover, by means | of a close study of an immense ! amount of data, just what the sup i ply possibilities of the basin are. and i in the same careful manner we figure [ out the very lowest amount of water | absolutely necessary to the complete | service of Salt river valley lands | under all sorts of conditions of tlling I and croppage, and by combining the two we find out the acreage limits of the supply's capacity. This office work will necessitate long close scrutiny of the records of flow of tontO. Salt and Verde rivers includ- ing floods. the close calculation of Nvasteaee between the point of turn out and the land and innumerable other factors Then with all the paper data possible to collect, We shall start hearings at which we eX- pect to determine property rights, priority rights, canal rights and such that time This will occupy some time. Then in addition there will be some field work in which MT. Parish will bring his training and knoWl- edge in to play. and then, perhaps We will be in a position to say that We are pretty near through"
 New Irrigation Super
 I. O'DonneIl of Montana is the new superintendent of irrigation, and q member of the commission The title of the new appointee is not vet strict ly defined among reclamation men, as it differs somewhat from that of George Barton French, recently re- signed from the post of director of operation and maintenance. Accord ing to Mr Hanna. ODonnell's work will probably consist of the direction of actual iddigation, the superintend- ence of the canal riders. zanjeros and those who come into actual touch with the water users.
 O'Donnen is a student of irriga- ton, a lecturer, member of pretty nearly all the conservation organiza tions. a trained man and better than aII a successful applier of his preach ings in his own lands. His hobby is alfalfa, in which he believes inn plicitly.
 Salt Lake Conference
 At the Salt Lake conference of ir- rigation men, who discussed the prob lem of system operation. To this con ference were appointed representa- r, tives from every Irrigation district. Engineer Foster of the Carlsbad pro- ject in New Mexico represented the southern district in which Arizona is