Arizona republican., 1913-12-16
Would Assess Each Acre
 Two Dollars a Year for Five Years; Three Dol lars Thereafter Until
 Building Charge Is Paid.
COSTS
 PAID SEPARATELY
Governors Name Relief Committee for Owners of Waterless Lands and Put Up Two Amendments to Reclamation Law.

ReclamaClOn Law.
 In answer to the request of the secretary of the interior for a recom- mendation as to the manner of as- sessing the cost charges on the Salt River reclamation works, the board of governors of the Water Users sociation yesterday passed on a pro- position anent the payment method In effect, an extension of the time of the final payment to twenty two years from the opening, the plan advanced by the governors ia really only a change in the manner of grading the repayments for the expenditures of lhC reclamation service. It simply cuts the period of payment into two parts. assesses the acre two dollars d year for the first five years and three collars year thereafter until the entire cost is repaid Figured on a basis of $60 an acre, the time Of the last payment will be found to fall twenty-two years from the date Ci the projects opening.
 From the power plants, the entire profit will be turned back to the credit of the project as soon as it is open. The income from this source, it is estimated. will reduce the pay ments to s15O an acre a year. A very low estimate of the net income If the power division is $300,o0O q year, which divided among 100000 acres yields s1.50 an acre return. Thus without reducing the time al lowed for payment. the power income will halve the amount after aboutsfive years. Add to this. the fact the s,,to or. deferred installments. under the 'N ear of grace" amendment, and the IrOspect brightens considerably.
 The plan was worked out by Cap tain George D. Christy. legal advisor to the Water Users association. 1t is a complete modification of the plans suggested by other projects for use in connection with this. The letter bearing the recommendation of the water users, will be transmitted to the Washington office of the rec lamatiOn service within a few days
 Trouble Committee
 To take care of the complaints Of newly established residents of the farm districts against the rule that denies them water. the board yester day appointed a committee to hold hearings The difficulty arises con- Cerning the use of water by new owners of old land. For instance man buys land that nas been served with all the water allowed under the apportionment act of the reclamation service last fall. He takes over his property in perfect good faith, but in applying for water at the reclamation office. he is told that section of land cannot be served. that it has had all the water due it under the shortage rule. This naturally shocks him. and until he can be shown what the conditions are he is apt to be pess- imistic concerning the good that re- suits from the government's opera ticn of the irrigation system. The committed which consists of Presi dent John Orme and Directors Han son and Dobson. will look into eases cf this sort. and if it finds them deserving. will make recommenda- tions that will lead 70 relief
 This committee vii! have an i'm rortant work to do. At this time there are numerous instances of hard ship being worked by this regulation, and until the committee gets in it's work some certain lands must be dry. On one quarter section near Chand- Ter. there are nine new families, none of whom may get water until their cases are investigated and the rules ot the U. & R: S. withdrawn.
 The committee will work at the Water Users building and applicants must hereafter come to that place to get their cases before the court
 The time extension plan suggested hy an outside project and revised considerably at yesterday mornings session of the governors. was as fol- lows:
 Delay the first pay ment two years. Then for five years pay S2 an acre per year This would make the amount paid on the hypothetical $60 an acre. SIC at the end of seven years In the meantime the mainten- arce and operation charges would have been growing continually, as no provision is made for the payment of the running expenses of the project between the time of opening and that of the turning over of the system to the farmers The result of this sys- tenn would he to charge the farmers an eternal interest on their invest ment; they would owe more at the end of ten years than when the project was opened.
 Under the system recommended by
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