Arizona republican., 1913-11-11

l 1 place was rented in 1912 for a month l ly rental of $285 and afterward a supplemental agreement was made l whereby the rent was to be increased, l beginning November, 1912, $1O per month.
 Dr. Win WyIie entered suit against R. F. Williamson to quiet the title l to two mules, which Dr. Wylie claims
 to have been possessed of up to Oc- tober 7, 1913, when Williamson went I and took them The mules are valued
 at $2OO.
 ability that congress will be as fav-
 orable to the 20 year plan as is the sec
 retary himself. the director and even 1 MT Wilson, was what led to this sum-
 mary dismissal of the subject. There
 seemed no chance of the government
 relinqushing it's right to charge the
 farmers for the additions" to the pro
 ject, thereby holding strictly to the let
 ters of the original contract, which did
 not cover the features, so the board and council tabled the plan of the sec retary with but short discussion.
 To Finish Project.
 1 Although no project can ever be called finished" in the strict sense of l construction work on the Salt River
 system can go. and yet serve the pur- l poses for which it was planned. In the estimates of capable engineers. the sum of $1,700,O0O would complete the sys- tenn for all times. Some of this money need not be spent for 10 years-it might be held to replace structures that are all right now but which would wear out in that time. Yet there is some work on the project that must be done immediately-this winter. There is not a single sOuthside canal that carries enough water to serve the land for which it is designed. All three of the feeders of the Western and Highline systems do nOt provide over 2000 inches of water after local use is taken out. and this is a matter which must be considered seriously and soon. The joint meeting resolved to ask the de- partment for an immediate allotment of money for the purpose of enlarging the canals on the sOuthside. The main canal needs dredging and all the rest require some sort of work. The 2000 inches that get into the Western sys- tenn from the undersized. overworked feeders is not enough to serve the 14,- 900 acres contemplated.
 Hands Off Verde Water.
 There will be no appropriation of Verde water if the water users can prevent it. There remains no water in the Verde river, not appropriated either by prior lighters living along it's banks or by the Kent decree for the lands called Salt River project. A protest was passed against the appropriation of Verde water by any city, corpora tion or individual. It was aimed at the plan-rather hazy-to reservoir the water for the city of Phoenix, and at a proposition of some Yavapai county company to form an irrigation system up there. Verde water is mostly all flood. In fact flood water is so con- stant as to be almost normal flow. But outside of the water used by the ranch CTS in the little side valleys and that appropriated under the Kent decree, there is little left for anybody else.
 Watershed Once More.
 Hold onto the Salt and Verde wa tersheds until we can get grip" was the gist of an action taken by the joint meeting on that ever recurring subject, the basin lands above the twin rivers.
 Until congress may provide some means whereby the reclamation service may protect watersheds from grazing, the association wants the government to keep the forest service on the watch. The recent intimatiOn that the F. $. was tired of holding a big tract of un- fOrested land for another department brought on this hurried appeal. A committee composed of Kuchler, Jones and Reed of the council, Orme, Lassen and Morris of the board and the legal adviser, was appointed to draft resolutions asking that the watersheds remain in some sort of protection until the U. s. R. s. can be empowered to enforce grazing regulations thereon. Swapping Ends.
 Contrary to the expression of the members of the association at the July special sessions, the joint meeters dis approved the plan of taking over the maintenance and operation features of project administration. Nothing was said about ditch cleaning, but a mo- tion passed by unanimous vote to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that the M. and O. work be left in the hands of the reclamation | service-for the present.
 Council Meets.
 At a short separate meeting of the council, it was decided to fix some sal aries. mat or the legal adVlSer was | raised to $200O a year, the amendment | to take effect next year. The salaries l of the irrigation and electrical en- ] gineers were set at s5000 and s4000 re- 1 spectively It was argued that to hire 1 a cheap man would be like buying | cheap material. so the compensation was set where it would attract men of good ability.
 IO 1t 41 0a+ l ing started in to consider applications 1 for the two jobs. For irrigation en- | gineer there are 36 applicants and for , electrical engineer 70. It is understood l that among these are some very able l of cf cic