Arizona republican., 1913-09-04
PROJECT BOUNDS ID BE DEFINED
Water Users Approve Sug- gestion for Commission of Three to Survey the Lands-Other Actions at Tuesday Session

The water situation, project limits, the Roosevelt road and many minor matters were up at the Tuesday meeting of the board of governors of he Water Users association. Facts concerning this momentOus conclaVe were not available until yesterday for following the junket to the canal bank after the meeting, every single member of the board, including the secretary, disappeared utterly from lha face of the earth, dispersing to their homes as silently as ghosts
 one of the most important matters was that of project boundaries old subject, which now seems near ing it's solution. For many moons this has been the bugbear at all meetings.
 Tn q letter to the association, the first assistant secretary of the in terior. A \. Jones, suggests that the association and the U. s. R. s. each appoint one of the members of a board of survey, the third member and chairman to be selected. appar entlX. by the secretary. This board will have as it's duties the surveying If the entire project, the comparison of water capacities with water duties a.4d the determination of the number of acres that can be safely served Then the board will select acres from olt of the entire valley to be includ- ed in the real, absolutely defined T reject" In selecting lands, after ull preliminaries are over, the board is tc keep in mind three suggestions If the secretary: the compactness of the proposed project, the preference of lands of high productivity over those of low and the faVoring of the man who cultiVates and lives on his own land. over him whose home is not where his fields lie.
 Roosevelt Toll Road
 If the state or the county does not find funds to repair and to keep the Roosevelt road in repair, the water users will ask the reclamation service to put9a toll station on the road, and make such charges as are necessary to fix the bad portions of the high way. This came as the result of an inquiry in MT. Jones letter. He asks the reason for the complaints on the Roosevelt road. The state of affairs is about this:
 The government built the road to transport supplies to the dam while buildin" was in progress. Then when the dam was completed. the govern ment naG no further use for it. But in the .neantime Globe and Phoenix had started an extensive use of the read. the state had built highways t5 it's upper and the county to it's .ower ter mIni Construction over, the road was not allowed to care for it self, until now. it is not in the pink
  fund fer keeping the road up. As the route lies thu ough government re- serves practically all the way, the highway cannot be turned ove~ 70 state O. county Tor UpSeep. The gov ernment asked the state to supply q fund out of Marioopa's share in the state appropriation, but reply was made that all this ccunty's share nad been tied up in the Tempe highway bridge. Then an attempt was made to get Maricopa county to repair the road, but this time the funds Were all being used on roads approaching the same Tempe bridge, so the Roosevelt scenic highway, the greatest in the world, went thrice begging.
 There is bound to be great noise when the proposal is made to impose a road tax on the swarms of vehicles passing daily to and fro on the Roosevelt road. But right now, the water users can see no other solution of the problem.
 By resolution, the governors asked the reclamation service to take over the cleaning of all ditches and lat erals in the valley, and to deliver and measure all water at the quarter section corner This is an urging to hasten with the replacement of prl- vate ditches with government laterals
 The recently imposed federation tan on acreages under irrigation projects was ignored by the governors When the Federated Water Users Associa-