Arizona republican., 1913-07-03

holders of the association.
 As to proposed amendment two:
 Article NH, Section 3. provides
 that assessments for the ordinary
 cost of operation. maintenance and repair of the works of the associa :
 tiOn, or of those the maintenance and
 control of which are, or may be here
 after, lodged in the association shall
 be equally assessed against all the
 shareholders in proportion to the
 number of shares held by them.
 respectively. Section , of the same article provides that special assess
 ments for purposes that are a benefit
 to part only of the shareholders
 may be assessed against the share holders benefiting thereby
 The lands under the Highline canal for the service of water require that water must be pumped from the or dinary gravity level forty feet bv electric energy to put the water in 1 extent the cost of maintenance and 1 operation is largely increased as to [ those particular lands. To avoid any ! question as to the right of the asso- ! claton to assess against such lands l the extra cost of the lift of the water from the gravity level the forty 1 feet necessary to put the water into 1 the Highline canal, amendment two is proposed, and it provides that all the extra charge of such lifting shall be assessed against and borne by the 1 lands under said canal on the theory that it is a special benefit to those lands and those only. and should be l borne by them alone. instead of being borne by the whole project That such excess cost of maintenance and operation should be borne by those lands was the understanding between the landowners and the United States government when the contract for the l building of the Highline canal was made; and to avoid any question as , to the right of the association to so | assess and levy such charges. amend i ment two is proposed, and should be | ratified by the shareholders Of the | associatio
 AS to proposed amendment three: |
 The purpose of such proposed l amendment is to further enlarge the 1 powers of the association, so that | during such time as the project may | be incomplete and some lands in the | project be not in position. with the ! present distributing system. to receive | service Of water. that in leVying as 1 sessmentS for maintenance and opera | ton, the association may exclude from |
  maintenance and operation all those lands which are then unable by req son of an inadequate distributing system to secure service of water. but may assess the entire cost of 1 the maintenance and operation of the entire system against that portion of the lands in the project that are either actually receiving service of water or are in condition to ask for and receive service of water to their lands, a proposition which is clearly just and fair No lands that have laterals leading 10 them sufficient in size to carry water for their irriga- tiOn and which are also entitled to demand and receive service of water should be exempt from the obligation to bear their proportionate part of the cost of maintenance and operation of the distributing system. and no lands which are not in cultivation and cannot be put in cultivation through no fault of the owners. should be liable for maintenance and operation charges until such time as the distributing system is completed to them through which they can be served with water for their irrigation.
 The three proposed amendments. as before stated, have been favorably
  and the council of the association and submitted to the secretary of the in teriOr and by him approved, and lack only the approval of the share holders of the association to make them effective; and it is earnestly requested that all shareholders of the association vote affirmatively up- | on said proposed amendments and each of them.
 As to proposition four, which ap- | pears first on the ballot:
 At the conference of water users held in Washington May 1st to May 17th. the secretary of the interior in timated that whenever requested to do SD, he was prepared to turn over to the water users associations under the various projects as large a control of the maintenance and operation of the distributing systems as the recla- nation act and amendments thereto permitted and as the conditions under the various projects would warrant By letter of date June 21, 1913, the secretary of the interior, Honorable Franklin K Lane, states that be- fore turning over to the association any such control of the maintenance and operation Of the canals and dis tributing system, "it is essential that there be clearly expressed desire on the part of at least two thirds of the stockholders representing two thirds of the irrigable acreage that the government turn over to the as sociation the operation and mainten- ance of the system, and that the as a body are willing , to assume the obligations incident to such management by them guaran- teeing the effective protection ana I
 rLyc | out of all understandings or agree ments incident to control of thlS and later stating, As suming that tWo-thirds of the stock holders representing tWO-thirds or tho acrna oe desire the association to