Arizona republican., 1914-05-05
Council of Water Users Adds Title of Assistant Secretary to List of Of fees and Mrs. Troutman Gets the Job.
WORKING HOURS
 LAW FOR WOMEN
Not Effective When Stenog- rapher Is Given Title Among Officers-Board and Council Reorganize for Work of Year.

Mrs. Ada Troutman, assistant sec retary of the Salt River Valley Wa ter Users Association.
 Because the council-the new council-that met for the first time yesterday, feared the effect of the Arizona S-hour law for working wo- men. Mrs A. C. Troutman, steno- grapher, bookkeeper, information bu- reau, straightener of tangles. and woman of all work in the office of Secretary Van der Veer is now to be addressed under new title. As an officer of the association, with her name in small type under that of Dr. Van der Veer, on the sta tionery. Mrs. Troutman's employment does not make the association liable under the law.
 After deciding that everybody working for the water users aSSocla- ton was being we'll paid, the council refused to raise any salaries. But in the bylaw, creating the office of as sistant secretary is clause which reads-''to be subject to a remunera- tion not to exceed s1OO per month
 As that sum is higher than the pre- vious wage of Mrs. Troutman, this is a real raise" for her. A. s. Reed of Isaac district sue ceeded to. the vacant chair left by Dan P Jones, former president of the council. Gordon Tweed, for many years the clerk was reelected, as were the other officers by the board O. governors. Dr. Van der Veer re- mains as secretary. George Lutger- ding succeeds himself as treasurer and George D. Christy is yet ths le- gal adviser.
 Little was accomplished at the re- organization meetings of the two bodies yesterday The board decided to appropriate $500 to make movies and slides of the Salt River irriga- ton system for the Panama Pacific 1 exposition The council and board i together heard a report on the i pumping plants by Electrical En- ! gineer Elliott, and recommended that some money spent for borings i2 l the Verde reservoir site Approve Report The following letter from Secretary Lane approving the survey board re port was read to the board, which had already concurred in the report: l Salt River Valley Water Users As
 sociation,
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 { Gentlemen: Reconsideration has been given to the report of the board of survey regarding the principles to be adopted in the limitation of the Salt river project and also the report thereon of the board of review con consisting of Chief Enginer A. r. Davis, Supervisor of Irrigation | D. ODonnell. and Supervising Engineer F. w Hanna
 The principles governing the de-
 termination of the areas to be made part of the project and for which water right applications shall be ac- cepted under the reclamation act
 shall be as follows:
 l. The water supply according to
 present information available is suf- ficient for the irrigation Of 1l0OO0 acres and this is substantially equiv alent to the area of land now culti- vated within the proposed limits of
 the project excluding about 10000 acres of state school land which un- der the present law can not secure
 a water right under the reclamation
 act,
 ,. The cultivated lands for which
 water right application shall be ac-
 cepted under public notice to be
 hereafter issued shall be within the |, limits shown on the map accom- :
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