Arizona republican., 1914-03-03
Water Users Adopt That Part of Survey Boards Recommendations Con- corning Horseshoe and Prepare for Filing
MUST GRAB FLOOD
 WATER AT ONCE
Water Right Reapportion- ment May Not Be Popu- lar, and Action Is De ferred Until Public Hear ings Next Week

Being assured it were better for tke Salt River project to grasp it's opportunity to add a Verde flood storage, the council and governors of the association in joint meeting yes terday adopted a resolution accepting the survey boards recommendations viOr
 The year 1914 will witness dirt flying on the dam site.
 The addition of the Verde flood waters will make it possible to ex- tend the project limits to total 211,- 600 acres.
 Over two hundred thousand acre feet of water have been wasted from Verde floods since November
 This must be conserved, say the engineers, if the Salt River project is to be enabled to care for its con tracted acreage. which is at present 231 900 acres.
 It has been known for several days that the proposition of Horseshoe development would come to an issue shortly, but few expected it to break out as it did at a joint meeting oi the Water Users two governing bodies yesterday. In the midst of q droning conference on the report o1 the survey board and the related recommendations of the reclamation commission, the members were sud- denly yanked face to face with the fact that instant action would be necessary to preserve the valleys rights in the Verde flood water. Here vas the strange condition that was revealed.
 The government has withdrawn the site of the Horseshoe dam for the use of the Salt River project BUT THE VERDE FLOOD WATER IS APPROPRIABLE BY ALMOST ANY ONE
 A resolution was rushed through accepting that portion of the boards report concerning the addition of the Verde storage to that of the Salt. Counsel Christy was instructed to make legal filing at once on the un appropriated flood waters of the Yer de. And the reclamation commission was requested to take up the matter of construction of a reservoir.
 Here is the resolutions:
 Be it resolved by the board of governors and the council of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association in joint meeting as- sembled that the report of the survey board appointed by the secretary of the interior to define the limits of the Salt River pro- ject, and the recommendations of said board in so far as they re- late to the construction of the Horseshoe reservior upon the Verde River for use in connec-
 ton with the Salt River project, be and hereby are approved and
 that the said boald of governors and council earnestly request that said recommendation be speedily carried out and said Horseshoe reservior constructed by the re- clamation service as an integral part of the Salt River project
 Be it further resolved that the reclamation commission be re- quested to immediately take such action as shall protect and re- serve for storage in such reser- vior all unappropriated waters of the Verde River.
 Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be for
 warded to the secretary of the interior, the reclamation commis- sion, and our senators and con
 gressman.
 It is astonishing how closely re- lated are the subjects of the limit ing of the project and the addition of the Verde reservior. Digging up facts and figures for the project sur vey, the commission has uncovered the fact that the Verde floods will take care of what is now called extra acreage. President Orme and Coun- sel Christy brought word from Wash
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