Arizona republican., 1914-12-08
WATER USERS UNQUALIFIED
 ENDORSEMENT 0F COST PLAN

reservation that he should be strong ly urged to name bipartisan n- stead of reclamation officials as his two members of the local board of review
 Whether it was smart politics or inadvertency, the leaders got the two parts. There was a considera ble discussion, and the meeting finally passed the acceptance by a vote of l7 to governors and 16 to ? coun-
 cilmen, Messrs. Johnson, Casey, Kuchler and Creighton sticking out stoutly against any negotiations that would result in the project taking MT. Lanes way of assessing the cost. Then came the quiet exodus that left the meeting so slim and meager- fly attended that when the second part of the question was called to a vote. Charles w. Peterson was nov cd to inquire whether or not a quorum had to be present before le- gal business could be transacted. The roll was called, and it was found that the quorum was not present Among those who objected to having Iany truck with the secretary's plan, only J. J. Casey remained on the floor, and President Orme said
 the vote could not be put Mr Pe- terson then moved to adjourn, and it was so voted in a nasty rising from seats and putting on of hats. In fact, adjournment was so prompt and n 1,lsl yair r1
 Morse of the University of Arizona,
 was unable to deliver his message concerning the naming of a farm ad- visor for the Salt River valley, and the result is that the man who had been selected for this station, will be sent to some other place, where there IS more apparent interest in his presence and work.
 In the morning session. the govern ors transacted their regular monthly bill of business, and then swung onto some new matters that were brought before them. One was the proposi- ton submitted by Judge Joseph H. kibbey for a dozen water users. who want to build pumping plants, in or der that they may increase their wa ter supplies. The move was started under recent provision of the re- clamation rules which permit q man or group of men to build pumping l plants at convenient locations and to take from the canal system either there or any other point. such water as their plants can supply. The mat ! ter was referred to the construction committee, the association engineer, Mir. w. R. lliott and the project man. | ager. MT. c H. Fitch.
 A discussion arose over the pay 1 ment of two hundred dollars a month 10 Harry L. Hancock, the court wa 1 ter commissioner. There is gen | eral tendency among the associate 1 leaders, to cut expenses as much as possible, and as the several privately
 owned canals and the reclamation
 service pay Mir Hancock's salary,
 the leimbul sement really comes out 1 of the farmers pockets. A movement
 was started to have his stipend cut
 to s1200 a year, but the matter was referred to a committee, and there
 left for the present
 1 L. H. North-Covernor
 The councils morning session re- suited in the appointment by that body of L. H. North of Mesa to fill
 out the unexpired term of H. B.
 Morris, representative from the ninth irrigation district in the board of l governors.
 J. J. Casey, member of the board
 from District 1, arraigned the secre- tary's cost review plan in severe teims. He had it all lined up as follows:
 The water users are divided into
 four classes. The first class doesn' t
 want to pay a d-m cent. Class No
 ? wants to pay the $15 an acre which was originally contracted fol
 tc reimburse the reclamation fund
 for the Roosevelt dam. The third
 class would like to pay just what is
 right and fair. l consider myself
 a member of that class And the
 fourth class wants 10 pay all that
 is assessed by the reclamation
 service
 "The fourth class constitutes the
 real repudiators. for they cannot pay what they say they want to pay,"