Arizona republican., 1914-04-07
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 BOARD
Governors of Water Users Associa tion Protest Against Planting of Weed As PrOvender for Ducks Along Rivers
There'll be no wild rice.

There'll be no wild rice.
 The board of governors of the Wa ter Users association has taken a decided stand against the proposal of the game warden to plant the unfor- ested sandbars of the Gila and Salt rivers with supreme duck food To prevent what they deem a possible plague of the fast growing and hardy wild rice, the members of the board yesterday protested most sturdily against the plan of seeding the river bottoms with the rice Not content with merely going on record as op- posed to the scheme, they have re- solved to ask the governor to stop the work and will later request the state legislature to make it unlawful for anybody to import and plant the seed.
 E. N. Hill, gate tender at Granite Reef was placed on the stand to testify against wild rice. He de- posed and said that the luXuriant growth of this plant would in course of two years make Johnson and Der muda grass look like a couple of three time pikers when it comes to stopping up perfectly good irrigation ditches. He described the conditions in the Huron river which is a river near Detroit, Michigan. The sedgy growth-the rice grows in, not near, the Water-had almost completely stopped up the water course, mak- ing a mere marsh of what had once been a grand stream. Where mo- tOrboat had been able to cruise at will, now no rowboat had thorough fare. Thirty miles of the river had been infested with the grassy stalks of the wild rice, which shows that it is something of a traveller when it gets started.
 Townsite Water
 Water rates for townsite lands were fixed by resolution of the board. Frank w. Hanna, supervis- ing engineer, appeared and testified about the previous rates, which had been set on basis of interest charged against all the project in vestments.
 A charge of $125 was set for res ervoir and d dollar for flood water.
 Mesa and Phoenix. being towns equipped with normal flow water rights, do not come under this classi- fication. The charge for these towns will be 75 cents an acre foot. Coun- try schools were allowed two acres for which free water will be supplied all others cash. Many schools have more than two acres and some as many as ten.
 Arizona Canal Widening.
 The board approved of the esti- mates on the cost of strengthening out that bend in the Arizona canal where the Cave Creek wash impacts upon it. There are about two miles of digging here, forming a sort of a i short cut across the mouth of the wash It will take about $500 to 1 do this work, structures included northward to meet the canal in its new location.
 San Carlos Project
 | Believing that what benefits the Gila valley will inure to the benefit of the whole state, the water users passed resolutions approving the work on the San Carlos dam.
 Regret Parish Going
 | Another resolution passed unani- mously by the water users was one 1 expressing regret at the Joss of w 1 A. Parish, who has been chosen as city manager for the city of Phoe- nix under the new charter. Parish: long service to the project, both as l construction engineer and in the or iginal work was commented upor
 with warm approval.