Arizona republican., 1914-02-25
Board of Trade Discusses Matter and Appoints Committee of Land Own CTS to Confer With Gov ernors of Water Users
FULL COOPERATION
 IN PROJECT URGED
First Steps to Secure Ad-
 ditional Necessary Works
 to Conserve the Water Wealth of Verde Taken. Horseshoe Site Available

As a result of a meeting of the board of directors of the board of trade held yesterday afternoon, movement will be undertaken at once to conserve the waters of the Verde river so that occurrences similar to those of this winter, when the river has three times been on a rampage, will not again be seen in this valley In this action the board of directors decided to work in harmony with the Water Users association in the full est and most complete cooperation in order that the desired end may be achieved in the shortest possible time. The outcome of the meeting after the fullest discussion of the subject was the appointment of committee of landowners of the val ley, each a member of the board or trade and water user, to meet with the board of governors of the Water Users association at the next meet ing on Monday, there to bring the subject still more prominently to the attention of the governing body of the great distributing system and to offer cooperation and assistance in securing the storage reservoir. The committee is composed of H. B. Will kinson, chairman; c. B. Laird, Dr. J. C. Norton, George Alkire and Harry Welch.
 The directors room was well filled when President Dennett called the meeting to order In addition to a gOodly number of directors, there were a number of interested citizens present and small delegation from Paradise Valley. The meeting got down to business in quick time. Dr. Dennett after stating briefly the ob- ject of the meeting. stated that as there were visitors present, the meet ing would be open for them to give an expression of their views.
 Dwight B. Heard spoke first. He referred to the recent floods in the Verde and said that they "have brought home very clearly the fact that large waste of Verde river water has gone on recently and that this ought to be stored Some time ago certain reports were made by tlSlHetIS upOH lue ItdSlDlllly Ol constructing a storage reservoir on the Verde. and the consensus of ex- pert opinion is that a very satisfac tory site can be secured at or near the mouth of the Horseshoe creek confluence with the Verde, located about thirty miles or so above Phoe- nix. Government ownership has re- served this for the use of the Salt river project MT. Heard said that the time has come for definite action for the construction of this much needed reservoir, but that whatever work was done must be done in the spirit of completest cooperation be- tween the board of trade and the Water Users association. He later suggested that steps be taken to make complete survey of the prop osition, as it had been found in the early work of the Salt river project that the information obtained by the complete survey first made was of untold benefit
 MT. Heard was followed by pr. Charles A. Vanderveer, secretary of the Water Users association. who stated that his association would be delighted to have the aid and assist ance of the board of trade in this important work. The matter had been much on the minds of the board of governors of the association and they had planned sooner or later to take it up definitely. but whether or not this would be done with funds raised on the project or with money from the government direct he was not in a position to state How ever. the site had been reserved for the use of the farmers of this pro- ject and they will not consider any other use of the waters of the river.
 Lincoln Fowler said that he viewed the matter very like a business man would look at his two accounts in