Arizona republican., 1914-02-22
FARMERS UNION
 STEPS FORWARD
Peoria Delegates to Meet ing Yesterday Instructed to Look for Timber for 1President of the Water Users Association

The sessions of the MaricOpa county farmers union, which is off, cially known as the Maricopa County Educational and Co-opera tive Union, developed some interesting informal tion yesterday, when delegates from all the unions in the county met to discuss the situations confronting the farmers in sthe valley. One of the highly interesting matters that devel- oped during the course of the day came in connection with the written instructions of the Peoria delegates. These gentlemen came into the meet ing with instructions to make a care full canvass of the field for available timber among the farmers to be en- dorsed for the position of president of the Water Users association. The Water Users primary will come with in the course of a few weeks. Action on this instruction was deferred for several weeks.
 This action was followed by an all most unanimous turning down of the county bond issue proposition. s. F. Mclean, a Mesa delegate, made the proposition in this case. He said that he was not unalterably opposed to the issue, but that he was opposed to it for a good while in the future. So few were the votes in favor of the bond issue that it caused comment.
 Then an endorsement emphatic and reassuring was made of the two Cali fornia eXpositions in 1915. The farm CTS want Arizona represented there The resolution was presented by F. II. Perkins of Peoria, and is as fol- lows:
 Be it resolved, that we, the mem bers of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union, in our county union assembled, do heartily endorse a plan of advertising the wonderful resources of, our great state at the two world fairs to be held in 1915 in San Francisco and San Diego, re- spectively, by the state erecting a suitable building at each place in which to display Arizonas exhibits. and ask that particular attention be given to the agricultural products of this state''
 The resolution was carried unan- imonsly.
 Then the matter of a terminal man, or representative for. the farmers in handling their produce for the mar ket,. was brought up. The question of salary or commission as compen- sation for the services of the terminal man took up quite a little time in the afternoon. Finally it was decided to pay commission on the net, and then c. J. Pollard, former secretary, was elected terminal man. He resigned his position as secretary, and F. H. Perkins was elected in his stead
 In the morning the matter of the small grain rates was up for discus sion. Letters were read from both the Santa Fe and the Arizona East ern railroads, drawing attention to the fact that the rate between Phoenix and Los Angeles on small grains was not 4015 cents per hundred, as had been previously reported, but that it is 36 cents per hundred pounds. The letter stated that there is no differ ence in the rates on barley and milo, both being carried at the same rate. Recently the rate was reduced 10 per cent. The member who had drawn the attention of. the union at a pre- vious meeting to the high rate on small grains had obtained his infor- nation from a former tariff, in ignOr- ance of the fact that a reduction had been made.
 However, a committee was appoint ed to wait on the corporation com mission relative to the rate, as it was stated in the meeting that 36 cents is considered excessive. This commit tee is composed of Rudolph John son. w. A. Hood, "A. E. Russell, F. H. Perkins and Wes Wagoner., The com mittee will meet with the commission on Tuesday. By special action, the union placed itself back of the com mittee.
 Rudolph Kuchler of the Washing ton district and A. H. Terrill of the Peoria district were added to the board of directors. The organization is growing rapidly. During the day there were about forty delegates from the district unions present at the