Arizona republican., 1916-05-02
The Board Meeting

the envoyS in Washington ana recom- m4nded widening the Eastern canal to carry tho water for the exposed Consolidated canal. The new board reelected all the of- iic,rs Of tin, association eNaeut the engineer. whose case was deferred ou, of courtesy to the council. which was figuring on manager
 Routine matters were disposed Of md then the board and council met jointly Vice President r.. w. Wilbu~ presided The first motion was bv F. Hali. Uho wanted consideration of tha manager plan. though action had been deferred in the council The matter Was deferred for three months.
 Annual Report
 May l. 1916
 Following the custom of receut {. years the following outline is given 1 of some of the work of the salt River, Valley Water Users association dur ing the plst year
 The association wear started with i preparations being made for the re- view of the cost of the project by the local board appointed for tha, pur- nose jointly with The secretary of the interior The presentation and dis cussion of the figures followed and the majority If tie local board agreed upon climinations from the book cost ! Of S3."52 S0S33. leaving % balancei 1 cha.geable to Inc project of $7137-i | 341e7, or S4l.4l an acre fer the l72.- e4S acres of cultivated land listed by the .oard of survey The minority report recommended elimination of a total ul S6i .220.42 The central board of review accepted neither the ma 'or;ty nor minority reports but agreed Ipon eliminatiOns of S3S2 ,40S.63, mak | nc the total net cost S10,l0S, ,345 96. OF S60 an acre allowing for necessary aG- iustments. The reclamation cOmmis sion disresarded the recommendations of both the review boards and added some items to the total cost bringing t ul, to >10.951. .34137. which together with margin for additional eXpendi- lures would bring the acreage cost mp to y64
 IL was with view to securing the approval of the eliminations recom- nendcd by the local board of review that a hearing was sought, granted and k now being engaged in by rep resantativcs of the association in Washington, including Consulting En- gineer Fred A. Jones who was retained for that purpose after acting as a member of the lCcal board.
 4, this hearing the delegates were also instructed to secure the comDle- ton of the project by the development of all available sources of water, a' we'll as to secure reduction in th, cost
 Subsequent to the sessions of tn local cost review board, two members of the central board visited the pro ieci and made a personal inspection of some of the work.
 In accordance with the approval . the report )f the survey board elim mating various areas from the boun daries of the project and excludin, areas plated for residential purposes or the so-called townste areas, tn association has refunded assessment Nos. :. and (. levied for power pur noses. tO the amount of SIG, ,239. ( ' bis was "ealiZed from the levy of tn current assessment of which ther has been collected to date a total ( s260.434.2j. In the collection Of th last assessment there was q large de linquent lis, at the time of the offe for sale lasJ August when there wer 7Si parcels offered with a delin quencv of 41,000. Since that tim collections have been made on all bu 25G tracts leay ing approximately $lO 000 still delinquent.
 In cooperation with the reclamatio service in the operation of the proiec the association kas taken part i recommending the continuation of wa ter service to state or school land IT has also recommended the continu ance of water Service to the so-calle 32. coo acres left without permaner water supply with a view to the de veiopment If Q permanent source ( supply for this acreage. There Ina alfo been recommended the permaneI inclusion within the present cultivate area of list of class "A" lands. list of fractional areas which Ina been cultivated but for which wat' application had not been made regt iarly, anu also list of lands WhiC had been prepared for cultivation b' which through some error had failt to apply for water service.
 contract for carrying water ( proved and also new means of d.