Arizona sentinel., 1917-09-20
GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE INTERESTED
 IN "OUR BEI OWED YUMA MESA'
(By B. F. FLY.)

It is with unfeigned pleasure that make the an- nouncement that there's somehin doin the Mesa so just hold your breath while you read the good news
 The reclamation commission has appointed special board take up all pertaining the early sulting Engineer D. c. Henny of the U S. R. S., M Cay- lord chief electrical pumping plant engineer of the U S. R. s. and Hon. E. w. Burr, attorney in charge of irrigation districts of the U S. R. s. whose duty will be to come Yuma hold meetings with private land the and into final arrangements for placing irrgatng water on the first mesa unit.
 The first meeting will be held on or about September 2O or just thereafter the members of the special board have arrived in Yuma They due reach here by that date but barely possible that the meeting may be deferred day or two.
 Now my good friends that begins to look like business The announcement that matters pertaining open ing the have progressed this point should be hailed with great joy by all who interested in the prosperity of Yuma and Yuma Project for the construction of the Mesa Auxiliary Project will mean to this entire sec ton than all other agencies combined Therefore repeat that with uneigned pleasure that am enabled to make the official announcement as above set forth.
 It will entirely with the private land owners the whether they their lands be embraced the first If they do no why then and in that the will proceed open up the first unit be composed of public lands entirely lands that will he sold public auction when the big sale off this winter. It hardly be conceived however that the pr vate land the will refuse heartily cooper ate with the special board detailed confer with loca citizens this all important matter for it is the thing they have all been praying for during the last decade m their respective lines each of the three members of this spe cia board is regarded by the reclamation commission and Secretary Franklin R. Lane expert They know what the department and they know what should be done order place practically all the private lands in the first unit They will frankly tell the people how this can be done the best advantage After that will be almost wholly to the private land to whether they willing to ahead and have their lands bossomng like the pro- verbal in the spring time, whether they wait another decade before they hope reap the benefits they justly entitled for their long and impatient waiting.
 All details the survey the of the main canal and the laera for the have been completed to the smallest detail Project Manager Schecht realizing that work will begin the actual construction work the
 mesa has taken time by the foreock and sunk well in Sec ton for the purpose of utilizing the therefom for domestic purposes when he establishes the first consc ton camp belover mesa. The we'll sunk to a depth of l25 feet where good of almost nexhaus table quantity encountered forcing the water up POI feet Other details looking to early construction work or the nest have been attended and all in all be safely assumed that itS go the will be irrigated ar early date and Yuma will be the happest an6 most prosperous community in the entire west.
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