The Arizona copper camp., 1920-07-17
GREAT MEETING At FLORENCE OF
San CARLOS ASSOCIATION Will
BE OF GREAT IMPORT TO PINAL
FIRST ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF LAND
OWNERS ORGANIZATION SET FOR AUGUST
-. WILL DRAW CROWDS FROM ALL OVER
ARIZONA.

made whereby electric power may be
made available.
1t is also the intention of the farm
ers who would use this power, to see
that the plant is publicly-owned.
Doubtless a district will be organized
within which all lands will be bonded,
and the plant built, owned and oper-
ated by an organization of the farm
ers themselves.
A year ago on August 18th, a great
meeting of land owners with hold
ings within what would probably. bel
the project area when the San Carlos*
storage dam is built, met at the Union
High school in Florence. Some four
thousand land owners were present or
represented in the meeting. With a
unanimity of opinion and expression
of determined resolution never before
witnessed in the history. of this state,
this vast body organized itself into the
San Carlos association, levied an as
sessment of fifty cents per acre to
provide a fund for the purpose, Sc
lected committee to direct the work,
and launched a drive for the con-
struction of the great San Carlos dam
which has brought about definite and
positive results.
Tremendous strides in the direction
of the securing of this great and
needed benefit have been made. The
committee has done yeoman work in
tringing the project to the attention
of powerful interests in the national
government. Delegates were sent to
two conferences on reclamation mat
ters in Salt Lake City; to the meeting
of the western governors and the
executive committee of the Western
States Reclamation association in
Washington last winter; to the great
convention of the league of the South
west in Los Angeles last April, and
to various and sundry meetings in
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places. A congressional committee
has been taken over the project, theI
officials of the reclamation serviceI
have been interested, and provisions
has been made by the association to
secure complete and up-to-date rel
port on the entire project by theT
reclamation. service of the government.
This report was made necessary byI
reason of the changed agricultural
conditions as we'll as the enlarged
run-off figures as the result of more
accurate gauge data. The vast in
crease in the Salt river project over
the original estimates due to under
ground storage under the project lands
made necessary revision of the data
on the San Carlos project which /
would take this factor into consid-
Grafton. The new report will treat
the project as one to be a joint
pumped and stored water project right
from the start. This will mean the
addition of q considerable acreage
over all prior estimates. This new
report will undoubtedly be completed
sometime this coming winter
Officials of the reclamation service;
of the Indian service, and of various
branches of the government interested
in the matter, are expected to bel
present at the coming meeting. Large
delegations l'esides, are expected
from Phoenix, Mesa, Globe, Tucson,
Prescott, Bisbee and Douglas. Yuma
and other localities in the state, as
well as Los Angeles, Ell Paso, and
San Diego, are expected to send rep
resentatives.
The meeting this year will begin
with big basket luncheon, every
farmer and family being expected to|
bring their own eats. For the bach
elors and those from other towns,
there will be sandwich and lunch
stands on the ground where sand
wich and cold drink can be pur-
chased at reasonable figure. The
meeting will be held as before at the
Florence Union high school grounds.
A sports program for the children
has Keen provided with large num-
ber of juvenile events, but there will
be no sports events, races or base-|
ball game such as will attract the
grown-ups, as they will have serious
business to attend to. The swimming
pool will be in full blast and num-
ber of the events will be swimming
races, etc.
The executive committee of the as
sociation, the members of which have
directed this great work, is composed
of the following: Judge o. J. Baughn,
chairman; M T. Clemans, treasurer;
Judge P. D. Overfield, Hon. A. A.
Jayne, w. l. Davidson and W. S.
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