The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-14
ACCOUNT Of THE
Days PROGRAM
(By H. n. WRENN)

acres of fertile land to cultivation was
taken here today, when the people
of the Florence-Casa Grande valley
were joined by interested folk from
other parts of the state to discuss the
problems of the project.
| The meeting opened with the call
ing to order by the chairman of the
San Carlos committee, Judge o. ].
Baughn.
After the invocation by the Rev.
DR.. Hunter, Judge Baughn proceeded
to make a general report of the years
work of the committee. He did not
make a written report, but discussed
the subject from set of trief notes,
covering the work of the committee
point by point.
After touching briefly on the great
meeting Of year ago, the organiza-
ton of the association and the selec-
ton of the same members of the land
owners committee under the diver
sion agreement, to be the committee
in charge of the work of the associa-
ton, Judge Baughn launched into a
general summary of the activities of
the committee during the year.
He mentioned that the committee
met Immediately after the meeting
of year ago and organized by elect
ing himself as chairman; M. T.
Clemans, treasurer, and w. S. Prouty,
temporary secretary Later Mr.. w.
w. Cochran of Tucson was chosen
for permanent secretary of the asso-
citation.
Work of Committee
The first work of the committee was
to get as many of the farmers and
landowners of the valley signed up
and paid up in the association as pos
sible This work was very materially
assisted by the cooperation of Mr..
w. P. Clemans of the Casa Grande
Valley bank, Mr. Dugald Stewart of
the Pinal Bank and Trust company,
and Mr.. ]. P. Brown of the First Ma
tional bank OF Florence. These gen
tlemen acted as temporary commit
tee to secure members of the associa-
ton and in very short time there
were enough signed up to insure the
committee funds for launching the
big drive.
At the request of the San Carlos
committee, committees from the Phoe-
nix and Tucson chambers of com
merce were appointed bw those bodies
to assist in the work. These commit
tees were taken over the valley and
given frst-hand knowledge of the
project. Moving pictures of the prof.
ect as a whole were made and sent
all over the state, and even exhibited
in other states; representatives, were
sent to reclamation conferences in
Salt Lake City, Washington, D. c.;
the League of the Southwest conven-
ton at Los Angeles; thousands upon
thousands of booklets prepared by
one of the best advertising experts in
the country, were sent out, and a tre-
mendous statewide interest devel-
oped.
U. S. r. S. Helps
Many meetings in furtherance OF
the committees aims were held in
Florence and Casa Grande, and in
Phoenix and Tucson Joint meetings
were held with the Tucson and Phoe-
nix chambers of commerce commit
tees and the active cooperation Of the
United States reclamation service and
the state of Arizona, through the gov
ernor and the land board, were en-
listed to the end that the reclamation
service of the government is today
preparing and compiling a complete
and up-to-date report on the project
as a whole. For this report the COM
mittee paid over the sum of $4,000 in
cash. and pledged themselves to pay
an additional $4,000 should the same
be necessary. This sum was supple
mented by an additional $4,000 put up
by the state of Arizona through the
governor and the land board. 1t is
expected that this report will be forth
coming this coming winter, and it goes
without saying that the same will be
favorable and will he the first definite
report of the reclamation service on
this project since the army board Of
engineers located the new damsite
with shallow bedrock, upstream from
the old and faulty damsite which was
condemned by government engineers
some fifteen or twenty years ago.
Judge Baughn's report showed that,
all in ALL the work of the committee
had brought the project into favora-
BILE notice all over the state and the
, southwest, and hence much nearer to
authorization.