Arizona republican., 1921-03-05
Bylaws Of Waters Users Assn Amended To Ac- commodate Ranchers = President F. A. Reid Re ports To Council


 due and payable June i and delinquent July l. One dollar will be due and payable August 1 and delinquent Sep tember 1. This assessment will carry a 1 per cent month penalty from April for all payments deferred after that date.
 The water user who has paid the second half of assessment No. 12 does not incur the penalty as fixed by the secretary of the interior. In the same manner, any water user who desires to eliminate the penalty of 1 per cent a month may pay his second half Of the assessment in full. thereby saving at least per cent of his investment if he | were forced to borrow money at per cent
 President Reid's report and recom- l mendations follow in ruII:
 President Reid's Report
 At our last meeting of the board Of governors my recommendations to the board were as follows:
 In the matter of salary and wage re- auctions. after a very careful study by myself and the general superintendent, as to wages and salaries being paid by other business houses and corpora tions, we found that we could make some reductions in certain positions with the reduction which we have made in common labor will total ap- proximately 10 per cent of<our entire payroll or a total saving of about S4000 per month for the association, and that later on. when living conditions and other expenses have adjusted themselves to the new order of things. ! we may be able to make some further reductions. but the new scale should be made permanent Tor the next four months at least in order that we main tain the morals in our organization as nearly 100 per cent as possible The second recommendation was that the minimum charge for two acre feet of water service be reduced from S3.75 per acre to S2.10 per acre. The special assessment of s1e5 per acre voted on in the spring of 1920 remains the same. as the Improvements are | very essential and are necessary in or | der to keep the project lands in good shape and to enable the association to give the shareholders continued first class uninterrupted water service through our canal system.
 am able to make this reeommenda- ton with the added payment to the government of S406,000 for 1921-22, in- stead of s203.0oo for 192O-21, which will make direct saving to the share holders of s27' per acre for the 1e21- | 22 irrigation season, for the following reasons:
 | First That upon assuming the presi- dency of your association I started a reorganization of the working forces with the sole and only purpose of i building up for you an organization l second to none. One that you could point to with pride and say that you ! were getting the maximum amount of service With the minimum amount of expense, and I want to say that in my opinion we have today one of the most loyal and efficient organizations in the state. due not alone to my efforts, but in the greatest measure to your super intendent, secretary, treasurer and the heads of departments throughout the entire organization, and I want you to know that without this kind of support 1t would be impossible for me to have made the savings that have been eff , fected
 I have been subject to a great deal
 of criticism lately because I expressed
 myself in favor of maintaining the present scale of salaries in the face of the general depression in the valley The results which we have obtained. l
 think, will be a sufficient answer to all critics. as the view I take of this whole ! business is that the salaries are a mere drop in the bucket when it is consid- cred that by keeping the proper people
 in the right positions we can make 2
 direct saving to the shareholders oi
 this project of approximately s550,0 5 per year. or S2.75 per acre on every acre of land in the reservoir district.
 Our general superintendent, c. c
 Cragin. who came with us July last
 has shown himself a man of rare iuds- 9 ment and ability. both as genera f manager and an engineer, and I thinl Is in class by himself when it come.
 to getting results both in savings ana
 in the selection of his assistants. ant
 by having such a man looking afteI
 your interest we have now an organi.
 zation which can do any class or kin,
 or work or compile information whicl heretofore you have had to empIo,
 outside assistance at large retaine
 fees when you wanted anything ont O
 the ordinary done
 We have effected a great saving ius S recently on the power investigation
 which we have been doing. and wil
 within 30 days have this complete s
 that we can devise ways and mean
 to finance our future power develop ,6 lnent which, to my mind, is essentia ,a and can be accomplished if sufficien ,o energy is devoted to this work On ~ intentions are that we will keep at thi 'o important work until we haya accon, IS plished the thing which has been on D Of my hobbies, and that is that the as
 sociation take care of our fast-growin
 future power market thereby som
 time in the near future receivin
 enough revenues out of the power f
 pay all obligations to the governmer
 and the operation and maintenance ex
 penses of the whole project. By th pA OpCt SLuuy dIiu supervision
 power revenues have been increased E D, per cent over previous years, which i 'A measure shows what can be don
 along this line
 My other recommendation made ou the board was that since we have bee % able to get the consent Of the secre 45 tary to an extension of the payment
 the government that rhe second half ,
 the assessment for this irrigation sea or son be divided as foH1ows:
 oo FIrst-S1.70 payable March T deItr oo quent April 1, 1921. Second payme, % Sl per acre payable June l, deIinoueI . July l, with penalty of 1 per cent n, S1 month on deferred payment of s1 n,
 acre, which suggestion was concurrt in by 8 majority of the board in Il Ao form of a recommendation to the couI se ell to pass such bylaws, if agreeabl
 that will enable us to properly do thf b. This arrangement will enable us
 continue with the construction wol
 provided for by vote of shareholders
 For your Information I will say th
 kths fiEst payment on Assessnent B N bEss@ss<s <ssesauoe6 4es 70 Gszzfss sszr<aGz