The Coconino sun., 1925-02-13
IN THE STATE
LEGISLATURE

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ty supervisorial districts.
The house passed two bills, one
making it misdemeanor to furnish /
false information to a newspaper for I
publication. The other amends the
law regarding the appointment of
school principals and superintendents. |
Under the present law such officials |
of the schools may be appointed in
schools having an average attendance
of not less than 600 Under. the
amended act, an attendance of 400 will |
be sufficient.
On Friday there was read in each
house communication from the gov
ernor transmitting the report of for
mer Surveyor General Frank P. Trott, /
the head of a party which early in
the winter made an investigation of
the character of the country in the
vicinity of Bridge canyon and Spencer
canyon in the Colorado river, rather
for the purpose Of ascertaining the
height of water level from which
canals might be taken out for the irri
cation of large areas of land; to in 1
vestigate the practicability of such
irrigation enterprises.
An important part Of the program
of the party was to determine defi-
nitely the elevation of the low water
surface at the aforementioned points
and settle a dispute involving diff
ference between the figures of the
Arizona engineering commission as to
both sites and those of Col c. H.
Birdseye, this difference being about
$50 feet. AS result of the investi-
! ~ 14%x hot
the figures of Colonel Birdseye and
Colonel Kelly were more nearly cor
rect Taking those figures it is shown
i that a dam 900 feet high at Spencer
canyon and one 800 feet high at
| Bridge canyon would materially alter
the length of the tunneling described
by the Arizona engineering commits
sion as necessary.
The report closed with the follow
ing statement:
"As we have no definite knowledge
of the character of the rock or soill
on the line of any of these proposed
locations, we cannot make an esti
mate of the cost of excavation or tun
mel work. We also have no definite
! knowledge of the area of land that
hes under any of these lines feasible
for irrigation, consequently we do
not recommend the construction Of
either. However, we are firmly of the
opinion that the Bridge canyon dam
site is the highest site available for
1 irrigation in Arizona, and should the
| Boulder canyon dam be built to an
elevation above 900 feet it would flood
this site and all intervening sites and
! might forever limit the productive
lands in Arizona to possible area of
about eight hundred thousand acres,
and having this belief, with the in
formation obtained on this survey and
! from other reliable sources, we feel it
to be our duty to recommend that fur
ther Investigations for canal sos be
/ diverted from Spencer or Bridge can
yon be made, for if canal can be
/ feasibly constructed from either dam
i it will add two or more million acres
/ of productive land to Arizona"
1 House bill 81, providing for the Sc
gregation of pupils of the African and
/ Caucasian races in the high schools
developed considerable opposition on
/ the ground that it was unnecessary
4 An amendment was offered leaving
j the matter of segregation to the high
/ school districts. That amendment was
4 ordered printed and no further action
/ was taken on the bill.
! To Make NormaIs Teachers Colleges
1 A bill for raising the two normal
/ schools to the eminence of teachers
/ colleges was introduced in the house
! Saturday by Mr.. Finch. 1t is brief
measure, simply making change OF
/ the names of the two institutions and
/ providing for adding to the present
/ curriculum four-years' teachers
training course eliminating IN the be-
| stowal upon those completing the
course of the degree of bachelor of
/ education. None of the present func-
tions, duties and responsibilities OF
| the management of the institutions
are abrogated. No change is made IN
the relations of the two institutions to
! the public school districts and the nor
NAL training school.
The name of the Tempe Normal
would henceforth be "The State
I Teachers College of Tempe, Arizona"
the name of the northern normal
would be "The State Teachers College
at Flagstaff, Arizona"
The passage of this bill would raise
both normal schools in Arizona to
( class A in the Standardization OF nor
NAL schools in the United States. The
alumni of the state wish to see these
/ schools taken out of class G, the
! lowest rank of normal schools to which
they have been dropped in the last few
years. Arizona is now one of II
states that have not advanced one or
more Of their normal schools to first
rank. 1t is the only state in the south
west remaining in the third class.
The bill calls for no additional cost
to the state for the next two years.
There will be no change in the di-
ploma granted to teachers for the
present two-years' course. The bill
itself safeguards this provision.
Organizations throughout the state
interested in the advancement of edu-
cation in Arizona, are supporting the
alumni in their work for this measure.
Senate bill 20, the first law passed
by the present legislature was signed
by Governor Hunt, Monday.
The bill, introduced into the legis-
lature by Senator Leslie c. Hardy of
Santa Cruz county, is a measure de-
signed to relieve Warden Sims of the
state penitentiary of any responsible