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Show BEAVER COUNTY IRRIGATION GOIPANY ELECTS OFFICERS AT ANHUAL MEETING The annual meeting- of the Heaver County Irrigation Company was held at the offices of the company yesterday and its proceedings are of interest, to a large number of people in, not only this community, but in various parts of California and elsewhere. There was a good attendance of stockholders and J-t,o;3i) shares of stock were represented at. the meeting'. The annual report of the direct- ors to the stockholders was read by Miss 1'. Holmes, who has been secretary for the corporation since its organization. A letter from A. M. McPherson, superintendent for the Delta Land & Water Company stated that the corporation he represents has as- sumed the expense incurred by the irrigation company for the hydrographic work which had been done at Beaver and at the source of the water supply of the Beaver River. This sum amounted to $1,31)3.34, and is largely represented by the salary of Engineer Robinson who has been do- ing the work. The same corporation assumed the expense of the litigation in the suit brought by the Beaver Bottoms people against the lieaver County Irrigation Co., and which amounts to $460, making a total for which the Delta Land At Water Company has given check of $1,853.34. It was stated in the letter that this action is not to be taken as establishing a precedent, hut hat the irrigation company might expect fair treat- ment from the parent organization at all times. The following were elected directors of the Beaver County Irrigation Company for the ensuing' year: A. M. McPherson, Miss G. P. Holmes, J. F. Wooley, I). A. Webster and Frank Austin. One of the first duties of the new board after organization will be the selection of the employes to conduct the business of distribution of the water and the various jobs of the corporation as work will commence in preparation for next season as soon as the weather permits. The new board elected A. M. McPherson, president, D. A. Webster, vice-president and Miss Holmes, secretary-treasurer. , EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS TO , 1 : THE STOCKOHOLPERS To the Stockholders of the Beaver County Irrigation Company: The accompanying financial statement for the year ended to-day is submitted by the treasurer for your information. Maintenance and Operation The expenses under this item have been higher than for 1915, due in part to the several heavy storms which caused damage to the canal system. It has been the practice in the matter of employing help for maintaining the canals to use the local stockholders wherever possible. In cost accounting, it will be noted that tire maintenance on the different dif-ferent branches of the system has been kept separately; and it will also be noted that the cost of such maintenance for the three north branches appears very low in comparison to the Minersville branch, which serves less than one-tenth of the area of the project but has cost more than one-third of the total maintenance and fully one-fourth of the operation. oper-ation. General It. will be noted that the office and reservoir expense is practically the same as for 1915, as is also the management expense, after deducting the contributions made by Delta Land & Water Company during the season. It will also be noted that the company has his year purchased two new Ford cars and has sold the old one, which was purchased from the Delta Land & Water Company at a price of $300.00 about two years ago. The company has also built a house and garage on the project for the manager's use and has furnished the house. - Our outstanding indeptedness at this time consists of $1700.00 due Milford State Bank on loans and on two small items of expense not yet due. Water Snpply The company did its utmost in the early spring of 1916 to obtain reliable re-liable data as to the precipitation during the winter on the water shed, and from all of the information we were able to get had every reason to believe in the early spring that the run-off for the year 1916 would he above the average year. However, owing to weather conditions the nut-: nut-: oil during the spring and summer was not so heavy as was expected. The weather iu the spring was very cold and backward. This retarded the i ruu-olf and undoubtedly cut the available water supply very materially. I Not withstanding this fact, approximn tely three acre feet of water for j each acre of land under cultivation was delivered to the project. Seeepage and distribution losses have been very high, but that is to be expected on I a new project and we anticipate that each succeeding year the seepage losses will be materially reduced as the canals naturally will silt up enough to prevent seepage and thus increase their carrying capacity. Never within with-in the knowledge of men experienced on irrigation projects has any new project been taxed with so lnrge a percentnge of newly cultivated lands, during the first and second years as the Milford project. As a matter of fact, about two-thirds of the land in the project was cultivated during the year 1 9 1 6 . Future it was wiili regret that the board of directors accepted the resignation resigna-tion of Mr. Arch M. Gilbert as manager, at their January meeting. Mr. Oilhert h.t': beer, with us practically from the beginning and we feel that tile lir.owledge he hs thus gained of the project, together wr'a his previous pre-vious training, made him a valuable man to our company. The matter of en:p!oving a new niannger has been left to the hoard to he elected on Jcnunry IS. and should he one of their first duties. We are pleased to report approximately TC.oo acre feet of water stored in the reservoir this date, or nearly double the amount stored on this date last year, with snow indications good for a laree spring run-off. Reports would indicate that the acreage to be irrigated on the project for 1917 will not he any larger than it was in 1916. Practically the entire canal sy-'tem has been denned and pat in repair re-pair for the comir.g season. Condition at the reservoir are in very satis-f.e satis-f.e torv shape. llespe- t iullv submitted. 1). A. WKiisTEl!. President. ; 0. I'. HOLMES. Secretary. make one of the biggest mines in the district. A big orebody can be confidently con-fidently expected here with almost any round. Adjoining this property is the Monitor mine, which is producing in the neighborhood of 20 cars of lead-silver lead-silver ore per month, carrying a gold content of from $6 to $10. Next conies the Moscow, the old-time old-time producer of the district, which has not failed in its steady stream of ore to the smelters for many years. The output here continues about 12 to 15 cars per month, consisting of several different classes of ore. among which is the recently discovered discov-ered product of straight zinc carbonate carbon-ate which is netting an average of $i500 per car. The 1400-foot level in the new shaft is beginning to show small bunches of ore which indicate the proximity of old oreshoots com ing down on their dip from the upper up-per workings. Lying between the lied Warrior and. the Moscow, is the Beaver Combination Com-bination properly, occupying a wedt;e shaped block of territory. This company com-pany has spent, about $20, "H" to date in its recently inaugurated campaign, cam-paign, and is still employing about twelve men. The Red Warrior Mining Co.. a Duluth organization, resumed operations oper-ations the first of the year. This old property produced several hundred thousand dollars In the past and the. ore was bet on a fault on the 5'i"-foot 5'i"-foot level. With new information r- -aecl iiiL' thee faults and the plan of ore depofit ion in g"iieral gained from other pnipej-iies in tie' same formation, this company is ronhdent-ly ronhdent-ly expecting to pick up the old ore-shoots ore-shoots on the other side of the fault within sixty days and put this mine l3'-k in th rl as- of lug pro lie -i s at m;."f. One of tV- mo t sen -a : o'- a I ore'o-!ie5 of the di-lriit wa- tousjfl ' in this property in the early days. which s-'nl tlm si nek up 7.00 pr share. Ii has been demonstrated that the orebodies go to depth in this district and (here is no reason why this cxperien re should not be. d u pi i-cn'ed i-cn'ed on n Ian:- r scale than ever, with the pn-si nt priee of metals and so mile) of tlm dead work already done -all of which means grealej-net grealej-net profit ami ultimate, actual value in the properly. The Pa lorn a mine js a Iso giving a good account of itself under 11m active ac-tive campaign of development now in force. The incline haft. now going down to the S'Oi level, i proving up t ?m main m on . n i I - i me eon t a ct wM'h is the underlyinc; fornn'Mon of 1 h : w hoi" d i ; r i ct . This work . ' ; 1 1 "re fo re. h a a 1m;i r ' n g upon the J whole (! i si riet and the e n co it ra g i n g . r ' ; dr : - c i 1 ' i : ' i ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 w w strike-, a re received with mn )i gra titration generally. The Ifo'i-jer Poy and Leonora mums on Mm e-.;iren;e north end of tie di-rrb-i are continuing fh ir ' n- !erL-"tic fi"Ve(,(n:eii WfrV. v.'i'h ep- j courffing results. |
