Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-25
1T LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS.


The affairs of the Rio Grande Valley IT.
rlgation company, the object of which il
to take waters out IF the Rio Pecos al,
convey it to San Pedro and Golden TO,
washing ont the placer gold there, are
now beginning to assume proportions
that would seem to indicate success in the
outcome OF their efforts. Santa Fe county
residents have not been inclined to en-.
thuse much over this undertaking, re-
nemberlng their experience with the So
called Sandia pipe line, and hence they
have watched the progress OF this new
companys work to ascertain if they could
JUST HOW MUCH BOTTOM
there WIS to it. But it seems to be ali
right. Not the least suspicious omen
about it is the quiet, say-nothing. but
saw wood style in which the work has
| been naugurated. Citizens from the south
end of the county, who have all along
! been prone to say rs little as possible, are
now beginning to talk about this work as
q certainty, and they are backing not a
little upon the prosperous times such an
enterprise is sure to bring.
To-day the New MEXICAN learns that
construction work is actually in progress
at both ends of the line. Near Golden
some forty men and teams are engaged,
and above Glorieta, sixty-tive miles dis.
tant, where the water Is to come out of
the Rio Pecos, thirty-tive men are en-
ployed
PUTTING IN A STONE DAM
across the Pecos river, which is to form
the reservoir that supplies the pipe line.
Huge derricks have been erected on either
side of the stream for handling the mas
sive sections OF rock, and the work, to all
appearances, is being done in substantial
and workman-llke manner.
The route over which this water is to be
conveyed to the rich placer lands about
Golden and Pedro lies over the broad
mesa southeast Of Lamy junction and as
there are thousands OF acres of good agrl-
cultural lands ad jacent, the company pro-
poses also TO supply water for farming
purposes. 1t is not the intention to carry
the water in pipes all the way across the
country to the Tuerto placer gulches, as
has heretofore been understood. That
would
COST A MINT OF MONEY.
The pipe is to be four feet in diameter,
OF boiler iron, brought from the east in
sections, and put together on the ground,
but wherever possible, as would be the
case for nearly one-hali of the distance,
the waterway will consist simply of All
ordinary canal.
Judge Granville P. Halves, of New
York, and Mr.. A. j. White, also of New
York, are interested in the work, and
they have for several DAYS past been
lookiI g over the ground. 1t is said they
will he in the city IN a day or two. Judge !
Halves was here the other day, and the |
fact that his name is
ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENTERPRISE
has, since it became known here, con-
WINGED many that the backing OF the I'M
dertaking is all that it has been repre-
scented to be. Ii is said the company is
also closely identified with the Ortiz grant
people, Law son, Simpson K Co., 5. B.
Elkins and others of New York that it
has some 200 acres OF placer ground in
south Santa Fe county that will yield
from 81 cents to II per cubic yard, and
that S5,OUU,UJ0 of capital is pledged to
place water upon these pacers.
Ii the work progresses as now seems
certain genuine boom for Santa Fe
county will follow.