Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-23
MAJOR POWELL'S PULL.
Very Valuable Water and Reservoir
Privileges Gobbled by the US.
Geological Survey.
Home Euterprise Stified by the Action of
the Powell Clique-Lands with
drawn from Entry.

In accordance with the recommenda.
! ton OF j. w. Powell, director of the u s
geological survey, the general land office
has just withdrawn from entry, in the in.
terest Of the Powell idea of recaiming the
arid lands. large number of water stor.
age reservoir sites at various points in
New Mexico. These segregated sites, ac
cor1ing to papers filed in the U. S. land
Office at Santa Fe, are, in the Santa Fe
land district alone. thirty-three in mum
ber, and if the other three land districts
average as high, the amount OF choice
valley lands thus taken out of the market
will reach a very high acreage, to say
nothing OF the value of the waters which
their withdrawal also deprives settlers
from using. Appended is a partial list
of the reservoir sites and waters thus
reserved" by Major Powell for the use
OF the government:
Reservoir site No. lon the West
boundary Of the Terra Amarillo grant,
at Horse lake, Rio Arriba county; area,
| ,l20 acres.
Site No. AT Boulder lake, Rio Arri-
ba county; twenty miles south of the
Colorado line; area, 2,250 acres.
Site No. 3.-At Sinking lake, Rio
Arriba county, about thirty miles south of
Colorado line; area, $3.50 acres.
Site No. 4.-On Vallecito creek, Rio
Arriba county; area, 100 acres.
Site No. 5.-On FL Rito creek, Rio
Arriba county; area 200 acres.
Site No. 6.-On Vallecito creek, Rio
Arfiba county; township 25 north, range
8 east; area sixty-three acres.
Site No. 7.-On Rio Caliente, Rio Arri-
ba county area, ,05S.S0 acres.
Site No. Son Arroyo Hondo, Taos
county area fifty acres.
Site No. a.-On Rio Colorado, twenty
miles north of Taos village and fifteen
miles east OF the Rio Grande; area, 270
acres.
Site No. 10.-On Picuris creek, Picuris
Pueblo grant. Taos county; area, sixty
two acres.
Site No. IL On Picuris Pueblo grant,
Taos county; area, 23G acres.
Site No. 12-Dam site at Santa Fe
Southern crossing of the Rio Grande, on
San lldefonso and Santa Clara grants,
Santa Fe county; area, 800 acres.
Site No. l3-On East Fork of the Rio
Jemez, Vale Grande, Baca location No. l
Bernalillo county; area, 4,030 acres.
Site No. l4-On San Antonio creek,
Baca location No. |, Bernalilio county
area 256 acres.
Site No. l5-Ssn Antonio valley, head
waters Rio Jemez, Bernalllo county;
area 2l2 acres.
Site No. lG-In San Antonio valley,
Baea Location No. l, Bernalillo county,
area 575 acres.
Site No. lion Rio San Antonio, Je-
mez mountains, Bernalillo county; area
l,043 acres.
Site No. lS.-In southern part OF Es-
piritu Santo grant, Bernalilo county; area
155 acres.
Site No. 19-On Rio Jemez, below San
ia Ana pueblo grant, Bernalillo county;
area ,640 acres.
Site No. 20-On Rio Santa Fe, seven
miles east of the city Of Santa Fe; (Robt.
Ewing homestead location for which E.
B. Seward now holds U. S. PATENT
area 200 acres.
Site No. 2l.--At the town OF Condillo,
at the junction of Rio Phnchillo and Rio
Medic; area, forty-five acres.
Site No. 22.-On Rio Mora, just above
La Cueva, Mora county; 620 acres.
Site No. 23.-On Mora river, above La
Cueva; area, l,770 acres.
Site No. "a. AT the town OF Sapillo,
Mora and Las Vegas grants, San Miguel
county; area ,032 acres.
Site No 25.-Cherry valley lake, resi-
voir to be filled from Mora river, Mora
area, 400 acres.