Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-09
FOOT-HILL STORAGE.
Another Mammoth Water Project for
the Capital City-Nambc
Waters Coming.

Articles of incorporation of the Santa
Fe Water company were field in the
Office of the territorial secretary to-
day. The incorporators are julius
NJ. Howells, Jessie s. Howells, Samuel
II. Day, Levi A. Hughs, Max. Frost, Jas.
D. Hughes, J. W. Akers and E. L. Bart
lett.
The capital stock of the company is
100000 divided into 5000 shares of 500
each.
OBJECTS OF THE ENTERPRISE.
The purposes for which the company is
formed are the construction of reservoirs
and canals, bitches and pipe lines for the
purpose of supplying water for the pur-
pose of irrigation, mining, manufactur'
ing, domestic and other uses, including
cities and towns and for the purpose OF
colonization and improvement Of lands in
connection Herewith in the vicinity OF
Santa Fe.
THE MAIN CANALS.
The beginning point of the main line
of such canal, bitches or pipe line is on
the Nambe river, about one mile above
the falls of said river, known as "Salto
del Aqua" thence following the contour
of the country by suitable route in a
southerly direction to the reservoir sites
in the foothills Immediately northeast,
north and northwest of the city of Santa
Fe, the length of said main canal or pipe
line being twenty miles.
WHAT 1T MEANs.
This 10 the second step taken by the
original promoters of tho great reservoir
now nearing completion in the canon to-
ward supplying the capital city with a
most perfect water system and its mean
ing is significant as tending to show that
there is to be no relaxation of the present
efforts to crowd this system to compile
ton.
In this new undertaking is a bold move
that many Santa Feans, unfamiliar with
the lay of the mountains and the Nanbe
watershed, have never
EVEN COUNTED ON
as possibility in the economic develop
ment of water for the irrigation of the
valley lands adjacent to this city. 1t has
been fully gone over, however, and is in
every way feasible. The Nambe water
shed is much larger than that at the head
waters of the Rio Santa Fe, and actual
measurements made at various seasons
of the year show that the average flow of
water in the Nambe river is more than
THREE TIMES GREATER
than the flow that comes down tho Rio
Santa Fe. Not one but several storage
reservoirs are to be constructed by the
new company. Surveys for these and
the main canal line will begin next week.
An expert irrigation engineer in Cali
fornia has been employed for this purpose
and he will arrive here within three days
to inaugurate the work. There are dozens
of reservoir sites available in tho foot
hills northeast of the city, but whether
the water will be stored on the north or
the south side of the mountain spur has
yet to be determined by the survey.
The New MEXICAN feels assured that
this new enterprise will be
PUSHED RIGHT FORWARD.
Its Importance to tho welfare of this
community is beyond all present esti-
mating. As water is the basis of realty
values here this new undertaking must
necessarily have an immediate bearing
upon every interest calculated to the
building up of the capital city.
Another feature about it is that, with
this large supply of water from the Rio
Nambe and its numerous tributaries to
draw upon, the water companies will rely
less upoa the supply in the Rio Santa Fe
to fill their reservoirs, and thus the waters
of the latter stream will be available for
use in the old irrigation bitches.