The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-07-25
ually the only winter flow of the Hon.


been absolutely the ONLY winte
flow, IS a thousand people in Ros
well. including the engineers in tn,
employ G.: the United States Recla
nation Service. can testify. The Hon
do reservoir. when built, cannot pos
sibly diminish this winter supply O
water one drop, Is it is located fiji
teen miles. farther up the Hondo ri
yer than the point where the Spring
rivers join it. There never is any win
Ter flow of the upper Hondo which
comes down as far as the city OF
Roswell, and which could get into
the Pecos as Mr.. Tracy claims, at
least there is never enough of it at
ter the old Hondo bitches are sup.
piled to be of any practical use.
The floods of the Hondo are almost
Universally in June, July and August,
which is the rainy season in this
country. and when the Pecos river.
exclusive of the HondO, runs more
water than the Carlsbad reservoirs
IAN hold. At such times it runs to
waste in enormous. and often in
alarming quantities. There are some
times large floods in the Pecos and
is tributaries in October and Nov
amber when the irrigating season is
pver, and when the water is of no
Use to anyone. The Hondo reservoir
will be supplied by the flood waters
Of the Hondo. and at times when if
hey were allowed to run down the
Pecos, they would be a nuisance in
stead of a blessing to the lower val
ley.
These facts are well known and
well studied by the owners and man
ayers of the Pecos Irrigation and I'M
provement Company before they I'M
lertook the building of the HOndo
reservoir to irrigate the new and rich
and Immediately under it. 1t is alb
surd to suppose hat they would have
planned to expend about $150.O00 to
construct a plant which. if Mr.. Tracy's
statements are correct, would have
lone irreparable injury to works own
I'd by themselves, and which cost ov-
r a million of dollars. The facts
herein stated are VIGOROUSLY well
Known by all old residents of the
including Mr.. Tracy himself.
t is impossible that he could be ig-
nOrant of them.
The Hondo reservoir will not dam
lge the Pecos Irrigation Company
nor those depending upon it for water
dollars worth, but when it is
built there will stand. firm as a rock
hysterical statement of President
Tracy that it will damage his compa-
ny at least $500, 900, and will put in
jeopardy property in the low-
r valley estimated to be worth six
millions of dollars, Notwithstanding.
If the latter statement is not all in
the protest. it is in the semi-official
statement of the Carlsbad Argus, a
of which MIR. McLenathen, Mr..
Fracy's partner, sent to the Secretary
If the Interior. in behalf of the far
ners of the Carlsbad district.
When the reservoir is built, people
will take Mr.. Tracy at his word, and
or a long time prospective settlers
the Pecos Valley will steer clear
that lower country as if it were
infested with the plague. If he had
to damage the property of his
company and of his friends, he could
not have done it more effectually.
Mr.. Hagerman has sold 800 acres
IF land owned by him in the Hondo1
reservoir site. and the old constfuc-
ton work thereon, and his right to
The waters OF the Hondo above the
point where the government dam is
"a
to the United States governs,
ment. That is to say, he has sold
he bought from the reorganiZa-
ton committee of the Pecos Irriga-
ton and Improvement Company. ex-
and reserving, however, for
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