The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-10-08

pie problem in arithmetic, just as
simple as what will ten eggs cost st
| two cents apiece. Then you can he
safe in betting your soul on the re
suit. Let us get men on this commit
tee who beget and inspire confidence
When this committee reports. I'll
we can begin to devise the ways and
means. The question is, not now
how much have we got to raise, but
what it is that we must raise it for
l stand right here if necessary to
go down in my jeans and pay my
full part, whatever it may be. Now,
shod over any mans property. If a
mans property is to be damaged rut
that in the cost These are the
things this committee is to consider.
1t may take these men a month to
complete their work, but this is the
way, 1 believe, to go about the mat
ter
'Hoss" Cummins was the next
speaker. Mr.. Cummins did not seem
to take kindly to Mr.. Wells PROPOSE
ton, but was in favor of discussing
the proposition right there and then.
Mr.. Cummins said that he was an
old settler and knew just what he
was taking about In the early days
they didn't use to have floods here
not until Capt. Lea built some kind
of dam up the river, and Mr.. Cum
Minis thought these last two floods
were due to some dam that Mr.. Ha-
german or somebody else had built,
but as to who built them and where
they were he didn't just know, and
the sum and substance of his ralk
was damn the dams, and let the wa
ters take their course. Then the
Hondo reservoir would probably pre-
vent the floods, but on second thought |
Mr. Cummins thought there was dan
ger of this reservoir breaking and
causing a bigger flood than ever, aid
he wasn't exactly clear on this point. |
But in conclusion Mr. Cummins took
a firm stand on two propositions. He
old settlers on the committee, |
the older the better, because the old |
er a settler was of course the more |
he knew, and if it was possible he
wanted to trade off the Carnegie IL |
brary for few bottles of flood pre-
ventative.
Mr.. Hinl1le arose to remind Mr.. |
Cummins that the reservoir was sim |
ply a hole in the ground, and that a |
man who had lived here twenty-five |
years ought to know that
Chairman Bateman urged others to |
talk on the matter before them as it |
was a most important subject.
Mr.. L. B. Tannehill agreed fully |
with the talk of Mr.. Wells, and to |
get the question before the house, |
moved that a committee be appoin |
ted as suggested by Mr.. Wells. Mr. |
Wells amended the motion that the |
committee be elected by those pres
ent and not appointed, saying hat
he believed this to be the more dem |
ocratic method, and at the same time
more satisfactory. Mr.. Tannehill ac-
cepted the amendment.
Mr.. Hinkle expressed himself as
favorable to the motion, but he
thought there should be some discus
sion here and the selection of the
committee put off to the end of the
While he was on the floor
he corrected Mr. Cummins on his To-
cal geography of the relation of the
spillways to the flood. Mr.. Cummins
came back at him with unanswerable
logic, 81 guess l was here before Mr..
Hinkle, and l ought to know"
Mr.. Burrows thought that as the
committee would have to hear ev-
eryone, there would be little use in
further discussion at this meeting.
This seemed to reflect the sentiment
of nearly all present. and there were