The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-07-25
THE HONDO FACTS.
Concluded From First Page.)

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/ said deeds of trust and appurte
nant to said Northern Canal which
is above described"
Together with all and singnlal
all OF the property of the said The
Pecos Irrigation and improvement
Company, of whatsoever kind O.
character. situate in said Chave.
county"
The only reservoir, and the onl,
works for the storage of water own
ed by the Company in Chayes coun
ty, was the Hondo reservoir site. and
the construction work which had
been done thereon. In view of the
facts above stated. and in view OF
there was left which President Ira.
cy's Company can now legally, or eq.
uitably claim. it is hard to imagine.
One of the most remarkable things
land there are many Of them is that
President Tracy did O mention any
of the foregoing facts in his protest
to the Secretary of the Interior. These
vital facts are matters of public rec
ord and can be verified by n per-
son who is sufficiently interested in
them t O GO to the records for the in
formation.
The organizers of the protesting
Pecos Irrigation Company. who are
it's present owners and who were the
owners of the bonds of the old Pecos
Irrigation and Improvement Compa-
ny, went into the former with their
eyes open. well knowing they had
sold everything they had once own
ed in Chaves county.
The Pecos Irrigation Company of
Eddy county, and the Felix Irrigation
Company of Chaves county, purchased
from the same claimant of title, the
Pecos Irrigation and Improvement
The source of title is the
same. The Pecos Irrigation Company
of Carlsbad purchased all the inter
est of the Pecos Irrigation and I'm
provement Company in Eddy county.
and the Felix Irrigation Company, IF
Roswell. succeeded by purchase. to
all the interest of the Pecos Irrigation
and Improvement Company in Chaves
in which last named county
the Hondo reservoir is to be built.
We might well stop at this point,
and would do so were it not thai
of Mr.. Tracy's statements, of
he calls facts, are so glaringly
false, and so damaging to his own
and to the people who de-
pend upon 1t for irrigating water, that
a reply seems necessary. In his pro-
test he makes the following state
ment:
Except in unusual seasons, this
Company depends for the filling of
its reservoirs upon the winter flow
of the Hondo and it's tributaries du-
ring the non-irrigating season. We
ry little water comes from the up
per Pecos at that time. For the
past two years we have had to de-
pend absolutely upon this Hondo
water for our spring supply, and
without it we could not have afford
ed sufficient water for the use of
the farmers during the planting
season in the early spring"
What are the facts? The only trib-
of the Hondo near Roswell
are the North Spring and Berendo
rivers. These streams are fed by the
North Spring and Berendo
Spring, which never cease and never
diminish in dry seasons, and together
flow about 200 cubic feet of water per
second. Just below where the Spring
rivers empty into the Hondo. the
Hondo dam. which diyerts water in
to the Northern canal, is situated.
About four miles farther south, the
South Spring River empties into the
Northern canal.
These spring rivers. and the unus-
water supplied by the numerous
a rfoc;an wells In the Roswell district.