Arizona republican., 1904-12-11
WAY OF PEACE
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Mexico, across the Rio Grande at point about one-quarter of mile below the site selected by the old Elephant Butte company. From this reservoir it is pro- posed to irrigate 1SO,OO0 acres of land. 10000 acres in New Mexico, 2O,O00 acres in Texas above Fl Paso, and 5o.- GOO acres in Fl Paso valley below Fl Paso. There will be no good land sub merged by this reservoir It will be located in New Mexico and subject to the operations of the U. S. reclamation service, while the international dam, which contemplates only the irrigation of 5000 acres of land, would be joint ly owned by two nations.
 VASTLY FAVORABLE TO ENGLE
 DAM
 The following is a summary of the results of an investigation recently held by a board of consulting engineers on the designs and estimates for the pro- posed International and Engle dams.
 1-The proposed Engle reservoir has a capacity of two million acre feet, as against about half a million acre feet that can be provided by the proposed International reservoir at Fl Paso.
 1.-The Engle reservoir will furnish for irrigation six hundred thousand acre feet of water per annum, while the International will furnish only one hundred and eighty thousand acre feet.
 3.-The Engle will lose no water by overflow while the International will waste a very large part of the inflow.
 4-With a given amount of water the Engle will present only one-half the surface for evaporation that will be presented by the International.
 5.-Silt deposits will accumulate with almost double rapidity in the mterna- tional as in the Engle.
 6-The Engle reservoir is deep and narrow while the International reser- voir is wide and shallow; any process of sluicing out mud will be nine times as efficient in the former as in the lat ter.
 1.-The Engle reservoir will store the entire flow of the river without waste and with a minimum evaporation and will prevent disastrous floods along the valley occupied by several important towns and by the Santa Fe railroad, while the International reservoir will waste the water by overflow, present conditions producing a maximum of evaporation, re~"late no floods above Fl Paso, cover twenty five thousand acres of good land near Fl Paso and make marsh land of 15,00O more acres above it and produce unsanitary con- ditions at Fl Paso.
 S.-The International dam proposes to destroy 10000 acres of good land immediately north of Fl Paso, in order to irrigate about 55, ,O0O acres below Eli Paso; while the Engle reservoir pro- poses to irrigate the 10000 acres of land that the other would destroy and to irrigate 5O,000 acres below Fl Paso, and in addition to irrigate 9O,000 acres above in New Mexico, a total of 1SO, 900 acres all of which is tributary to Fl PaSo.
 PLENTY OF IRRIGABLE LAND.
 A study of the water supply of the Rio Grande as measured at San Mar oial,, regulated by the proposed Engle dam, shows that 600,000 acre feet of water could have been drawn from the reservoir, and this is used as a basis for estimating the future duty. At the rate of three and One-third feet in depth for Iigation, the water would serve 1S0.O00 acres; the surveys show irrigalble land about as follows: Above Penasco Rock, 10000 acres; Penasco Rock to Texas line 10000 acres in Texas above Fl Paso. 2O,000 acres; in Texas below Fl Paso, 10000 acres.
 According to the above figures the Engle dam, would furnish water to 10000 acres of land in New Mexico and 10000 acres in Texas, Or a total of 1S0.000 acres of land above Fl Paso,