Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-17
mImBRES RIVER WgTER
C0nPauY IN Earnest
It Has Already Invested Considerable le
Money and is Certain of Securing
Franchise.

A. G. Kennedy, of Santa Fe, chief en-
gineer of the Mimbres River Water
Company, who will leave shortly for
California to inspect pumping plants
and to negotiate for the purchase of
redwood piping, while in Ell Paso this
week gave out an interview regarding
the plans of the company. He says
that the company means business and
that it is going to give Ell Paso good
water supply if the city council will
give them chance. He declares it
to be his belief that there is not suf.
ficiency of water or the mesa to sup
ply the city and says that if Ell Paso
is to ever have a good supply of wat
er it will have to be pumped from
some other place. and that the MINI
bres flow is the only place where it
can be secured in large quantities.
Chief Engineer Kennedy was in Ell
Paso engaged on the maps and profiles
for the company and he says that they
will all be filed with the interior de-
partment at Washington in few days
and that the company will then be
ready for business as soon as the city
will grant it the right to run it's pipes
through the streets to distribute the
water.
"We have analyzed the water and it
is as pure as any in the world" said
Mr. Kennedy. "and Ell Paso cannot |
possibly get better water. We mean
business. We have capital enough |
back of us to push the work to a sue
cessful conclusion and it will be start
ed as soon as we have assurances from |
the city that we can lay our pipes. We |
have already risked a good deal on the |
proposition. We have spent a large |
sum on preliminary surveys and maps
and other such matters and then we
have purchased the site on which we
will sink our wells. We have bought
the Byron, Keefe and Tyndall ranches,
near Deming, paying for them abso-
lutely, and if we are not able to put
in waterworks system for the city,
we will lose what we have invested
in them except that we may be able
to sell it back for ranch purposes, but
we are so we'll satisfied that the peo-
pie of FL Paso want good water that
we are willing to risk the outlay
sWe can get the water almost from
the bed Of the Mimbres River, where
it is pure, at depth of eight feet,
but will go down 40 feet. We can
easily pump 100000 gallons every
"a hours from the wells which we
will sink. but we will not need that
for years to come. Even at pumping
100000 gallons day, the supply
would be more than adequate. The
rainfall in that vicinity, according to
United States reports, is 1405 inches
1 year and, figuring this on scien.
,ific basis, we would not require the
lnderfow water of one-twentieth part
If the Mimbres River shed and there
S no danger of the supply ever being
exhausted.
1--WE expect to put in our pumping
plant on the property at the wells and
pump the water into 100000 gal
on reservoir on the top of big hill
lear the Florida range of mountains,
which will give it pressure enough to
send it into El Paso. Then we will
lave a big standpipe on one of the
Mountains near FL Paso which will
give the water hundred pounds of
pressure in the pipes. The reservoir Il
,ut in New Mexico will have a ca. s
)acity of 100000, the standpipe here
will have the same, and the pipes will {
lold 100000 which will give total
If 1S,000,0O0 gallons of water that will :
always be available for the city. The ,
reservoirs will be concrete lined and
will be covered so that nothing can get
nto them and the water will always
)e pure.
1T is possible that tb. main pipe
inc from Deming to Ell Paso will be
If redwood. bound with steel bands.
This is about as lasting as iron and
he water is much better. This has
)een tested and the redwood pipes
give the best satisfaction of any that
Uare ever MT in uSa"