Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-13

Paso a the subject n tue proposed
international dam 10 the Rio Grsnde
Il thai point. the Morning Journal
yesterday asked Delegate B :. Rodey
Tor d statement AZ u the present
statue Of the water question between
New Mexico. che republic a MEXICO
and Texas.
ri ii hard III teli you the present
status ii this seSlpg pfohiem,s ssia
the delegate without going into -
history and that would take five Or
sir long columns af Your paper i9ow7
eyer. there ars some people Who knew
c-onslaeraDie ahout shis question aud
sh. vim understand the short state
menf / ean nake gou IS % Hs atnfus
TAa condition IN TIE natter y about
al fslieNs
sfbc rsbnhlie N Mefiae tbfoag
tlle department ~ STATS u Washing
ION 4 Afll psrstta teanR up iis.
contention that h tas rights f. The
water that fairs u hs eatehmett areas
III Npw Mesleo snd " still pressing .
settlement n he question and q its
eIstm fof eaansrts n tbe spra u some
aiksg taflAon aoiiata Ths ptsts of
re1as s5dss viii tte tppetlie a Mext
81 10 semi extent u fts demands
''rhe national goycftsnett u stand.
inr hit. bot IL The meanitme a has
tel np az the waters d the Rio
GYsude NORTH of H paso that ii Il
has withdraw Diem from All appro.
prIaiion aud VII sorts ~ entry w pril
waite companies or people
saSew Mexico Il still insisting thai
the waters which fail on ~ sgtl belong
~ its own people and that ita catch.
mctt areas are moi 70 hi bir1epea
wfth any sefYitude n fasof 81 amy
other country ur state
~ 4 had reseised compensation AZ
an attorney at law for tbe arguments
! bAYq made during my three sesfs III
congress before fhe committees on for.
eign relations uf the bouse and senate.
iefpre The attorney general and fns
9neft,ary NJ STATE against contentious
~ our water rights. Il you'd
amount ID much more than my salary
as delegate.
Mexico Is peraIstently urging on
our secretary 81 state To enter Into .
treaty with that republic whtrh will
admit the Justice u al 1ts claims and
cause our government 10 construed m
international dam ~ M paso out of rs
v cost. then give one half Of the
watef 10 the republic ~ Mexico free
forever and m he san,s time pro.
bibit New Mexico frou appropriation
nm additional Gallon OUT of if stream
or any ~ rs tributaries. sJ,oys the
dam at ri paso. We are I'll familiar
with this ubiquitous effort asdshsse 80
Tar managed 10 prevent N have had
many talks with The offictrs II Wash.
iHgtoD and with The Texas delegation
ia congress. With d view 70 fencbiug i
~peaeeable settiemen, of The whole
question Ny plan n 70 hase The soy
erDmont under the reclamation act
build about -four dams IN The MO
Grandes one N tfe white Rock can
yon, south "a santa ne ona below La
Lunas another Al San Aeacio md ,he
preatest III The world II NJ Elephant
Butte ei,a ~ Ripeou.
The reclamation service has a large
force " engineers nov investigating
some q these projects and eventually
Will Investigate Them al.
III this idea IL carried out, MY con.
teDtion " that each upper dam will
catch the water first. successfully and
the people Immediately below viii nso
u for Irrigation. but 4 small per cent /
Of the flow Will be lost by eyaporationi
when The last dam Ii reached ii Eie.
phant Butte and then when used for i
irrigation below the dam. the Rio c
Grsnde Al ~ Paso WIN have q pcren.
NAL flow ~ water with much less silt d
70 4 than 4 the dams above did not G
and. 81 course, neither Mexico or n
can have any complaint. but can ],
The water out u the river ms II ii
Them, as u viii be there. Ii
IRRIGATION engineers now realize, ia Il
DO all others, who give The matter a,
thought that Il u beginning al the Ia
wrong end 70 build d down stream Ii
first because much less water is al
caught and beonilse bat one irrigar A
Hon can ~ made With 1, as Il goes u q
Hsste toward The sra below The lower VI
ami The country ~ stream Is ic
Ell without sufficient water. ~
have o%ontended that n tho ma ~
ionai government soes I'D 90 consider, ii,