Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-08-02
THOUSANDS OF ACRES
ALREADY SIGNED UP
Elephant Butte Water Users
Association Doing Good
Work.
INTERNATIONAL QUESTION SOLVED

nun. II. Is. ttOll, ulSlIlCl dlNOihtg
for the Eighth Judicial district, with
headquarters at Las Cruces, arrived
in the city this morning from the
south and spent the day here. Mr..
Holt was accompanied by his family,
and is on his way to Ocean Park, Cal,
where he will see them pleasantly To-
Gated in a cottage, where they will
spend the remainder of the summer.
Il will return to New Mexico by the
14th,' stated Mr. Holt, to a reporter
for The Evening Citizen, las my
duties as president of the Elephant
Butte Water Users association, ad-
ded to my extensive law practice,
keeps me very busy"
Asked by the reporter regarding the
progress being made in securing the
necessary pledges of land for the El.
ephant Butte project, Mr.. Holt re
piled:
I'VE are making splendid progress
and now have 20 700 acres of the 110,
600 acres that is to be benefited by
the Elephant Butte dam, pledged
while 10000 acres more will be signed
| up just as soon as the necessary de
scriptiOn OF the land is obtained. The
outlook is very encouraging, and l be
| lieve that in the next few months
every acre of the 10000 in New Mex
leo will be pledged.
THE Rio Grande Valley Water
| Users association of Texas, reports
that it is making rapid progress in Sc
curing the pledging of the $4,000
acres of land lying in Texas that are
to be benefited by the Elephant Butte
/ reservoir. From this it is quite safe
to say that the time is not far dis
tant when the government will be
gin work on this immense irrigation
project.
Big Delegation to Portland.
New Mexico will send lal ge and
representative delegation to the ma
tional irrigation congress, which meets
at Portland, Ore. the 21st of this
month. The United States reclama
tion service will send its engineers
to Portland, and at this congress the
plans of the Elephant Butte dam
will be outlined in full, SO that If New
MeXico's irrigation projects are not
among the displays at the Lewis and
Clark exposition now, they will be
later on.
To Make Treaty With Mexico.
"One of the stumbling blocks We
had to contend with when the project
was first launched and before the con
gress met at FL Paso, was the claim:
of Mexico. Mexico gave notice thai
it would vigorously oppose anything
that would deprive it of it's right to
share of the waters OF the Rio Grande
When the irrigation congress met
this opposition, which threatened t
become an international question, wal
satisfactorily disposed of by the ap
| pointment of delegation of three rep
resentatives each, from New Mexico
Texas and Mexico. These representa-
tives met, and the result is we'll re
membered. Mexico withdrew it's op
position upon the promise that waite
would be furnished for the irrigation
of the 25,000 acres situated in tn,
area to be benefited Texas was sat
isfied, when assured that the Elephan
Butte reservoir would water 40, ,0O(
acres of arid land lying within it
boundaries, and New Mexico won III
point, the construction of the Elephan
Butte dam and reservoir near Engle
N. NJ, which will water 10000 acres
of arid land in New Mexico, or $50,
900 acres In all.
I'm my opinion the agreement made
with Mexico when the congress me
at El Paso, will be made permanent
at the next meeting of the United
States congress by the adoption of {
treaty on the part of the two countries
covering the facts above stated.