Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-01
COL TwitcheII Thinks Govern
ment Would Be Readyto Help
the Poor Indian Doubts
Result of Shut Project.
TERRITORY SHOULD
BEGIN TO WAKE UP
Large Attendance at
the Carlsbad Celebration as
Means to the End--The Next
Irrigation Congress,

Colonel r. f.. TWitchell. of Las
Vegas, was in Albuquerque Yesterday
b for the day. In the course of a con
versat1on at the AlNarado last night
relative TO irrigation and KINDRED top
les IN TINS tcrrltofS, colonel TWttchcll
sad:
Il want to thank the Journal for
its editorial of last Wednesday rela-
tive to the fifteenth National Irriga-
ton congress to be held at Sacra-
mento, Cal, next September. The
first National Irrigation congress was
held at Albuquerque some fifteen
years ago. There is no reason why
New Mexico should not have the ses-
sion of the sixteenth congress. and
Albuquerque is probably the only
place in the territory with sufficient
hotel and other accommodations
where a congress 4f the size OF those
irrigation affairs could possibly De
held. My own city IS too small ana
we have very insufficient hotel ac-
co~mmodations. \ hundred delegates
coming to Las Vegas would take
every available satisfactory motel
apartment in the city. Here II rs dll-
ferent. These congresses generally
have from nine hundred to fifteen
hundred delegates, and the sessions
generally last four to five days. II
Albuquerque wants the congress for
1905 your people should get busy, II
is not to be had for the mere asking.
.Tba urosnoritv Of any city or
community is assured if it is adjacent
to q large and prosperous farming
country. If all the land available ly-
D"u'it's' = - ~ ,Ia,,aro,,o ana Tho
town of Pcna Blanca we're farmed as
s'"m 80 va | rarn,ed win node,rr
uusii ~ ,rioaIar ro,,r Ohm ar So
H'SC'Ii ~ 81 iii eo,,c
- g1,aaae- - nrnsnoafs ~ a
Aip" % 9uo.'o ffett No.
Guy mere ,rt ne
s9"u Po'P'O -
''ou'
To accomplish TINS a Ilisl-,.t9a
system of irrigation Is needed WIN
all due respect to the low me ul.eH
project being promoted by MI smut
the fact that the government mas
practically taken charge OF an the w
ters usually runhlhs IN tHe NJ
Grande n has ess9yed To- say lHal no
more ditch propositions Shail Ne per
mitted, owing to ITS ~opIlsatlohS IN 1h'
matter of the Elephant ButJe ProJcc',
gives me ground Tor lnllnaIlHS lHd'
even if Mr.. SHUTS dltch IS construct
ed. when he attempts to use me VA
tiers of the Rlo Gfahuo' ne VIII IN.
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but one result. No matter WnaJ We
may know of water rights prlorlIIes'
etc, etc, the government is pound 10
take the position that il Will allow mo
interference, fancied or ~otherWlae,
with a project upon which there VIII
he expended upwards of eight mil
Lions of dollars. In my judgment an
of the ordinary flow of the mo
Grande is already appropriated, but
that very appropriation is the real set
back to this community. The water
to which the people of the valley
above Albuouerdue have a right is
not used properly and more than one
half of il is absolutely wasted. There
is enough water wasted under fhe
present system to frrigate satisfacto-
rilv. i'm The immediate vicinity of Al
buqueroue with a proper system, at
least forty thousand acres.
wv ..,,,i5 r 40 about 10 We'll.
49, 40 10 snn1otbino Tho
ti.et 'I,i'i ~ fey, to 10 UouId
ho ~ va 73ba c-oooneration of tbe rem
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