Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-17

and others that may be named. and
they would be termini OF t%ransconti-
mental railroads. Would not one such
city make amends for the loss of the
Imperial valley?
The general government should re-
imburse the people of the Imperial
valley for their losses. and well could
IL afford to do so. 1t was for the
very purpose OF securing the head az
the gulf Of Mexico that the Gadsden
purchase was made. and $I5,O00.O0
paid therefore. A mistake was made
In not having 4 survey made and eS-
ta%blishing a line before sending Sena-
tor Gadsden of Alabama to make the
treaty for cession. The lines OF the
gulf were not we'll known at that
time. The American plenipotentiary
took the information he received that
the line they adopted WOULD reach the
gulf. and accepted the same. He
should have insisted upon a p%rolonga-
ton of the line directly west from
Nocales To the gulf. instead of per-
hitting the line to be turned to q
northwesterly direction at a point
about eight miles west OF Nogales.
liza he done that the boundary would
have reached the gulf about thirty
miles below It's head, instead OF trirty
miles above its head. as now. The
main object OF the Gadsden purchase
in 1853 was to secure to the United
states the north end Of the gulf. and
Port Isabel. Instead OF doing so. Sem
ator Gadsden, who was appointed a
special envoy for that allowed
himself To be deceived. and paid Sl6,-
600. 600 without attaining the main
object for which the purchase was
made. IT Port Isabel were worth
SIS, 00N, 900 in 1853. all the more
would be worth that sum now a deep
sea port In that vicinity. And the
general government could well afford
to pay the farmers and business men
OF the Imperial valley the first cost
of the Gadsden purchase to reim-
burse them for their losses in the fill
fng Of the Salton sea. Instead of ex-
pending millions TO save their possess
sions let the general government pay
them FOR their losses, let the sea fin
and connect ii with the gulf by a ship
canal.
The first Cleveland administration.
to take out of the market extensive
coal deposits. extended the Navajo In
dian reservation in New Mexico some
eighteen miles eastward OF its former
Along the south side of the
san Juan We're many ranches and irri-
bitches, The ala
moi hesitate to ~dispossess their own
ers, cancelling their patents and filing
their lands, but reimbursing
them for the damage done. Where
settlers would not accept the
terms offered, but Insisted upon re-
naming. they were forcibly elected by
sent from Fort Wingate, them
their families and personal
property put across the san Juan
river, nd their buildings and fences
destroyed. That was done $50 ii was
alleged at the time) at The Instance of
railway corporations who wanted the
treat coal measures underlying those
reserved for sale until such time
rs They were ready to grab them. The
Nava1oes had not asked an extension
1t Their reservation. and there was
no reason in the world why ii should
have been extended. But il was eX-
ended and settlers We're dispossessed
driven from their homes to do so.
i the general government could dis
possess those settlers and reimburse
hem. ii could reimburse the settlers
n the imperial valley who would be
lispossessed by the encroachmcnts OF
he Saiton sea.