The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-10-15
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| waste.
Probably 40 place can be found
where water is wasted more glazing
ly than under the old bitches in this
Roswell district. They were badly
located and poorly constructed in the
early days when people Knew little
about this kind of work, and when
there was an unlimited supply of wa
ter in proportion to the land which
the owners of the bitches wanted to
cultivate. The of water which
goes through them was never measur-
ed by their owners until recent years,
and it is seldom measured now. Al
most nothing a been done to i'm
prove them. Where the land is gyppy
or gravelly, the waste is
There are no enc of holes made by
crabs n water rats, n the big
trees which grow along their banks
are a prolific cause of waste. By ac-
tual measurement many of the ditch
es lose from 80 to so per cent of their
water before it reaches a point where
it can be put to use or the lar EV-
eryone takes all the water he can
get, and no matter how much it may
be, he groWls because he cannot get
more. One result of waste of water
is that much of the land in this re-
gion (Which is as good as any land
il this country does not produce one
nalf the profit per acre that similar
land does in the Hagerman-Felix
country. Another bad result is that
a considerable per centage of the best
land in the Roswell region is water
logged, sub3irrigated, made alkaline
and half ruined because Of excessive
use or waste of water, combined with
a wan of drainage. Another result
is that a large share of the land own
ers in this region have gotten it in
their reads that they need very much
more water han they actually do
need.
In a recent decision the Judge
awarded the plaintiffs in a ditch case
enough water to their land s
feet deep in a year, or 5 feet 4 inches
deep in an irrigating season of eight
months, being enough to ruin the land
and the crops, if they should get the
water awarded them.
If the farmers in the older parts of
Colorado, Utah, California, or AriZO-
ma. a use water as wastefully as
many people do here, there would not
be one-third of the land under cult
Walton in those states that there is
now. i the financial results would
be nothing in comparison to what
they are. There are no better infor-
med men in the world on 1le duty of
wafer than the engineers IN charge
of tha Raclamation Service They
have very carefully collected data on
the use of water, not only II the Unit
ed States. but in India, Egypt and all
other important countries where the
very life of millions of people depends
on the economical use of water for If
rigation. In the light of his informa-
lion and experience they have based
The Hondo Reservoir scheme and 9th
er projects which they are construct
water nor acre Nor apnum IS the max
imTp required 10 roduce the hest re-
suits.
The only exDerience in this region
experiences of the farmers under the
Nnrtbarn Canal that baino tha o,1v
IS carefully measured every dav dur
fno the irrigatine season.
Let MS compar this with the expe,
Renee and ~Dractice of DeoDle in 9th,
on mon a large scale, 7 nave before
me a DamnhIet issued by the L. S.
Department of Agriculture in 1900
called "ReDort of Irrigation Investi-
cations for 1907 There are five
large ~irrigatfng canals which take wa
Their combined record for the year
,ooo ao+ror- noos,roa bv on an
a9oo, as at tba m~ig tannoaa[to PS Oh io III.
eude, - d iolLo"S' l q"o'e
IT, af FpD nao. rrder all canals
iaUonL ~ 1oon va '|"i 1N7 'Np
mnDoo,i .;
ApploAI go Go 40 noo M
saseu III a7o 000 : 4
u ii'V'
Disob oora irria o4e
GEs+ima+o9 1osr fron, vos+a
saanono 90 Tanorstion
on q oan+ aora Foot 40
- Pei ON "Nl0 ~
.
Depth OF irrigation ieet' l-9o
rainfall, 1undredtns Ieet,-- 80
"
Total depth water received
py land, Ieet, ..'. go
Area served by a continuous
now OF Gu IT,, second &C z3"-19
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hi book also shows the record OF
water used under the Gage Canal at
Riverside, California, for the year
l~S99-l900, as folIoWs: