Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-16

proximately{ the following acreage:
10000 acres in the territory of New
Mexico; $4,000 acres in the state or
Texas; $4,000 acres In the Republic
OF Mexico.
8. That not to exceed 1000 acres
OF land under the Elephant Butts or
Rio Grande project are public lands
of the United States.
g. That by notice filed January 23.
1906. the reclamation service sought
TO appropriate the following waters
Tor said project, to-wits
"A volume of water equivalent to
$50, 600 acre feet per year. requiring
n maximum diversion or storage Of
=, 1000, 600 miners inches: said water
to be diverted or stored from the Rio
Grande river at a noint described as
follows: Storage dam about 8 miles
west of Fngle, n. NJ, with n capacity
for 100000 acre feet and diversion
dams below Palomas, Rincon, Mes
lila and FL Paso valleys IN New Mex
leo and Texas
g. That by notice fled April. 1905.
the reclamation service attempted to
appropriate al OF the unappropriated
water OF the Rio Grande and its tri-
butaries. using the following words in
its notice: An of the unappropriated
waters of the Rio Grande and it's tri-
butaries, said water to be diverted or
stored from the Rio Grande river at
a point described as follows; Storage
dam at a point about 9 miles west Of
Engle, n. M, with capacity for two
million (2,000,000) acre feet and
diversion dams below in Palomas,
Rincon, Mesilla and lei Paso valleys
In New Mexico and Texas.
G.. Said reclamation service, where
ever the matter has come to its at
tention, has notified those proposing
to take water out OF the Rio Grande
or any of its tributaries north of the
Elephant Butte dam, that said waters
nave been appropriated by the United
States. and has threatened litigation
to prevent the use OF any such waters
or the redecming of irrigable lands
north of the said Elephant Butte dam
site, and has paralyZed all efforts to
reclaim and irrigate lands in the Rio
Grande valley and its tributaries
north of said Elephant Butte dam
site.
Z. That there is in excess of 900
miles OF the Rio Grande valley within
the territory of New Mexico above
the Elephant Butte dam site as
against 100 miles Of the Rio Grande
valley in New Mexico below the Ele-
plant Butte site. and there are APP
proximately 100000 acres of irriga-
BILE land in aid valley north of The
ELEPHANT Butte Jam site IN New Mex
leo against 10000 acres south OF the
Elephant Butte dam site in New Mex
leo, to say nothing of the irrigable
lands in the valleys of the streams
tributary to the Rio Grande and with
In the territory Of New Mexico north
Of said Elephant Butte dam site.
g.. Between the pueblo of San
Felipe al a point about % miles north
of Albuquerque, and the town OF IA
Marcial, at the north line of the pro-
posed Elephant Butte reservoir. and
100 miles south of Albuquerque, there
is approximately 100000 acres of land
susceptible OF irrigation by gravity
bitches from the Rio Grande, of which
said amount about $4,000 acres is
actually being cltivated; and there is
also a very large amount of lands be-
tween San Felipe pueblo and the
Colorado line, also susceptible OF irri-
cation by gravity bitches from the
Rio Grande, of which only a small
part is under actual cultivation.
.. That the policy of the reclalna-
tion service in the appropriation cf
said waters and the construction of
the Elephant Butte dam and reservoir
is to taxi ali of the inappropriate I
waters of the Rio Grande and its tri-
butaries for q distance of over 500
miles within the territory of New
Mexico ana to prevent the further
Development of said vast territory by
irrigation from the Rio Grln1e, and