El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-30
Il PASOANS WIN
IRRIGATION
FIGHT
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It, the resolutions were then passed as
| a whole and Ell Paso and New Mexico
cheered.
lack Cobb called for three cheers for
Alva Adams, but they were not given.
There were only a few scattering votes
against the resolutions as a whole
Recommendation of Chicago as the
convention city for 1911 was made by
the committee on permanent organiza-
ton of the 18th national irrigation con-
gresS, together with a favorable report
on the following officers:
President-R. E. TWitchell, New Mex
leo.
Kansas City
Second vice president-T L. Newman,
Montana.
Third vice president-A G. Watson,
Pueblo.
Fourth vice presidentA- Fair
weather, California.
Fifth vice president-B. C. Buffum,
Wyoming.
Secretary-Arthur Hooker, Spokane,
Washington.
Foreign secretary-A. Mcqueen Gray,
New Mexico.
Was a Mighty Struggle.
1t was mighty battle when Texas
and Colorado locked horns Thursday
afternoon, and metaphorically speak
ing, it was CORY battlefield that was
left when the fight had to stop. as
darkness came on and the delegates
could no longer see in the convention
hall
Colorado had her ablest speakers on
the stand and they made so many mis-
statements that FL Pasoans were kept
busy rising to a question of personal
privilege or to reply to inaccuracies
w W. Follett in an able paper, and
judge J. NJ. Goggin and lack L. Cobb
in speeches, answered the assaults Of
Colorado, and walked off the field
with all the henors, judging from the
overwhelming amount of applause re-
ceived, Notwithstanding the convention
hall was packed with Colorado people
who were not delegates. 1t was almost
Impossible for a delegate to get seat
and the Coloradoans howled at every
opportunity. Follett gave facts about
the Rio Grande itself and diSproved by
historical and scientific data Colo
RADIOS contention that water once
used in the San Luis valley would go
back into the Rio Grande in Seepage,
so percent whole.
Judge Goggin gave the history OF
the claims Of Mexico, told of the
usage of water in the valleys about
Ell PaSo and Las Cruces when indians
were still killing buffalo in San Luis
valley and cited court decisions in
proof of the business of Ell Paso-NeW
Mexico contention.
lack Cobb put the flowers on the
grave of the Colorado specter and Ell
Pasoans left the hall believing that
the question was buried under so much
evidence that even Coloradoan would
not have nerve enough to try to resur
rect it. Cobb made the house shake
with applause when, trembling with
emotion, he swore by the blood of his
forefathers who fell in the Alamo, they
might set free that part of Colorado
that now tries to "hcg' all the water
from Texas that he would die uphold
ing the flag of nationaliSm raised by
Theodore Roosevelt and upheld by
William Jennings Bryan.
Judge GoggiE's Argument.
Judge Goggin recited that the last I
ditch built in the. Rio Grande valley }
of New Mexico or Texas was con-
long before the first ditch ,
was ever built in San Luis valley, Colo
RADIO and told the delegates that under
the terms of the United States treaty
with Mexico, this government could
destroy every irrigation system in Col |
orado if necessary to restore to the Rio
Grande its perennial flow. but he |
said this was not intended that in |
stead the government had allowed |
Colorado to continue irrigating all the |
land it had put into cultivation to the |
1etriment of two states and a friendly /
sister nation and had merely decided |
to build a dam to catch the flood !
waters that Colorado had not used in
the past
He said Colorado had been growing |
at the expense of New Mexico Texas
and Mexico, and that they now asked |
4 chance to grow a little. If after they |
got their reservoir there was ample
water for all, as Colorado contended,
hen Colorado would be governed &C.
grow some more.
Oklahoma Helps Texas.
An Oklahoma delegate took the floor
lad been surprised that the United
states had not been forced to pay
of dollars damage to Mexico
or the manner in which it had per-
nitted Coloradoans to destroy an in
ernational stream. He said the
service was doing a great
work for Oklahoma and that Colo
ADDS fight was on the reclamation
service as well as the Engle dam and
f its delegates had to spend the rest
# their natural lives in Pueblo fight
ng.
The Coloradoans made no new argu-
nents in their fight. They contended
hat the size of the Elephant Butte
lam is too large, that in so years it
will be filled with silt and useless and
hat consequently it is an eXtravagant
nd useless undertaking. They de-
Jared that the water if taken out in
he San Luis valley in Colorado would
un back into the river as seepage less
bout 40 percent and that being wet
IL the time it would act as a reser-
DIR to hold moisture in place of the
enuded forests of old. They quoted
curt testimony of Ralph Twitchell in
lew Mexico in which he said he
bought the flow of the Rio Grande
ad been lessened because of the cut
ing of timber in New Mexico and
and finally closed by defying
j Paso and New Mexico to meet them
4 the courts.
IF your cause is just and right, then