Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-20
1900 ACRES SURE
FOR IRRIGATION
BY PUMPING
WORK TO START SOON
I'M ESTANCiA VALLEY
Seventy Pumping Plants as a
Starter viii be Supplied With
Power From the Upper Pecos
River.

Everything Is practically roady fot
tho beginning 0f the actual construe-
tiuu WORK ON the great irrigation pro-
iecf which IS destined bN mo7ns oi
electric power brought from the upper
PeCus river 10 pump millions OF gal
lonA ~ water from the nndertl0w IN
the t.stancia platenu 60 irrigate that
t8st and fertile region tributary To-
Albuquerque The western Construt-
tion company, which viii put through
tire proposition, is now looking FOR a
big drilling outfit FOR the initial work.
Nearly il,000 acres 10 be irrigated
have been assured by the farmers OF
the valley and everything is favorable
for tho rapid naturalization Of the
project The t.staucia Ncws hes the
Following intert rev
THE Western Construction COM
fany of Wichita. kan, proposes a.
nuild an electric plant here large
enough to |ifripute i'm The first In
stance 1i,pOt acres ,l land for S19a,-
400 The main wires. called trana
mission wires, VIII be put up. when
the plant is butt, large enough e.
carry power for 25.O00 acres. but
there viii he ouls enough machinery
Installed at first 10 irrigllte The II 600
acres. As additional acreage lis taken
IT,. which will be in tracts of 5000
acres, the building viii be enlarged
ana additional machinery put ia to
take care of the increased acreage.
This method win bc continued nntii
tn, -. GOO are taken into the schcme
After "a sufficient amount of land
has been pledged and IL must stntaunt
To- 1t.0Un acres and before any pHpers
.trr delivered or cash paid, test wells
VIII hc drilled in various localities on
the band pledged to so into the
scheme n aftor these tests have
been made IL is concluded there Is
water enough FOR the purposes OF ir-
tieation the plnnt viii be- built " it
is found there is not Watcr enough
then The thing stops, and none Or the
people arc ont anything except the
cost OF the test wells, "a fcW dollars
fer incidental expenses, and consircr-
nhlc talk. the only cholp thing. as you
knuN. We have. Jhe question ot
whether or not there viii he water
enough VIII be determined by. first,
The United Statos government IN
Eiuccr, then hy the engineer OF the
bond for the construction company
bY the engineer OF thr bond
holders. also by the engineer of the
construction company. and wc can
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