Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-30
November 2sth, 1910

November 2sth, 1910
| Editor Albuquerque Morning journal
Albuquerque. New Mexico.
| Dear Sir
Since resigning TO take up new fields
Of work it has been very gratifying
and pleasing 10 me to note the pleasant
comments that have been made verbal
| ~, In the papers and by letters and II
| Is my desire to thank you and the peo-
pie through the columns OF your paper
| for your confidence and good Will.
With the coming of statehood and
the adoption of a short but effective
constitutional provision, insuring the
appropriation of water with bene-
fetal use as "A basis, measure and limit
of right and priority of appropria-
tion being recognized; and supported
with one Of the best irrigation laws
known, together with the Carey Act,
which applies TO Government lands;
the district Irrigation law. which ap-
plies To patented lands, the systematic
collection of photographic data, the
adjudication Of water rights; a more
scientific use of the waters and the
conservative appropriation Of same, to-
gcthcr with the advancement of the
construction OF good roads. there seems
To be no reason why New Mexico
should not develop rapidly along
these lines
II Is my experience and earnest wish
that within the next ten years we may
realize that which our department has
worked so hard to start, part of which
VIII be the irrigation of one han mill
lion acres of the fertile soils of SAN
Juan county from those large rivers,
the san Juan anda the Animas. the
STRENGTHENING aud the confinng of the
RIO Grande and the drainage and
reclamation of land along the river as
prcliminarilv outlined Ia my address
at the national irrigation congress
held in your city; the irrigation of the
Tucumcari and Logan valleys from the
enormous flood waters OF the Canadi-
an the adjustment of the water rights
and the development of the Pecos val
ley: the completion ot those large irri-
CATION projects being huilt by the
United states reclamation service; the
irrigation ot thousands of acres in the
northern and eastern part Of the terra
tory from those large projects now un-
der construction. the development of
tho water power over the territory,
especially those large projects ON the
CHA that win furnish power 10 the
rich mines of the Mogollon, Burro, and
Black Mountains. the Upper Pecos
water to pump the underflOw OF tho
Estaucia valley: the La Luz waters TO
turn the wheels OF the pumps in the
Alamogordo valley and many other
projects too numerous 60 mention. such
,ts the pumping OF the unGernow for
tho Hcmiug. Merose and Portales and
other valleys where there Is an exist
ancc of "a large uuderflow. the storing
Of the flood waters of the thousands
of HrroNos where water is now lost
completely and a completion of "A sys-
tenn of well constructed highways.
In making this development Ii will
be necessary to guard against the
greed ANA umrice ot promoters and
speculators and 90 enforce conserva-
tism in the appropriation of water. re-
memhcring thnL when YOU hear a
persons criticizlus the engineer as 20
the small amount of water there rs
available for appropriation. you can
consider that ninety nine times out of
one hundred tlHt thc critic is tn error.
Tor there is mo- mine easier TO salt than
the siitug uf Your idcns AS To the
amount ul o. giNun water supply There
are So many LOSSES in the conservation
of water thar the average person aud
great many euslnccrs fau to COM
slider
The territorial engineer has many
times had thc pleasure of talking with
people of broad experience while
watching "a large flood in the river
that d. had just measured and their
idea as go The amount 90 water and
what b would iriiNate if the flood waN
to continue certain length Of time
is Invariably many times greater than
what it really was ur what if would
irrigiio. it Beg ana desire. for the rood
81 the development of our territory, to