Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-24
age at EngIe Project.
BY Herbert }. Hascrman.

teFest The moVemeuc to prevent
the federal government from Sc
curing control OF the Rio Guande
water north of the Elephant Butte
dam, The protests which have been
made at Albuquerque, Santa Fo ana
Las Vegas show that the people are
beginning to comprehend the magni-
tudc OF the Elephant Butte project.
And yet. without any desire to appear
critical. ] venture the opinion that the
magnitude of the project is not vet
fully understood BY many people.
In an instructive paper by Robert
l. Cooper n read to the Commercial
club of Santa fc. published in the
Santa Fe Eagle recently. some
essential facts as 10 the project are
given. Mr.. Cooper says.
one Of Che most vital questions in
New Mexico today is the holding w
of the waters of the Rio Grande and
it's tributaries above Enslc. n. NJ.
These waters are TO be stored in the
Engle reservoir, commonly known us
the Elephant Butte dam, and used
for i%rrieating 205, 900 acres IF land
10000 acres of which lies I'm New
Mexico. $4,000 acres in Texas and 3d.
600 acres in Mexico. This matter is
of interest to us rs residents of Santa
Fe in particular. because thousands
of acres Of irrigahle land which
could be irrigated hy storing flood
waters on the tributaries Of the Rio
Grande and building nigh line ditrhee,
lie adjacent and tributary to santa
Fe. such hand living in the valley &C
the Chama and its tributaries from
Chamita, mt its mouth, to- Clama at
the Colorado line and on the east
side in the valleys of the Taos river,
Embudo creek, tho santa cruz and
the Pojoaque.
There are, at present. several pro
ieets for reclaiming land king be-
tween here and the Colorado line
varying in size from twenty 10 fiftN
thousand acres which would begin
construction Immediately We're II NOT
Tor this restriction. There seems to
be a great deal Of misunderstanding
and uncertainty in regard 10 this re-
striction. 1t is an order issued hN
the department Of he interior, pro-
hibiting the territorial engineer from
granting amy new appropriations
from the Rio Grandc or its tributaries
whore the storage or Inversion is ne
~~nrssr-rsyu rrrTn~'
This order was issued "a insure the
delivery of 60, 900 acre feet per nnnum
10 Mexico undor the treaty oi Deecm
Der ~. 1906.
laying aside all contentious
against the feasibility. legality ana
Justice of the Rio Grandc project and
granting that they should have the
H.. H.. ,tl rnn- !
slider the possibility of other develop
ment Of the Rio Grande and it's tribu-f
taries. The capacity of the proposed
Icnsle reservoir is 100000 acre feet
inns lca'l % ~ ri,,
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