Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-01-05
TAFT SUBMITS
IRRIGATION REPORT
Approves Recommendations
and Allotments of Army
Board
S6,355OOO FOR ENGLE DAM
But No Special Appropriation
for Hondo and Carlsbad
Projects.

report of the special board of army
engineers appointed by him last
June, as result of legislation passed
that month to examine the various
re lamation projects upon which
work had been started by the govern.
ment and to Recommend which of
them should be given a share in the
$20,000,000 of certificate of indebted,
ness authorized by the same act,
which gave the president power to
appoint such a board
The board has recommended and
the allotment OF the money among
the following projects:
Salt River, Ariz., $495,OOO; Yuma,
Ariz., and California $1,2O0,0OO;
Grand Valley. Colo, $1OOO000; I'm
compaghre, Colo, $1,5OO,OOO; Payette-
Boise, Ida, $2,000,00O Milk River,
Mont, s1,00OO0O; North Platte,
Wyo,, and Nebraska, $2,OO0,00O;
Truckee Carson New, $1,193, 900;
Rio Grande, New Mexico, Texas and
Mexico, $4,5OO,000; Umatilla, Ore,
$325,000; klamath, Ore, and Cali
fornia 100000. Strawberry Valley,
Utah, $2,272,OOO; SunnysideYakima,
Wash, $780, GOO; and TETON, Wash.
$665,000.
The board also made tentative al
lotment among various projects of
the general reclamation fund for the
years 1911 to 1914 inclusive. This
is to supplement the $2O,OOO,O00 loan
and to carry on projects which do
not participate in the distribution OF
the loan. The projects to share in
this money follows;
Yuma, $2,3SO,462; Grand Valley,
Minidoca. $52S,OO0; Payette-Boise,
$5OOO,OOO; Uncompaghre, $2,045,O0O;
$4,5S5,435; Huntley, $110,O000; Milk
River, $2,95O,OO; Sun River, $3,27S,-
600; Lower Yellowstone, $578,O00;
North Platte, $2,1S5.OOO; Truckee-
Carson, $1,594,OOO; Rio Grande, ST.
S55, 900; Missouri Pumping, $270,U0G;
Bellefourche, $4SO,OOO; Okanogan,
$4,000; and Shoshone, $2000.OO0.
Of these amounts allotted to Grand
Valley, Lower Yellowstone and Mis-
souri, Pumping are conditional.
The total amount of this fund will
be $25,351. S97.
No allotments either from the loan
or from the general reclamation fund
were recommended for the following
projects. except for necessary main
tenance and operation:
Orland, Cal, Garden City, Kas., Kit
telas, Wapato and Benton, Yakima
project, Washington; Carlsbad, New
Mexico and Hondo, N. M.
The president informs congress in
his letter transmitting the report
that he approved the report "after
careful consideration believing that
it sets forth a plan for the distribu-
ton of the loan and of the available
reclamation fund, that from an en-
gineering and economic standpoint
will best serve the completion OF
those projects which should be given
the preference in construction and
which completion over such projects
or parts of projects which are more
remote and may properly wait until
a later date for construction"
The presidents approval was again
Subject to the condition that the
amounts allotted to the various prof
ects may be adjusted and modified
from time to time as is found neces-
sary for the intelligent prosecution
of the work and the advantage of the
service.
The president notifies congress
that in accordance with the power
granted him he has authorized the
secretary of the interior to call upon
the secretary of the treasury from
time to time as he needs of the allot-
ed money.
Of the secretary of the interior and
the board of engineers, the president
recommends "the enactment of law
which will permit of the disposition
of surplus stored water available
from reclamation projects to posses
sion associations CT corporations op-
Grating systems for the delivery Of
water to individual water users tor
the irrigation of arid lands"