Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-04-01
WATERS Of
UPPER PECOS
Conflicting Claims to Them
Adjusted by Water Com
missioners
IMPORTANT WRITTEN OPINION
Handed Down by Hon. Charles
Springer at Last Session
of Board.

the complete opinion of the territor-
ial Board of Water Commissioners,
written by Hon. Charles Springer. in
the appeals from the decisions of the
Territorial Engineer, rejecting the ap-
plications of Andrieus A. Jones, Ur-
ton Lake and Water Company, J. d.
McCanne, and Fort Sumner & Pecos
Land Company, being applications
Nos, 3G4, 424, 395, 405, 407, 43G, 40,
Nos. 3G4 424, 1895, 4O5, 4O6. 4O7, 436,
10, 100, 410, All, 421, 422, for waters
of the Pecos river above the Carlsbad
Irrigation Project.
AS these applications all relate to
appropriations of Water from the
Pecos river and tributaries and were
all rejected by the Territorial Engi-
neer at the same time and for the
same reasons, appeals were consoli-
dated and heard together.
On October %, 1910, Andrieus A
Jones filed in the Office of the Terri
torial Engineer his application No. BAG
for permit to appropriate waters of
the Pecos river and some of its trib-
utaries for the purpose of irrigating
100000 acres of land designated in the
application by means of a system OF
canals and storage reservoirs, and for
developing power for manufacturing,
lighting and other purposes: the guam
tity of water being 100000 acre-feet
per annum.
On March IS, 1910, he filed his ap.
plication No. 424 for the identical pro.
ject described in and covered by ap-
plication No. 34G, the latter applica-
ton being filed Immediately upon the
expiration of three years after the
passage and approval of Chapter 40,
Laws of 1907.
On February 81, 1910, Urton Lake
&. Water company filed its application
No 395 for permit to appropriate
waters of the Pecos river and tribu-
taries for the purpose of irrigating
eighty thousand acres of land desig-
mated in the application by means of
! a System. =: rptlaIz and ystarage reser.;
votrs; the quantity of water claimed
being 2130O0O acre-feet per annum.
On March rs, 1910, J. D. McCanne
filed his applicatio Nos 405-406-4O7
and on April II, 1910 filed his applca-
ton No. 1876. which included all the
| projects and appropriations described
| in and claimed under applications
Nos. 4O5-4O6-407, and was for permits
| to appropriate waters of the Pecos
river and it's tributaries for the pur-
pose of irrigating 10000 acres of
land designated in the application by
means of system of canals and stor-
age reservoirs; the quantity of water
claimed being 213,O0O acre-feet per
, annum.
Urton Lake e Water company, and
! D. J. McCanne have consolidated their
projects and requested that applica-
tions Nos. 4O5-406-407 be abandoned
and that Nos. 395 and 1876 be consoli-
dated and approved as for one pro-
| ject
On June 80, 1908, Fort Sumner and
PecOs Land Company filed it's appli-
cation No 10 for permit to appro-
/ pirate 9.42 second-feet of water, de-
! livered on the land from the Pecos
river for the purpose of irrigating 659
acres of land designated in the appli-
cation; and on July %, 1909, said
Company filed its application No 1870
for permit to appropriate 17.43 acre
feet of water delivered on the land for
the purpose of irrigating 1912 acres
OF land designated in the application
| The other applications Nos. 410-41l-
( 421 and 422 of the Fort Sumner and
! Pecos Land Company, subsequently
filed cover the same projects and ap.
preparations described in and claimed
under applications Nos. 10 and 1870.
On January 2, 1906, the Supervising
Engineer of the United States Recla-
nation Service filed in the office of
the Territorial Engineer of New Mexi.
co, three notices signed by said Super
vising Engineer stating that the Unit
ed States intended to utilize the
waters of the Pecos river and it's trib-
utaries for three separate irrigation
projects known respectively as the
Las Vegas, Urton Lake, and Carlsbad
projects, the water to be utilized for
each being specified in the notice for
that project
No other notices relating to or plans
for the proposed work of either of
the two first mentioned projects have
been filed in the Office of the Terri.
torial Engineer.
Certain plans and maps relating to
the Carlsbad project were filed in said
office on February 2 1910, being the
only plans so filed for work on that
project.
|, 1t appears from the records in the
!, office of the Territorial Engineer and
other evidences that the Las Vegas
and Urton Lake projects have been
!, abandoned by the United States; that
{ the former has been turned over to
{ the Board of Trustees of the Las We
s gas Grant and that the government
{ mans and field notes for the TTrtor