El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-14

timated~that there are approximately
10000 acres of irrigated land in New
Mexico It has been previously esti-
mated that there was water supply for
100000 acres but from compilations
recently made by the office of the ter
ritorial engineer, it is assumed that
there is at least water available for
100000 acres. The following state
ment taken from water records col
lected on seven streams, Will substan-
tiate this statement:
Streams Acre feet
Animas at Pennington $500. So4,60O
Canadian at Logan 5000. sT4,s4o
Rio Grande at Buchanan $50. 15e.o1S
Mimbres ........... $3.50
Pecos at Calsbad . 43S,S67
San Juan river 2,06o,OOO
Total .5,71s, coo
Six million acre feet is of sufficient
quantity to cover the entire territory
of New Mexico 0.S inches in depth.
The above statement of 100000 acres
is therefore conservative, owing to
the fact that a number OF streams IN
the western portion of the territory
have not been included, also high run
offs for the White mountain and Ala
mogordo drainage basin. In connection
with the stream flow records and river
profile it is estimated that there is
500, 900 horse power as yet undevel-
oped in this territory. Seven thousand
dollars is being spent annually by the
territory in collecting official records
on the water resources of New Mexico.
This work is being carried on under
the most uptodate methods, using
the most important stations. The Friez
automatic cages, of which there are 13
now in operation and five Bristol auto
matte cages. In this important work
New Mexico ranks as high as any other
state east of the slope of the Rocky
mountains. Three photographic sur
veys for the adjudication of water
rights have been completed, namely:
The Black, Hondo and Raydo rivers.
Tive SegregatfOns Made.
Under the provisions of the Carey act
acceptance passed by the 1909 legisla-
ture, there have been two segregations
practically made amounting to 10000
acres, 10000 acres by the Lake
Charette reservoir and Ditch company.
Springer, n. NJ. and 10000 acres by the
Oasis Development company, Artesia.
y. NJ. It is expected that 10000 acres
will be segregated under the provisions
Of this law within the year Of 1911.
Under the provisions of the irriga-
ton district law, two projects have
been formulated and are now doing
construction work Orchard district ir
rigetion company of Aztec, n. NJ, H.,
900 acres. Las Vegas irrigation dis
trict, Las Vegas, N NJ, was for 16, 600
acres. In spite of general conditions
Of irrigation bonds throughout the
country. securities OF this character in
New Mexico have proved acceptable to
eastern capitalists.
Active construction work has been
commenced on the Rio Grande Ele-
plant Butte of the United States re-
clamation service project which COW
ers 10000 acres of land and stores
100000 acre feet per annum and will
cost approximately $4,000, 600 when
completed. Final completion estimated
in about seven years. This project COW
ers 10000 acres of land in New Mex
leo, in the Mesilla, Rincon and PaIomas
valleys.
There have been filed in the office
Of the territorial engineer since jan
uary 1, 1909 TO February 1, 1911. 800
applications for permits to appropriate
public water; 242 have been for 'irri-
cation purposes and cover approximate
1y 100000 acres of land, (this 1.o00,-
900 acres of land is additional to acreage
applied for prior to January l, 1900 and
81 have been for power, mining, mill
ing. etc, purposes. The amount Of
horse power covers approximately 100,-
900, which is also additional to those
previously applied for.
Good Roads Popular.
The construction of good permanent
highways has become very popular in
the territory under the provisions Of
the good roads law passed by the 1909
legislature. From the period of time
I.
there have been constructed and open
TO traffic 225 miles Of public road dis
tributed as follows:
Roads Constructed.
RoswelI-Carizozo. 95 miles; Silver City
Mogollon, "a miles; Santa Fe-Algo-
dones. 40 miles; State Line to Ration.
10 miles; Deming, miles. Total, 225
miles.
Roads Repaired and Partially Con-
Raton-Las Vegas, 100 miles: Santa
Fe-Las Vegas, rs miles. Total, IT'S
miles.
Roads Being Constructed.
La Luz-Tularosa, 8 miles; Carlsbad
Monument, so miles; Dona Ana-An-
thony 80 miles; Las vegas-Mora, 81
miles. Total, 12s miles.
Roads Surveyed.
Socorro-Magd alena, Is miles; Santa
Fe-Santa Cruz. 2S miles Total So miles.
Roads Inspected.
Farmington-Gallup, 10 miles; Santa
Fe-Taos, so miles; Alamogordo-Claud
croft, 20 miles. Total, 220 miles.
Convicts have been used On the Sill
yer City-MogolIon, Santa Fe-Albuquer-
que, Las Vegas-Mora, and Santa Fe
canon roads; all other work has been
done by paid labor Two camps of con-
victs are now being maintained and