Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-02-07
VITAL ISSUE
At STAKE
New Mexico Board of Water
Commissioners Hear Sc.
veral Appeals
IRRIGATION ON THE PECOS
Further Development Depends
on Decision That VIII
Finally Be Made.

I.c Territorial Board Of Water
Conn ssioners, Charles Springer,
convened this afternoon at
. O'CLOCK IN the offices of Territorial
Engineer Charles D. Miller at the
capitol The tollowing are the mem
bers Of the boar. In addition to Mr..
Springer oscar Stow, of Las Cruces,
and Col VenccsIao Jaramillo OF El
Rito, are the membe.s,
The Gases.
The following are the rejected ap-
plications that are being heard on
appeal:
Application No. 133, H. b. Jones.
Santa Rosa Aqua Negra ChiQuita.
No. ITO, Fort Sumner and Pecos
Land Company. A. T. Rogers Jr. The
Pecos
No. 395, Triton Lake and Water
Company, Former Governor Miguel
A. Otero president Santa Fe. The
Pecos.
No. 34G, A. A. Jones, Las Vegas
Nos. 410, All, 42I and 1922, Fort
Sumner and Pecos Land Company.
No. 424, A. A. Jones, Las Vegas.
The board will be in session two
days but it is not believed that any
opinion will be handed down until la
ter The question at stake is a most
vital one to the future of New Mexi-
co epLis similar to that raised on the
Ri6 9Rnde by the proposed construc-
ton of the Engle Dam and which has
tied up all proposed additional appro-
prations of water on the Rio Grande
and its tributaries in New Mexico
and Colorado north of the Engle Dam,
as the L. S. Reclamation Service has
filed on all the unappropriated waters
of the Rio Grande on the plea that
they are needed to fill the Engle Res
ervoir and to supply the land under
the project.
! On the Pecos the same question
( has been raised by the u. S. Reclama-
( ton Service claiming that it has ap-
propriated all the waters of the Pc
cos not used, for the Carlsbad project
and that therefore all applications for
/ further appropriation must be reject
/ ed. Former Territorial Engineer Yer
non L. Sullivan accepted this view
and rejected all applications for new
appropriations for water on the Pecos
north of the Carlsbad project and
which included Lake Urton, the Fort
| Sumner, the A. A. Jones and other
/ projects that contemplated the ex
/ penditure of several million dollars
for irrigation works and reclamation
of many thousands of acres of fertile
land. No matter what the decision oi
the water board on the appeals, it i:
certain that the cases will be carried
up to the highest tribunal Of the ma
ton, the supreme court of the Unit
| ed States and until then all of the
plans for development of Pecos VALLEY
/ will have to be held in abeyance just
as they are on the Rio Grande and its
( tributaries in New Mexico and Colo
RADIO unless the secretary of the in
! terror will rescind a certain depart
ment order under which the Reclama
ton Service is acting and is setting
up its contentious at this time.
Will Be There.
The following are the persons who
are interested in these irrigation prof
ects or who represent those interest
ed, and who will appear before the
board during its session thisweek:
H. L. Buckley, Ration; Charles Blan,
chard; Fruitland; Baldwin & Gibbon
Roswell; C. C. Catron, city; j. G.
Clancy, Fort Sumner; Farmers Devel-
opment Company, Springer; Fort
Sumner Pecos Land Co.. East Las We.
gas; Hewitt and Hudspeth, White
Oaks; H. 3. Jones, Las Vegas; I. B.
Melville, Denver; Fred H. Miller;
J. McAme, Fort Sumner; A. B. McMiE
len, Albuquerque; Peter Chesney, sec
retary Rio Puerco Irrigation Co., New
York city; Col. George w. Pritchard
city: Pecos Water Users Association,
Carlsbad; H. F. Robinson, Albuquer.
que; James A Rogers, East Las We.
gas; Taos Valley & Land Company,
, Taos; Urton Lake and Water Com
pany, NJ. A. Otero, president, city; f
c.. Wilson, City; J. E. Wheeler, Lib
erty.