Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-08-07
DISPUTE OVER |
WATER RIGHT IS
NOW SETTLED
Long Contested Differences
on Tularosa Valley Come to
Amicable Solution; Water
Users and Cattle Company
Interested

TuH.s.D 81 Nj. Aus "a trans.
week vU IaSr 'h, eject at settling
permanently ul differ noes which
h.to heretofore existed between th"
p..p.t .. 90. rulUrusl valley Jud th.
TuItru.t Land aud cattle company
tuo latter holding land and owning
NrUl valuable vtt,r rights iu Tula-
rosa canyon Tho parties 60 ttc
transaction WON. tbr TuarusH Come
WuHN Ditch corporation and tho Tu-
Iuru-a Land and rattl, company Tho
former organization BE- composed ~
th. nud and waiter right owners of
TuHrY.t and vicinity vullO tup lat
ter company I- owned entirely hy
Thum.s b. Cutrpu OFF Santa BE-, and
John lyuoy. VINO now make. his home
800 Colorado springs.
The Mann decree establishing or
odjuGIratng th, right coz thD three
parties 10 She old Wutcr suit, hXod
tho hours which each party might
uso the WATERS OF Tular0sa canyon
Tho dccr.c served the purpas, as Won
us 1000, deere. could but 10 did not
aud could not eliminate 900 m, dincr-
cpce- b.tw,pn the water users On
tho ,allo, and boz the canyon. Thn
agreement VhIehu was entered Into
Monday win settle those differences.
Tine TulHrosu Community Ditch
corporation owns one hundred and
seven water rights from Tulnrosn
canyon tn. Tunrusi Land and cat
tic company owned nfty water rights
from the Same source, and e large
acrcag, OF laud iu the canyon. Under
this transaction th, former urEnni-
formerly owned hy the latter com.
pany, ana tho water rights OF thu fore
m,f age merged Vith tho water rights
OF the latter. Tho latter company
retains ownership uf tho nfty water
rights hut thor, is the agreement
that the water must bc used 81 the
vdlby west uf the mouth 81 the can
won Some thirty.odd of these nfty
rights have been sold tu citizens of
Tuldrosa and vicinity, but under tn"
iron-ciud agreement that the water
can bc used only in the valley All
subsequent sales or transfers of these
nny water rights will carry thr pro-
vision thNt The water must De- used
west of the mouth Of the canyon.
Tho pcoul. of the Tulnrosn valley
have now on, hundred and nfty-soycu
water rights available for irrigation
and for domestic uso ior tac people
OF the town ot Tularosa, This VIII
mean the doubling of The present
uprfuu. lU gultiVufiuU II lg tgtimNt-
cd that the present area IN cultiya-
ton b. twelve hundred acres II Is
predicted that within twelve months
this area in cultivation will Dc ia
creased 90 az least Two thousand acres.
10 is estimated that II the best ana
most modern methods of irrigation
and distribution are put into use, the
area loo cultivation can bo increased
20 i've thousand acres,
THIS transaction, in It's larrcaching
results Of improvements and better
mcu's. Is thc biggest and best thing
that has over come o. Tularusn.
Everyone who is Interested ia the
prosperity and material Development
of rylarusa. has oxccll,ut Reasons to
rorl pleased ana sratInoj with the
ssttlomtut Of this controversy
m the arrangement Of the legal de-
tails Of tho transfer and agreement,
Judge Albert 49, Fail represented the
Tularosa Community puch corpora.
ton. while Mr. Catron looked after
th" interests of the Tularnsa Land
ana cattle company, of which he is
tho half owner.