Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-12-13
WELL IRRIGATION
ALWAYS SUPERIOR
Under this System Farmers
Are Independent Of
Corporations
MANY TIMES CHEAPER
Other Sections of Southwest
Look With Envy on Min
bres Valley.
The Elephant Butte Water
Users Association has called for
an immediate payment of a ten
cent per acre assessment.

S cent per acre assessment. 81
TtI5l515 lEEzg5 15GE5ES EEl9e5GTlSa5sl
Have you paid your assessment,
Mr.. Mimbres Valley Farmer? For
the very good reason that you are
not assessed for water you have
not, nor need ever. The clipping
above is from the Las Cruces cor
respondent to the FL Paso Herald
and appeared in a recent issue of
that paper. 1t is typical of many
others which have appeared in the
past and will appear in the future.
SALT RIVER TROUBLES.
From the same periodical just
quoted we learn that the Elephant
Butte project is just five per cent
completed after two years work.
, The estimated cost of the dam was
given by the government engineers
as $1,000, 900, but Judging from the
= plant of the Phoenix correspondent
: to the FL Paso Times, it will prob
=, ably run close to SlO,0OO,OOO or
more before completion. Following
= is the article article alluded to:
(BY GEO. II. CLEMENTs,)
e Phoenix. Arz, Dec. 4. There is
"a disposition on the part of one OF
the newspapers of PhgniS, which
i claims to be voicing the sentiments
n Of many Of the owners of land un-
der the Salt River Irrigation pro-
e ject. to create the impression that
n the affairs of the project have been
grossly mismanaged by the United
y States reclamation service with
A view towards arousing opposition
to the payments to the government
Il of the cost of the Roosevelt dam,
!. the Granite Reef diversion dam,
the several canal systems, etc..
y making the irrigation and reclama-
g ton Of the Salt River Valley posi-
Bile.
As FARMERS MAKE KICK.
= Ii is held by the prOtestants
against the reclamation service
lc that when the Roosevelt dam was
~ first mooted, the farmers were Civ
en- to understand that they would
es have to pay but S. 00O, 900; but the
cost of the project has now reach
ed nearly So. 900. 900 and constant
as w increasing. This doubling of the
n, cost of is said to have been due to
waste. mismanagement and graft,
and the reclamation service is
to blamed for il all. So insistent
have been the charges that a con-
a. gressional committee has been in
m Phoenix taking testimony with
=. 80 findings which will probably be- set
III forth in report to be- submitted
in at the present session of congress
l.. 500 ACRE FOR WATER.
O. In a former issue of the GRAPHIC
oy the difficulty of successful agrcul-
rs ture under the Salt River project,
to regardless of water right costs was
sc pointed out. With a water charg-
ng ed with alkali flooding the lowand,
ee drainage bitches must be construct
af ed, while the higher land farmers
en- are pumping water from greater
,et depth than in the Mimbres Valley,
to 1t is estimated that the cost of wa
Did ter will be at least 800 an acre
ny under both these projects, not
to counting the original cost of the
land has been held unreasonably
he high. When the cost of retaining
nat government engineers and laborer'
m to keep so vast plant in operation
ian and repair is counted in. the cos
sh, to the farmer can be figured.
,ey CANNOT BORROW ON DITCH SYSTEM
be- Another matter is the obtainin,
,ss, of farm loans on irrigated lands
her A representative of a northern
is New Mexico banking institution
hat was in Deming last week lookini
cry over the agricultural securities 70
ck. mortgages. This fnancier said tina
Use his institution would not loan none
ow- on the lands near his city becaus
they considered the payment Of )
but for ten years for water rights to b
,ian first mortgage on the propert,
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