The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-04-23

foolish investments. throwing away
slime pr monsl, .r hcaltb pr uppor-
tuuip. GcnorulI, We cal such uu
individual 70 food OF worse Usually
be merits what We call him
when W. see o. oot.nuuity wasting
its substance. its t%osoufc"s or les OPP
pnrtumucs, generally. u We think
nbou o. az an wc look upon the mat
ter a= The other fellow business. and
say. "uh. very veut even It the
community makiur u fool of itself
happens to be- me one In which We
live
with tn individual usually there
is n relative. q friend some person
Of broad charity MO will Pot ou the
bile.
Win the community. We continue
90 regard the Fighting ~ the wrong
~ the other fellows business until
serious disaster impends. or heavy
loss occurs. ~ individual interests are
ieopafdized directly. Then We fail
into o great stow and accuse each
other aud wonder why W. didn't TX
the leak soonet.
with whi,h sermon on our chest
We will proceed TO what IS un our
min
We people Of Albuquerque have
before as every day during spring
and summer. constant and ANNOYING
and damaging evidence OF "a waste.
which In this region and this COM
munity Is sinful. We refer 20 the
waste OF water. Water Is our most
precious resource We concern our
selves greatly about storing the food
waters Of tho no Grandc; about
drilling hole lob the ground 10 zap
the undorhow; we are constantly I'M
easy lest there De q shortage Of water
Tor %irrigating such land as W. have
managed to bring under cultivation
Md all the time We are deliberately
uasting-throwinE AWAY with open
eyes to It's value Ia dollars and cents
fully une-half tho water supply which
a. henoGcent Providence aud an all
wise reclamation service permit us To-
divert from the silver, Rio Grande.
Dld YOU know shat. Mr.. Man who
talks largely about developing our
adjacent lands
rs q cold. hard act which any
competent irrigation engineer vill
connrm FOR you every day In the ir-
riguting season.
That perennial denomination. the
bnrclns ditch has caused his cijy
loss and damage running into thou
sands Of dollars. largely through use
less, needless preyenable waste ct
water worth thousands Of dollars
We spend thousands of dollars
tpilding roods 20 got TO oar mrms
ana So our Farmers may get 60 us.
only 10 have these costly reads made
impossible and ruined hy useless.
needless p~rcy -ntabir waste of wa
ter worth thousands ~ dollars Co thc
farmer and indirectly to us
Each succeeding year We sit idly
h} and witch the inter obstruction
Of land worth thousands Of duIlurs.
through seerago, which .n turn BE- the
direct rosuii OF e. useless needless
p~r'youtablo waste uf water worth
thousands of dollars
Land tributary 10 the RIO Gr1nde
owns diversion rights Go enough water
60 irrigate about ,sht times the
acreage now under cultivation.
Actually enough water is diverted
20 irurate four times the acreage now
being mrmed.
our utlgatus bitches run riot over
the landscape following the vaguut
lines laid ONT Hy Indians 900 yours
$50. 90 1000, maybe. a picturesque
fact. but economically unfortunate.
Ey the simple expelient u %orguuiz-
ing an irrigation ana drainage dis
trict, upon either side az the RIO
Grande. under laws provided for that
purpose funds can be obtained ior
the complete rcmodeIlng of our p,r-
turesque hut economicallv pltiful ir-
risation system upon modern ines
Ditch lines would De Strengthened;
cemented main canals on higher
grades would stop an waste 81 the
precious water Ca which We are en-
titled and bring under irrigation a
vast acreage OF l.ud now idle. AZ
The same time "a drainage system
would be provided aad thousands of
acres. ruined hy The old menuderins
canals. would re- reclaimed. This re-
clamatinn of suD-irrigatod, aikall-
i-mpregnated land alone would pay for
the cost Of the new system.
a dream?
can Il that Il you want 10 ease