El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-22
VOTE To WAIVE
PRIORITY RIGHTS
Important Actions Taken at
Meeting Of Water Users
and Commissioners.

Las Cruces. y. VI, June IA joint
meeting Of the board Of directors Of the
Elephant Butte Water Users associa-
ton and the commissioners OF the va
rious community bitches was held here
to consider important matters OF Of
policy. Foremost was that OF the
priority claims OF the various bitches
TO be contended for in the suits now
pending Another matter was that Of
employing attorneys for the defence OF
this suit, while the third dealt with
was the execution OF subsidiary con-
tracts for the bitches, covering thu use
OF stored water from the Elephent
Butte dam
II was voted by each Of the commits
s1oners present that no priOrities OF
rights should be claimed over any other
There was perfect harmony and the
spirit displayed was the very best. The
following were present at the meeting:
President, L Clapp: directors F E
Bourbona, n f. Boyd. Robert ETwood.
J. $ Quesenbeng. A S. Robertson, NJ
B. Thompson, s G. Kilgore, J. F. Rig
ney. jr, and L E. Reinberg.
The bitches were all represented ex-
cept the La Mesa ditch, the following
commissioners being present. Arrey
ditch. NJ 5. Kirkpatrick: Dona Ana
ditch, J. W Taylor and J. ". HoIlings-
worth Las Cruces ditch. NJ H Peter
son; Mesilia ditch. George Clark, A S
Robertson and J. T.. Robbins. Garfield
ditch, G. A Luchini, Tomas Gonzales
and Jose Luis Marquee. Colorado ditch.
p B. Romy and Julian Sias: Three
Saints ditch, s G. Kilgore and s. D.
Blair; san Miguel ditch. Lee HarIin
and D. E Rodriguez, Chamberino ditch,
oscar b. Wood. J. F. Rigney. IT., and
A. W Crowder- La Union ditch. Ed
Han. W L Sawyers and Lake Trous-
dale
William Sutherland. wife and chill
dren- and Mrs. Troy c. Sexton are in
ClOudcroft. They made the trip in Mr.
Sutherland's Studebaker six.
MISC c Moore has returned to her
home IN Globe. AriZ. Mrs. Moore lived
in this valley 80 years ago
Dtlman kinseL who has been the
bookkeeper for the Rio Grande Repub-
lie, left Wednesday for santa Fe.
Mrs Hawley, Mrs. Blickenstaff. Miss
Blanch Cox and Miss Dora Hawley mo-
tored 10 FL Paso.
Lytton Taylor. Mrs. Taylor and son.
Raymond. Earl Taylor and Mrs 1Iandeu
went to FL Paso Sunday in the Taylor
car AIRS. Taylor and son went on TO
Mountain Park and Cloudcroft for
few weeks outing, and Mrs Mandeu
will visit in FL Paso and Canutillo for
several days.
T. c. Phillips and mother, Mrs. "
Phillips, with a nurse, left on Sunday
for Los Angeles, Calf II is hoped the
change OF climate viii benefit Mr.. Phil
lips's health
Give Contract for House.
The Davis Dairy company. which last
week purchased a house and two acres
OF ground on the road to Mesilla. west
of the railroad crossing. has given the
French CO. the contract for a
five room house and bath, also for a
$3.50 pumping plant
Two hundred and forty-one acres Of
land are TO be sold at sheriffs sale at
the court house in Las Cruces on July
10. The land is near Anthony and is
being sold to satisfy a mortgage and
a judgment OF $4,000 and belongs TO
Laura Y. Peacock.
Mrs L. A. Broaddus and children
have left for Cloudcroft for an outing
OF several weeks.
Two Cottages sold.
Two OF the Lester cottages at State
College have been sold to W. c. Brad
ley
Miss Margaret Bryan. OF Ell Paso. viii
spend the summer in Las Cruces. the
guest Of her sister, Mrs. Phillip Eugene
Warren.
The people OF Berino want the people
)t Las Cruces and surrounding towns
10 join them in a big picnic on the fifth
Of July. The LightfoOt grove viii be !
the grounds
W ~ Adair has returned from Pa I
Tomas Hot Springs, where he had been I
taking the baths for the past two [
weeks