| Show NE W bR GREAT T SCHEME HM Immense Irrigation tion Project Will Reclaim Millions Of or Acres DAMMING THE PECOS RIVER Desert Ibsen to 0 be bc Converted Into J a Para Pam Paradise disc dise Lv by Means I ans ot 01 a System or Of Canals Special Correspondence Carlsbad X N Z M I Jan 26 The Hanta Te Ve I l railroad has Just completed and amid 4 In tho the Pecos Peros valley alley near here lucre the thu largest Irrigation plant In Iii the tho west westI it I work orl which will make moke tho the hitherto arid corner of ot New Ne Mexico co cn Cl un UIt earthly paradise Uy U lJ damming the tile river riser two to great reservoirs re have hl C created anti ami from these 40 JI of canals will carry Mrry the limo water Imler in tu acres of or land Tho Thu which carries time the main branch of ot the Iho canal camil system Is Iii a It wonderful concrete waterway surpassing ln time the famous nimbus arlUe aque ducts of ot the tho ancient Jt It crosses crosten crOS lB this Iha river ll er below belol tile the Ih reservoirs on omi four tour concrete arches feet teel long and 2 feet t t high Tho Timo stream of water which through the U Is 20 Q 0 feet teet wide wid arid and IS a feet fel deep This Is In only one ono feature of ot the vast allt project which Is to 10 make habitable and on fertile acres or moro more of ot what hII 1115 boon the great I American desert Much luch of ot this work stork like the time Santa Ke Fe 0 system Is In being done by b private enterprise but time the roost most mo 1 Important part Inri of ut It will be bc carried on omm under the thUS lUSt pines of ot time tho United States government go the Iho Ir 11 Irrigation law passed panted ll by the ev emit ii Congress the tho Immediate reclamation lion tion of o acres of ot public land In iii ArIzona Colorado Wyoming nail and Montana Is 18 contemplated The fhe secretary of or time tho Interior has hilI him nl al ready I I approved live lle Irrigation projects These plants time are to 10 b be located at III dam darn Wyoming Gunnison tunnel Colorado Milk IIII river and St tt Marys lake hake Montana and Tonto crook creek Arizona rIme Tho cost cont of ot tile the work Is in roughly rouGh estimated at lit 1210 an acre aero H is eventually to 10 be lie paid raid back bark backby backby by IJ those IhoR who take Ink up the land III nIl In iii 10 The money re from the tue Is to be used u etl etlIn In extending l the tho system of lit Irrigation thus hun Insuring Il u large laige and amid permanent fund for till time tho of ot govern government ment hum hind Th Time Tonto reservoir In will willbe be lip tIme the toast most I O t extensive ot or then live plants It will acres Th rh Me site proposed ed for time the great dam III IH IIII 01 em I tIme the Halt river riser In iii the mountains about CO miles northeast of or Phoenix where the river leaving the tho Tonto basin hOllin enters a IL deep leei gorge gorgi In III tIme the mock lock This gorge gorgo li In l but hul feet wide wIdeSt I HI St thu level It wI of the water wIlier mind and for tor the Ihl feet tel the tue Ih within walls are uro 1 inc lur II r It U is proposed ld to here hero 1 t masonry 1111 dam which will be IJO foot feet high above low wilier water The dam data will willbe be lie OM Ij O 0 fet feet long on Oil top lop The reservoir site lillo 10 1 1111 Inore than 20 is IR Meal lieu Into alo this basin Is In I currIed time the from rules Time The greater i of this thin wn ln tended has an aim II rainfall of ot 15 i ito to 10 20 U Inches One nile mme of It the time greatest 1 systems of o being built buill by b private capital Is II that Ihal of oC tIme the Dixie Irrigation company composed of or Texan and md Philadelphia capitalists In him the lilt Iro valley ulle about n II a hundred miles below here herc over ocr the Tex lex lexan ns an border bonIer This system will still water wilier 20 acres of the dry 11 lands of ot western Texas fOXilY The main canal will be a I a hunt bun bundred dred dr miles mallen long IonIC coming out oUI on the Ole western 1 side of ot the Iho lecos river 30 20 mullen miles above the town of ot Pecos nail and run iming along the lie edgo eiga of the tho hills hum south crossing tho time and amid Pacific mill dad six nix miles west of ot Pero and thence to III lonh lake Ilk seven ell miles south of ot one if the largest refer reser r In existence exl will wIlt be hue constructed The rime canal will he bo built according to 10 the time lock dam system anti and will le lie In imi Itself n a aVast vast III reservoir capable of ot storing nil oil tho time Hood flood water wilier coming g down time the lecos river omit and placing It where here It will sill I use mine us Innumerable Irrigation systems dome large lare and 1111 some seine comparatively In lii Colorado California and elsewhere have already proved what shat ir Ic irrigation t ion ran Ii fl do ubo The rho arid it rI ii lands Ia hills are not as nM generally supposed great wastes of ot sand Tho rho soil soli of ot large sections of ot It 1119 Is exceedingly fertile crUte In U flit 1111 composition lacking only the Iho lie necessary to tomake tont make nt It II equal hulmi for 11 01 agricultural purposes lM to 10 the tho best farmlands of ot if more favored parts of or tIme the country On none Homo of ot tho thuc California Irrigated irrIgate Irrl fauns time the of lit fruit and vegetables s hums has oven excelled time the yield from nat mit naturally orally watered mitered ranches lanches In III I mm itt addition II it I nit to 10 the t lie mere Irrigation lion of or time tho public lands the tho government plans Ideas time the of 0 as nl of them aw an possible and tho Iho ho next century may ae o enormous groves groV oC uC tro tr tren s 9 wh h re now the plains are nio bare Jarl Many ranchers rancher who cute are cultivating Irrigated hivo hll been planting rapid mph growing linden 11 nil 11 with good gool |
