Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-04-11 | Page 7 | To Use Ancient Reservoirs.

TO USE ANCIENT ST 1 Kansas City Star Tho The Mormon colonists at Dublan State of Chihuahua Chihuahua Chi Chi- It Mexico are arc preparing to utilize several se large laige water ater storage re reservoirs res which ere were constructed near the town by the prehistoric race of ur t people that in the ages past Inhabited inhabited the valley of ot tho the Casas Grandes river It is stated by engineers who ho I have ha e examined thes ancient rc reservoirs reser- reser er- er that tho they are arc capable of or holdIng holdIng holding hold- hold Ing water sufficient to Irrl Irrigate ate forty thousand acres of or land The Prehistoric people were practical farmers formers I an and l had a u. knowledge of Irrigation as asIs asis I Is shown by y the ruins of Irrigation I ditches which still exist throughout I the valley of the river The rime reservoirs reser- reser from fromn which they obtained their water supply were built bunt of ot stone and S earth and show splendid workmanship and a soo good knowledge of engineering The ditches leading from these reservoirs reser reser- reservoirs are nrc being repaired by br the e Mor Mor- I i mons moris and a dam damn is being built bunt across tho the Ca Catas Casas Grandes river for tor the 1 purpose purpose pur pur- ur- ur pose of ot diverting the necessary flow of or water into the r reservoirs It Is 18 planned by y tho the Mormons to place about acres In irrigation under this system Tho The colony was established several years cars ago Its mem members ers are arc very ery prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- important important an and have IHl inaugurated tant industrial enterprises which are ore being successfully conducted In the tile mountains a short distance from lOm Dublan Dubian are aie to be found the abandoned abandoned aban allan done caves of or the cliff dwellers It ItIc ItIn Itic ic In the theory of anthropologists who have visited this region that the tho cliff omI dwellers did Id not belong belon to the tho race co of people which constructed these Ir Irrigation Irrigation irrigation Ir- Ir works in tho the Casas Grandes Gr river vallo valley The cliff chit dwellers were not farmers They are thought though t to have been a much Inter later race lace than the thc builders build build- ers cre of or the Irrl irrigation works s. s