BOTH SIDES. MORE ABOUT THE 

 CELEBRATED DAM CASE. 



Last month editorial mention was made of the decision reached 

 by the Supreme Court regarding the International Dam Case or, as 

 it should have been the Elephant Butte Dam case the injunction 

 prayed being to restrain the latter from being built, and we promised 

 to give in this issue an article concerning the case by A. I. Barnes, of 

 El Paso, Texas. Upon reading the above mentioned editorial, an 

 advocate of the Elephant Butte Dam wrote to us, enclosing a clipping 

 which practically contradicts Mr. Barnes' statements. The old say- 

 ing goes that "One story's good till another is told." We intend 

 giving our readers both stories, and publish therefore the short 

 article by Mr. Barnes, followed by the clipping from the El Paxo 

 Daily Herald. ED. 



THE DECISION. 



"When the Associated Press Dispatches announced to the world 

 on the morning of the twenty-third of May that the judges of the 

 Supreme Court at Washington had rendered their decision in the 

 celebrated International Dam case, probably in no other city of the 

 United States was there so much interest taken in the bit of news as 

 here in the city of El Paso. 



There was great rejoicing on the part of practically every one 

 here because the decision had given our people the best assurance 

 that the right was on their side in their claim that no person or 

 persons should be allowed to take the water out of the Rio Grande to 

 the detriment and damage of others having prior rights to that 

 water. 



The readers of the AGE are no doubt familiar with this matter of 

 the International Dam, how an injunction was gotten out to prevent 

 the construction of a proposed dam at a point farther up the Rio 

 Grande, how the New Mexican courts decided against the injunction, 

 and how it was taken to the Supreme Court at Washington for final 

 decision. Both the United States and Mexican governments spent 

 considerable money in determining the proper site for the proposed 

 International Dam, and a treaty between the two governments had 

 been drafted whereby the dam was to be built. At this stage of the 

 proceedings an injunction was gotten out praying that the parties 

 engaged in building the dam in the same river at a short distance 

 above El Paso be enjoined to desist from completing their work, 

 which of course delayed the signing of the treaty until such time as 

 the injunction case could be heard and decided. The injunction has 



