THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Whereas, the Reclamation Service of the United 

 States, by its splendid and valuable work and investi- 

 gations, has demonstrated that the only feasible man- 

 ner in which a full supply of water can be secured is 

 by the erection of a dam or reservoir, under the pro- 

 visions of the Reclamation Act, at a location known 

 as the Elephant Butte site, at or near Elephant Butte, 

 New Mexico; and 



Whereas, it has been demonstrated by scientific re- 

 search and investigation that a sufficient supply of 

 water to supply the needs of irrigation in the Rio 

 Grande Valley, in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, 

 can be had through the erection of the said Elephant 

 Butte dam, now, therefore 



of the waters from said reservoir be made with due 

 regard to the rights of New Mexico, Texas, and Mex- 

 ico. 



Governor Pardee, of California, was elected presi- 

 dent of the Thirteenth National Irrigation Congress, 

 which will be held at Portland, Ore. A list of the 

 vice-presidents and members of the executive commit- 

 tee will be found elsewhere in this issue. The execu- 

 tive committee, or a small portion of it, met imme- 

 diately after adjournment of the congress and elected 

 Boothe chairman for another year. The report is that 

 Mr. Boothe protested, but we fear that the gentleman 



Group of El Paso Citizens who Captured the Congress at Ogden. 



Be It Resolved, in consideration of these facts, 

 that we do hereby sincerely, unanimously, and heartily 

 approve the splendid and valuable work of the Re- 

 clamation Service under the Department of the In- 

 terior at Washington, and its officers in the Rio Grande 

 division in New Mexico and elsewhere, and we hearti- 

 ly endorse and approve the proposal of building said 

 Elephant Butte dam as a happy solution of the vexed 

 question that has heretofore embarrassed the parties 

 interested, and we unitedly pledge ourselves to do all 

 in our power to assist the said Reclamation Service 

 in any way required of us to enable the Department 

 to erect the said Elephant Butte dam at the earliest 

 possible date; provided, that an equitable distribution 



bringing the report must have been slightly misin- 

 formed, as there is no record of Mr. Boothe ever hav- 

 ing entered protest against an appointment of any 

 character. J. Tom Richardson, of Portland, Ore., has 

 been made secretary of the thirteenth congress. 



In this connection we are showing a birdseye yiew 

 of El Paso, also illustrations of the new Union Depot, 

 which is in course of construction, and a view of the 

 proposed convention hall, in which congresses which 

 meet in El Paso in the future will convene. We are 

 also reproducing half-tone showing group picture of 



