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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



IRRIGATION IN THE BLUEWATER VALLEY OF 

 NEW MEXICO. 



One of the most attractive side trips to be taken from 

 Albuquerque, both for the practical irrigator and the in- 

 vestor and homeseeker, was that to the plant of the Blue- 

 water Development Company, about one hundred miles west 

 and immediately upon the Santa Fe Railroad in Valencia 

 County. 



We left at eight thirty on Friday night and were in the 

 comfortable ranch house of the company shortly after mid- 

 night. Parentheti- 

 cally, it may be said 

 that one of the 

 buildings now in use 

 by the Bluewater 

 Company was a sta- 

 tion on the old trail 

 to California. In- 

 deed, traces of the 

 trail may be seen 

 from time to time 

 in going through 

 the country, and 

 this, perhaps, as 

 well as any other 

 thing emphasizes the 

 wonderful develop- 

 ment which is con- 

 veying the great 

 Southwest forward 

 at a speed realized 

 by few who are un- 

 familiar with it. 



The next morn- 

 ing we drove to the 



Bluewater (New 



dam which impounds as pretty a sheet of water as one would 

 care to see, surrounded by hills which form a natural reser- 

 voir, capable of impounding when fully developed 92,000 acre 

 feet of water. 



We were very favorably impressed by the stability of the 



construction of the dam, formed as it is of rock taken from 

 the walls of the canon in which it is located, and having an 

 earth apron affording an absolute seal for the whole. 



Another feature of the construction which impressed us 

 was the control tunnel driven through the solid rock and 

 entirely separate from the dam itself. It is hard to believe 

 that this body of water offers the only opportunity for a 

 citizen of New Mexico living, west of Albuquerque to take 

 a boat ride. 



Returning to the valley we drove over some of the 



twenty-five thousand 

 acres embraced in 

 the project, although 

 perhaps a better 

 idea of this was ob- 

 tained later from 

 the train as we ran 

 for nearly half an 

 hour through a val- 

 ley supplied by the 

 water from the res- 

 ervoir. 



We saw oats 

 which will produce 

 sixty to seventy-five 

 bushels to the acre, 

 and which are now 

 selling at alxmt one 

 dollar per bushel, 

 and other crops in 

 proportion, and later 

 learned that beets 

 grown in the valley 

 proved to be the 

 best in conformation 

 and size of any exhibited at Albuquerque. Our favorable im- 

 pression gathered from what was necessarily a cursory ex- 

 amination was confirmed by the fact that the lands are be- 

 ing purchased by experienced irrigators from the irrigated 

 districts of California and Colorado, but that they are buying 



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