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IRRIGATION STATISTICS OF NEW MEXICO.* 



It is estimated that there are approximately 750,000 acres 

 of irrigated land in New Mexico. It has been previously 

 estimated that there was water supply for 2,000,000 acres, 

 but from compilations recently made by this office assumed 

 that there is at least water available for 4',000,000 acres. 

 The following statement taken from water records have 

 been collected on seven streams, will substantiate the above 

 statement : 



Streams. Acre-feet. 



Animas at Farmington 804,600 



Canadian at Logan 974,340 



Rio Grande at Buckman 158,018 



Mimbres 7,985 



Pecos at Carlsbad 438,867 



San Juan River 3,050,000 



5,719,000 



Six million acre-feet is of sufficient quantity to cover the 

 entire Territory of New Mexico 0.9 inches in depth. The 

 above statement of 4,000,000 acres is therefore conservative 

 owing to the fact that a number of streams in the western 

 portion of the Territory have not been included, also high 

 run-offs for the White Mountain and Alamogordo drainage 

 basin. In connection with the stream flow records and river 

 profile it is estimated that there is 500,000 H. P. as yet 

 undeveloped in this Territory. Seven thousand dollars is 

 being spent annually by the Territory in collecting official 

 records on the water resources of New Mexico. This work 

 is being carried on under the most up-to-date methods, using 

 the most important stations. The Friez automatic gages, of 

 which there are thirteen now in operation and five Bristol 

 automatic gages. In this important work New Mexico ranks 

 as high as any other state east of the slope of the Rocky 

 mountains. Three hydrographic surveys for the adjudication 

 of water rights have been completed, namely: The Black, 

 Hondo and Rayado rivers. 



By C. N. Miller, Territorial Engineer. 



Under the provisions of the Carey Act acceptance passed 

 by the 1909 Legislature, there have been two segregations 

 practically made amounting to 20,000 acres, 10,000 by the 

 Lake Charette Reservoir and Ditch Co., Springer, New 

 Mexico, and 10,000 acres by the Oasis Development Co., 

 Artesia, New Mexico. It is expected that 150,000 acres will 

 be segregated under the provisions of this law within the 

 year 1911. 



Under the provisions of the irrigation district law, two 

 projects have been formulated and are now doing construc- 

 tion work. Orchard District Irrigation Company, of Aztec. 

 New Mexico, 12,000 acres. Las Vegas Irrigation District, 

 Las Vegas, New Mexico, was for 16,000 acres. In spite of 

 general conditions of irrigation bonds throughout the coun- 

 try, securities of this character in New Mexico have proven 

 acceptable to Eastern capitalists. 



Active construction work has been commenced on the 

 Rio Grande Elephant Butte project of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service which covers 180,000 acres of land and stores 2,000,- 

 000 acre feet per annum and will cost approximately $10,- 

 000,000 when completed. Final completion estimated in about 

 seven years. This project covers 110,000 acres of land in 

 New Mexico, in the Mesilla, Rincon and Palomas valleys. 



There have been filed in the office of the Territorial 

 Engineer since January 1st, 1909, to February 1st, 1911, 

 309 applications for permits to appropriate public water; 242 

 have been for irrigation purposes and cover approximately 

 1,000,000 acres of land (this one million acres of land is 

 additional to acreage applied for prior to January 1st, 1909) 

 and 67 have been for power, mining, milling, etc., purposes. 

 The amount of horse power covers approximately 100,000, 

 which is also additional to those previously applied for. 



Reclamation work at Project spur, about 20 miles 

 from Hazen, Nevada, has been commenced by a party of 

 30 men under the direction of U. S. Engineer Tillinghast. 

 Work will be started on the dam as soon as spring opens, 

 when it will be necessary to employ a large force of men. 



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