El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 214, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 8, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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El Pas6^pSTimcs
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TIMES PU B USHING COMPANY,
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Daily.
Delivered In the city, per week —......25 oenM
Payable every Saturday to oarrter.
DAILY—BY MAIL.
Invariably in Advance.
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e day of publication:
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In New Mexloo.
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In Arizona
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In Texa*.
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No charge for Portage.
PaMi JJJilv Ximon. 8unri*v. bapceiubor 8. 18H6
that strong lnflaenoe will be brought to
beer by the railroad ocmpanies to hare
tha government extend an Invitation to
theirrigatlonists thrcughlts delegates
to take an excursion to thlsoliy. The
move Is a wise one and the presence of
those hydrsnllo engineers w.ll bs pro-
ductive cf g >od results. The rate
which the Mexican Central railway
oompany has set is 130 for the round
trip from Albuqierque, with final
limit of thirty days from dates of lutur,
which will be September 191b, 20th and
21st, permitting stop-overs at aDy
point in the republic of Mexloo on
going cr returning trip within final
limit.—Two Republics.
ADVERTISING RATES.
The custom among new»paper» of printing
one rate and accepting another ia laat disap*
PThe TiM*8 he* been a onb-pbic* organ *inoe
1886. We find it pay*.
Uniform rate* are necessary for the *atU-
faction of the advertiaer and the *uoce*a of
tl*No1dl80ouP**' except tbo*epublished on this
rate sheet are allowed to anybody.
The advertising agentcan pay our rate and
retail the space to buyer* at our figure* with
profit to himself. For instance: he buy* a
naif column, 9 inches, for one year, fur $189;
if he retail* each inch at $42 a year hi* profit
is 100 per cent. We sell at the same figure to
everybody. _
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A dispatch from ttau FranoUco bes
been going the rounds of tbs press,
saying: “Tbe possibility of a receiver-
ship for the Southern Paoiflo railway
company is tbe inference irom the
testimony given before the railroad
oommlseionere by G. L. Lansing, sec-
retary and comptroller of the oompany,
which Is the Proposed reduction ia
freight rates. Lansing said the reduc-
tion of 12,276,000 In net income from
that of 1893 was a striking amount.
The question arose whither it was not
due to abnormal conditions. Ha
thought there would ba a return to bet-
ter conditions,but if this should not fol-
low to some extent then there would be
a orltioal time for the railroad com-
pany . Of coarse the railroad oompany
could oarry its indebtedness for some
time, bat should tbe present state of
affairs continue eventually reorganiza-
tion through legal prodess would en-
sus.”
THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
INTERNATIONAL DAN.
The Project as it was Presented to the
Iniled States Congress.
An Object Lesson in Irrigation for the People
of both Mexico and the United States, and
a Most Valuable Factor for the Growth and
Prosperity of El Paso and her Sister City on
the Mexican Side.
and
the
The grandest project tn this section
of the country, that would bring with
it the most magnificent results, is,
without doubt, the proposed Interna-
tional dam across the Rio Grande at
a point three miles above the city of
El Paso.
Already the scheme has enlisted in
the work a corps Of the United States
geological survey, by reason of
its two international features—the res-
toration of water to Mexicans who
have enjoyed for over three centuries
water rights, of which they are today
deprived, and the settlement of a
changeable boundry, which is dally
the source of international troubles and
annoyances.
It would not be out of place here to
give u concise rehersal of the grand re-
sults expected in the realization of
this flue piece of engineering.
In the first place the limited flow
of water in the Rio Grande, after its
flood season in the spring of each year,
is too small to permit of the use of Its
El Paso more than any other place waters <}ie State of Colorado and
. ... . . . (in the Territory of New Mexico, for
id this country has a special and deep - jrr|gatiUg purposes, to the extent re-
interest Involved in the meeting of quired by the new canals and irrfga-
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The one month rate for space from the
Inch to one column of 18 inches Is fixed so
that the per Inch rate decreases for Increas-
ed space from $5.00 to $2.25, but for the same
length of time 9 inches are sold at $22 50, and
18 laches are sold at$3.25 per Inch. $40 60.
The one Inch rate Is the basis of tne whole
table: as the short time rates fixed are a per
**The*l*t?me rate is 33X per cent of the month
rate.
The2 times rate is 40 per cent of tha month
rate.
The 3 times rate.ls 50 per cent of the month
rate.
me 1 week rate is 60 par cent of the month
rate
The 2 weeks rate Is 75 per cent of the month
The 3 weeks rate Is 90 per cent of the month
rate.
The 3 months rate Is 3 times tha m ..nth rate,
less 10 j er-eent discount.
The6 months rate Is6 times tae month rate,
less 20 per cent discount.
The 9 months rate is9 times the month rate,
less 25 per cent discount.
The year rate 1*12 time* the month rate,
lei* 30 per cent discount.
Special position—Fifty per cent extra.
“K. O. D” advertisement* charged at two-
thirds of dally rate*.
Professional cards $5.00 per month.
Metai;base cuts only accepted
Reading-Matter Kate*.
Twenty-flvecent* per line first Insertion; 15
eent* for each subsequent insertion. Con-
tracts for 1000 lines to be taken In 3 mouths,
made at 5 cents per line each Insertion. Un-
changed locals, by the mun'h, $1.50 per line.
TIMES PUBLISHING - OMPANY,
El Paso, Texas.
Official Paper of tbe City and County,
national irrigators at Albaqueiqae
next week. Tbe international dam be-
tween Mexico and the United States,
the site for which is near this city on
the Rio Grande, will be made a special
theme for dlS3ae.6lon and orators of
national character will speak on the
snnjeot. The Mexican government
will be represented there by Engineer
Ibarrola of Durango who is Mexloo’s
national irrigation commissioner and
has charge of the interstate division
of the waters of the Nasas river which
flows throng} Durango, Chihuahua
and Ooahuiia.
TheTiME3ttas daily preserved this
project to its readers, so as to acquaint
them with Its importance This paper
ha6 been eent to maoy delegates of the
oongress so they can 6peeK intelligent-
ly of it8 merits.
Here is achance for El Pasoto get the
Tbe McGioty carnival Is going to be
a “hummer ”
The boring of the artesian well will
Boon be under way. ,
The El Paso Progressive association
is making itself felt. Keep np tbe
good work and let everyone contribute
their share towards its suooess.
If Mr. Oourohesne Is in earnest about
the early completion of (he smelter
road and the Times knows he Is, it
would be better for him to show his
reliance upon the ability of others to
bnlld It and hiB confideuce in the city
oounoU for an honest expandltare of
the money by withdrawing from his
offer to do the work.
The National Irrigation oongress
which meets at Albnqaerqae, N. M.
September 16, will not only fce local in
Its character, as the call would lead the
reader to believe, but will be also
vested with an international import
anoe that will add great prestige and
weight to those scientific conventions
in the future. Delegates from various
foreign ooentries, It Is said, will at
tend, Mexloo's represen'aUon to be In
tbe persons of Mr. J. Rtmon de Ihar-
rolB, of Taonbays, for tbe Federation,
and Mr. J. A. Nangle, general freight
and passenger agent of ths Sonora
railroad, to represent the state of So-
nora. As 6ome of the trank lines are
making an effort to induce the irriga
tiooiste to visit this city after the com-
pletion of their labors, it is reported
tion enterprises established there
within the past year or two, without
depriving Mexico and Texas of the
water rights they have enjoyed in this
vicinity for over three hundred years.
The appropriation, therefore, of such
waters by citizens of the United States
to the dertriment of Mexicans here,
where the river becomes the interna-
tional boundary, is a direct injustice to
our foreign neighbors and presents the
dilemma: Shall we refuse the use of
this water to Colorado and New Mex-
ico, or shall we grant It, and other-
wise provide for the restoration of
the prior rights of Mexico and Texas to
the flow of the stream.
Upon investigation we learn that
Colorado and New Mexico can re-
claim over a million acres of arid
lands by the use of the waters of the
Rio Grande, and that Mexico only ir-
rigates, and has for over three hun-
dred years been irrigating, only about
fifty thousand acres. This vast dif-
ference of territory to be benefited by
the water of the river naturally makes
prominent &Dd leadirg men In the na-
tion on the 6Qbjsct of Irrigation. This
is the foorth congress, in eaoh of the
two last sessions a resolution was pas-
tive, the restoration of rights, is by
far the most just to all concerned.
Happily the flood waters of the Rio
Grande in the spring time of each
, , ... i year afford an easy solution of the
sed favoring the international dam at problem involved. The enormous quan-
tity of water that flows at that time,
and is now wasted, can be stored in
El Paso but no active work was done
to secure it. Now we must lay stress
on the fact that words without aotloas
are of little avail and we must enlist
the active co-operation of the oongress.
There are many signs that point to an
early solution of the International dam,
and favorably too. The Times Is relia-
bly Informed that Secretary Olney took
with him on his vaoation the state de
partment documents on tbe subject, to
study them at his leisure. Mexloo is
now ready for the projeot and every-
thlr g seems to oonsplre for a favorable
and early result.
Kougli on the Far sou.
McBride told a party of his friend
this story: “You know, boys, little peo-
ple have sharp ears, and they are not at
all backward about telling any little
scraps of information they pick up. This
peculiarity has led a good many parents
to resort to spelling words when their
young children are present. Of course
that sort of thing is of no avail after the
youngsters learn to spelL Well, Mrs.
McBride and I are in the spelling stage
now, and little Freddie is often very
much mystified by our remarks to each
other. Last night we had our new' min-
ister to dinner, and Freddy w'atched the
good man helping himself very liberal-
ly to biscuits. He thought it a good op-
portunity to put into use the family
verbal cipher, feeling perfectly certain
that the minister would find it unintel-
ligible, so he called out, ‘Mammal’
“ ‘What is it, Freddy?’
“ ‘Mamma, isn’t the m-i-n-i-s-t-e-r a
p-i-g?’ spelled out Freddy triumphant-
ly,—New York Telegram.
Shoplifting Extraordinary.
Judge—What’s the charge against this
mau?
Green Policeman—Faith, Oi believe
they calls it “shop liftin," sor.
Judge—You believe? Don’t you know?
Explain what he did.
Policeman—Why, ho tvoied t’ blow
up a droy goods sthore ho v.nr dis-
charged from.—Philadelphia Record.
Right You Are.
Clearly 1895 is an ’ear of ebru.—
Boston Herald.
reservoirs and be utilized throughout
the year. This is a plain remedy. Now
further investigation would require us
to show where, in what manner, and
at what expense this water can be
stored for such purposes.
It is cerfflinly preferable, and less
expensive, to find one grand reservoir
for tills purpose than to locate several
in different localities.
The plan on this page is a reduced
copy of that made by the engineers of
the United States geological survey,
and describes a storage reservoir of
a minimum capacity of thirty-nine
square miles covered by water of an
average depth of 21.6 feet.
The following report made to con-
gress in 1890 explains itself as well
as the proposed international dam:
REPORT:
(To accompany bill H. R. 3924.)
The Select Committee on Irrigation
of Arid Lands in the United States, to
whom was referred House bill No.
3924, entitled “A bill concerning the
irrigation of arid lands In the valley
of the Rio Grande River, the construc-
tion of a dam across said river at or
near El Paso, Texas, for the storage
of its waste wasters, and for other pur-
poses,’ have considered the same and
respectfully report it to the House,
with the recommendation that «it do
pass.
The reasons which commend this
bill to legislative attention, the con-
ditions which have given rise to its
introduction, and the necessities
which have brought about Its consid-
eration are substantially formulated
in the preamble. (See copy o^ bill
hereto attached.) The statements
therein made have been affirmatively
established. The investigation of the
committee has been aided by the
presence and testimony of gentlemen
w'bo are fully conversant with the
facts, and have had ample opportunity
for an actual observation of their ex-
istence; besides documentary and his-
toric evidence bearing upon the situa-
tion, lias boon available, from which
additional information, believed to be
reliable and accurate, has been ob-
tained.
It will be obserVed that the measure
proposed is inceptive und initiatory
in its character, contemplating in its
terms no present final or conclusive
the labor spent In Irrigatlon-tlir i
tlou must grow In Importance,
may occasion trouble beyond
reach of diplomacy to settle.”
Time has verified in a great degree
these prognostications as will appear
subsequently. The "accessions to the
populations” have been rapidly made.
A new and different citizenship has
been attracted here and added to those
residing in the valley at the time
when these official reports were sub-
mitted. Energetic and progressive
Americans have since made tlioir
homes and Invested their capi-
tal here, While substantial and
material development by the Mexi-
cans is also observable. Our
people along the border are thrown
In dally contact with the people of
Mexico. Notwithstanding our cove-
nants of amity, it has been not only
difficult but at times Impossible to
prevent outbreaks and conflicts on the
Mexican frontier from various causes,
despite the efforts of good men In
either country to maintain friendly re-
lations. Depredations, reprisals, blood
,, . . . ... . shed, and retaliations have oceaslonal-
tlon on the subject to be contiolh d 1 y i|y inarj{(Mj flU(] marred the history of
the future judgment and discret ion j tjiese i)0r(jei. people. General Stanley,
of Congress, after international <‘on’'commanding the Department of Texas,
saltation, and methods for concert of (n ll(H official report, dated September
action shall have been considered and jo, 1SS9 (see Report of General Scho-
devised. It is not expected that the to secretary of War, 1.889, page
remedies suggested for a solution of gays:
tho troubles Indicated can be rxm- “Our relations with our Mexican
dered operative, without the preliml- [ neighbors upon the long line of tho
nary negotiation provided for shall Rio Grnude have been kindly, although
be followed by appropriate and neccs- j tHoy are a good deal excited over wha>
sary legislation to carry them into they deem (he violation of their ripa*
effect. A mutual understanding and rlnn rights, through our people taking
co-operation by and between tlje re- fill tbe water of the Rio Grande for the
spectlve governments concerned will irrigation of the San Luis Valley,
be a necessary antecedent, and any; which leaves the Rio Grande a drv
practical results are contingent on bed for 500 miles. The question Is
the event that after full conference one that must be settled by the State
shall be had. and full investigation Department, and thus far there has
shall be made, it shall be regarded been no call for military force. The
expedient and of such importance as remedy for this water famine and
to warrant future authoritative and consequent ruin to the Inhabitants of
conjoint execution by the two coun- the Rio Grande Valley, must be found
tries. Accordingly the fourth section in storage reservoirs, so easy of eon-
of the bill provides: , 'construction, one in the canon opposite
"That the President is requested to Taos, and the other in the canon near
communicate to Congress the result and north of El Paso.”
of said negotiation, together with His, The Rio Grande is quite a long
recommendation thereon, at the ear- stream, being with its meanders some
liest practicable opportunity." 2,000 miles lu length. It rises in Cot-
The committee are of the opinion orado and Is supplied from a number
that (he issues Involved are of such of tributaries In that States and north-
moineut, the complications so em- (ern New Mexico, the rain-fall and
bnrrassing, the national and Interna- melting of the snow and lee. There
tional interests so important, and the are frequently vast accumulations of
situation one of such gravity as to snow and ice in the deep canons of
suggest the wisdom and propriety of that region during the long winters,
the two Republics conferring and 1‘ the snow-fall be great and Its melt-
reasoning together, and inaugurating ing accompanied by rains in the spring,
nil suitable and possible measures for the river becomes a raging torrent
the conservation of that harmony and from about the first of April until July,
prosperity of their respective citizens, carrying enormous quantities of water
and that amicable and orderly admin- through its entire length. Much of
lstration of their respective govern- ] his time It is wholly unused and unnec-
ments so greatly to be desired, and yet essary for Irrigating purposes in either
so seriously menaced by the existence Colorado or upper New' Mexico, and
of the causes stated lu the preamble, its flow la not only vastly more than
These difficulties will, it may be as- is required for such purposes lower
sinned, groiv more serious and critical down the stream, but because of its
the longer the correctives are delayed, temporary superabundance, becomes
and it would seem to be the part of really destructive. In such cases It
prudence to anticipate and provide £°es on unused to the Gulf, carrying
against tlieir consequeces as far as as waste that which if it could be con-
it is possible to be doue. served for tbe seasons later on would
The Republic of Mexico is our near ,)e precious indeed to the people along
neighbor, separated from us, in part, course. If the snow-fall in the
by the Rio Grande river for a distance mountains above be light, and its melt-
of some 1200 miles.'With its twelve mil- in« unaccompanied by rains, the wa-
lions of people, with its developing *er from (lie snow is in a great de-
resources and wonderful possibilities, Pree evaporated and the floods are less
with Its invitation to and reception enormous.
of American capital, .w’itli Its xgreat! The middle third of this river, say
trunk-line railroads practically exten- from Albuquerque, N. Mex., to Presidio
sions of ours, with its varied fields for del Norte, Mexico, a distance of about
our commerce and constant demand 500 miles, has no important living con*
for our products, with all its multi- fluents and passes through an extreme-,
plied relations to us. it is a neighbor ly arid belt, where the evaporation
with whom we shall always have to from a water surface is many times
deal, and whom it is both onr duty the rain-fall annually; and In usually
and policy to treat and cultivate tn a i>'y seasons its history for the past
neighborly way. There are many ’ forty years shows that, it failed to
Mexicans who are citizens of the carry a current for short periods dnr-
Uulted States, enjoying all the *n£ August or September on an average
immunities of such. They are to be (,f a,tout once in seven years. At and
found all along on our side of the Rio.I^Iow Presidio del Norte it has living
Grande. The treaty of Guadalupe confluents from Mexico and Texas
Hidalgo in its 8tli and 9th articles which maintain a constant flow to
made especial provision for such citi-!tll(i Gulf of Mexico. Midway in this
zenship. arid belt are tbe two large valleys
In a report relating to troubles on ^ie river—Mesllla In New Mexico,
the Rio Grande, transmitted to the
House of Representatives by the Sec-
retary of War in 1878 (see Ex. Doc.
and El Paso In Texas and Mexlco-
where agricultural pursuits have been
maintained almost since prehistoric
No. 84, Forty-fifth Congress, second t[mes certainly, and of record for more
session), Colonel Hatch says: (than two centuries, essentially depend-
“The people are one and the samo'jSj Z beifJan
1 the two rtrlPQ nf H.o rlvov nl. 11. “0t h.eln? 1111 ™POrtant faCtor ID
on the two sides of the river; al- the Krowth of cron,
though subjects and citizens of differ- K or clopS'
ent nations, they are one in race and
religion, and bound by the closest ties
of interest and blood; their customs,
habits, and traditions are the same,
and there Is hardly a family on the
one side but Is related by ties of
Near and just above El Paso, Tex.,
the Rio Graude, or rather "the mid-
dle of that river, following the deepest
channel” (treaty 1853), or “the cen-
ter of the normal channel,” etc., (con-
vention 1884), becomes the Interna-
blood or marriage with those on the I United States
other; hence, when you touch one
you touch all, and when one Is hurt
all feel it. * * * One (trouble)
which must be looked for sooner or
later Is in connection with the water
taken from the Rio Grande for Irri-
gation. As soon as the attempt* is
made to largely extend cultivation In
this valley (there will not be enough
water for all, and both sides have an
equal right), from this troubles are
certain to arise sooner or later, wiiich
may Involve the two countries se-
riously.”
In the report of the Bpard of Offi-
cers (see Ex. Doc. No. 93, Forty-fifth
Congress, second session) March 16,
1878, Is to be found the following
statement;
“The Rio Grande, at this season of
tho year even an insignificant stream,
its channel often shifting and always
erratic, but during the heats of sum-
mer sometimes dry, affords, by being
directed Into acequias on either bank,
a scant and variable supply of water
to the people of both nationalities, but
is utterly insufficient to irrigate this
extensive valley, where tho yearly
rainfall measures but a few inches.
As time progresses and the country
is opened by accessions to its popula
legislation, carrying no. appropriation, | tious, sure to come—for it is a most
but reserving any ultimate proposl- fertile region and gloriously rewards
of America and the Republic of Mex-
ico. Rut for the last forty years the
river has been so continuously chang-
ing its bed from one side of the val-
ley to the other, more or less with each
recurring flood, in many cases it be-
ing unknown whether caused by avul-
sion or gradual erosion and deposit,
that it Is frequently Impossible to de-
termine to which country the land on
either bank of the river belongs in
different localities and to great ex-
tents in area.
These floods have sometimes be-
come devastating torrents, inundating
the w'hole valleys for miles, cutting
new' channels and sweeping everything
before them. In 1842, In the El Paso
Valley, the river changed its bed for a
distance of 30 miles, and In some
places 7 miles laterally. Hundreds of
smaller,changes have been made since.
In 1884 it began moving back from
the Mexican side at this point, and
in a few months carried nwny 15 miles
of the Southern Pacific railroad, and
threw a single body of over 5,000
acres of land on the south side of the
river, although It Is still claimed to
be within the domain of Texas. This
land was just above the Mexican town l
of Ban Ignacio, and as the river left
the town for miles, its people were
compelled to take a canal from the
Hver where It Is entirely In Texas,
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