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In two Important essentials the Ele phant Butte danl ranks all other con crete masonry storage dams of the American reclamation service, viz., cubical contents and capacity of res ervoir. In the latter particular it ranks every other irrigation dam in the world. Whon the floods of the Rio Grande begin to drip over tho spill ways, the Elephant Butte reservoir will contain two-thirds more water than the combined storage of all the reservoirs for Boston and New YoVk. There will be more water by one-third than is impounded by the $19,000,0oo Assuan dam in Egypt. Spread out. the Elephan{ Butte storage would cover Delaware moro than two feu ; deep. Confined in a pipe four feet in diameter, it would encircle tho globe seventy times. Expressed in layinan'd measure, it will hold 865 billion gal lons. The material in the dam if placed on a city lot 25 by 125 would mako a solid block of concrete lacking only 50 feet of being a mile high. Its weight is more than 1,100,000 tons. Transported by rail, it would roquiro 22,906 of the largest freight cars or a train 217 miles long. In the dam are twelve openings or passages, six for future power devel opment,, four for delivery or irrigation water, and two for sluicing purposes, j Reclaiming an Empire. The Elephant Butte dam, while the largest, is only one of the numerous structures contemplated for the recla mation of the fertile empire which lies below it in New Mexico and Texas. Ora McDermith, the irrigation man ager, thus tells about it: "The Rio Grande project lies in the valley of the Rio Grande between San ON TH? PEhl'.KT Vl^H.KU This dam was the ft fat work construct ihI by the reclamation service on the liio Grando project, The Mcsllla inver sion dam is located near Mesiila Park, New Mexico, about the middle of the Mesiila valley, and furnishes water to lauds on both sides of the river in the lower part of the Mesllla valley. This dam has just been completed. The Mexican dam is located at the upper end of the El Paso valley juat above trhe city of El Paso, Tex. This dam was constructed a number of years ago by the Mexicans and serves to divert water both to tho lands on tho American side in the El Paso val ley and to lands under tho Acequia Madre on the Mexican side. From thoHe divorsion dams several canal systems are built. Aborigines Used Irrigation. "Before tho middle of the sixteenth century the Spanish explorers entered the valley of the Rio Grande and found in these yalley Pueblo Indians Cultivat ing the land and irrigating it by means of acequias from tho river, some of which are still in use. How loug thoso Indians had been on the ground is unknown, but even at that time they were considered old inhabitants and raised not only grain and fruits but even flowers, Tho descendants of these Indians and the Spaniards have continued to cultivate portions of these valleys up to the present without much change in methods. "While tho Spaniards first entered tho valley from Sonora and the Gulf fit California, the first attempts at colonization were mado from El Paso ?as a base, the Spanish conquest of Mexico haying extended by that time to the Rio Grande. In 1000, Paso del Norte (now called Juarez) was an im portant town, and records are in exist ence nearly three hundred years old which refer to the Acequia Madre of Paso del Norte as being then in use. I "Tho present acequias in the Mesilla I valley have been in use for about six ty years, but there are evidences of older canals that have been aban doned. Is an Extinct Volcano. "The reclamation service began in vestigations on the Rio Grande March j 1. 1903, considering especially the dam site at Elephant Hutto. Elephant Butte is an extinct volcano arising Elephant buttc dam Marclal, New Mexico and Fabens, Tex. The project as proposed is fori the irrigation of 160,000 acres of the rich valley lands both in New Mexico and Texas, and, by the convention be tween the United States and Mexico signed May 21, 1906, about 20,000 acres will be irrigated in tfye republic of Mexico. "The source of water supply is the Rio Grande, which is a stream of ex treme fluctuations, varying from no flow to a flow of over 30,000 cubic feet per second. It Is necessary, there fore, in the efficient development of the project, to provide storage reser voirs and diversion dams for the regu lation of the flow. The plans as de veloped consist of one large storage reservoir and at least four separate diversion and irrigation systems. The four systems are necessary on account JPtiUHL topography or the irrigable lauds which He in four distinct val* leys, the Palmos, the Rlncon, the Mesllla and the El Paso valleys. Be tween these valleys the river flows through comparatively narrow gorges. Three of the diversion dams hare been built and are now in use. They are the Leasburg diversion dam, the Mesllla diversion dam and the Mexi can diversion dam. The Leasburg diversion dam is located at the head of the Mesllla valley in New Mexico one mile north of the alte of old Fort Selden, and diverts water for use on tie upper part of the Me4|a valley. Ij.' from the east bank of the Rio Grande to a height of five hundred feet above the river and is so named on account of the remarkable resemblance* to an .elephant's head. From this butte the dam takes its name. "In August, 1903, a topographic sur vey was begun at Selden and extended down the river, covering the irrigable area in the Mesilla valley to El Paso. In 1904 these surveys were extended to cover the El Paso valley to a die- ' tance of forty miles below El Pasd. Borings were also made at the same] time on the site of the Leasburg dam to determine the character of the mar ferial. IT "As a result of the surveys and in vestigations in 1903 and 1904 at the Elephant Butte site, It was decided upon as being superior to any other Mte On the river for the storage of water for both the Mesilla and .the El Paso valleys. /'Under the reclamation act, the cost of the project is to be repaid to the United States by the water users bens* fited, but in this case it was evident that the American water users should not be required to pay for that portion of the project constructed to satisfy the obligations of the United States In supplying water to Ifexico. Ac cordingly, in 1907 congress appropriat ed $1,000,000 to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the ? interior toward the construction of the Blephant Butt# tom." .. j ?Foolish l)iios(ton. 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