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THE SHRILL whistle of the en- j
gine at the power plant at Kle
phunt, New Mexico, echoed ami
re-echoed down the canyon on
ft recent afternoon at four o'clock.
While the name whistle hud made
similar niusic innumerable times be
fore during the last live years, its toot
ing that day had peculiar significance.
It gave vociferous and prolonged no
tice that the last bucket of cement had
just been placed in its proper niche in
the parapet wall and the greatest
storage dam in the world had been
finished.
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.
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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
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