Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1929 — Page 7

■UHITED STATES [MD MEXICO TO I DIVIDE WATERS I pnrlev Al Washington Will I Study Three Great I Rivers j By Joseph 11. Baird il’ji ■ I IT''** s,al ' r f'orren pondent) j w , Il ii"r>n. Oct. 24—11’1*1—Comm ..iniins of Hi ■ United Hates and ~ xi ,o iii'il themselves around a id' 11. .1 'Iil'l" ht ‘ r ‘' ,liv,<lp ,1|< ’ , ,I< I' " r Rreat l,,te Tnationul ■rii ‘' I 4 ' I yi,, .;,. highly-prized streams.— the l|{io Grand ■. Tin Juana and Colorado. 1.,, food and clothing as well as l ( | l ii l !. ii ■ millions of Americans and Im.-mi .in living on tlie Irrigated land Lhirn ill' ll' borders. Division of these wiiti'is His posed an in international nnihlein whose solution wus sought unnn ( i sslnllv by commissioners at a I Jin,... w.i'k -ession in Mexico City last I Aiia isl. T,these commissioners settled

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down hero to renew their luhorH. it' they agree on n compact, it will be submitted to the State department)! of each nation to be tianslal d m a treaty Six Commissioners I hree inembeiH, nil engiu 'erH, represent each nation. Their task la to effect mi equitable distribution of water for Iri Igatic.n and to agree ou uieasureg for flood control In the lower delt.i of the Colorado. All hough this danger will be mitigated by Bounder Dnm, engineers believe, they also nre convinced u Mexican outlet channel must be dredged. The Tla Juana river has frlhntarles on both sides the international boundary line. It begins south of this line ami empties into the Pacific Ocean two miles north of it. During the Spanish occupation of Mexico It was valuable chiefly as a watering place tor cattle. Development of irrigation projects ne ir San Diego, Cal., as well as on the Mexican side of the river, have made its waters valuable. The City of San Liego looks to the stream to re-en-force its water supply. Resort developments near Tla Juana. Mexico, likewise. will depend on the stream for water. The Mexican Government. Is spending $14.00t).0i»o on a dam and reservoir on the intern nionai boundary line to conserve this nit ion's water surplus is contemplated by the I’nited Siates. Investment of $20,000,000 in irtiga

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1929.

lion projects along tho Rio (Irande has made this rivet of great linportiime to the United States, according to the Interior Department. On the American side of the river 060,000 acres are Irrigated and 291,000 on the Mexican side, American water diversion from the Rio Grande was estimated last year at 656,00(1 acte feet. Paced with' it loss of 4,000.000 tiers feet of Rio Grande water which tan to waste Inst yetr, Government engineers believe two or more large storige dams should be bull: in the main channel of the stream. Living for 2,000,000 The Interior Department estimates conservation of this wasted water will irrigate 1,000,000 acres of land on either side of the river to provide a living for 2,000,000 persons. One of the problems confronting the commission is to devise plans for building these dams as an iiflemational enterprise. A plan, if agreed on. probably will be incorporated In a treaty. The effective drainage area of the Rio Grande Is 177,500 square miles, of which 54.8 per cent lies in the United States and 45 2 In Mexico. The total river yield for irrigation is estimated at 7.757.000 acre-feet. Forty-eight per cent ot this comes trout the United States and 52 per cent from Mexico. The problem raised by the Colorado River lias as one of its angles the pend-

lug construction of Bonlder Dam. which will change conditloi s on the lower river In Mexico. Mexico’s claims to Colorado water tire relatively small us 242.000 square miles of the liver's 244.000 stpnire mile watershed lies In the United States Mexico aetordlng to the Intetlor Department contributes but approxlma'ely 100 mile of the river channel area In tho southern republic. Flood Control Problem This lower channel flows through a delta built up through tin* ages by silt deposits. Before irrigation began, the river In flood wandered all over the delta, without any definite channel. Imperial valley irrigation projects necessitated keeping the river within bounds, la-vees tor this purpose were erected. A rPndency of the river to raise Its channel by silt accumulation hits required constant heightening ot the levies. Engineers decided some more satisfactory means ot controlling the Colorado must be fr.und. That is ott<‘ major reason for building Boulder Dam. This project will create a reservoir sufficient to store one entire year’s flow, according to the Interior Dep irtmeiit. Cont.ol of sh od until the time when Boulder Dim is completed is one of the problems th ■ comml. sion will try ’>> solve. It w ill discuss also the construction of an outlet channel to the Gulf ■ for whatever surplus water flow down

beyond the United States boundary after Boulder Dam Is completed. —— o —— Says Gas Tax Money Should Be Used On Roads liidl.'tnapolis. Oct. 21 — (U l ') All of lhe $50,00(1 a day being collected from Indiana motorists under the 4eent tax should be used for building and maintaining roads In the state highway system, Todd Stoops, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, contended In a statement today. The slate will collect $17,000,000 in lhe first year of the 4-eent tax, Stoops said, adding that "rumors are current that an effort will be made to certain groups and politicians to deflect a part of the gasoline tax money into channels other than for the purpose which the tax was Imposed." Reviewing the history ot the Indiana gasoline tax. Stoops said it "shows continual encroachments and attacks on the pufse of the automobile owner." "It is now time to face about and make a determined effort to s?e that the state highway department keeps ill the gasoline tax money under the aits of 1929 and if possible to have the cent which goes to counties. < Sties and towns returned to the state highway d> i artinent.'’ Stoops said. The motor club will resist any

legislative effort to increase the shun* of counties, cities and towns In the gasoline tax, Stoops said. "The expense of maintaining gravel roads In the state highway system is enormous and out of proportion to the cost of maintaining paed roads,” the statement declared. “For this reason no more roads than absolutely necessary should be added to the

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