Brief history of the El Paso water system from 1881 to 1921

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Mmmvm appreelel Ls-expreseed to Dr# J« L* Waller9
lead of the Sistery Pepartaeot of S«ii Wtsttra Soll«ge# for .
Mu...invaluable. guidaaoo .«ad iitstritatioaf to. Br.».itax..
Striekle&l, Profoesor of History at Tams Mas tern. College, for
his helpful ©ritieisa end. saggestioas •
Appreelotleh for tliitir help is hm img .im&9 »iliable
Talmafele toiareos of information and data is also exteudod to
the followisg l«* K. Lgwson* Coniissio&or of tlia
International Bounder? sad Mater Covixisgion| Ison Halo, Chief,
of Water Control 9 'International Soiiadarjr ana'Veter Com^issl-vi
and Miss ^ar^aret Xrby and Miss Brin Buaaphrey, of the 11 Peso
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TABLl OF CONTESTS
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LIST OF MIPSI SO ILLUSTRATIONS vi.
CHAPTER PAGE
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' II, "'PBX¥AflLX OWNED WiSlS ■COMFSI11S,1 881*1910 . -10
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a:d; o; ,.h.xov, 1910*1921 * * . . . • . 66
IV, SOURCES Of EL PASO WATER *LY, * * * * ' 9&
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TABLE PIGS
1 « Aimaal Water Sates of the C ities, of San
Jos*,, .California: \r «• Texas| Las
Vt.j&s, few Mexico, SI Paso,.. Texas. » . 27
2* rentes >-ao1' tv for fate., lit io-ieha, Kansas
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- ^ Ltiai/vts Oi LAc&vj iZ Soso Jells® . * . . 76
*k Ju-ouiit a* -vacer Puiaw £ior the Mesa Plant,
1913*1920. * • « * *■ * " * *. • * * * 00
5# io*i:r;ettaace aaC. Cpoot ^la. Expeases for
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the Mesa Plant, ? •>-• 4«*1920 i Bk
6 . Heat M y and Animal .Depth of Evaporation
(laches) at 11 Paso » « ® . . ..' . . ' '*107
7. 0 chly P recipitation at I I Paso,. 11 Paso
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Conaty, Texas, 1850-1921* * . » ♦ *
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6* Gi^ior-aa'i Survey Map o:' Ml ‘ m Water
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.he- recorded history, of the Si Pass district cates toaek
t ti» seventeenth century* According to Hughes, there wait a.
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ISsis suall eoaasuBity m i m tA o n '^o in «h* au-u^r. of 1680 by the
arrival of approximately two shou*/',*' vefu^e* fista Set# Mexico •*
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Is 1483 * presidio of fifty soldiers was located at the-11
Paso settieaeai to protect the inhabitants from unfriendly
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Burins the eighteenth century, SI Faso served as the
stopping place for traffic between the north and south* By
1/- e were approach uruely ifcrao hundred families living
in tli# district, and these people tilled, the land under ir»
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