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IURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1899A LAWYERTESTIFIESIn the Elephant Butte Dam Case In Progress at Las Cruces.Brings Out the Fact That the Witness Conferred With President Diaz and Mexican Officials.Special Dispatcher) the Herald.Las Cruces, N. M., Dec. 14.—In the trial of the Elephant Butte dam case the governmei t continued this morning to present .testimony. When court opened Warner P. SuttOD, who test,tied at length yesterday, was recalled to the stand and cross examined again by Attorney Hawkins. The attorney brought out the fact that severe a se in the volume of the river at Laredo for the past ten years. Thinks the amount of water furnished the Rio Grande river by the Pecos since the building of the dams on the upper Pecos has decreased. In the spring of 1897, the time of the big Hood at El Paso, when the newspapers reported the high water at El Paso in May, there was a rise of eleven feet at Laredo in June. Witness thought he knew something about the colors of the waters of the different tributaries of the Rio Grande, hut could not swear that any particular Mood came from any particular river.Four more depositions were read, those of Jules Lacaze of Rio Grande City, John E. Mix, of Rio Grande, District Judge Albert L. McLaue, of Laredo, and Raymond Martin, of Laredo. Judge McLane has lived at Laredo since 1874. He cannot say whether the navigable capacity of the river has decreased, but there is not as much water Mowing in it at Laredo as formerly. From study and experience he knows the evaporation :n this climute to be an eighth of an inch perday. The river twenty years ago was higher from June to October. Jn answer to cross-interrogatories as to what would be the effect on navigation if the wat ors of the river were stored at Elephant Butte and used for irrigation and manufacturing, wit less said the waters would had their way baste into the river bed by percolation and the effect would be benefic'al to, or increase t'zeATTrt 1 1*1
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El Paso Daily Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 14, 1899
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