Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 711.1216M/193.

[Memorandum—Translation.]

Mexican Embassy,
Washington, January 5, 1911.

The ambassador of Mexico has the honor to inform his excellency the Secretary of State that according to a telegram received by him from the secretary of foreign relations of his Government, the printed specifications prepared by the American engineer, Mr. J. A. Ockerson, for the contract relative to the construction of the Colorado River defensive works are radically contrary to the fundamental bases for the execution of said works as they appear in the notes last exchanged between the Department and the embassy.

The Government of Mexico therefore hopes that the specifications above referred to will be withdrawn as it considers it could not permit the Colorado River Land Co. to do work on those conditions.