Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-08-19
EXTENDING THE SERVICE

the principal one of fourteen inches in
diameter and the old mains will be used
Tor
EXTENDING THE SERVICE
80 rs not only TO cover the city proper
but the suburban lands also, an area Of
about four miles square.
The promoters OF this all-important
undertaking are as yet quite reluctant to
talk OF what they propose to do" They
simply say they have come here to do
business and will expedite the work with
all possible speed, preterriDg to be judged
by their actions rather than by words.
They say they will proceed at once to
provide Santa FEES citizens with all the
water desired, at reasonable rates, for
whatever purpose it shall be needed-for
domestic purposes, for street sprlnkling,
the irrigation OF lawns, orchards and
truck farms, in fact, for everything for
which the precious fluid may be required
to make the capital city and its envlron-
ments blossom into an era OF unprece-
dented prosperity.
ABOUT THE hackers.
Naturally local readers will be DESTROYS
Of learning something Of the standing Of
the hackers of those gentlemen at home
who have, in the face of very many OBJ.
stacles (many of them maiciously de-
veloped by people claiming to be loyal to
Santa FEES interests), carried forward this
enterprise SO successfully and been in
strumental in introducing here nearly
ularter Of million dollars for invest
ment during the next twelve months.
The Municipal Investment company O.
Chicago is an Incorporated banking cor
poration OF unlimited capital, with Officer
in Chicago and London. They have mad'
q specially of operating in western securi
ties, preferring water and irrigation paper
| They have been instrumental in establish
ing forty-one different water works plant
throughout the country, and to-day owl
ard control majority of this number
among which may be mentioned th
splendid city Water and farm irrigation
systems at San Diego and Fresno, Cal.
ENGINEER JULIUS NJ. HowELLs,
now here with Messrs Coffin and Co,e
has probably had more practical expe
rience in irrigation work than any othe
one man in the west and wherever h
has reported favorable upon a plant tn
Municipal Investment company stand
ready to hack him to the full limit Of it
well filed treasury.
As noted yesterday, the officers of TIL
new company are Hon. l.. A. Hughes
president; C. II Coffin, Chicago, vic
president; Il. j. Pslen, treasurer, and 7
+. Harroun secretary and superintendent
The Improvements here will be CARRIE
on under the immediate direction OF Mr.
Harroun who will from time to time con
suit with Engineer Howells. As one c
the first steps toward the financial success
OF this project, certificate WAS to da
filed IN the office of the territorial secrt
tary increasing the capital stock of tn
Santa Fe Water & Improvement CON
pany from $4,000 to $500, 900.
THE SANTA FE IRRIGATION COMPANY.
The Santa Fe Irrigation company, Will
a separate corporation, is intimately COZ
nected with the Water & improvement
company, and after the completion {
reservoir No. | and the improvement an
extension of the system for the cit
proper, work is to commence upon tn
ditch system and the three large rese
voirs of the irrigation company. 1t
expected that this work will be inaugurate
early in the coming spring.
The funds Necessary TO carry it GU
according to the surveys and plans no
adopted, will he furnished by the NJ;
niclpal Investment company, of Oh
cago. The original incorporators and tn
present b AID of directors and officer
: are; i. A, Hughes, president; j. "
. Akers, vice-pTesident f. l.. Bartlett
treasurer; Max. Frost, secretary, and
. d. Hughea, director. The syster
of this company, when completed
will consist of three large reservoirs ho't
. ing many millions Of gallons Of water an
q main ditch aud canal system man
miles in extent. Nearly all the land b,
tween this city ard the Arroyo Hond
will be covered by the system. TIL
amount is estimated at 900 acres, suff
GENTLY level and in good shape to /
brought under irrigation and unquestior
ably as choice fruit and farm lands as al
to be found anywhere in all the broa
west.