Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-30
OFFICIAL GRlST.
Tue New Board Of Equalization Ter
rit0rial InstitutiOns-Capital
News Of the Day.

At the very end of the recent session
the legislature passed an act providing
for territorial board of equalization.
While this board does not possess all the
powers which the governor suggested in
his message, yet it will be of great i'm
portance and will tend to do away with
the gross inequalities in valuation, espe-
cially of real estate, which exist at pres
emit. While In many counties lands are
returned at their full market, value as re-
quired by law, in others they do not hest
tate to put them in at only one-third the
value and thus throw the burden of taxa
ton on the more honest counties. When
an equalization board was first appointed
in New York they found similar Unequal
tiles and in three years had raised the
valuation of the state from two billions
to three billions, simply by requiring
fair assessment from every county. The
members of the board as appointed are
as follows, and the governor says that he
tried to put on men of backbone as well
as brains. The law required that one
should be from each Judicial district, and
only three of either party: 1st district,
Charles f. Easley; I'd district, Manuel kito
Otero; Sd district, Edmund G. Ross; 4th
district, Manuel G. de Baca; 5th district,
William E. Kelley.
Gov. Prince returned home last night,
after passing Tuesday in Socorro, in at
tendance on school of mines meeting,
and yesterday in Albuquerque at a meeting
of the university trustees. The debt Of
the school of mines will be paid off as
rapidly as possible and the property put
into shape for the school to be opened in
the fall. The university is doing good
work and its prospects are excellent. The
governor also held conference with
Secretary Llewellyn and Superintendent
Mills with regard to worlds fair matters.
On Wednesday next there will be meet
ing of the directors of the insane asylum
at Las Vegas, and the institution will
probably be opened in few days, as
everything is in readiness.
When Hon. Amado Chaves was ap-
pointed territorial school superintendent,
the American population of New Mexico
had many misgivings as to the fitness of
his appointment. But he has shown
himself so thoroughly acquainted with
the trend of modern teaching, SO alive to
all the best methods of the age, up with
the times in every particular, that they
heartily congratulate him, while the Span
ish population should be very proud of
him.-Chama Northwest.
New Mexico has been fortunate, says
| the Chama Northwest, in that she has al
ways had as governors men of culture
and intellectual attainments. But she has
never had one who SO completely identi-
fed himself with her people and interests
as L. B. Prince.
The secretary Of the interior in the
case of the U. S. VS. Grove, involving Il
land entry in the Roswell district, has
affirmed the decision of the general land
office holding Groves entry for cancel
lation.
Surveyor General Hobart is making
arrangements to have the Las Vegas
grant surveyed This is the beginning OF
the end for uncertain titles in that To-
cality.
The star mail service from johnson to
the Bell, ranch in San Miguel county, has
been ordered continued to June 80, 1894.
Maggie 7. Bailey has been appointed
postmaster ct Rinconada, Rio Arriba
county.