Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-16
The LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Bill Introduced Providing That Script
Warrants, Approved Accounts and
Judgments Are Receivable for
County Fund Tax.
A BILL In The INTEREST OF MINING
Representative Reynolds Bill Looking
to the Correction of Existing
Abuses ofthe Mining Laws.
THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.

, Gov. Thornton this morning sent tn
following nominations to the council:
z ssI4sshor members af tie bureau of immi
grafton of the territory of New Mexico
established as a territorial board of com
missioners, in compliance with It'll
XVII, of the Compiled Laws of the terri
tory of New Mexico, and subsequen
amendments thereto, and in compliano
with g. B. No. 81, of the 32d legislativ
assembly of the territory of New Mexico
as follows, viz James D. Hughes, o
Santa Fe, N. NJ, from the 1st iudicia
district, Ferdinand Lowenthal, of Albu
querque, N. NJ, from the I'd judicial dis
triot, Vincent B. May, of Las Cruces, N
M from the 3rd judicial district, Fran
cisco A. Manzanares, of East Las Vegas
N. NJ, from the 4th judicial district, and
Lucius Dills, of Roswell, N. NJ, from the
9th judicial district.
LUNA COUNTY.
Mr.. Mahoney succeeded in having his
Washington county measure re. e.introduced
this morning and passed by vote of 20
to 4. The present bill gives the new
county the name of Luna and Mr.. Maho-
ney says, gives the old county $1,sOO,OOO
worth of railroad property and the new
county $l,500,000 worth of such property
for taxable purposes. Mr.. Mahoney has
the aid of Hon. j. A. Ancheta, ex-memb ber
of the council for the passage of the bill
and these two gentlemen are working like
beavers. Mr.. Mahoney seemed to have
things his own way in the house and
the measure went along, like chain light
ming through the air.
THE REYNOLDS MINING BILL.
The Reynolds bill introduced in the
house of representatives to-day, regulat-
ing the locating of mining claims within
this territory is one of great merit.
This bill provides that all mining
claims located under the laws of the Unit
ed States and this territory shall be for
feited and thrown open to location after
a period of ninety days covered by any
location made thereon, provided that the
first locator has not complied with the
law regulating the amount of preliminary
work, viz: A ten foot hole, adit or other
work, necessary to define his discovery
and thereby establish his location.
The bill Affects only that class of per-
sons who have by their noncompliance
with the law in not Going airy work what
ever, forfeited their claims, but are
still holding public domain by a
series of re-locations to the exclusion of |,
bona fide locators and prospectors, thus
retardlng the mineral develo pm ent of the
mineral resources of the territory.
The effect of this bill will within ninety
days from the time it becomes law
throw open vast section of mining
country by releasing many claims in
every mining district in this territory,
and admitting them TO location by peo-
pie who will develop them.
Every man is allowed by this bill to
ocate and hold as many mining claims
as he can and will do the work necessary
upon. But he will not be allowed to hold
any mining claim longer than ninety
lays if he does not do his work. The
,laim is then considered abandoned, &C.
,ording to this bill and for period of
ninety days is open to location by any
'ne other than the first locator or any
'ne whatsoever interested with him in
uch location.