Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-15
FOR LIVE STOCK
How Reservoirs on Government Land
Must Be Made to Secure the
Use Of Tracts.
THE AMENDED RULINGS


office at Washington. 1t is, in brief, an
amendatory circular, under the head of
Reservoirs for Watering Live Stock
act of January Is, 1897, and begins with
the following explanation:
"In order that those desiring to OBJ
tain the benefits of the act of January
13, 1897, (29 Stat, 4S4), relating to reser-
voirs for watering live stock, may have
a clear understanding of the purpose
and effect Of that act, and in order that
appropriate action by the local land
officers may be had on all such declara-
tory statements, the following amend
ments and additions to the circular of
July 8, 1898 (27 l.. D., 200, 210), issued
' under said act, are hereby prescribed
and promulgated:
Paragraphs "a and 35 of said circu-
lar are hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
"34. The declaratory statement must
be made under oath and must contain
the following statements:
"First-The p~ostoffice address of the
applicant, the county in which the res
the description by the smallest legal
! subdivisions, forty-acre tracts or lots,
Of the land sought to be reserved, under
no circumstances exceeding 100 acres;
that the land is not occupied or other
wise claimed; that to the best Of appli-
cant's knowledge and be lief the land is
not mineral or otherwise reserved; the
business of the applicant, including a
full and minute statement Of the extent
to which he Is engaged in breeding,
grazing, driving or transporting live
stock, giving the number and kinds Of
such stock, the place where they are
being bred or grazed, and whether
within an Enclosure or upon uninclosed
lanuS ana also from where and to where
tney are being driven or transported;
Inc amount ana description OF the land
the vicinity OF the proposed reservoir;
that 40 part OF tbs land sought to be
reserved is OF Will be fenced, but Inc
anne will be kept pen to the free use
OF II person desiring to water animals
Of any kind; and hat the lands so
sought to be reserved are not, by rea-
son of their proximity to other lands
reservation by the regulations and rul-
ings of the land department.
"~Second-The location of the reser-
voir described by the smallest legal
subdivisions, forty-acre tracts or lots,
it's area in acres, its capacity in gallons,
the source from which water is to be
obtained for such reservoir, whether
there are any streams or springs with
in two miles Of the land sought to be
reserved, and if so where.
"Third-The number, location and
area of all other reservoir sites filed up
on by the applicant, especially designat-
ing those located in the same county.
'35. Upon the filing of such declara-
tory statements there VIII be noted
thereon the date Of filing owe the sigma
ture of the officer receiving it, and they
will be numbered in regular order, be-
ginning with No. 1. The register will
make the usual notations on the rec
ords, in pencil, under the designation Of
Reservoir Declaratory Statements No.
= adding the date of the act. The local
officers will be authorized to charge the
usual fees. (See 223S U. s. Rev. Stat.)
The d~eclaratory statement will be for
warded with the regular monthly re-
turns, with abstracts, in the usual man.
ner. In acting upon these statements
the following general rules will be APP
piled:
"First-No reservation will be made
for a reservoir containing less than $780,
900 gallons, and for a reservoir Of less
than 500, 900 gallons capacity not more
than forty acres can be reserved. For
a reservoir of 500, 900 gallons and less
than 1000, 900 gallons capacity, not more
than eighty acres can be reserved. For
a reservoir of 1000, 900 gallons capacity
not more than 120 acres can be reserved.
For a reservoir of more than 1900, 900
gallons capacity 100 acres may be re-
served.
"Second-Not more than 100 acres
shall be reserved for this purpose in any
section.
"Third-Not more than 16O acres shall
be reserved for this purpose in one
group Of tracts adjoining or cornering
upon each other.
"Fourth-No reservation shall be
made within one-half a mile of the
boundaries of a group of 100 acres of adj
joining or cornering tracts already re-
served under this act.
"Fifth-The local officers will reject
any reservoir declaratory statement not
in conformity with these rules.
"Sixth-Lands SO reserved shall not
be fenced, but shall be kept open to the
free use Of any person desiring to wa
ter animals of any kind. If lands SO re-
served are at any time fenced or other
wise Enclosed, or If they are not kept
open to the free use Of any person as
aforesaid desiring to water animals Of
any kind, or If the reservoir applicant
attempts to use them for any other pur-
pose, or IL the reservation is not OBJ
tanned for the bona fide and exclusive
purpose Of constructing and maintain
ing a reservoir thereon according to
law, the declaratory statement, upon
any such matter being made to duly ap-
pear, will be Cancelled and all rights
hereunder be declared at an end.
Observation-Disclosures the ac-
ton Of the local officers in accepting
any such declaratory statement, the
commissioner of the general land office
will reject the same II, upon consider
ing the. matter set forth therein, It does
not appear that the declaratory state