Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-08
APLUM FOR SANTAFE
City Council Asks Donation Of Fort
Marcy to the City for Munich
pal Purposes.
SITE FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
1t Is Believed That By Repairing the Bar
racks They Gould Be Rented for a
Considerable Sum.

IL lOoh lully all IOul ySSleludy dltGI-
noon to get together a quorum of the
city council to hold an adjourned meet
ing to transact the business which
should have been disposed of last Mon
day evening when the council failed to
meet, on account of the lack of a quo
rum. Acting Mayor Baca was in the
chair. The councilmen present were
Mcpherson, Lopez, Gonzales and Sena.
Councilman Mcpherson introduced
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the city clerk issue
checks in payment of all city accounts
approved for the first quarter of 1899
at the ate of 81 cents on the dollar on
bills approved by the finance committee
amounting to the sum of 81, 545. 70, there
being $994.6 a in the hands of the city
treasurer"
The resolution was passed.
Councilman Mcpherson sprurs a
pleasant surprise by introducing a ra.so-
luton asking President Mckinley TO
present to the city of Santa Fee the
abandoned Fort Marcy reservation of
SOY enteen and a half acres, with a
number of buildings upon it. Mr.. Nc
Pherson explained that the F~ifty-seLond
congress passed a law empowering, thu
president to give away to any city any
abandoned military reservation Of less
than twenty acres situated within such
city. OF course the council passed the
resolution without a dissenting voice,
and resolved to address the following
letter to President Mckinley:
Sir: Your petitioner, the city of San
ia Fe, Territory of New Mexico, a mu-
nicipal corporation duly and legally in
corporated under the laws of said ter
ritory in the year 1891, through it's prop
erly and legally constituted officers, re-
spectfully shows unto your excellency
that the abandoned Fort Marcy militia
ny reservation lies wholly within TIE
limits of said city of Santa Fe, and that
said Fort Marcy military resery ltiCn
contains about seventeen and one half
acres of land, and comes within the
provisions of chapter 2OS, Fifty-se ind
congress, page 593.
Your petitioner further shows unto
your excellency that said reservation
has been gradually going down in va,ue
from lack of proper care and protection
since it's abandonment in the year 1894,
and that at this time the same is in a
yarx, dilapidotad condition ou;po +o SIC
grounds having been sorely negle ,ted
for so long a time; it's fences rotting
down and in many places totally torn
down and carried away; it's sidewalks
dition to pedestrians passing over and
along them, and in many places gone,
it's trees untrimmed, torn, cut and I'M
cared for; it's buildings being mostly
in a state of ruin for lack Of repair.
paint and tight roofs, with broken and
floors and weather-beaten walls,
and generally said abandoned raserva-
ton is in a most deplorable condition
for lack of proper care, and the same Is
an eyesore to the residents of said city,
and gives it a very bad appearance.
Your petitioner further shows unto
your eXcellency that said abandoned
Fort Marcy military reservation, by be-
ing granted to your petitioner for pub
lie uses might be of value and assist
to your petitioner by being used
by your petitioner for erecting upon the
grounds thereof public school buildings,
a public library building, a public fire
house, and such other public buildings
as are usually erected by cities, and
that beautiful parks might be grown
upon its lands, all Of which would be of
to your petitioner, as it's public
are sadly in need of a new mod |
ern, centrally located public school
building and revenue for their proper |
support. Nearly all of the buildings
low located upon said reservation were |
constructed of adobe or sun-dried |
and after being remodeled and
tut in repair and order could be rented
~ your petitioner in a manner so as to |
ring in some aid to the public schools
greatly add to the beautiful ap-
of said city. Said reservation
$ now of no profit to the government,