Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-23
OFFICIAL MATTERS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRRIGATION
COMMISSION,

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adjourned this afternoon after Deng In
session in this city at the Office Of Col.
| George W. Knaebt. secretary Of the
commission, since Monday afternoon.
A number of important matters were
considered aside from the routine bust
ness.
1t was deci led to recommend tn the
territorial land board the sale of $4,000
acres of land to the best and highest
bidder, and to request the land board to
advertise in the n wSpapers for the sale
of these lands. 1t is to be disposed Of
| in tracts Of not to exceed 16O acres to
ore person. 1t is the intention to have
the proceeds used for making such in
vestigation of the irrigation question as
the commission is required by law to do.
and also to make experiments II they
shou be deemed feasible looking to-
ward the procurment of waite: in the
Rio Granoe valley by pumping
The commission also recommended
the setting aside of tract of land III
Dona Ana county not to exceed $4,000
acres for reclamation by the means
of artesian wells. This land is to be
sold at $1,25 per acre IN sections in
which artesian water in sufficient
quantities to reclaim the land is act
ually developed. 1t is understood that
parties with ample capital at their dis
posal are proposing to have the neces-
sary experimental wells bored for that
purpose.
The commission also reaffirmed its
previous decision to recommend the
selections of lands to the amount Of
200, 900 acres with a view to obtain
revenue for the rights of pasturage
thereon and the granting of sucf
rights of pasturage for the period al
lowed by law to parties who have Of
fered to advance to the territory the
funds necessary for the cost and eX.'
pense of selling and entering these
lands and of carrying on the United
States land COMMISSION
Several projects looking to the crea-
tion OF storage reservoirs under the law
of 1901 we're placed before the commits
sion hut none of these have as yet
reached a stage for final action. Inc
commission has received offers Tor the
purchase of large tracts OF land but
deemed the sale to the highest oIdder
the best means of disposing Of them
Adjournment was taken this alter
noon subject to the call .of the cha'r'
man, All meetings of the commission
are held in Santa Fe,
GAME WARDEN'S APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments were
made Yesterday by Territorial Game
Warden Page B. Otero: Thomas H.
Stewart, Anthony Dockeweller, Robert
j. Ewing and D. l.. Williams, rangers OF
the Pecos forest reserve, deputy war
dens for the reserve; Clement llightower
deputy warden for Lincoln county;
Il. Ham. Carlsbad, Eddy county.
Mr.. Otero states that the law regard
Ing the killing of wild turke $, grouse
and prairie chickens during the months
of October, November and December
only, is still in effect and that quail can
be killed only during the months from
October to February. inclusive, The
new law also prohibits the killing OF
song birds and in fact all kinds OF biCs
that do not destroy crops.
INCORPORATION.
Aticles of incorporation have been
filed at the Office of the territorial sec
retary by the Times Publishing Com
nany of Tucumcari The incorporators
are: f. G. Cooper, ]. A. Street, w. L.
Buchanan, Harry r. Neal, A. D..
Simpson, Donald Stewart and Theo-
dore w. Heman. They also compose
the first board of directors who have
the business of the company in charge
for the first three months of its exist
ence The company is authorized to
own ana coiiuuct newspaper "'i" JoA
printing establishment. to buy and sell
real estate, to build houses, own and
hold real estate, to issue a paper at
least once a week and to do a general
printing business, to buy books, sta
tionery and other materials necessary
to conduct such business. The COM
pany is capitalized at $4,000 to be divi-