Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-01-20
THE FIRST
NEW COUNTY
The Name Selected is ROose-
welt and the County
Seat, Portales.
WILL Be A PLAINS COUNTY
Land Will Be Taken From Cha
YES and Guadalupe Coun-
ties and Neither
Objects.
WILL Be A PLAINS COUNTY

| OUJoOtoi
| w r.. Lindsey of Portales, ChaVes
county, Hd T. c. Hunt OF IeXlco, are
the advst4loa guard of the force Whlch
will be here to work for the organlza-
| tion of a new county with Portales as
| the county seat. 1t is proposed to
name the new county Roosevelt, and 1t
will take from Guadalupe county a
strip of "a miles north and south ana 5U
miles east and west The total territory
embraced in the proposed new county
| is 50 miles east and west and 81 miles
| north and south. Technically described
| the boundary line, of the proposed
| county commences at the southwest
corner of township 2, south, range II,
east of the New Mexico principal base
and meridian; thence north along the
| range line to the point of intersection
with the north boundary line of town.
ship S north; thence east along the
north boundary line of township b
north to the point of intersection OF
said line projecting eastward, with the
| Texas-New Mexico boundary line;
to the point where the first standard
parallel south, projected eastward, IN
tersects the Texas-New Mexico boun-
dairy line; thence west along the frst
standard parellel south to the south
west corner of township south, range
81 east: thence north along the range
line between ranges 30 and 81 east to
the southwest corner of township
south, range 81 east; thence west along
the south line of township south,
range 80 east, to the southwest corner
of township 4 south, range 30 east;
thence north along the range line be-
tween ranges 20 and 30 east to the
southwest corner of township south,
range 80 east; thence west along the
south boundary line of township z
SCUM 10 the point of beginning.
The territory named includes parts of
Chaves and Guadalupe counties, and 1T
is claimed by the advocates Of the new
county now on the ground that there IS
no opposition to the organization of the
county ON the part of the citizens OF
either county. A petition has been
signed by large number of the resi-
dents of the proposed county asking Tor
it's creation and the reasons advanced
are That Roswell, the county seat OF
Chaves county is 80 miles from Por-
tales; that Puerto de Luna, county seat
of Guadalupe county is 80 miles from
Portales; that Portales is the most
available place-for county seat in the
territory proposed for the new county;
that the resident citizens within the
boundary lines of the proposed new
county are almost wholly United States
born and are progressive; that the
boundary lines comprise a "plains
county; that the resident population
of Portales is now upwards of $500,
and the resident population of the terri
tory named is rapidly growing; that
the assessed valuation in that portion
of Chaves county proposed to be inclu-
ded in the new county Is $350,O00 and
the assessed valuation in that portion
of Guadalupe county proposed to be
| included is $15O000; that the proposed
county contains 61 miles of the Pecos
Valley and Northeastern Railway Com
pany lines with an estimated assessed
valuation of 100000; that none of the
permanent improvements of either
Chaves or Guadalupe counties are in
cluded in the proposed new county;
that since the valuation Of property
was fixed, new settlers have come into
the proposed new county so that the
value of the assessable property within
the boundary lines is now not less than
| $500, 900; that the total bonded indebt-
edness Of Chaves county is $4,000; that
the total bonded Indebtedness Of Quad
alupe is $4,000; that Portales is rapid
ly growing and the lands surrounding
| the town are being constantly settled
and cultivated as farm lands and that
within the boundaries Of the proposed
county tnere are OCner CeIIIerS VI pup
ulation such as Texico and Elida: that
it is exceedingly inconvenient and very
expensive for land owners to transact
their public business at point 80 miles
distant and a just and protective gov
ernment cannot be extended over a
people so far removed from the county
seat; that the owners of the property
within the proposed new county will
continue to pay taxes without return
therefor either in the matter of loca
public improvements, convenience OF
public service or adequate and neces-
sary protection to personal liberty and
property.
| It is urged in addition to the above
reasons that the new county should be
created because the land embraced II
it is now about four-fifths taken up by
progressive and up-to-date farmers
| from the middle western states who
now find it necessary to go to Amarillo
Texas and from there to Delhart, anG
1 thence to the county seats Of the coun.
ties they now live in. It is claimed
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