Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-14

| GOOD SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
There are good schools and churches
good society and the population is made
I unsaf thrifty and Intelligent class u
American people.
/ The home market for the products Of
thu county is unusually large owing tc
its proximity to the great San Juan
mining districts, the lumber regions OF
| southwestern Colorado. There is stea-
| dy demand for the products from the
thousands of miners, laborers and en-
ployes in the mines, mining mills. smell
ters and lumber camps
San Juan county has not prospered
nor is it entering upon this present
bright era solely because of it's natural
resources and wealth. The Bureau Of
immigration has advertised it, and has
sent to all parts of the country descrip-
tive matter concerning it. 1t is pros
pering because it has both the natural
resources and these have been made
known by the Bureau and by local en-
terprise.
JUDGE GRANVILLE PENDLETON.
No man has contributed more to the
upbuilding of northwestern New Mexi-
CO and San Juan county than Judge
Granville Pendleton of Aztec. Judge
Pendleton is a native of --entucky, but
received his education and early train
ing in Missouri. He graduated from the
law school of Washington University at
st. Louis, and was admitted to the bar
when he was but 81 years old. He re-
moved from Missouri to Colorado I'M
1884, and in the latter state he served
for three years as county judge and al
so as district attorney. 1t was IN
April, 1898, that he moved to San Juan
county and since then he has been tire
less in advertising the resources of the
county, in inducing new settlers to To-
cate there, in bringing in capital and In
upbuilding the industries. He is al
member of the Bureau of immigration
and has served that body efficiently as
it's vice president.
He has done much for his county as
a private citizen and in his official con-
nection with the Bureau of Immigra-
tion. He has been enabled to accom-
plish yet more as member of the Bath
and 35th legislative assemblies. Judge
Pendleton is a stanch Republican, cast
his first vote for Hayes and Wheeler IN
1876 and has voted the Republican tic
ket ever since. He was untouched by the
free silver craze that swept over Colo
RADIO in 1896 and after moving to New
Mexico, he was elected to the 34th leg |
islative assembly as a member of the
house of representatives. His record in |
that body was SO eminently satisfac-
tory and he attained such a position of
influence that he was returned to the
35th legislative assembly. His previous
experience had enabled him to become
familiar with the workings
Of the body and in his second term he
at once was recognized as one OF the
leading members. He was active and
hard working. He was chairman OF the
committee on territorial affairs; the
ranking member and at times acting
chairman, of the judiciary committee;
and was a member of the committees
on railroads, finance and roads and
highways.
LEGISLATIVE WORK.
He was the author of and had much
to do with the passage Of the following
bills and resolutions: House Bill No. A,
An act providing for party emblems on
election ballots; House Bill No. 106, An
act regulating and increasing the tax
evy for schools; House Bill No. 115, An
act regulating and increasing levy for
school houses and providing for school
house bonds; House Bill No. ia, An act
regulating banks and banking; House
Bill No. 165, An act creating levy OF
| 1-2 mills for fund for roads ana
highways. He was also successful IN
having inserted in the general appro-
pr,ation bill a levy of 2 mills for court
house and Jail repairs and the appro-
priation for the support of the Bureau