Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-11-28
BOARD FINISHES
! ITS GREAT Work
Winds Up Affairs
Of Territorial
Exhibition.
runrifnn 1 ran rnsM
EXPEhDs LESS THAN $4,000
Men Who Managed New Mex.
ico's Display at St. Louis
Hold Final Session.


co Board Of Managers OF the I.ouisi.
ana Purchase Exposition was held in
this city yesterday and today in the
capitol. There were present the fol.
lowing members of the board:
Charles A. Spiess, Las Vegas, presi-
dent; Carl A. Dalies, Willard. vice
president; w. B. Walton, Silver City.
secretary; Arthur Seligman, Santa Fe,
treasurer; Professor Fayette A. Jones,
Albu,uerque, and Jose D. Sena, Santa
Fec. members. Herbert j. Hagerman,
OF Roswell, the seventh member, was
unayotdably absent
A great deal of business was trans.
acted. The sessions were very har
monious and the transactions of the
board were closed and the records or
dered deposited with the archives of
the secretary OF the Territory.
( Board is Abolished.
: With the adjournment OF the meet
Ing today the board of managers
passed out Of existence. 1t has made
a very creditable record and the New
Mexico exhibits at the st. Louis
Worl Fair were of such character
as tt ave been source of great
priG ID qualification to the people
OF arritory. The entire expendi.
tdIe he Board of Managers for all
prE during its existence amount.
ed t.proximately $4,000. A small
AM of the funds was returned.
IL nteen handsome cases built of
hh IS polished woods, used for min.
era exhibits during the exposition.
wee donated to the School of Mines
at iocorro.
a fine and larpe collection of miner
ais from this Territory, exhibited at
t'N,' Louisiana Purchase Exposition
W. donated to the University of New
Nes>ico at Albuquerque.
ae extensive collection of hand.
Sc ely bound books containing many
: .4e Photographic views of the cities,
mountains, plains and mesaS OF New
prepared by Mrs william
Curtis Bailey, was presented to the
Historical Society in this city.
Credit All Accounts. g
All current accounts were audited
and paid and the books OF the treas
,lrer and secretary were audited, ap-
proved and ordered closed.
A set of books entitled Historical
Review of the Louisiana Purchase Elk.
in 10 superbly bound volu-
mes was ordered purchased and pre-
sented to Charles A. Spiess as a slight
token of the valuable services he rem.
dered as president Of the board.
The final report of the proceedings
and 1oings of the board prepared by a
special committee was read, approved
and ordered printed in pamphlet form.
The pamphlets to be distributed as fol-
lows:
One copy to each federal, territorial,
county and city official in New Mex
leo. One to each commissioner in
each state and territory in the union.
One copy to each foreign commits
sioner in exchange. One hundred CO.
pies to be distributed in each county
of New Mexico to tax payers.
Distributed Literature.
In conjunction with the Bureau OF
5000 copies of hand.
illustrated and finely executed
book entitled ITO. the. Land OF Sum
shine," and 1900 copies Of valuable
book named mines and Minerals of
New Mexico" b. Prof. Fayette A.
Jones, were printed and the major
portion of them distributed during the
Exposition at st. Louis. Four thousand
copies Of the report of the governor of
New Mexico for 1903 and $4,000 small
bulletins on counties in the Territory
were also distributed by the Bureau OF
at the New Mexico build.
ing