Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-16
COUNTY DIVISION
PROMISES TO Be
PROMINENT
TO PLAY BIG
PART IN LEGISLATION
-Four Separate and Distinct Di-
vision Schemes Ready For
Consideration Of the 37th
Assembly Opposition in All
Cases,
Especial correspondence Morning Journal

Especial correspondence Morning journal
santa Fe, n. M, Jan. 15.-Bv IN,
end of this week practically all or IN,
members of the Thirty-seventh lepis
latlve assembly, which conyenes q,
MONDAY. VIII have arrived, and vii
naNc lounu quarters and made ar
dence in Santa Fe. Aireadv ~ nessl
lator can be seen now and tben ahsa",
one OF the hotels. He IL eonarafI II,
BUSY, m IL he happens ~ ha -
az the business, he wears ! 49,.
look Tor the people with net mans
ures are mere; they always beat fh,
members VINO enact the measures. N,
'lts year furnishes NO exception.
santa Fe is quite ready for the eo,n.
ing of the assemblymen. Camfo.t III
rooms are already in demand. ana !,
spite or the fact that there ie ~,
lkely 10 be such n large attenda No.
OF i saiaried employees this sessior
as last, the people of the canita1 az
peel a busy and a profitable session
LesislatorF as a rule are good spenders
ntsiousn the vast majority of them do
~ Inahe expenses during the session.
Inc rev members who are hero
nave round plenty to do. The neonla
WIN pet measures have seen to tbot
ana the chief among the subiacts
ofought forth Is thai Of county divis-
ION. -Four separate and distinct connt,,
ulNlsion projects have come forward
up 10 this time. Two of these pro
Jee.s are pelng actively pushed. 1t Is
sald another n possibly two others
VIII be workin actively before ne
session has advanced very far.
n divisions proposed are the snlit
IN san Miguel county the creation Of
fyfdhllu county out of western Grant
county. the creation of Artesia county.
a hold-over from two years ago. and
me rumored desire of the people Of
portions of Chaves and Eddy ountie
10 get a new county of small area.
rms latter proposal has not received
much attention here. and it is said
that II is not likely to come orward
in any definite form. still it is dis
cussed, and county division discussion
Is usually interesting.
Greatest interest is OF curse taken
in the proposed division of san
Miguel county. 1t is probably true,
as some very well Informed Las Vegas
gentlemen have said, hat there Is no
politics in the demand for division Of
san Miguel, but it is equally true that
the division proposed would have a
very definite. immediate and sweeping
effect on political conditions in that
county. This and the fact that the
iiiC w iOt anu dSdlllHl Is Utlillllt ana
clear cut. is making this proposed div
ision of particular interest. The two
councilmen representing San Miguel
county are divided on the question.
Mr.. SDiess is against division. Mr..
Duncan is for 1t. Both gentlemen are
accustomed to having a good deal to
say about hat happens in legislation
Considerable opposition has devel-
oped in East Las Vegas to the division,
according to recent reliable reports. 1t
has been said that not more than three
or four business men object to the
division, n that these have Interests
in the old town. Yet the names of
men as A.. A. Jones. jefferson
Reynolds, Isaac and Simon B~acharach,
Hallet and Edward Reynolds, Charles
.Greencloy. Charles Rosenthal. James
Clay and still others of the substantial
business men Of the east side are men,
toned as among those who are on
posed to the division of Las Vegas.
There is, it is said, no objection il
the city and probably no great deal in
the town to a division of the county
that will cut off a large number Of
the country precincts, but leave Las
Vegas. city and town, intact in the
new county. 1t Is the division Of the
two towns to which chief objection is
made. Yet the chief argument of the
advocates of division is that the tive
towns can never arrive at an amicable
understanding, and hat division alone
and a complete separation of all in
t%erests. business and political, will
bring about peace.
A proposition comes down from san
Miguel which will probably cause the
people of Mora county to sit up late
IF nights. IT has for its burden the
out of that county, giving one
strip of II to Taos county, another to-
Afional anI thn EhpgrN Valley
Watrous, Wagon Mound and Shoe
maker precincts to the new county.
would be nice for the new county. |
and not bad for the old county of san
Miguel and for Taos, but Mora county
has not been heard from as yet,
when Mora arrives. there will prob
be an anvil chorus. 1t causes
about Santa Fe to long for
he return of the late Christobal san
,hez, so long the representative OF
Mora county In the house. 1t Is IN
efesting to speculate on what that
and accomplished legislator
would lave thought of his scheme
what he would have done to 1t.
Another proposition drifting down
With the san Miguel county talk Is to
give part of the Bell ranch to Quay |
This idea. II is said. IS not
Excessively popular With San Miguel, t;
.ither among division or anti-division
The progress of the San Miguel
Question is going TO be watched with 4
great deal OF interest. 1t is just pos /
ible that II may cause a definite lin /
ne up of forces in the Legislature
light at the start. This, however, = +
.ot expected. 1t Is "a question when 4
most OF the members will want To- F
link about a little. They will want
Q see It work out. and this VIII re-
Tire time.
There are several gentlemen here
are actively M openly ngage s
} boosting for the creation of Artesla
lunty. Artesia would be the county =
Of this new division. and Il woulo.
: now proposed. be made OF a pof-
on Of Eddy and Chaves counties %
hich Counties. II Is declared. there u
plenty of territory for half a dozen +
Artesia county figured IN a
sort OF way I'm the last legis-
tive assembly. II has been referred
BY at least one statesman as a
memory, and il Is certain that
people who had anything to do
ith Il prefer to forget Il. The mat
r will come forward, II 1t does come
Irward. in an entirely different way a
is year. Aside from those actively
IN the creation OF THIS
lunty. or opposed 10 it. this question 4
not likely-to arouse any very public
terest Artesia is a little too far }
Nay.
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