Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-30
FRED bennett
PRAISES SANTA FE
Commissioner of
General Land OF.
flee Here
TRULY MOST ANCIENT CITY
Inspects Local Offices Under
Him and Visits Immediate
Points of Interest.

Points Of Interest.
Hon. Fred bennett, commissioner of
the General Land Office of Washing.
ton, D. c., who was in the city yester
day on an official visit, left this morn.
ing, going direct to Washington.
i. The object of his visit to Santa Fe
was to introduce uniform system of
bookkeeping at the land Office and sur.
veyor generals office. With Commits.
sioner bennett was Frederick New
burg, of Beloit, Missouri, who Is an ex.
pert accountant under the new "cost"
system Of bookkeeping that is being
adopted by the General Land Offices.
Commissioner bennett said that this
system had been adopted at the Gen.
eral Land Office in Washington and IS
now. being put in use at all the land
Offices throughout the country. Mr..
Newburg, the expert with Commits.
sioner bennett, spends a day or two
in each Office visited and goes over
the books and instructs the Office force
so that it will be an easy task for
them to become accustomed to it.
Commissioner bennett to New Mex.
ican reporter in an interview, said
Has Toured the West.
"I left Washington six weeks ago
and since then I-have visited in the
West all the land Offices in cities
where the Offices of the surveyor gen.
eral and chief of the field division
Of that district are located.
visited the Offices at Denver,
Salt Lake City, Spokane, Seattle, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and
Santa Fe.
Each OF the Offices visited had it's
own system Of accounting and found
only two Offices of the. surveyors gen
eral out of seventeen which used a
system that was alike and these two
were following the cost" system and
one of the two was the officeyof Sur.
veyor General John W. March, of your
city.
1T is the intention of the General
Land Office to establish system of
accounting that will be almost perfect.
The land Office will have different
corps of inspectors as will also the de.
partment Of surveyors general Offices.
The inspectors of the surveyors gener.
Z al Offices will be practical men, civil
engineers, who understand their line
of work thoroughly. These inspectors
will be sent out to the various offices
to 90 over the books and give sugges.
tions to the officials in charge and to
also receive suggestions, which are to
be taken into consideration at the
General Land Office. Thus we expect
to establish uniform system, which
will be practical and labor saving and
more accurate than heretofore"
In Love With Santa Fe.
What do you think of Santa Fe?"
Commissioner bennett was asked. II
think good deal of your city, have
heard much about it and now I am
convinced that it is the only Ancient
City in the United States, he replied:
81 am interested in your town and
wish I could spend a month here.
would like to visit the Cliff Dwellings.
Indian pueblos and many other points
of interest, but as my six weeks alb
sence from the Office compels my re-
turn to Washington have to be con.
tented with seeing only the oldest
house and the oldest church in the
United States. paid the New Mexico
historical Society rooms visit and
enjoyed them very much. My sincere
hope is that I may be able to return
to Santa Fe some time and spend a
month or two. think your climate is
simply grand and is not surpassed by
any other locality in this country"
Commissioner bennett is a western
man and served his time as country
editor during the pioneer days OF
North Dakota, where he also home
steaded quarter section Of land,
during the days when droughts killed
all the crops.
Says Territory Has Bright ruture.
1T was the sturdy pioneers who
would not give up but stuck to their
claims In North Dakota those days
that have made good" said Commits.
sioner bennett. "The very same
claims that we're left by those who
did not have the grit to stand the
hardships, and that were considered
worthless, are today selling for fifty
dollars and more per acre. The sea.
sons have changed in North Dakota,
rains are frequent and all kinds Of
crops are doing well. New Mexico
. has better prospects today, from all
what | have seen and heard, than
North Dakota had ten years ago and
from my experience feel assured
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