Albuquerque citizen., 1908-03-03
GARF|ELDFAVORS
TUCUMCAR|
OFFICE
Public Lands Committee Sub.
mits Report Showing Sec
retary'S Endorsement.

The bill to establish a land office at
Tucumcarb which was introduced in
the House by Representative An
drews, was endorsed by Secretary
Garfield, and reported favorably by
the committee on public lands. The
report of the committee is as follows:
The committee on the public lands
to whom was referred the bill to es-
tablish a United states land district
to be known as the Tucumcari land
district, submit the following report:
Your committee report the bin back
with the recommendation that it do
pass with an amendment to the title
by inserting the word district" in
the first line OF the title of the bill,
the words "in the territory Of New
Mexico"
There is attached hereto and made
a part OF this report a letter from
the secretary of the interior, which
clearly indicates the conditions exist
ing in the locality in which it is
proposed to establish this new land
district and the necessity for the
same.
The new district proposed is at
present a portion of the Clayton land
district into which, according to the
letter from the secretary, there has
been within the last eighteen months
a greater influx of immigration than
into any other land district in the
United States The entries for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1906,
numbered 1926. covering 459,597
acres. This large amount of busi-
ness has caused in the words of the
secretary: "A great deal of conges-
ton in the land office at Clayton,
which this office has been unable to
relieve to any great extent, though
the utmost endeavor has been exert
ed, and a division of the land dis
trict would be a means to that end.
The bill, therefore. has the favor
able endorsement of the interior de-
partment.
The text of the bill is as follows:
A bill to establish a United States
land district to be known as the Tu-
cumcari land district.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled That all that portion of
the territory of New Mexico bound
ed and described as follows; Com
mencing at the intersection of the
fourth standard parallel north with
the boundary line of the territory of
New Mexico and the state of Texas;
thence west along said fourth stand
ard parallel north to its intersection
with the third guide meridian east
of New Mexico: thence south along
said third guide meridian east to its
intersection with the first standard
parallel north; thence east along said
first standard parallel north to its in
tersection with the boundary line of
the territory of New Mexico and the
state of Texas; thence north along
said boundary line to the place of
beginning. be, and is hereby, consti-
tuted a new and separate land dis
trict, to be called the Tucumcari land
district, the land office of which
shall be located in the town of Tu-
cumcari, county of Quay, in the ter
ritory of New Mexico.
Sec. 2. That the president, by and
with the advice and consent Of the
Senate, shall appoint a register and
a receiver of public moneys for said
district, and said officers shall reside
in the place where said land office is
located, and shall have the same
powers and shall discharge similar
duties and receive the same fees and
emoluments as officers discharging
like duties in the other land offices
of the territory of New Mexico.
Amend the title so as to read: A
bill to establish United States land
district in the territory Of New Mex
leo to be known as the Tucumcari
land district"