Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-18
NEW MEXICO
HEADS LIST
Shows Grea tes t
Gain in Post
offices
AN ASTOUNDING RECORD
Twenty-Five New Postoffices
Established From Decem.
Der | to March rs.

According to the April Postal Guide
just received, no state or territory in
the Union shows SO great net in
crease in the number Of pOstofllces
during the period from December !.
1907, to March 25, 1908, as New Mexi-
co. While several states had more
postoffices established, they at the
same time had many more postoffices
discontinued The same holds true
for the number of postotfices estab-
lished during the year 1907. In fact,
the postofHce records bear out the
fact that New Mexico has been the
most growing in population of any
commonwealth during the past two
years.
The New Offices.
Twenty-Five new postoffices were
established from December l. 1907, to
March 25, 1908, in this territory. Quay
county led with seven new postoffices;
Bard, Cameron, Curry, Doris, Ford,
Ina, and Orton. San Miguel, Colfax,
Chaves, Roosevelt, Union and Sando-
val counties, each had two new post.
Offices established as follows: Bynum
and Dunlap in Chaves county; Clau.
dell and Inez in Roosevelt county;
Cochiti and Jemes in Sandoval coun-
ty; Miami and Vermejo Park in Col
fax; Onava and Valley Ranch in San
Miguel; Centerville and lone in
Union. Bernalillo, Otero, Santa Fe,
Guadalupe, Mora and Dona ana coun-
ties had each one new postoffice es.
tablished as follows: Hyer in Santa
Fe county; Salem, Dona Ana county
Naranjos, Mora county; Los Tanos
Guadalupe county; Camp, Otero coun
ty, and Barton in Bernalillo county
Five postoffices were discontinued iI
that time: Atrisco, Bernalillo coun
ty; Carisbrook, in Colfax county;
Glen in Chaves county; La MADEIRA in
Rio Arriba county, and Trenton ir
Quay county. In the same period o
less than four months, Al postoffices
in New Mexico were advanced tc
money order Offices, while only one
money order Office was discontinued
that at Fort Sumner, Guadalupe
county.
20 in Presidential Class.
New Mexico now has 29 presiden
tial postoffices, six of these being sec
ond class offices, namely: Albuquer
que, with salary of $4,000 a year
Roswell, with salary of $2,5OO year
Ration, Santa Fe and East Las Vegas
with salary of $2,400 year, and Sill
YER City, with salary of $1,000 year
Then come Alamogordo, $1,000; Carls
bad, $1,SOO; Deming, and Las Vegas
$1,7O0; Las Cruces, Portales and TIL
cumcarl, $1,000; Artesia, Dawson, Gal
lup and Texico, $1,50O a year; Socor
ro, $1,400; Melrose ana Santa Rosa
$1,000; Elida, Pennington and Nara
visa, $1,000; Estancia, Hagerman
Lordsburg, Mesilla Park and San Mar
cial, s1,1OO year.
534 Postoffices in the Territory.
New Mexico had 534 postoffices OF
March 25, of which 24S were none
order and 80 international money orc
err Offices. Quay county was far ahea
Of all the other counties in the nun
Der of postoffices for it had 45 Office
and no other county reached the fol
ty number Roosevelt county stoo
second with IS Offices; then came tn
other counties in the following order
Socorro, 80; Rio Arriba and Sa
Miguel, 81 each; Union and Grant 2
each; Colfax, Is; Lincoln, "a; Don
Ana, 21; Valencia, Taos, Guadalupe
Otero, Sandoval and San Juan, l
each; Santa Fe and Mora, IS each
Chaves, II; Torrance, IA; Sierra an
Mckinley, 12 each; Bernalillo, IL; Et
dy, 10 and Luna 7.