Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-12-21
MIR. Sullivan Made
Suggestions at Ma
tional Capital
WILL PRODUCE RESULTS
Bill Extending Carey Act
May to Territory May
Pass Congress.

TeTitorial Engineer vernon L. oul
livan who left Santa Fe about the flrsI
Of the month for business and OH
cial trip to Washington and eastern
cities was in his Office at the capltol
again this morning. Mr.. Sullivan
trip. while very hurried one, may re-
suit in great good to the territory
as he visited Secretary OF the inter
ior James A. Garfield and also Com
missioner Leupp Of the Indian depart
ment and discussed several matters
with them which are OF vital interest
TO the territory's future. Incidental
". Mr.. Sullivan stopped at Chicago
and Pittsburg to attend to irrigation
matters and persistently he boosted
New Merico and statehood for all ne
was worth.
The most important matter when
he took up with Secretary Garfield
secretary of the interior, was that per-
tanning to irrigation in several dls'
tricts of the territory where appllca-
tions have been made by private cltl-
zens for water from streams whlch
are to be a part of the irrigation plans
of the United States government.
There were several of these, and IN
asmuch as in each case many private
individuals an dcorporations have ASK
ed for permits to use the water rom
the streams the matter is one OF greaI
imnortance to the development OF the
territory.
The Elephant Butte project near this
city. the Pecos River ditch and the
Jrrtcn Lake scheme, all government IT.
riaation undertakings which are plan
ned on a scale to use practically al
the waters of the streams on which
they are located were the prlnclpal
matters Of discussion. The RIO
Grande reservoir in the Southern
Dart of the territory also came up, as
we'll as the Carlsbad scheme. In each
of these cases Mr.. Sullivan thinks he
presented the claims of the local cltl-
zens who have applied to his ONCE
for permits to use the water IN sucn
a favorable light that most OF the per-
mits will be authorized. Each case,
however. will have to be acted upon
separately by the derartmenV aG
Washington before any permit can De
granted here.
The complaints of settlers near the
Navajo reservation of irregularities IN
the recent allotment of outside lands
to the Navajo Indians who live be-
yond the borders of the reservation
was taken up with Commissioner
Leupp. Under a recent act OF Con-
gress it was provided that a tract OF
16O acres might be allotted to such
Indians of the tribe as lived outside
the reservation. Under this act al
lotters were sent out by the depart
ment and allotments made. 1t IS
claimed by the settlers in that locality
that these allotments were made not
only to Indians but to spectators and
corporations and to Indians who lived
ON the reservation, and that many OF
the allotments covered coal and other
mineral lands.
Commissioner Leupp will send a
special agent to the ground to investl-
gate these charges, and to correct any
abuses which may have crept into the
allotment.
Wants Benefit Of Carey Act.
/. Another matter in which Mr.. Sulli-
van succeeded in interesting the de-
partment of the Interior and Congress
men and Senators with whom he talk
ed was the extension of the Carey Act
to the territory Of New Mexico. Dele
gate w. H. Andrews at the last ses-
sion introduced bill to give the ter
ritory the benefit Of the Carey Act,
and the bill was reported favorably
from committee, but has not been
pressed to passage, although Mr.. An
drews and Congressman Montell OF
Wyoming have worked industriously
for the measure.
The bill asks that 100000 acres OF
.1and be given to the territory under
the provisions of the Carey Act which
permits the territorial government to
select such lands as are irrigable any
where within IT'S limits, and to pro-
vide by statutory enactment for their
irrigation and settlement. Thus arid
and semi-arid land could be irrigated
by private concerns under the author
ity of the territory, whereas under the
homestead entry laws Of the United
States, private capital would have no
guarantee that the entrymen would
take water from their reservoirs and
bitches. Mr.. Sullivan urged the pass
age Of this bill as soon ais possible so
that the territorial legislative assembly
may provide by law for the irrigation
and disposal Of such lands at its COM
ing session.
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