Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-09

Especial Dispatch to the Morning JournalI
Las Vegas, N. NJ, Dec. S.-Today
the full report of the recent meeting
of the board of trustees Of the Las
Vegas grant, which was held Monday
and Tuesday of this week. vas given
10 the public and there was great re-
ioicing in the city tonight when it was
generally known that the an Guijuela
reservoir project will be constructed
and that work will begin at one
A resolution vas passed by the
board in which they agreed to bind
themselves to idemnify to d. A. Cam
field of the Garfield Construction
company of Greeley, Colo, to the
amount of $4,000 and also to reduce
his bond from 100000 to 800, 600.
The resolution which passed unani-
mously also provides that Mr.. Cam
field on his part must begin actual
construction York within ten days
from the passage and adoption of the
resolution by the board. The original
resolution was mailed to Denver last
night and all that remains is for Cam
field to sign and return it for the
grant board files. 1t is understood
that Garfield has signified his will
ingness to give the resolution his sig
nature and the matter is but formal.
The action of the board of trustees
of the grant shows they are willing
to do all within their power to ex-
pediate construction of the a Gui-
juelas dam. There was some discus
sion on the report that prior water
rights on the Gallinas river would be
an obstacle to the immediate con
struction of the irrigation project.
Such difficulties as this, however,
will not deter the construction COM
pany in view of the fact that the grant
board is willing to insure the company
against loss by damages or injunctiona
and to bring its ample capital to bear
in protecting the company while it is
doing the work.
Showing that the Garfield Con-
struction company intends to begin
work at once and believes that moth
ing will come up to prevent it, w. \.
Cole, of the contracting firm of Cole
& Work, who have recently completed
large irrigation contracts for the
French Land company at French, N.
NJ, and the Springer Ditch company
also lear French, stated this afternoon
that he had on Monday. of this week,
signed contracts in Denver for all the
concrete work. in connection of the
San Guijuela reservoir and that he
was leaving today for French, where
he will Immediately have the entire
equipment of his compa ~ shipped to
Las Vegas and begin work.
The dirt work has been let to the
Thomson Steam Shovel Construction
company of Fort Collins and will be-
gin as soon as the machinery can be
transported to Las Vegas.
There was great satisfaction ex-
pressed on all sides here tonight when
the people realized that IA new era
has been brought to Las Vegas and
Its immediate vicinity and That $4,000
acres of heretofore untitled land will
DC made to become one Of the richest
agricultural districts i'm the entire
west and hat such conditions mean
great prosperity for San Miguel
county.
At a meeting of the board they re-
considered the formor resolution in
which that body offered to donate $50
acres of land to the National SAM
tarium of the Knights OF Pythias. 1t
II understood that the directors of
the sanitarium had expressed them
selves against the proposition as an
suitable. and IL was believed better to
turn the land back into the entire
tract from the fact hat it interferred
with the San Guijuela reservoir prof.
eot. II was stated that whenever the
knights Of Pythias were in position
70 take definite steps to realize their
pans for a national institution. the
'oard OF trustees would again confer
win them with regard to another
donation Of land.