Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-04
IMMENSE POWER
PROPOSITIONS
Quarter Mi | Ii on
Dollar Plant on
The Nambe
GRANTED BY ten. ENGINEER
/. Appeals From Decision on
Interstate Water Rights
Up Today.


the Territorial Asylum for the Bllnd
at Alamogordo. 1t was decided by
the board to attend the trial OF r. II.
Pierce. a former member OF the
board, who is under indictment at
Albuquerque, and to furnish evidence
and witnesses to the Territory IN
. the prosecution of the case. The
trial is set for Wednesday, May 9th,
and the entire board will 60 directly
from here to Albuquerque and will
take with it a number of leading wit
nesses against Pierce and also certain
evidence, which will be turned over
to the district attorney of Bernalillo
county.
Important Water Rights Applications.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L..
Sullivan today granted the applica.
tion of E. H. Fischer of Cimarron, for
thirty second feet out of the Nambe
river, twenty miles north of Santa
Fe, for a quarter million dollar pow
er plant which is to develop 5000
horsepower for use in Santa Fe, Es-
pamela, Albuquerque and Las Vegas,
by high tension transmission line.
He also granted the application of
Frederick Whitney for waters OF the
Red River Taos county, to develop
5000 horsepower, the plant to cost
$150,O00. The application was grant
ed upon condition that the outlet of
the power proposition shall be sufti-
ciently far up the river as not to dis
turb the proposed dam Of the Red
River Land and Irrigation Company
Concrete dams, ten feet high, are to
be built in the river, to develop the
power proposition.
The application of James D. Hand
5&of Los Alamos, for one hundred Sec
ond feet of water to irrigate 1000
acres at a cost of $4,000, was granted
except that the water allowance was
cut to seventy second feet. 1t in
cludes a number of prior water rights
which Hand or his Placita Ranch
Company had acquired. This project
Is to be part <of the big Sapello pro
ject for the present blocked by the
Federal government and the Las We
gas Grant trustees.
Water Commissioner Hear Appeal.
This afternoon the Territorial
Board of Water Commissioners
heard a number of important appeals
from decisions of Territorial Engin-
eer Vernon L. Sullivan, the most
important being that of the Mohawk
Valley and Gila Farm Company in.
volving the right of using water ap'
propriated from the Gila in New
Mexico for the reclamation OF lands
in Arizona. The other appeals were
those mentioned at length by the New
Mexican several days ago. Commits.
sioners Charles Springer and Oscar
c. Snow are in attendance while Com
missioner Venceslao Jaramillo is alb.
sent.
Superintendent Clark Will Go to
Pennington:
Superintendent of Public Instruc
ti0n ]. e. Clark will 60 to Farming
ton, San Juan county, next week, tc
address an educational convention on
May IA. This, as we'll as an accum
lllation Of Office work, prevented SUI
perintendent Clark from attending
the Interstate Country Life Conyen
tion at Guthrie, Oklahoma, this
week, for which he was on the pro
gram for school directors day. He
received an urgent telegram today to
attend, but for the above reasons had
to decline.
Opinion on Insurance Provision.
Fire Underwriters Association
who makes his headquarters at Den
yer, came to Santa Fe to secure the
opinion of Attorney General Frank
w. Clancy on Section 2138, regarding
fire insurance rates.
Indian Service Architect Will Be Here
The Supervising Architect for the
A Indian Service will arrive this evening
via the Denver and Rio Grande Rail.
/ road from Antonito and will be a guest
at the U. s. Indian Industrial School.
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