Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-10-30
ENGINEERSULLIvAN
MAKES APPEAL
Court Decisions AT
feet Irrigation
Matters
MINING CO. INCORPORATES
Insurance Commissioner No
titles Company of lnten-
tion to Revoke License.

The Ell Porvenir Copper Mining
Company has filed with Territorial
Secretary Nathan Jaffa, incorporation
papers. The capital is 100000 diyid-
ed into one thousand shares. Busl-
ness will be started with paid in
capital of $2,1OO The incorporators
who are all from Las Vegas are as
fellows: Pablo Gallegos, Andres Pol
lack, Marguerite Romero, Rafael Ben
.avides, Ruperto Archuleta, Eulogio
Duran and Nicanor Rodriguez.
May Revoke License.
Territorial Superintendent of Insur-
anceA AJacobo Chavez has sent official
notice to the Bankers Reserve Life
Company, of Omaha, Nebraska in
forming them that he has given them
until November l to show cause why
their certificate of authority to trans
act business in this Territory should
not be revoked. The superintendent
of insurance claims that the company
has violated a ruling of the depart
ment against transferring special in
ment against Offering special induce
ments in the sale of life insurance.
The company was previously notified
of the situation but failed to make a
satisfactory reply. AS result final
notice. has been sent. II. G. Kelley,
territorial manager of the company
with headquarters at Las Vegas has
informed the superintendent of in
surance that he has wired his COM
pany to send a representative to
come here and adjust matters.
Addresses Bar Association.
Territorial Engineer Vernon l.. Sui
livan has sent out the following letter
to all members of the New Mexico Bar
Association:
To the Members of the New Mexico
Bar Association.
Gentlemen-As the territorial en-
eineer of New Mexico, feel that it is
my duty as such official to discuss
with you freely the question of ad-
Indication of water rights. The time
has come when New Mexico must take
its place in the advancement of irrl-
cation and the conservative use of
its waters in order to realize the
greatest returns from its natural re.
sources.
The points that | wish to discuss
with you, from an engineering stand
point, are as follows:
First. What the value of water is
you the Importance of this subject.
Second What the duty of water
is and what it should be-
Third What beneficial use is made
in many places and what it should
be, and
Fourth, The effect court decisions
will have en- the development of the
Territory.
In the first place it must be remem
bered that our agricultural develop
ment is limited by our water supply
our agricultural areas being severa
times larger than our water supply
will cover.
First. The value of water depends
upon how and for what it is used anG
its value for irrigation is small wher
compared with more up-to-date irrigat
ed countries and also when compared
with what it will eventually be here
tho ,co nf ruofor for tbo- oroWtI
of crops with small returns will event
ually be abandoned
/ have in mind several apple or
chards in the Territory that have net
ted over a thousand dollars per acre
These same orchards, without the ai(
of irrigation and under the most fav
Orable season conditions, would no
have netted one-quarter of the above
for, with the aid of irrigation you cal
not only get maximum yield but al
SO better quality. In these partio
ular instances, there is $3.50 per acr,
that can be attributed to the aid o
irrigation, the amount of water uset
was approximately one-hundredth par
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creased results due to irrigation ant
the proper handling of the crop Il
$4,000 per second foot in this on
season. The above are actual result
obtained in the. Territory, but are wa,
above the average, however, they ar
cited to give an idea of what can b.
done in the Territory when the wat
er is properly applied to the best pay
ing crops.
It is not necessary to go further a
to the value of water other than t
state that the Territory's mean est
mated water supply is between fifteel
and twenty thousand second feet an
that in many places the water use
for irrigation can be used for deve
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