Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-06
James A. Wood Named to
Untangle the .Company's
Affairs
WORK ON GOOD ROADS
Report on Carey Act Project
The Hondo photographic
SurveV.

ed James A. Wood the Kansas City !
mining man, receiver of the Gold
Bullion Company operating near
Golden, southern Santa Fe county. |
This upon petition presented by At |
torneys Renehan and Davis, who filed |
suit for A. L. Harroun, Martin H. |
Wood, Mcintosh Hardware Company. !
Nicholas Montoya, Friend Palmer, |
the Bernalillo Mercantile Company, |
the New Mexico Fuel and Iron Com
pany, the Wesco Supply Company,
Morse Brothers Machine and Supply !
Company. The petition asserts that
the total Indebtedness of the COM
pany outside that incurred under rel
cent receivership is 100000. The |
company has 500 acres of ground of
which $50 acres are said to be min !
eralized, has done extensive develop |
ment work, and has a plant and
works, which are declared to be in
adequate.
Suit for Divorce.
Suit for divorce was filed today inl
the district court for Rio Arriba
county, by Jose Pablo Quintana VS..
Virginia La Rivas de Quintana. The
couple were married in 1901 and the
plaintiff asserts for grounds for ask
ing for the dissolution of the martial
bonds, two specific acts committed
this year with one Teofilo Lopez, at
, Rosa and at the Arcade hotel, Lum-
berton. There are three children for
whose custody the plaintiff asks:
Agapita, aged years, Juan Andrews
aged years, and Josefa, aged 3
years.
! important Land Suit.
Before Judge John R. McFie in
chambers today, a hearing was had
of a petition for an injunction by
the Costilla Land and Investment
Company, -et al. VS.. Robert Allen and
other settlers, to restrain them from
trespassing on the lands of the plain
tiffs. A formidable array of legal tai
ent. including former Congressman
Frank Brooks of Colorado Springs,
i presented the case.
Work on Power Plant.
| M. H. Fisher, civil engineer, re-
ports that considerable force of men
is at work on the power plant on
Fresnal Creek, Otero county, which
is to furnish power for pumping wat
er for irrigation on large tract of
land.
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AS long as there are so many wor-
thy applicants, the territorial good
roads commission has made it rule
to employ only one team from fam
lily on the Santa Fe-Albuquerque
Scenic Highway on which work south
of Thornton will be begun this week,
the road from Thornton to La Bajada
hill having been completed.
Report to Carey Act Board.
Territorial Engineer Vernon l.. Sui
livan has completed his report on the
Carey Act application of the Oasis De
velopment Company for $4,000 acres
in Otero county A copy of the report
will be filed in the U. S. land office.
Hondo Hydrographic Survey.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
livan is rushing to completion the i'm
portant photographic survey of the
Hondo river system in Lincoln and
| Chaves counties and expects to have it
completed by Christmas.
! Must Publish Annual Statement.
j The annual financial and tax state
ment blanks are being forwarded to-
day by Superintendent of Insurance
Jacobo Chaves to 35 fire, % life, and
Is miscellaneous insurance companies
and about 20 fraternal benefit asso-
Citations doing business in New Mexi-
CO. The attention of the companies
is called to the law that the taxes
are payable on or before February
/; that financial statements must be
filed on or before March 1. and that
the publication law requires the pub
lcation of an annual statement in
each county in which each company
does business,in a daily paper in coun-
ties in which such paper is published.
Asks to Do Business in New Mexico.
The Beneficial Insurance Company
of Salt Lake City, Utah, has applied
to Superintendent of Insurance ia
cobo Chaves, for the necessary
blanks to apply for admission to do
business in New Mexico.
Vacation Salaries.
! Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. E. Clark has sent out the following
circular: -
Gentlemen:
On account of the fact that there is
a great deal of misunderstanding con-
cerning vacation salaries | would ask
that you read very carefully Section
26, Chapter 81, Laws Of 1907, found on
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