Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-10
SUPERINTENDENT RAYNOLDS
MAKES CRED|TABLE SHOWING
Close of the Year Marked by Very Gratifying Results a,
the Territorial Penal
Institution.
COMMISSIONERS TAKE OCCASION TO COMMEND EFFICIENCY
Though Handicapped BY Lack of Sufficient Funds spend
Management is Able to Show Credit Balance
of$15,65767.
nance OF $0.5CS with a population of
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Permanent Improvements and Public
Works.

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Permanent Improvements and Public
Works.
Whlie the need for economy in cash
expenditures has been ever present
It has been possible to use the prison
labor and products to some good ad
vantage. Mention has been made OF
the fine Babock & Wilcox boiler, in.
stalled last January by my predeces.
sor, Captain Green at cost of about
S3,5OO, and of the new guard house
begun by him.
This guard house, with two stories
and tower, is of pressed brick finish,
has two good vaults and commodious
quarters with bath and toilets. and
while valued at $4,000 has been COM
| pleted with very small cash outlay
from convicts earning fund.
The stable accommodations were
found inadequate, necessitating the
building of $2,5O0 addition with
stall room for twelve more horses and
loft to correspond with the original
building, all cash outlays having been
Ift from the convicts earnings. As
TIE wooden cowsheds did not afford
suitable protection in cold weather it
was deemed advisable to build a brick
barn, 42x20, with stalls for siv ami
mails and corresponding storage space
for feed. The value of this structure
IS about $1,000 but convict earnings
furnished the needed money.
While the appropriation for com.
pleting the new cell house did not be-
come available until after December
lst, the steel trusses for the roof and
the slate as well, were on hand, so it
seemed desirable to press that work
as rapidly as possible. This plan.
however, required certain advances
from convict earnings, aggregating
Sl,645.51, as stated above, but the re-
suit has justified that action, as the
roof trusses are all in place, as well
as the cornices, the lumber for string
ers and the window frames and sash
es are in the ward, the cell tiers are
more than three-fourths completed,
and the building will be entirely en-.
closed and ready for interior finishing
within few weeks.
A brick sidewalk, five feet wide and
about half a mile long has been laid
from the main gate to well within the
city limits, where it will connect with
walks leading to the capitol. laid bv
property owners.
In the line of public work, the well
known liberality of the institution had
been continued, for in addition to fur
nlshlng, as required by law, brick
for the executive mansion, capitol ex.
tension and public schools to the val
ue OF S5,739.06, and large force of
men on the former jobs, there have
been men and teams at work almost |
constantly in the city proper and upon |
roads in this vicinity. This, however.
has not been allowed to interfere with
road construction under direction of
the good roads commission, and a
force OF 35 to 40 men has been at
work all year between Ration and Las
Vegas, while a similar force was en-
ployed for a month this fall in the
santa Fe canon.
General Conditions.
AS will be seen from the physicians
'eport, which appears elsewhere, the
physical condition of the population
las been excellent, only IA hospital
Eases having to be noted, while there
vas but one death that of A. M. Boy
lins, No. 20S6, who died from pneu-
nonia, February 8. 1909.
Discipline, as a whole, has been II
'ood, as is well known by the fact
hat less than one per centum of the f,
population have been reported for s
The number of escapes
rom the penitentiary proper was I
ecnnlcally five, but as three of these t
'ere recaptured Immediately, the net g
oss was not large. From the road /
angs, however. the escapes are very a
amounting to IL during the a
asst year, and of these but three have I
cen re-captured at this writing. So q
'ng as road work is being done in =
lountainous country. it will be impos.
lble to prevent escapes unless very !
lrge and expensive guarding force be y
lalntained. Other facts relative to :.
le population will be found detailed =
the statistical tables, which follow, y
lille in the complete financial state !
ents will bes hown data to confirm !,
i generalizations which appear in !,
lie text.
In accordance with request of the ft
lperlntendent dated November 10, q
'oS, Governor Curry ordered the tt