Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-31
GOVERNOR At
FORT SUMNER
Officials of New Land Office
To Be Installed Septem-
Der First.
ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES
Good Financial Showing Made
for Territory by Travelling
Auditor.


and L. o. Moore, chief of the New
Mexico division of the general land Of
fee, left last evening for Fort Sum-
ner, Guadalupe county, where tomor-
row Receiver E. H. Salazar and Reg
lister A. E. Curren will take charge of
the new land office.
New Secretary of Cattle Sanitary
Board
Tomorrow the cattle sanitary board
will announce the appointment of a
new secretary who will make his head
quarters at Albuquerque.
Assessment Returns.
Travelling Auditor Charles V. SAT-
ford is rounding up the assessors who
have failed thus far to send in their
assessment returns for 1910. The
rolls Of the following counties have
been received: Bernalillo $4,073,975,
taxable assessment, loss of $22,742
over last year; Chaves $4,468,S60, gain
$S4,540; Colfax, $40S1,655 loss $107,-
BIZ; Curry $1,940,39O, gain $23O,677;
Luna $2,152,673, loss $2,955; Mckinley
S1,12914O.23, gain $61,O29.27; Mora
$1,363,O2o, gain $39,479; Rio Arriba
$1,153,822, gain $35,OSO; Sandoval
$913,664, loss $92,116; San Juan ST.
207,153, gain $41,S9S.
Tax Collections.
Up to August 1, according to Travel
ing Auditor Charles " Stafford, 80.3
per cent of the tax duplicate had been
collected for the current fiscal year.
The counties had collected the follow
ing percentages, several of the coun-
ties making poor showing because
they failed to certify to the travelling
auditor reductions in assessment
made by the board of equalization:
Bernalillo, S6.3; Chaves, 1854; Colfax,
95.6: Curry, 77.3; Dona Ana, 1874;
EDDY, S2.2; Grant, 89.7; Guadalupe,
5S1: Lincoln, IT'S; Luna, 94.2; Nc
Kinley, 93.6; Mora, 74.8; Otero, 9O.3;
Quay, 7S5; Roosevelt, 77.2; Sandoval,
52.4; San Juan, 757; San Miguel, 74.9;
Santa Fe, 624; Sierra, 1874; Socorro'
70; Taos, 1913; Torrance, "a; Union,
1868; Valencia, 72.4.
The following is the percentage OF
taxes turned in by months: Septem
Der and October 1916 November 2l.
O53; December 1885, January 81;
February l; March l; April IL; May
1922 June 1876; July 3.3.
SehooI eases Approved,
The secretary of the interior has
notified Land Commissioner R. P
Ervien of the approval of 81 schoo
leases.
Incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to
day in the Office of Territorial Secre
tary Nathan Jaffa by the Pecos Valley
Clay and Cement Company of La Ian
de, Roosevelt county. The capitaliza
ton is $25O,OO0 divided into 25,OO'
shares. The paid up capital is $4,000
The incorporators and directors are
Calvin w. Battle, 100 shares, who il
also the New Mexico agent; William
f. Bays, so shares, and Calvin w. Bat
tie. Jr., so shares.
Water Rights Application Approved
The office of the territorial engin
eer today approved the application o
the French Land & Irrigation Com
pany of Colfax county in application
81, 80, S3, and 1O9, for the normal flow
provided the water appropriated is no
additional to that granted in previou
applications approved. The approva
is mere formality so as to define tn
difference between flood and norma
flow.
Time Extended.
The territorial engineers Office ha
granted an extension of sixty days t
the Capital Securities Company to bt
gin construction of the Turley Ditc
project in San Juan county, or t
reach an agreement with the Han
mond ditch project over the divisio
of waters.