Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-09
RAILROADS PAY
BULK Of TAXES
In Luna County 1t Is Seventy
per Cent of
Total
FINE NEW SCHOOL HOUSES
Educational Progress in South
ern New Mexico Is
Remarkable.

Governor Mills today appointed
Herman L. Snyder, of Albuquerque,
and Dudley S. Durril-, of Soiano, Mora
county, notaries public.
Former Sheriff is Sued.
Papers were served today upon AS
sistant Superintendent of insurance
Peter Lienau, in the case of Sam R.
Edwards against Pedro Schubert, for
mer sheriff of Torrance county, and
The National Security Company, his
surety, claiming $2372.15 for Illegally
selling the property of the plaintiff
to satisfy an alleged claim of The
Dunlavy Mercantile Company.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer NJ. A. Otero
today received s29260 from the treas
urer of Valencia county. +
Capitol Extension.
The capitol extension will be ready
for occupancy in about two weeks,
when all the Offices on the third floor
OF the capitol will be vacated to pre-
pare for the coming of the constitu-
tional convention.
Who Pays the Taxes.
| Luna county is fortunately situated
| in that the railroads pay almost three
quarters of the taxes of the county.
! According to Travelling Auditor c. V.
Stafford, the assessment for 1910
shows that the railroads are assessed
69.55 per cent of the total taxable val
uation of the county; city lots and i'm
! provements 1882 per cent; cattle 4.47
per cent: grazing lands and Improve
ments $50, merchandise 2.18, banks
/ 143, household goods lis, agricultural
lands and improvements .54 and all
other classes 306 per cent.
Heavy Timber Sales.
! During August, the government
sold $269,91S worth of timber on the
national forests in this district, at an
average price of $3.50 per thousand
| Stream Measurements.
Wilson w. Mills has returned from
! photographic trip throughout east
ern New Mexico. He took stream
measurements On the Pecos at Santa
Rosa, Cowles and Anton Chico; on
Ute creek and the Canadian at Logan;
on the Chicorico, Una de Cato and
Ration at Ration; on the Rayado at
[ Springer, on the Sapello at Los Ala
mos, on the Cimarron at Ute Pass and
on the La Cueva and La Cueva canal
at Mora. The streams are all very
f! low, except that on the Pecos at An
ton Chico, rise of 13 IL feet, caused
by heavy rain, was recorded.
Water Rights Matters.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
livan today extended the time for con-
struction in the application of the
Stag Canon Fuel Company, successors
OF Charles Springer ct al, for the
waters of the Vermejo, in Colfax coun-
ty, upon the company filing $1,000
bond, one-fifth of the proposed work to
be completed in two years and the re-
mainder in four years. Engineer Ver-
non L. Sullivan requires the filing of
bond with applications for extension,
the same as with original applications.
Thus far about $4,000 in bonds are
on file in the engineers Office and
the new plan is working we'd.
A certificate of construction and IL
cense to appropriate was signed today
in favor of Jesse J. May for irrigation
works near Hillsboro on Trupillo
creek, the works having been inspect
ed recently by Assistant Territorial
Engineer Charles D. Miller.
The application of Henry Emerson
at Nogal, Lincoln county, for water
for a small irrigation project was
approved today.
Governors Report.
Governor Mills has completed his
|. annual report to the Secretary of the
Interior, probably the last to be made
by a territorial governor. 1t is not
voluminous but comprehensive and
gives a good idea of the progress,
growth and existing conditions
. throughout the commonwealth.
Many New School Houses.
Territorial Superintendent of Public
Instruction J. E. Clark who returned
yesterday from Hillsboro, Sierra coun.
ty, expressed himself greatly graf
flied at the progress of education in
the southern counties and at the fine,
new, modern school houses that are
being built in the smaller settlements
, AT Hillsboro, thoroughly modern
three room adobe structure is being
built under the direct supervision oi
the father of the architect who pre-
pared the modern school house plans