Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-14
CURRY GOES
To WASHINGTON
He Is a Much Wanted Man
and VIII Work for New
Mexico's Interests.
MORE TIME TO PROVE UP
Small Holding Claimants Near
Pecos Given Ninety
Days.

N0ySs
Governor Curry will leave this
evening for Washington, D. c., in re-
sponse to kilograms from Attorney
General Wickersham, Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger, Delegate to Con-
gress w. H. Andrews, John Hays
Hammond, the National Civic League
which meets there next week, and
others. Governor Curry will attend
to a number of departmental matters
which are about to be closed UP and
will take with him statistics, docu-
ments and information desired by
Delegate w. H. Andrews. Governor
Curry will aid Delegate Andrews in
securing statehood for the Territory
and may remain at the national capi-
tai several weeks. Chairman H. o.
Bursum of the Territorial Republican
committee had intended to accompany
him but may not be able to go until
later. Judge Frank w. Parker is on
his way to the national capital and
other New Mexicans are already there
or will go later
Notaries Public Appointed.
Governor Curry today appointed the
following notaries public: Manuel
Jaramillo, Griegos, Bernalillo county;
Patricio Sanchez, Revuelto, Quay
county; Demetrio Quintana, Ledoux,
Mora county.
Ninety Days for Filing.
Delegate to Congress w. H. An
drews has sent Governor Curry the
following letter which shows that
small holding claimants on the half
million acres to be thrown open for
settlement south of the Pecos forest,
will have ninety days in which to
make proof of their small holding fill
ings. Here follows the letter:
Washington, D. c., Jan. Z, 1910.
Hon. W. H. Andrews,
U. S. House of Representatives.
Sir: Replying further to your let
ter of the 22nd ultimo, l have to in
form you that on January 5, 1910, a
notice was sent to the local land office |
at Santa Fe, N. NJ, for publication, re-
leasing from temporary withdrawal /
for forestry purposes the greater por- !
tion of the area now under such with |
drawal near the Pecos national forest, |
New Mexico, and providing that the !
public land therein shall become sub !
ject to settlement on March 26, 1910, !
and to entry, ETC., on April 25, 1910.
The right of those having small !
holding claims under Secs. 16, II and
Is of the Act of March 3, 1891, (26
Stat. S54), as amended by the Acts
of February q, 1898, (27 Stat. 470),
and June 27, 1898, GO Stat. 1850, to
file their claims with the proper sur
veyor general was extended by the !
Act of February 26, 1909, (35 Stat.
655), until March 4, 1910. By depart
mental regulations, the owners of
such claims are allowed 80 days after |
notice from the local land Office of |
the approval of the surveys of their
claims by the surveyor general in
which to sumbit proof. (
The rights of those holding under
suchr claims are not affected by the
restoration of the land covered there
by from forestry withdrawal but, in !
order to remove any doubt that may
exist in regard thereto, the following
clause has been inserted in the usual t
form of notice:
Provided That nothing herein con-
tanned shall prevent the assertion of |
legal rights under the provisions of
an act entitled An Act to Establish a
Court of Private Land Claims and to
Provide for the Settlement of Private
Land Claims in Certain States and |
Territories approved March 3, 1891,
as amended by Chapter 212, an act ap-
proved February 26, 1909, (35 Stat.
655), approved March 80, 1909, (37 l..
D. 536.'
Very Respectfully,
FRANK PIERCE,