Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-05-05
MUST FURNISH BOND
WITH ALL WATER
APPLICATIONS
ENGINEER SULLIVAN
ISSUES NEW RULING
Applicant Must Give Proof of
Good Faith and Ability to
Make Good Board of Water.
Commissioners Adjourn,

Isncclal Dispatch to the Morning Journal
Santa Zee, n. NJ, May 1.-The ter
ritorial engineer issued the following
ruling for water right applicants
which explains itself:
Must File Bond With Application.
To the Attorneys, Civil Engineers.
County Surveyors and General
Gentlemen:-Within the last three
years there has been over four hun
drcd applications for permits to ap-
propriate the public waters of the
Territory of New Mexico and in a
great many cases applications have
been filed which apparently were not
for the purpose of developing of the
irrigation or power project but for
speculative purposes or for the pur-
pose Of throwing Il cloud upon other
permits to appropriate water from
this same supply.
In view of tho intention of the
legislature in passing the irrigation
, act Of 1907 in which il intended to
promote real development and actual
construction, this office has deemed
il advisable to hereafter require Il sat
isfactory bond as evidence Of the
ability of the applicant to carry his
application to completion.
The bona fide developer will hail
this new rule with much approval
for he is more protected in his appli-
cation as the requiring of this bond
viii prevent to a large extent the fill
ing Of other applications for permits
To appropriate water, which might be
conflicting with his, for speculative
purposes.
This rule has been established after
very careful consideration of the
great necessity of actual development
in irrigation ana power matters IN
this territory.
The following rule which has been
officially approved by the board Of
water commissioners viii hereafter
be in effect as an appendix to oar
general printed rules and regulations:
Rule II Regulation.
Hereafter the territorial engineer
VIII require with every application
for Q permit L appropriate water UNI
der the laws IF New Mexico n salts
factory bond. to Re approved by him,
ae evidence of the ability of the APP
nlicant to carry the construction to
completion and upon failure to com
pl9te such project as required by the
permit, II granted. the bond VIII be
forfeited af d the amount paid into
the photographic survey fund of. the
territorial treasurer.
1t IS provided that no bond Will be
required when the application is for
more than two second feet or five
hundred acreNfect per annum.
The bond required for water filings
for irrigation. power, mining and
ioanUfacturins purposes viii be as
follows
For > to 3 second feet (cubic feet
per second Of time) Of 500 to loo !
acre feet per amum, s250; > to 10
sec. II. or 1880 to 5000 acre feet
per annum, $500; 10 20 20 see, #. or
1900 to 5000 acre feet per annum
II 900, 90 to 30 sec. 1t. or 5000 to
1000 acre feet per @uuum, $4,000;
to 70 sec. 1t. or 12,0Uo to 25,000
acre feet per annum, $500; 10 to $50
sec. #. or 25,000 TO 10000 acre feet
per annum, $4,000; $50 to 300 sec. #.
or $4,000 10 1870 acre feet per
annum, $4,000; 500 TO 500 sec. IT. or
10000 to $50, 900 acre feet per an
pun, $4,000; and all above this last
named amount, $1,000.
Bonds on applications for water
for power, mining or manufacturing
purposes only. will be one-half as re-
CURED for irrigation purposes.
In case snch satisfactory bond be
filed within thirty days after the
Of an application at the office