Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-22
A STUDY IN
TAX COLLECTIONS
Four Counties Contribute
One Third of Revenue
to Run the Territory
MANY DEuNQuENTS IN OTHER
Aztec Copper Company With
Million Dollars Capital
Incorporates.


ceived the full text of President Taft's
special message to Congress on the
New Mexico-Texas boundary dispute
and it is reprinted in another column
Tax Collections for 1909.
Up to December 1, according tc
the records of Territorial Travelling
Auditor Charles V. Stafford, the TWEEN
ty-six counties of the Territory col
lected $675, 5,93178 of territorial taxes
for 1909, a larger sum than in any
previous year. The tax collections
for 1910, too, are one per cent higher
thus far than last year, being 23.9
per cent but in some counties run
ming up to is per cent. OF 1909 taxes
three counties collected more than
$4,000, namely: Chaves $56,305.92;
Colfax S54,100.50, and Bernalillo $50,-
1880, while Grant county was a
close fourth with $49,672.95, and San
Miguel fifth with S43,94070. The
counties that contributed between
$24,0 and $4,000 to the 1909 expend-
itures of the Territory are: Dona Ana
$37,6672S; Eddy S31,7S6.61; Otero
$2S, S,766,S6; Luna $27,178.76; Lincoln
$26,88O.69; Quay $26,62492; Union
$26,369.S9; Santa Fe $25,14S.64; So
corro $24,60S.45.
The following counties contributed
between $4,000 and 100000 being:
Curry $19,165.7S; Guadalupe S1S,13S.-
70; Valencia S16,9374S; Sierra $16,-
1861; Roosevelt $16,137.94; Mora
$13,S19.41; Mckinley $13,743.O6; San
Juan $13,496.19; Rio Arr a
$11,719.13; Torrance $1O,662.S7; while
Sandoval county with $S,256.0S and
Taos $7,9O9.16 are at the bottom OF
the list. The following are percen-
tages of 1909 tax duplicate collected
to date:
Colfax gil; Mckinley 96.S; Luna
94.8: Chaves SAT; Berhalillo 9S.1;
Otero 92.2; Grant 905; Lincoln S9S;
Roosevelt 1874; Eddy SS.S; Sierra
S7.1; San Juan S7.1; Taos S6.6; Curry
84.3; Union 83.5; Quay S2.1; Dona
Ana S1.2; San Miguel 81; Torrance
70; Santa Fe 779; Rio Arriba 1854;
Mora 1852; Valencia 74.6; Socorro
72.9; Guadalupe 625; Sandoval GIT.
Mounted Police.
Mounted Policeman Rafael Gomez
returned last evening from Glorieta,
southern Santa Fe county, where he
investigated the burning of the three
room house of Filomen Clokey Mr..
Gomez says the fire was Of incendiary
origin.
Captain Fred Fornoff will return
tomrrow from Cutter, Sierra coun-
ty, where he went to close up boot
logging Soints and a house of i'll fame.
SPECIAL irrigation Census.
Roland Harwell, special agent OF
the Bureau of the Census arrived in
Santa Fe from Rivera and Pecos on
the upper Pecos He is compiling
special irrigation census of New Mex
leo for the department of commerce
and labor
Incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to-
day by the Aztec Copper Company OF
Arizona, with New Mexico headquar-
ters at Organ, Dona Ana county, Fl.
B. Holt of Las Cruces being the stat
utory agent. The capitalization is
$1,0OO,OOO divided into 100000
shares. The incorporators and direc-
tors are: H. H. C. Dunwoody, Charles
T. Johnson, Benjamin R. Winslow, R.
S. Knapp of Washington, d. G..
School Visitation Trip.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion James E. Clark has returned from
a school visitation trip in Luna and
Socorro counties. He visited Deming
where he Strengthened out some kinks
in school management and with Coun-
ty Superintendent J. E. Torres of
Socerro went over part of Socorro
county as far west as Magdalena,
which he declares an exceedingly live
ly burg. County Superintendent Tor
res has his Office work in fine shape,
said Superintendent Clark. There is
lack of teachers in the districts far
from the railroad but after the exam
nations of January 13 and IA which
will be held all over the Territory
the supply is expected to become suf-
ficient. In the Black Range, Sierra
county, an epidemic of diphtheria,
scarlet fever and measles is raging
Prisoners Arrive.
The prisoners convicted and SEN
fenced at the November term of the
San Miguel county court, whose names
were published in the New Mexican
yesterday, arrived at the penitentiary
where they began serving their terms
today. The men were brought here
by Sheriff Secundino Romero, assist,
ed by Deputies Enrique Sena, Pedro
Padilla and Felipe Guerin.
CIRCULAR LETTER TO
SANTA FE COUNTY TEACHERS
Dear Friends
/ desire, to call your attention to
the mid-winter teachers eSanIina.
tions which take place on Friday and
Saturday, January l3 and Ia, 1911.
The territorial boarl of education
calls our attention TO the fact, that
all those who hold certificates which
expire January 18th, and those who
hold permits must take these exam