Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-08
TEXAS LINE
TO LAS CRUCES
Territorial Good Roads Com
mission VIII Supervise
Building Highway.
ALANOGORDO TO TuLAROSA
Public Utilities Company Organ
lied for Portales, Roosevelt
County.

Territorial Treasurer NJ. A. Otero
today received from Alexandra Sando-
val, treasurer Of Sandoval county
$3,111.59; Reymundo Romero, treas
urer Of Torrance county, $2,511.15;
from Camilo Sanchez Of Guadalupe
county, $4,953.S9.
Notify Mounted Police.
If A. D. Howard is in town, he is
asked to report at the Office OF the
Mounted Police at the capitol, as it is
believed that he exchanged overcoats
holds Howard's overcoat, and has ask
ed the New Mexico Mounted Police
to help him locate his own. The
Mounted Police are today moving their
office from the second to the first
floor at the capitol, taking the Of
fees recently vacated by Land Com
missioner R. P. Ervien who has moved
into the capitol annex.
Biennial Report.
The Office force of the territorial
department of education is busy on
the biennial report of Superintendent
OF Public Instruction James E. Clark.
The report for 190S-1909 is compiled,
and work is progressing on the period
which ended June Is, 1910.
Good Attendance.
Fifty teachers have already regis
tered for attendance at the annual
convention of the New Mexico Educa.
tional Association at Las Vegas after
Christmas. From Santa Fe county
fully twenty-five teachers will attend
incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to.
day in the Office of Territorial Secre-
tary Nathan Jaffa by the Public Serv-
ice Company of Portales, Roosevelt
county. The capitalization is $4,000
divided into 300 shares. The incorpo-
rators and directors are: T. G. Lomax
100 shares; A. T. Monroe, 20 shares;
r E. Mears. 10 shares; G. M. William
son, 20 shares T. A. Keen, 10 shares;
George M. Monroe 5 shares; H. NJ.
Livingston, shares; G. V. Johnson,
2 shares; w. o. Oldham, 10 shares; j.
p. Teen, 5 shares; George C. Deem, 5
shares.
Good Roads Work.
Land Commissioner R. P. Ervien
and Territorial Engineer Vernon L.
Sullivan returned last evening from
their good roads trip that covered the
southern part of the Territory. Mr..
Sullivan is working enthusiastically
in the cause and is much pleased with
the interest taken by the people of
Dona Ana and Otero counties which
is not merely latent but willing to
contribute to the building of good
roads, AS result of the visit, the
Las Cruces-El Paso road has taken
tangible shape. Ell Paso has already
constructed superb highway at the
cost of $500 mile to Anthony on
the New Mexico border, and the
Territorial Good Roads Commission
will begin the work of road construc-
ton from Anthony to Las Cruces on
the east side of the river, following
the railroad pretty closely to Mesilla.
Dona Ana county has $500 in the
treasury for this purpose, the Good
Roads Commission will give $4,000
and voluntary tax will be levied on
property owners who will use the road,
which levy may be paid in road work.
labor being all that is needed, as the
clay, gravel, sand and water to run
the road over the sand, are all on the
ground, so that the work of construc.
ton need not cost more than $4,000
a mile, if that much. Similarly, work
will be rushed on the road from Ala
mogordo to Tularosa, Otero county,
fourteen miles in length. Convicts
will not be employed on either of
these two projects. Work on the
Scenic Highway in the Santa Fe can
yon is progressing despite the ad.
vanced season, the convict camp being
near Monument Rock.
Certified. Copies to Washington.
Upon request of Delegate William
H. Andrews, Governor Mills and Ter
ritorial Secretary Nathan Jaffa today
mailed five certified printed copies of
the constitution, with fac simile sig
natures of the delegates attached to
Washington, one each to go to the
President, the Vice President. the
Speaker of the House and the chair
men of the committees on territories.
Delegate AndeWs expresses himself
confident that the constitution will be
approved at this session of Congress
and that New Mexico will come in as
a state within year.
Opinion BY Attorney General.
N Cunningham, Esq, Carlsbad, N. M.
Dear Sir-Your letter of the 1st
inst, which must have been delayed
on the road somewhere, has been for.
warded to me from Santa Fe. I admit
the force of the objections which you
make to the law, and think it might
have been better If Congress had pro-
vided that all officers now in Office
should hold over until the organiza-
ton of the state government, but l am
unable to find in the language of the
act of Congress anything to indicate
such an intent as to precinct and
school district officers. | think the
act relates only to officers elected at
the general election in 1908, although
very narrow construction : might
lead to the belief that the language