Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-10
ABO |RR|GA-
ton PROJECT
Application Approved by
Territorial Engineer
Vernon Sullivan
TO RECLAIM 10000 ACRES
Analysis of Assessment Returns
for Santa Fe County
by Stafford.

Governor Mills IOudy siSheu hAS
teachers certificates for James Ros-
coe MeCollum and V. L. Griffin, three
years professional certificates for Ada
Vaughn and five years professional
certificates for Lucy N. Miner and
Penelope N. Laughlin.
Notary Public Appointed.
Governor Mills today appointed Asa
O. Garland. of Rodeo, Grant county,
notary public.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
today received the following remit
tances: From Roosevelt county
s653.6S; from Mckinley county $looz'
Assessment Rolls.
Territorial Travelling Auditor G. V.
Stafford has received the assessment
rolls for Lincoln county. Two coun-
ties have thus far failed to send in
their rolls, Union and Otero. The
lincoln county assessment for 1910
is s2,313,7S7: the taxable assessment
s2197,587, a loss of $52,206 since last
wear 9i'HI
Scarlet Fever In Indian Pueblo.
Superintendent clifton j. Crandall OF
the northern Pueblos is taking vigor'
GUS steps to stamp out scarlet fever
endemic at the Pueblo of Cochiti
forty miles north of Albuquerque
coor1o+ faver is also reported at Pena
Blanca.
Why Pays the Taxes?
According tn the analysis of the as
sessment for 1910 Of Santa Fe county
made by Territorial Travelling Auditor
Charles V. Stafford, the railroads pay
almost one-third of the taxes of Sants
Fe county, o. more than grazing, agrl
cultural lands, mines and improve
ments and merchandise taken togeth
er. The remarkable feature Is tne
small proportion paid on cattle, sheel
and coats, Here are the percentages
Railroads 1892 of the taxable assess
ment, city lots and improvements
20.27: grazing lands and improve
ments 9.s4; agricultural lands i'm
provements 9.21; mineral lands ant
improvements 6.32; merchandise 3.s1
banks 3.96: household goods 3.75
light and water plants 2.1S; horse
and mules 1.72; coal lands 1.57; wag
ons imprements and harness 1.33
timber lands LOT; sheep and goat
81: all other classes 2.94.
New Insurance Company.
The Globe Surety Company OF Kan
sas city, Mo-, has made application t.
tbe territorial insurance department
to do business in New Mexico. Tn
Globe has just reinsured the bushes
Of the Commerce Trust Company o
Kansas City.
Big irrigation Project.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. su
Iiyan today approved the applicatio
of the Bocas Irrigation Canon of Albr
oueruue, for the water Of the AID
Canon in the Manzano mountains, 70
reclamation Of 10000 acres, just ou
side of the Be1en grant in the HI
Grande valley, although the waters c
Abo Canon are not tributary to tn
Rio Grande. The. works are to cos
STE. 900 and will consist of two dam
creating two reservoirs holding 2O
900 acre feet. On dam will be S5 Zee
high. $40 feet long on the top and Id
feet at the bottom The other WI
he "a feet high, 4S7.s feet long
the top and 100 feet at the bottom
The former will be of rubble masonr'
reinforced concrete and steel fac
and the other of reinforced concret
Penitentiary Commission.
The penitentiary commission wa
in session today at the penitentlar
transacting routine business.
Water Application Rejected.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Su
livan today rejected application N
416 by W. S. Hopewell for waters
Tiieras Canon, because of failure
file within sixty days the evident
of unappropriated normal flow AVA
able.
Nigel Flint Named Clerk.
Nigel Flint at Las Cruces, yeste
dav received a telegram from Lar
Commissioner bennett at Washin
ton, notifying him that he had bet
appointed temporary clerk in the lar
office at Las Cruces at a salary
5000 per year. Mr.. Flint will assun
his new duties Immediately.
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