Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-13
WILL RECLAIM
$4,000 ACRES
Important Irrigation Project
in Southern Santa Fe
County Approved
BIG POWER PLANT IS PLANNED
Governor Mills VIII Go to Cloud.
croft Chautauqua on
Monday.

Z Governor Mills will leave on Mon
day for Cloudcroft to address the new
Chautauqua assembly which convenes
on Monday.
Notaries Public.
Governor Mills today appointed Rob
ert L. Graves of Roswell, Chaves
county notary public.
This afternoon, Governor Mills ap-
pointed Jacob Blum of FairvieW,
Sierra county, and Fanny J. Carithers
of King. Chaves county, notaries pub
lie.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer NJ A. Otero
today received $1,14226 from the
treasurer of Eddy county.
Incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to-
day by the Cooperative Insurance I'm
derwriters Of Phoenix, Arizona, and
Albuquerque, New Mexico. The in
corporators and directors are: Edwin
E. Forstall of Phoenix, 1899 shares;
Jay W. McRae of Albuquerque, 1899
shares; and Francis E. Wood, of AL
buquerque, 2 shares. The capitaliza-
tion is $500,000 divided into $4,000
shares and the company begins busi-
ness with $4,000.
TWO Big Projects Approved.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L.
Sullivan has approved application No.
400, H. C. Kinsell and J. NJ Reeves,
of Stanley, for an irrigation project
of the utmost Importance to southern
Santa Fe county. The proposition is
to dam Armijo arroyo and a tributary
arroyo for the purpose of storing suf-
ficient water to irrigate 10000 acres
twice a year thus supplementing the
dry farming operations. The land to
be covered is almost all homesteaded
and lies on a perfect slope between
Stanley and the New Mexico Central
railroad, including the townsite of
Stanley The flow is estimated at
1922 second feet and the project is a
flocdWater proposition, the idea being
to store 10,1969 acre feet during the
annual spring foods and again during
the summer rains. The main reser-
voir will be created by a dam IS feet
high, 143 feet wide at the bottom and
1885 feet at the top, impounding the
water in a natural rock bottom dam
site. The second reservoir will be
created by throwing a dam across an
arroyo which will be crossed by the
main canal from the first reservoir,
the dam also serving for the latter
purpose. It will be thirty feet high
$50 feet wide at the bottom and 100
feet at the top. The main canal is to
be three feet deep, five feet wide at
the bottom and eleven feet at the top.
Two other bitches, are to be two feet
deep, four feet wide at the bottom and
eight feet at the top. Work on the
project is to begin by next February
and it is to be completed by August,
1913. Corbett & Smythe of this city
have drawn the plans and specifica-
constructed Through cooperation of
the settlers and by the promoters, one
of whom, ex-Sheriff H. c. Kinsell, was
a former resident of this city.
Territorial Engineer Vernon l..
Sullivan also approved a large power
proposition, the application being
made by John J. Laubach, William
Harper, W. j. Benjamin and w. B.
Bunker, Las Vegas. The plan is to
harness the Rio La Casas falls, a trib-
utary of the Mora on the Pecos re-
serve in Mora county. The plant is
to cost 100000 and is to produce
2,745 horsepower. The flow is 10S
second feet. The diversion dam is
to be Is feet high, 35 feet wide at the
bottom and so feet at the top. The
base of the dam is in solid rock and
the face is to be a sloping concave
wall consisting of cement and mason
ry, one-half rip rap and the other half
earth.
Postoffice Matters.
Two postmasters and two banks in
New Mexico have applied for postal
savings deposits Minnesota leads
with 80 postoffice applications and
Pennsylvania with 102 bank applica-
tions.