El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-29

acres and was granted to 116 citizens
Of northern Chihuahua, who in 1889
lived in what is now Texas and New
Mexico. The grant was issued by the
governor of Chihuahua and afterwards
confirmed by the United States govern
ment when the country now known as
New Mexico became the property of
the United States.
In 1905 a bill was drafted by attor-
ney T. C. Wade, acting upon the sug
gestion of the Las Cruces chamber of
commerce, creating a board OF trustees
to manage the affairs of the grant q
great part of which had been settled
upon and was under cultivation. This
board, under the law, which was, passed
by the legislature of 1905, was to be
selected by the residents in the gran.
every two years, and was to have full
charge oflthe affairs of the grant con-
firming titles which had previously
been issued by justice of the peace
courts, and also to sell any vacant or
unallotted land in the grant. The board
of trustees as elected was compose
Of j. H. May, Isidoro Armijo Jose Lu-
Zero. Samuel Geek and Antonio Barn
castle The original board as elected
in 1905 has served until the present
time, with the exception of ]. L. Lucero,
who resigned and was succeeded by
D. V. Peacock
The method of selling the land which
was unsold or unallotted which was
accepted b. the board in accordance
with the law of 1905, was as follows:
An applicant fer land within the grant
Ilied his application with the board
The land was appraised by two APP
pralsers who had been appointed by
the district court. The appraisers filed
their report and it was in the discre-
ilHn OF he board whether tho and
sfould re sold for the appraisers value
In no case could it be sold for less
tnan twothirds OF the appraised value.
me greater part of the land lying
"ithln the grant has been taken up
under this method of procedure, the
less valuable land being sold for from
Az cents to 81 per acre. Only about
oVoO acres remain unsold of the orig
inal grant.
Offers to Buy Remainder.
At a recent meeting of the board of
directors, offers were made for the re-
naming unsold and unallotted land.
one OF these bids was made by ].
schhe'der, Of Las Cruces, who offered
% cents per acre for the land. An
olher lid was made by Herman An
oreas, OF FL Paso, who offered so cents
FSi acre All but one or the DOarO
voted TO sell the land to J. J. Schneider,
as the highest bidder Isiidoro Armijo,
secretary and treasurer of the board
Protested His protest was based or
me tact that others had filed bids prior
10 that of Schneider, and were entitled
to prior consideration.
Injunction Sought.
" hen IL was learned that il was the
intention Of the board to dispose Of all
>unsold and unallotted land in the grant
opJectlon was raised and a temporary
injunction suit was filed in the name OF
radio Melendres, Of Dona Ana, through
attorneys Llewellyn & Llewellyn and
j. ID. Paxton, asking that the board be
enJoined from disposing Of the unallot-
tea land The hearing Of this inJunc-
ton suit was fixed for Saturday. but
owing TO the absence of judge F. W.
Parker, it was postponed until, this
week The attorneys for the plaintiff
in the suit to enjoin state that while
the primary purpose Of the injunction
proceedings is to prevent the sale OF
the unallotted land, every feature of
the boards transactions since it was