Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-13
WORKING FOR
A COMPROMISE.
Conference for Comparing
Conflicting Claims to
Waters of Pecos
TAX COLLECTIONS TO DATE
Santa Fe and Sandoval Counties
: Are Near the Bottom
of the List.

Governor Mills, Territorial Engineer
Vernon L. Sullivan, Attorneys Charles
A. Spiess, A. A. Jones of Las Vegas,
r. D. Hand of Los Alamos, w. M. Dis
mey of Fort Sumner, and others inter-
ested in an adjudication of the water
rights on the Pecos and tributaries
from Las Vegas south to the Lake Ur-
ton project, were in conference this
forenoon in the executive office gong
over the contentious of the various
claimants, with a view OF compro-
mise as the impression is general
that there is enough water in the Pc
COS to satisfy all, cond ions being
much the same as on the Rio Grande,
where the waters of the upper part OF
the river do not reach the gorge at
the Elephant Butte at all and where,
therefore, works on the upper tribu-
taries will not diminish the flow in
the lower part.
Tax Collections.
Travelling Auditor Charles Y. SAT-
ford today completed the compilation
of the tax collections by the various
counties of the 1909 duplicate up to
March 1. Mckinley county leads with
5S3 per cent of the taxes collected,
although the second half does not fall
delinquent until after June 1. Grant
county is second with 50.3 per cent,
the other counties following: Colfax
49.4 per cent; Luna 494; Taos 4S.7;
Chaves 4S.3; San Juan All; Eddy
1866; Curry 45.5; Otero 442; Bernalil-
10 AL; Quay 43.5; Torrance 43.5;
Roosevelt 42.S; Dona Ana 42.7; Lin
coin Ais; Valencie Ala; Union 40.S;
Sierra 40. Santa Fe is among those
counties which have less. than forty
Rio Arriba 3S.S; socorro 3S.4; Mora
3S.2; San Miguel 351; Santa Fe 1874 l.;
Guadalupe 29.S and Sandoval 22.S.
District Court
Judge John R. McFie yesterday in
the district court for Santa Fe county
granted a decree of divorce in the
case of Mrs. E. Lichtenstein, formerly
of New York, VS.. E. G.. Lichenstein.
Judge McFie yesterday, in the case
of the Argo Mining Company VS.
George Alexander and J. F. Gants
granted possession Of the Las Vegas
Lode in the new placers district
southern Santa Fe county, to plaintiff
and also issued a perpetual injunc
tion against defendants to restrain
them from interfering with the posses
sion of the property by plaintiff. Dam
ages of one cent and costs were as
sessed against defendants.
President Gowen Resigns.
DR.. B. S. Gowen, president of the
Normal University at Las Vegas, ha
resigned and so has Professor Jane.
s. Hofer, instructor in psychology an(
history of education.
Postmaster Appointed.
Washington, D. c., April 13.-Spen
Ger Taride has been commissinet
postmaster at Vaughn, N. M.
Washington, D. c., April 18th,
postofice site of Plateau, Roosevelt
quarter miles northeast.
What is New Mexico's Population?
Says the Albuquerque Morning
Journal:
Everybody get together and worl
hard and accurately
This is the slogan which Superyis
or Paul A. F. Walter of the New Mex
co census has endeavored to instill il
to the minds of all the enumerators i
his district. He believes he has don
SO and that the census will be take
rapidly, thoroughly and efficiently
giving to the full not only New Me,
ico's population but it's resources a
we'll
The enumerators of each distric
have held meetings for organization
They are thoroughly familiar wit
what is expected of them and the al
peal is to the people to give the Gel
sus man all the assistance possible.
when the census man calls on yo,
take a little time and give him tn
9hAOLuloIlOu u0 Wallis 10 luG ldSC Q
tail. 1t will all help.
The government has sent speci;
man to New Mexico to take the Gel
sus of the corporations. This will b
his only work. He commenced it in A
buquerque yesterday and will cove
the whole territory while the enume
alton is under way.
What will the population be?
1T is a question that offers ver
fair sporting proposition. It has bee
estimated all the way from 35O,O(
to 475,OO0 and both estimates are (
conservative men with some claim