Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-08
LEVY DOWN To
ELEVEN MILLS
Lowest Tax Rate New Mex
leo Has Enjoyed in More
Than a Decade
FUNDS WILL Be AMPLE
Several Important Irrigation and
Power Projects Are
Approved.

After consultation with Territorial
Auditor w. G. Sargent, this forenoon,
Governor Mills announced that the
tax rate for the coming fiscal year will
be eleven mills on the dollar, the low
est that it has been in decade. Ter
, ritorial Auditor Sargent said that this
is the lowest since he had been in Of
flee, but that it will nevertheless as
sure ample revenues. The levy last
year was 14.45 mills and it left the
territorial treasury in good shape. In
the new levy is included an extra mill
for good roads purposes which it is
expected will yield almost $4,000 or
else the levy could have been reduced
to 10 mills. The fruits of the splen-
did financial management by the Re-
publican administrations is manifest,
for there are few, if any common
wealths which on so low a rate of as
sessment have a tax rate of only II
mills, or that in one year have reduc-
ed their levy more than twenty per
cent.
Appointed as Governors REPRESENTA-
tive.
Governor Mills today appointed
Fred w. Braun of Las Vegas, as his
personal representative at the meet
ing of the Natinal Farm Lands Con-
gress at Chicago on April IS.
Water Rights Applications Approved
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
livan today approved the following
water rights applications:
Cat Claw Canal Company of Arte-
sia, Eddy county an additional ditch
to cost $4,000 to take Sc second feet
for the reclamation of $500 acres in
addition to 1000 acres feet already
approved.
An application by Sammons & Pit
rat of Pennington, for 1870 second feet
out of the Animas, above Pennington,
and just below the point where the
Pennington Electric Light and Power
Company returns the water it uses to
the river, thus giving an illustration
of the double use of a flow of water
for power purposes. Four hundred
horse power are to be generated by
the new project at cost of $4,000. E.
M. Teel of Hope, Eddy county, had his
application for one second foot ap-
proved to be taken out of the Penasco
for the reclamation of 400 acres at
cost of 5000.
Burke Mackey of Dayton, Eddy
county, had two second feet approved
to be taken from springs along the Pc
nasco river to reclaim 200 acres. This
is a power proposition.
Special Agent for Navajos.
Samuel E. Day of st. Michaels,
Ariz., has been appointed special
agent for supervising the taking of
the census on the Navajo reservation,
and will report to Census Supervis.
or Paul A. F. Walter in few days.
Mr.. Day, who is well acquainted
with Indian conditions in the north,
stated that he did not believe there
were more than 10000 Indians on the
Navajo reservation, though the Indian
agents have made official reports that
there were over 10000.
District Court.
In the district court for Taos coun-
ty, Alexander Gusdorf today brought
suit against Juan C. Rael for the re-
covery of $215.50 balance due on an
account
In the district court for Torrance
county, suit was filed today by the
Carrizozo Trading Company VS.. Burr
Goodin for $215.17 due on a note and
an account stated.
Educational Meeting.
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton J. 3. Clark and Professor Pet
tingill held an educational meeting at
Clayton, Union county, today. Yester-
day they addressed an enthusiastic
meeting at Dawson, Colfax county.
Tomorrow they will be at Dalhart.
Texas.
Forest Land Opened for Homestead
Entry.
The register and receiver of the
local land office advertise the throw
ing open to homestead entry of 426.S0
acres of land on the Jemez reserve
consisting of tracts of $3.50 acres list
ed by Mrs. Andrea Duran de Velarde
Of Gallina, Rio Arriba county; 1850
acres listed by F. G.. Blake of Coyote,
Rio Arriba county; 160 acres listed
by Reyes Gurule of Cuba, Sandoval
county.
Second Homestead Entries.
Registers and Receivers, United
States Land Offices.
Gentlemen-Under date of Febru-
airy 1, 1910, in the case of Marmaduke
William Mathews, the department held
that the aot of Fohrrary Q 1ooo for