Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-07
Sl,2O0,OO0 POWER
PROJECT APPROVED
Upper Gila to be Harnessed
to Furnish Power to
Mogollons.
TRANS, ,MISSISS|PP|DELEGATES
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Visits Curry and Roose-
welt Counties.


Governor Mills today appointed
Victor E. Hoggquist of Cloudcroft, and
Martin Ewing Berry of Lakewood, Ed,
dy county, notaries public.
Daniel Lucero of Sylvia of Tome
Valencia county.
Scenic Highway.
Work is progressing nicely on the
Scenic Highway in the Santa Fe can
on and connection with the switch
backs. Steel pipe has been laid in
various places to lead off the surface
waters.
Arrested BY Mounted Police.
Captain Fred Fornoif was notified
today that Mounted Policeman J. w.
Collier has arrested Jose and Juan Sis
neros at Encino, Torrance county and
has taken them to Vaughn Guadalu-
pc county, for preliminary hearing
on the charge of cattle stealing.
Mounted Policeman A. A. Sena last
l.
Taos. Trujillo was arrested at Tu-
cumcari on a charge preferred by a
young woman at Taos He was held
in $500 bond.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
today received from Walter B. Wag-
ner, treasurer of San Juan county,
$S76, and from Game Warden Thomas
P. Gable, $105.
Assistant Travelling Auditor.
R. j. Rankin of Las Vegas, today
assumed the duties of assistant tray
cling auditor of the Territory succeed
ing John Joerns, who is now clerk of
the fourth judicial district.
Big Power Project.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L.
Sullivan who is again able to be at
his desk after a siege of typhoid few
er, today approved the application of
Boulware and Johnson of Silver City
for 100 cubic second feet of the upper
Gila for the development of 1859
horse power. The plant is to cost
$1,200,000 and the project has been
financed by people connected with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at Phila-
delphia. The large development of
mining in the Mogollon district will
assure the use of all the power devel-
oped at rs per horsepower, per annum.
AS at first surveyed, the project neces-
STATED the construction of a pipe line
"a miles long, but the driving of a
tunnel will reduce this to twelve miles.
The dam is to be of reinforced con-
crete and will be so feet long and 29
feet high
q School Visitation.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton James E. Clark has returned from
a public school visitation trip to Cur
ry and Roosevelt counties. He visit
ed SO school teachers at work, made
"a addresses to teachers, parents and
children, attended county teachers as
sociation at Melrese and at Portales.
He held conference with twenty ru-
raj teachers and addressed public
meeting at Portales. He found a
great deal of interest in the article
on education to be adopted by the
constitutional convention and also in
the establishment of state normal
school in eastern New Mexico. In the
city of Clovis he found an exception
ally strong corps of teachers. County
Superintendent Mersfelder is eXercis-
ing ideal supervision. "He knows a
good school when he sees it and
knows how to raise the standard of
a poor one," said Mr.. Clark. Clovis
gives the appearance of substantial
prosperity and a number of new
houses are going up. A drive through
the surrounding country shows that
despite the drouth, several farmers
raised good crops, but most of the
farmers have not yet learned how to
farm scientifically Many homestead
ers have left because they had taken
up homesteads for speculation but
those who are coming now will re-
main. Large quantities of broom corn
are being hauled into Clovis and are
being insured and stored free OF
charge by merchants until experts
can examine the corn which brings
$65 ton. Some of the farmers who
plowed their land parallel with the
ridges and threw up embankments to
guide the surface flow from rains into
their fields raised fair crops. At and
around Portales, irrigation by pump
ing is proving great success as the
water is shallow and well can be
sunk for 5000, electric power being
furnished by central plant Unim-
proved claims without wells are sell
ing at from s2,500 to $4,000 in that
vicinity. Alfalfa fields are being seed
ed and the farmers seem to under
stand scientific farming. At Melrose,
which was hard hit by the .drouth,
there is new hope and the Blackwater
draw is to furnish water for an irri-
cation system. One farmer with two
horses and no help, this year made
$4,000 from his crop. Altogether the
outlook in this part of New Mexico
is much brighter than it was several
months ago, and the farmers look for
ward to good season next year.
Delegates to Trans-Mississippi Con-
gress.
Governor Mills today appointed W.
ID. Upton of Tularosa, Otero county,
and o. B. Earickson of Fort Sumner,
Guadalupe county, delegates to the