El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-12
LAS CRUCES NEWS.
Resolutions Passed That the
Secretary Pay Over The
Money Without Appeal
Directors Are Elected.

Las Cruces, N NJ, April 12.-Ar a
meeting of the shareholders and the
executive committee of the Elephant
butte Water Users association called
10 take action on the telegraphic re-
port received of the action of the com
missioners in the condemnation proceed
4ngs' Tor the site Of the reservoir of
THIS project the following resolution-was
o11ered on behalf of the stockholders by
Martin Lehman and adopted:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this
meeting that We advise the executive
committee Of the Elephant Butte Water
Users association, 10 recommend to the
government the acceptance OF the award
MADE by the appraisers under the con-
domination proceedings
Favor Payment of Award.
Inc executive committee acting upon
the adoption of the above resolution i'm
medlately went into session and after
discussing the matter at some length
the following resolution was offered by
Nicholas Gales and adopted:
Resolved, That on behalf of the execu-
tive committee of the Elephant Butte
water Users association of New Mex
lco' that the Elephant Butte Water
Users association favors and recon-
mends the formal acceptance by the
secretary of the interior of the award
made by the commissioners appointed
sought to be condemned in the case of
the United States VS. the Victorio Cattle
company ct al. now pending in the sew
enth Judicial district court of New Mex
leo, and that We recommend that the
secretary of the interior pay the amount
OF the award, without appeal, and that
the secretary of this association transmit
TO the secretary of the interior and TO
the director CT the United States re-
clamation service certified copies of this
action.
Delegation to Washington.
1t vas brought to the attention of the
directors by Mr. Palmer that there was
a feeling among the people that 1t would
be wise to make provision to send a
delegation of two TO Washington, in
connection with the interests of the E,e-
plant Butte project. and further that the
FL Paso association would probably
send such a committee
A motion prevailed appointing the
president, and one\other to be selected
by him Of the board, as committee to
go to Washington. take UP any matters
pertinent 10 the interests of the associ-
atIon, conditioned, however, that the Ell
Paso association deemed it expedient to
send like committee from its body
Directors Named.
me directors canvaSSed the returns Of
the election TO elect directors and coun-
cflmen for the ensuing term, the re-
suits showing the directorate to stand
as follows:
District No 1. l. Clapp; No. ?, VIM.
Palmer; No. 3. J. NJ. Hoy: No. 4, Robert
Ellwood; No. 5, James s Quesenberry;
n 6, s. P. Stewart; No. 8, c. E. Miller;
No. 9, H R. Hannum; No. 10, Van Gass
Three counciImen elected from each
district and are as follows:
Jose Candelario yTrujillo. Max T..
kahler, Daniel Miranda. J. J. Garcia,
Adrian Gonzales, Octaviano SaIcido. H
F Holstein. A. F. McClintock, c. II.
Riatt, ". c. Stroud, J. W. Taylor, NJ
Rammert T. Rouault, Guadalupe Asca-
rate, N C. Frenger, a j. Fountain,
". S. Gillian, o. c. Snow. H B. Holt.
J. P. Mitchell. Nicholas Gales, J. C. Nc
Nary, j. l. Thompson, c. A Thompson,
F. H. White, c. 7. Bartlett. J. r. Live
say, c. 4. Viljoen, B. J. Vilpoen, P. H.
Bailey
Districts number two and three failed
to hold an election and on motion,
which is consistent with former prece-
dent, the present directors hold over,
as named