Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-05
RAYADO HYDRO
GRAPHIC SURVEY
Fine Report Just Completed
by Territorial Engi-
neer's Office
DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP FIGHT
Charles c. Catron and E. +.
Davies Are Leading
Candidates.

The appointment of District Attor-
ney E. C. Abbott to be Judge of the
territorial supreme court leaves a va
cancy in the district attorneyship
which Governor Mills expects to fill
at an early date The two avowed
candidates are Assistant District At
torney Charles C. Catron and Attor-
ney E. P. Davies but there are also
one or two dark horses in the field.
Notaries Public Appointed.
Governor Mills today appointed the
following notaries public: Olive Ber-
lin of Obar, Quay county; Alfred B.
Ward, of Animas, Grant county; Ben
iamin A. Crane of Clayton, Union
county; Owen n. Marion of Albuquer-
que, Bernalillo county; Sixto Chavez
of Ell Rito, Rio Arriba county; Man
uel G. Praxede OF Roswell, Chaves
county.
Examination of Insurance Companies.
Peter A. M. Lienau, deputy in the
office of Insurance Commissioner ia
cobo Chaves, has returned from
trip during which he examined the Ma
tional Life Association of Des Moines,
Iowa, and the North American Acct
dent Insurance Company of Chicago
and the latter has been admitted to
do business in New Mexico in his re-
port Everywhere in insurance cir
cles, even in New York, there is moth
ing but praise for the manner in
which the New Mexico insurance de-
partment is conducted.
Filled Suit for Divorce.
Suit for divorce was filed today in
the district court for San Juan county
by Bessie Williams VS.. James P. Will
Jams. The couple were married on
Christmas day, 1907, at Aztec. On
September is, 1909, Williams was
sentenced to three years in the peni-
tentiary for robbing the postoffice at
La Plata and for that reason the peti-
toner asks for divorce and restora-
ton of her maiden name Bessie Nor
rison.
Rayado photographic Survey.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
livan and his office force have just
completed the report to the district
court for ColfaX county, the Rayado
photographic survey and the report
thereon which is to be the basis OF
an adjudication of water rights asked
for by the Farmers Development Com
pany The survey is most complete
and accurate piece of work. 1t gives
the measurement of the flow OF the
Rayado at various points; of all dltcn-
es taken out of the river, the inflow
and outflow of each being carefully
measured with weirs and these rec
ords checked up by experienced tech
nical men of the engineers as we'll
as u. S. Geological Survey The re-
port covers forty closely typewriter
pages and gives a general descrlp-
ton of conditions along the river, the
sources of supply, such as snow
springs, rainfall Each ditch is sep
arately described, also the acreage
cultivated and not cultivated, showing
that the duty of water in the Rayado
system is fairly good. All water fill
ings, about twenty in all, under the
laws of 1906 and 1907 are given in de
tail. There are 2,01764 acres under
ditch that are not being cultivated
and 1,567.75 acres that are irrigated
of these latter 473 acres are in alfalfa
496 in meadow, 412 in oats and ia IN
corn. Fifteen full sheet maps made
in, off nf hn npia oil
and checked over by his assistant c
ID. Miller who spent two weeks in the
field on this work, accompany the re
port, which makes valuable contribu
ton to the irrigation data of the Ter
ritory and follows close upon the
survey.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton J. E. Clark on Saturday evening
addressed rousing educational meet
ing at Cimarron, Colfax county. Dur
ing the afternoon convention of the
teachers of the county was held and
Ration sent special excursion train
with a hundred passengers. Superin
tendent Clark yesterday met Prof. R
H. Pettingill, the famous educator, at
Ration, and started with him on his
educational tour.
The department of education re
ports that the public school al
Velarde, Rio Arriba county, had to be
closed on account of the prevalence Of
smallpox at Abiquiu and Velarde.