Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-06-05
BIG SUMS FOR
THE TREASURY
Thousands of Dollars Turned
In by the County
Treasurers
nEP01|sM IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Board of Education Adjourns
After Much Routine
Business.
Governor Mills has appointed Joseph
NJ. Cunningham of Carlsbad, Eddy
county, notary public

Governor Mills has appointed Joseph
NJ. Cunningham of Carlsbad, Eddy
: county, a notary public
For the Treasury.
Territorial Treasurer NJ. A. Otero
has received the following sums for
the treasury: Lee G. Pierson, treas
urer of Quay county, $G,O52.34; Greg
ory Page of Mckinley county, $3,621..
As; Jose E. Torres, Socorro county,
S5,394.95 Camille Sanchez, Guada.
lupe county, s4,53176; Tito Melendez,
Mora county. s3,S51.17; Thomas Nc
Bride, of Colfax county, $1O,4S6.O4 and
Charles V. Stafford, bank examiner,
bank fees, $25; Game and Fish War
den Thomas P. Gable, $1S.75.
Land Entries.
The land entries at the Santa Fe
land Office Saturday were by Beulah NJ.
Williams, Albuquerque; Selsfer Con.
zales, Jemez.
Educational Matters.
The territorial board of education
was in session until $50 p. m. Saturs
day and discussed many matters. A
report will probably be given out to-
morrow or the next day. Governor
Mills presided at the meeting.
No Nepotism in Schools.
Superintendent 4. c. Mersfelder, Clo-
Wis, New Mexico.
Dear Sir-Your letter of May 18th
is at hand and your Interpretation of
Section Z, Chapter 81, Laws of 1903,
is correct. If We're the county super
intendent would refuse to approve
contracts made by directors with
wives, daughters, sons or other imme-
diate relatives or members of the
household.
The attorney general has rendered
decision to the effect that county
treasurers are entitled to commission
on pool tax, but county ASSESSORS are
not
Yours very respectfully,
JAMES E. CLARK,
Territorial Superintendent Public In.
strucjon.
Water Applications.
The department of the territorial en-
glneer today took action on a great
many applications which will be of in
terest to the irrigation public of the
territory. The principal applications
involved were several filings made on
the Pecos river which had been re-
jected by Vernon l.. Sullivan, terri
torial engineer on the 18th day of
November, 1910, in accordance with
an opinion Of the attorney general
stating that the waters of the Pecos
were not subject to appropriation on
account of prior notices of intended
appropriation by the United States
government for the Las Vegas, Urton
Lake and Carlsbad projects.
Applications 40, All, 421 and 422 by
the Fort Sumner and Pecos Land Com.
pany, East Las Vegas, filed on March
II, 1910, were returned rejected, on.
the ground that in the approval of ab-
plications 40 and 100 the same pro.
ject was covered and that these last
applications were superfluous.
Applications 405, 4O6 and 407 filed
by d. J. McCanne of Fort Sumner for
waters of the Pecos river, for total
of 10000 acres were returned by the
territorial engineer rejected on the
around that by the approval of appli.
cation No. 436 by D. J. McCanne, call.
ing for the irrigation Of 100000 acres
in the vicinity Of Fort Sumner for the
waters of the Pecos river and Alamo
gordo creek. ON the grounds that the
same territory would be covered as
mentioned in the applications above
referred to.
In the matter Of application 1876 by
the Urton Lake, Land and Water Com
pany of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
application No. 436 of D. J. McCanne
of Fort Sumner, the territorial engin-
eer requested applicants to submit
plans and specifications of the dams,
fumes, syphons, ETC., to be filed with:
in 60 days. The said plans covering
project which upon combination Of
the two above mentioned applications
will form one large project. The Ur-
ton Lake and McCanne applications
will be consolidated, therefore the
plans and specifications will be ap-
proved for one large combined project
and the acreage for such water supply
if found available will be segregated
by the combined parties, forming al
new company under the provisions OF
the Carey Act, and will probably de.
velop one of the largest Carey Act
projects in New Mexico. AS soon as
these plans and specifications are filed
and comply with, the provisions of the
law and the requirements of the >ter.
ritorial engineer, same will be ap-i
proved and the project started under
the Carey Act provisions.
This combined project will take the
place of the Urton Lake reclamation
project, which has been on the wait
ing list OF the government for funds
for several years and the water claim
ed by the government in their noticel
to the territorial engineer having BEEN
formally released by the secretary of
the interior, opens the way for the de-
velopment of this project by the above
parties without any interference from
the government.
Application 424 by Andreas A. Jones
East Las Vegas, is to be approved up
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