Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-22
MANY ROADS
ARE IMPROVED
c. D. Miller Back From Ex
tensive Trip, Discusses
Work, Past and Future
HIGH PRAISE FOR I. P. GABLE
Enforced Game Laws and Now
New Mexico Is Sportsmen's
Paradise.

Ter has returned from a most inter.
esting trip through the southern part
of the territory where he made an ex-
animation of road work.
Mr.. Miller visited Deming, in Luna
county, and he started road work on
the seventeen-mile road south of Dem
ing. He also inspected the road north
of Deming which he found in good
shape. This road is 25 miles from
Deming and was built year ago.
The Socorro- -Magdalena road he
found has thirty miles finished and
it saves six miles in distance and re-
duces the time to go over it from
three hours to one hour. Mr.. Miller
himself rode over it, right after the
road was opened (when it was soft)
in an hour and 20 minutes. This road
cost $1,000 to which $4,000 was paid
from the forest reservation receipts of
Socorro. Considerable rock work was
encountered in the Blue canon.
Moving Of convicts.
Miller stated today that the con-
v:cts will likely be moved from Cami-
nc Real to Albuquerque in the near
future.
OF the Roswell sand road, the terri
torial engineer stated that it is being
located. The Mineral Hill road is
finished and the convicts are pushing
up Gallinas canon. Changes tending
to lessen the width of this road are
being made. The grade will be chang
ed slightly in order to shorten the dis
tance between Santa Fe and Las We
gas.
Work on the road between Santa Fe
tn La Bajada Hill via Aqua Fria will
be started next week, now that the
difficulty over the improving OF the
bitches has been solved. This will
make complete road from here to
Albuquerque and it will be graded and
put in fine shape through the aid of
the traction engine and grader which
will be loaned by the county COM
missioners of this county.
La Bajada Hill Road.
MI. MllltI Will nave d oAIdl1 lO1CO
of workmen put on La Bajada hill
road and repairs will be made. Since
the completion of this road some two
years ago, practically no work has
been done on it, and 1t has stood UP
pretty well. The crossing over the
Santa Fe river is to be improved,
however to make transit for autos
easier.
The Algodones road force is doing
good work and considerable improve
ment has already been made.
Work on La Bajada Road.
In a few days, the territorial Good
Roads Commission will have at work
a force of men, to put the La Bajada
Road in shape from the Santa Fe city
line through Aqua Fria to the top OF
La Bajada hill. It is also the plan
of the commission to keep a repair
gang in constant employment and its
first work will be to repair the road
down La Bajada hill. The board OF
county commissioners has been Of.
fered three iron culverts for the
Scenic Highway in Santa Fe canon
and 1t is up to the board to place
them. They are much needed to make
that superb highway safe for automo-
biles and teams.
Notary Appointed.
Governor William ]. Mills has ap
pointed May s. Cole, of Chico, Colfax
county a notary public.
That New Mexico is rapidly becom-
ing famous as the best place to hunt
in the Southwest. and already is a
nimrod's paradise and that Game and
Fish Warden Thomas P. Gable is the
man behind" this agreeable condi-
tion of affairs Is called to the notice Of
the public by the Albuquerque Morn
4 ing Journal, which finds that game
lis more plentiful this year than ever
before. This condition Is attributed
to the fact that Mr.. Gable has en-.
forced the game laws. Just now he
Is on the New Mexico and Colorado
line settling a problem in regard to
beavers which lave been SO well pro.
tected they have become menace to
ranches, according to reports sent
him.
That Mr.. Gable Is an efficient game
warden is attested by the Journal az
follows:
"This time year ago the game
warden and his deputies were in AL
buquerque engaged in the prosecutor
OF fifty-five Indians for the ruthless
slaughter Of deer and other game iI
the Datil mountains in western So
corro county. These prosecutions re
suited in convictions and served as al
object lesson to che game hogs ant
poachers that viola-ion of the Law
under Warden Gable would not b.
4 tolerated.
'In the interval there have beer
few violations and game has been A
well protected that its increase ha,
been rapid.
Since Colonel Gable became gam
! warden that Office has been made on.
Of the most important in the state
More fish have been secured from tn
government hatchery for free distri
button In the past year than during al
the time under previous administra
tons. Numerous elk have been i'm
ported from Colorado and placed OF
sss Continued On na1o fnur