Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-12-27
PAJAR|T0 PROJECT
IS APPROVED
The Decision Is in Favor of
Application Of Herman
Gerhardt
SCHOOL APPOR7|ONMENT MADE
A Township Plat of Velarde Is
Filed in Federal Land
Office.

Territorial Engineer Charles D.
Miller wires from Tucumcari that the
conflict over the waters of the Paja-
rita in Quay county has been decided
In favor of the application of the Tu-
cumcari parties as against Charles H.
Kohn and associates of Montoya, who
had planned an irrigation project on
the upper reaches of the Pajarito.
This assures the construction of the
Pajarita project not far from Tucum-
carl and which will cover many thou
sand acres, although the decision of
the territorial engineer cuts down the
acreage for which water is given, so
as to make it possible, eventually, to
construct the lesser project near Mon
toya without depriving the project
The board of water commissioners
found that Mr.. Kohn had filed about
thirty days later than Herman Ger
hart, whose application the board ac-
cepted. The project was at first in
tended to irrigate 10000 acres but the
board cut this down to $4,000 acres,
including the Pajarito project of TO-
600, and it's tributary, Vigil canyon of
5000 acres. This is duty Of 1-acre
foot per annum.
Lincoln County Case.
!. Judge John r. McFie after hearing
arguments yesterday on the motion to
dissolve the Injunction that prevents
completion of the new court house
and Jail of Lincoln county at Carri-
zozo, refused to grant the motion.
The case will be taken, to the U. s.
supreme court.
Notaries Public Appointed.
The following named were appoint
ed notaries public yesterday by Gov
ernor William J. Mills: Francis
Lester, Mesilla Park, Dona Ana
county; c. A. Hernandez, Ojo Ca
liente, Taos county; Bernard F. Fal-
kenreich, Alameda, Bernalillo county;
John Norviel, Rincon, Dona Ana coun-
ty.
Candidates for Chief Clerk Of corpo-
ration Commission.
Edwin F. Coard, deputy secretary
Of the territory, has announced him.
self as candidate for the chief clerk
ship OF the Corporation Commission
and has received powerful indorse-
ments. Mr.. Coard's claims to the Of
flee are his efficiency and the fact
that the Corporation Commission will
have charge of much Of the work now
falling to the lot of the territorial Sec
retary In the matter of corporation
filings and charters. Probate Clerk
George W. .Armijo had also been a
candidate for the place, but it is un-
derstood that he will be given some
thing better in the Official line after
he has served the legislature as chief
clerk in one Of the two Houses.
Township Plat Filed.
The following official notice was ls-
sued this morning by the local land
office:
Notice is hereby given that the ap-
proved plat of survey Of fractional
township No. %, Range East. en-
bracing sections /, 2, 3 and 4 has been
filed in this office, and the lands will
be subject to filing and entry on and
and after February s. 1912.
The land thus thrown open to home
stead entry embraces a tract Of about
. nm acroa nm which the town 1,f We
larde, Rio Arriba county, Is located
The land is excellent for farming and
much Of it Is now under bitches con-
str1cted by "squatters" who have liv.
ed on the land for some time without
patent from the government. Being
located along the Rio Grande all ot
the tract suitable for agriculture can
be irrigated with the water from that
stream.
Apportionment Of School Funds.
A statement issued yesterday by thu
Territorial superintendent of Public
Instruction J. e. Clark, gives the ap
portionment Of the school funds nov
in the hands Of the Territorial Treas
urer R. J. Palen. The statement Il
dated December 26, 1911. The appor
tionment among the several counties
is eighteen cents to each person enum
Grated in the school census. Th'
statement follows:
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