El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-11
ARTESIAN WELL
LAW IS OPPOSED
Eddy County People Claim
Provisions Of Law Are
Not Fair to Them.


Roswell. n. NJ, March 11.-An inter
esting little fight is in store for the
defeat Of the proposed attesian well
law to be submitted to the law max
ers who meet in Santa Fe today.
The fight viii be on the clause that
the money to support the employing Of
the arteslan well supervisor and the
pay ment Of the well board officials for
their official acts and the enforce
ment OF the law shall be created by an
increase in the general funds Of the
various counties having artesian wells.
The former law has created the fund
by tax Of IS each on all the wells.
The fight viii be started by the
Eddy county people, especially those
under the Carlsbad project, who claim
that il is an injustice for them TO
help defray the expenses OF favored
few while they are bearing the gen
eral county burden and the govern
ment payments on the Carlsbad land
project besides. Seventy-five percent
from the Carlsbad water users.
The cattle and sheep men and the
bee men of the state are carrying
special tax TO support their sanitary
boards and inspectors and viii endeaF-
or TO defeat a discretion just for
Chaves county W'eIl users. who want
the general fund TO support their
wells.
Pushing Road Work.
The Chaves county commissioners
under the direction OF w. VI. Atkinson.
president OF the Roswell Malaga good
roads movement and chairman of the
board OF county commissioners, are
the first to take active steps IN the
completion Of the proposed highway 10
link the two lower valley eastern New
Mexico counties.
Mr.. Atkinson and B. H. Wixom, an
other county commissioner, went down
TO Lake Arthur and let a contract to
Henderson brothers TO grade and dress
the worst part of the road in the high
way. This is between Lake arthur
and the Eddy county Ine-oegl
at a point one mile west Of Lake Ar
thur thence south mile and quar-
ter. thence west one mile
The Eddy county people are at work
on the road between Malaga ana
Carlsbad.
There were five fires during the
month of February, according 10 the
report Of the fire chief TO the city
council this week, and every one OF
them was in dry cleaning establish
ments where gasoline was used, ana
the origin Of the fire was from the
careless use Of gasoline
G. w. Low, q civil engineer and eN-
perienced oil man, was In the Faiieg
this week looking over the Oh pros
poets, and he says that II IS goOo-
He expects to return and file leases
from Oblong, H.
owing TO the establishment OF the
transcontineatal touring route De
tween here and Fl Paso, the Hondo
neopie are doing much TO make the
roads good Two new bridges VIII De
put in.
To sink Well.
More high land is to be brought INTO
cuItfvation. W. ". McCreery, late OF
Cleveland, Ohio, has bought an 81 acre
tract one mile west Of Roswell ana
viii sink a we'll He viii put =
horsepower engine over it, having oV
foot lift 49,,
odist Episcopal church, South, mas pc
s-lIn. at he corner Of Tilden and Penn
syIvania avenue 1t VIII cQst fS 5SSs
George Slaughter began the adoltion
Of $500 improvements on MS no"
handsome residence this week
The High school DEBATING Ieai -, u
This citv and the Clovis debating team
will have a public debate IN Ros"eil'
April 4.