Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-09-16

Are Taken From the Tax Rolls OF Col
fax County for the Information Of
the Voters:
St. Louis, Rocky Mountain
& Pacific Co. $29O, 6o.oo
Yankee Fuel company -. 25,25S.0O
Northeastern Coal Co. 80. 10000
Ration Water Works 19,226.7s
Ration Fuel company -. 250.00
Ration Ice company ..... 37S.3S
Yankee Fuel company 25,25S.sO
r. n Shenard e. Co, 800. $4,000
New Mexico Coal & Min
ing company 2,5O0.O0
Dawson Fuel company 367,950.oo
Stag Canyon Fuel Co. .... 62,605.00
Maxwell Land Grant Co. 179,92S.00
IOCdl .....'' '%ooo'
OF this imposing array, the st.
Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific COM
pany holdings alone are bonded to
the Metropolitan Trust company OF
New York City for the immense sum
OF s15,OO0,O00, yet under the benifl-
cient management of the Hon. Charles
Springer. Mr.. J. H. Van Houten and
their attorneys through the grand old
regime known as the republican party,
the st. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pa
cific company, the holding concern
those immense properties are returned
for taxation at the pitiful sum OF
S290,265.00.
The boast is made that in the great
kingdom of Colfax county alone, there
il, more and better coal than in the
great fields of Pennsylvania where
that state has been made an indus
trial center for the entire United
States.
Those immense properties pay
about one-eighth of the taxes In Col
fax county whereas the lesser con-
Germs and the people who toll, pay the
balance. Those immense deposits OF
coal and those great tracts IT timber
stand there awaiting development,
while only enough coal is turned out
tn keep the price at an almost pro-
hibitive rate. While escaping taxa
ton. a small part of the holdings is
made to produce "all the traff1c Will
bear while even the men who toll 1ar
underground, are paid a minimum
wage and are forced to purchase even
the necessities of life from company
stores"
1t is an inspiring sight-a sight that
causes only the darkest forebodlngs
for the future of this state, to visit
the company homes of the miners
OF Colfax county and see how they
live. 1t is still a more impressive
sight to see the children of those
miners, their lack of opportunity
their education, their surroundings.
The people of the state of New
Mexico wondered at the fight made py
the Springer contingent on the blue
ballot last year and why it was that
their strenuous efforts to defeat II,
caused them to lose sight of the head
OF their ticket and plunge Holm ..
Bursum to defeat. The governorship
was the least of their troubles.
Through that constitution and
through legislature they could con-
troll. they hoped to remain secure IN
their hold upon Colfax county, upon
the miners in those camps and upon
those children who some day, ike
their fathers, will be forced to descend
into the shafts and tunnels to dig like
rats for the benefit of a few men who
control the corporation.
In this connection, it should be re-
membered that there are honest cor
porations, corporations that would be
honest did they not have to meet such
competition. 1t is not the purpose OF
this paper to attack corporations be-
cause they are corporations, but 1t is
the purpose of this paper to try and
Give the man who works and his chill
dren, an even break. 1t is the inten-
ton of this paper to see that pros
perity is passed around and that "all
the traffic will bear" does not come
ont of the pockets of the toiler nor out
Of the mouths of little children. 1t
ia the intention of this paper to see to
it that the youth of this state gets the
right to develop its brain and Drawn
alongside of children more favored by
circumstances. 1t is the purpose OF
this paper to see to 1t that such cor
porations go out of politics in this
state or find out exactly why.
At Albuquerque last week, it was
smirkingly given out that the grand
old republican party had had house
cleaning and that it had done the
house cleaning itself.
A brief look at the facts will show
that having used Frank A. Hubbell
and Holm o. Bursum to the limit
having got out of them "all the tramc
would stand" they have been swept