El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-29
CHAVEs TO STOP
LEAKING OF WELLS
Alleged Woman Check Artist in ROs-
well Is Believed a Man; County 10
Fight Raises In Taxes.

Roswell. n. NJ, Oct. 29.-Realizing
that water is one of the chief and most
valuable assets of the PecOs valley,
and especially Chaves county, over
which they have jurisdiction, the
Chaves artesian well board is going TO
see that all the leaky wells are con-
demned and repaired, or shut off oy
process of court
Inspector Ernest Carper has received
orders from the board to strictly en-
force that part Of the state law The
penalty attached is not less than $40
nor more than S10O-
'Theer are many leaky wells in the
county, at least 10 that 1 know OF,
said Mr.. Carper. I will at once give
these parties notice and il they do not
fix them, the board will bring suit
against the well owners.
ROsWelPS alleged woman" check
artist is believed man. So thinks
Sam s. Toms. secretary of the Roswell
Retailers and Business Mems assOcia-
ton who with sheriff c. r. Young and
deputy sheriff Frank Young went down
to Artesia to take look at a suspect
arrested there.
The Artesia officials would not give
the suspect up though, as the woman"
it was charged had attempted to cash
checks in ArteSia.
The prisoner was caught with the
goods on. After his arrest it was
learned that ii was a man. and Toms
saw the whole ''woman's" wardrobe.
County assessor Guy H. Herbert has
received instructions regarding the
. corrected tax books from the state
board of equalization, and from all ap-
pearances over the state the state
board of equalization has started
things.
Eddy county is the first to get in
the air" and Chaves county VIII fol-
low close after.
Nine tax paying citizens of Eddy
county will file suit against the as
SCISSOR in the district court at once to
eStOp the assessor from making the
additional raise made by the state
board of equalization, but to use the
figures made by the county commits
s.oners.
The suit will be filed at once and
these nine citizens will seek relief for
themselves and all others on the same
class of property in Eddy county.
The raise ordered by the state board
for Chaves county is as follows; Agri-
cultural lands and improvements, %
per cent; grazing lands and improve
ments, 20 per cent; city and town lots
and improvements, % per cent; per-
sonal property raises range from Is to
100 per cent.
Quoting Guy Fl. Herbert. the county
assessor, Notwithstanding the fact
that Chaves county showed an increase
according to the instructions of the
county commissioners when the rolls
were made up, Chaves county is given
the biggest raise by the state board on
town lots and real estate of any coun-
ty in the state While Lincoln county
which showed a decrease of $4,000
approximately was not raised"
Out of the IS counties of the state
the total taxable one third valuation IS
placed at S91. 734,601, which at the
state rate for the years of 1876. a raise
on one tenth OF a mill over last year,
gives the state 81, 247,59O revenue for
this year.
Out Of the 26 counties Chaves county
viii pay about Is per cent of the
whole tax, the Chaves county taxable
property being fixed by the state board
at 81 736,367. or a raise of SLIPS. 2SS
over the valuations fixed by the Chaves
county commissioners. This makes the
total valuation Of Chavez county, not
counting the exemptions, at S23, 209, 10L