Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-09-09
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
REGULAR SESSION
August 80, 1920.


The Board of County Commission
ers Of Torrance County met this day
in regular session with the Hon. C.
M Milbourn, Chairman, Walter f.
Martin, member, the sheriff and the
clerk being also present.
The minutes of the previous ses-
sion were read and approved.
In the matter of the road petition
presented by the people of Lucy
said road beginning Twp. S NJ, R.
10 E., and running through certain
individually owned lands beginning
at the intersection, of the said road
with the west boundary line of sec
tion 26, T. 5 N, R. 10 E., and run
ming in a northeasterly direction to
a point about 15O feet west Of the
A. T. & S. F. Depot at Lucy, the
Board after having considered the
same and after having approved it,
order that board of appraisers be
appointed to appraise the value of
the land contained in the right of
way, and ascertain the proper
amount of damages payable to the
individuals owning such lands as are
necessary for the said right of way
for said road; and hereby appoint
J. N. Underwood, George S. Alter
and L. G. Hanlon as such apprais-
ers, and they are hereby required to
so appraise and report the proper
amount Of damages to be paid the
owners of said property; and the
Board further orders that the said
road as described in the said petit
ton be and is hereby declared a
public highway.
The bond of Ernest Hoover as
truck foreman is examined and ap-
proved and the clerk is ordered to
draw a warrant against the road
fund of Torrance county and made
available to the said Ernest Hoover
for payment Of labor and other ex-
penses incidental to the upkeep and
maintenance of roads in his district.
In the matter of the survey of
the Torreon Land Grant, action hav-
ing been deferred at the last meet
ing; the board of trustees of the
said Grant being present and after
having considered the matter and the
bid of Mr.. Calkins, it is concurrent
ly agreed by the Board of County
Commissioners and the Board of
Trustees of said Grant, to accept the
bid of Mr.. Calkins to do the work
at a per diem of $14.00 per day
and board and to furnish him the
necessary man and team and
wagon to haul stones for marking
the corners, said survey to be made
by subdividing The land in sections
and quarter sections, first, and after
this has been done to begin the sub
division of the privately owned tracts
and to continue the same as far as
the funds now available will permit
at the rate of pay as above stated; f;
it is further agreed that the people
of the Grant will set up their cor
ner stones at the direction of the
surveyor, and it is further agreed
that portions of the Grant as
have already been surveyed, are not
to be surveyed at this time.
Ordinance No. 12 of the Village
of Duran as filed by the Village
clerk with the county clerk is re-
jected by the Board fer-the reason
that the said Village was not an in
corporated village on the first day
of January, 1920, and therefore had
no property upon which to levy.
A copy of the resolution providing
for the consolidation Of school dis
tricts No. 8 of Torrance county and
No. 80 of Santa Fe county is pre-
sented, examined and approved.
The report Of J. W. Drummond'
J. P. Pre-. No. 6, Willard, is exam,