States pass, at the earliest possible moment, an act creating a seventh judicial district for this territory, with headquarters at the city of Socorro and in that behalf respectfully represent:

That the large area required to be covered under present arrangements is such as to create an undue hardship upon the presiding judge of some of the districts;

That the mileage now made necessary on account of such large area contained in such districts, create an extravagant expense and is a burden upon the taxpayer as well as upon litigants having business before the court;

The creation of an additional judicial district in New Mexico will very materially assist the efficiency of the service and in the aggregate result in economic advantage to the taxpayer and greatly facilitate the transaction of the business generally.

And your memorialist will ever pray.

And be it further resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

That the secretary of this territory be and is hereby requested to certify a copy thereof forthwith to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of the United States, and to the delegate in congress, the Hon. W. H. Andrews.

JOINT MEMORIAL 11.

PETITIONING THE HONORABLE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO GRANT PERMISSION TO THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, TO CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN THAT PORTION OF THE CAMINO REAL KNOWN AS "THE SCENIC ROUTE ROAD" UPON AND ACROSS THE PECOS FOREST RESERVE. C. J. M. No. 9; Approved March 14, 1905.

To the Honorable Secretary of Agriculture:

Your memorialist, the thirty-sixth legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, most respectfully represents that pursuant to the provisions of an act of the thirty-fifth legislative assembly entitled "An Act to authorize and require the use of penitentiary labor to construct a public road from Santa Fe to Las Vegas," approved March 14, 1903, and the acts amendatory of and supplemental thereto, said road has been nearly completed from Santa Fe to the southern boundary line of the Pecos forest reserve and has been partially constructed from the City of Las Vegas to

a point near the eastern boundary line of said forest reserve; that the constructed road has been declared by the most reliable authority to be the best constructed mountain roadway in the United States; that it will soon be necessary, for the completion of said road, as contemplated by the act of the thirty-fifth legislative assembly, to make the proper surveys and estimates across the Pecos forest reserve; that for the purpose of making such preliminary surveys your memorialist is advised that it is necessary to first obtain permission from the honorable, the secretary of agriculture.

Your memorialist further states that at its present session it has enacted a law, under the provisions of which convict labor is to be employed in the construction and maintenance of a great highway having for its initial terminus a point on the Raton mountains on the line between the state of Colorado and the Territory of New Mexico, where said mountain range was formerly crossed by the old Santa Fe trail, and ending at El Paso in the state of Texas. That said highway has been called in said act "El Camino Real;" that in its route traversing the Territory of New Mexico until it reaches the City of Las Vegas, in the County of San Miguel, said highway follows as near as may be the route formerly known as the "Santa Fe Trail;" that from the City of Las Vegas to the City of Santa Fe, the capital of this territory, the highway as contemplated and authorized by law, will cross the Pecos forest reserve; that pursuant to the provisions of the act of the thirty-sixth legislative assembly, an appropriation of ten thousand dollars has been made for purposes of construction of this highway and the necessary equipment to be employed by convict labor in the building thereof and an annual tax levy thereafter which will raise a like sum every year based upon the present assessed valuation of all property in New Mexico.

Your memorialist further states that in addition to the commercial and material benefits to be derived from the construction and maintenance of this great highway, reaching as it will every large center of population in the territory, except the Pecos valley in the extreme south-eastern portion of the territory, the marvelous scenic attractiveness of the Rocky mountain region of New Mexico will be revealed to tourists and travelers of all sorts; the portion of the highway passing across the Pecos forest reserve is calculated to reach localities now practically inaccessible to our people for any purpose and which for grandeur and beauty rival any mountain scenery in the United States.

Your memorialist further states that it is in entire harmony with

the forest reserve policy of the national government and believes that the preservation of the forests within the boundaries of our territory is absolutely essential to the welfare of our people whose interests are so largely identified with the irrigation of our fertile valley and plains; that we recognize the part played by the forest areas in our highest mountains in the preservation of the snows falling during the winter months and believe that the deforestration of these great mountain areas in Colorado and New Mexico during the past twenty-five years is one of the principal causes for the heavy floods and early run-off of waters before that time held in check through the density of the forest regions.

Your memorialist further states that in addition to the deforestration for logging and lumber purposes, great areas of forest have been utterly lost and destroyed through fires arising from various causes and extremely difficult to extinguish owing to the inaccessibility of the areas thus jeopardized; that your memorialist firmly believes that the construction of this highway through the Pecos forest reserve making the greatest elevations accessible to man will be an agency in the preservation of the forest areas of the most pronounced and efficient kind; that in addition to the material present benefit thus derived from such road constructed, your memorialist believes that by thus making it possible for all our people, not only in New Mexico, but those who shall visit this territory for various reasons, to become acquainted with this great mountain park region there will be created a sentiment demanding the carrying out of the present governmental policy of forest preservation all of which will lead to results incalculably beneficial to the American nation.

And your memorialist attaches hereto a copy of its act establishing the highway and providing for its construction by the use of convict labor;

Wherefore, your memorialist, respectfully asks that you make an order permitting the Territory of New Mexico, through the agencies provided in the act mentioned, giving and granting unto the territory the right and permission to make surveys for said highway upon said Pecos forest reserve and to construct said highway in accordance with the provisions of said act of the legislative assembly of this territory.

And it is hereby resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.

That the chief clerks of the legislative council and the house of

representatives, respectively, are hereby directed to transmit a certified copy of this memorial to the honorable, the secretary of agriculture, and to also furnish a certified copy of the same to the Honorable William H. Andrews, delegate in congress, from this territory.

I, J. W. Raynolds, secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing printed copies of the Acts, Joint Resolutions and Joint Memorials of the Thirtysixth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, with the enrolled and engrossed originals thereof now on file in this office, and declare them to be correct transcripts therefrom and of the whole thereof.

Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Territory of New Mexico, at Santa Fe, the capital, this the twelfth day of April, A. D.

1905.

J. W. RAYNOLDS, Secretary of New Mexico.