IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and Bent County Aid to the Seal of said County at Las Animas, Colorado this 23d day of March A.D. 1892. C. & N. M. R.R. Co. [SEAL] H. FREY, Co. Clerk, Bent County, Colo. COPY OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPING MENTIONED ABOVE. ELECTION NOTICE. C. & N. M. R.R. Co. track and terminal WHEREAS, the Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Com- Recital as to pany, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado agreement of Territory, has promised and agreed to and with the Board as to construction of of County Commissioners of the county of Bent to con- buildings. struct and extend its railway from the present terminus at Granada to a point within one hundred and twenty five rods of the intersection of the main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway with Bent Avenue, in the town of West Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado, provided that a tract of land for depot purposes and right of way twentyfive rods wide and one hundred and fifty-four rods long shall be secured to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company free of cost-a deed from the patentees or their assigns being accepted as sufficient title; but in case the above described tract of land for depot purposes and right of way is not secured free of cost to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company within thirty days after the bonds shall have been voted by said Bent County to the said railroad company then said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company shall build suitable depot, freight houses and side tracks within one mile of the point of intersection of the main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway with Bent Avenue in the town of West Las Animas, Colorado, and to construct such freight and passenger depots as may be necessary for the transaction of the business, as is agreed herein to be built by the said Company, said railroad to be of the same gauge as that of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and to be Bent County Aid to Foregoing agreement of R. R. Co. conditional on subscription of Bent County, 1,500 shares of stocks Resolution of Board of County Commissioners to make such subscription and pay the same in County Bonds. Bonds to be deposited in trust with Colorado Nat. Bank. built and completed ready for the running of cars by the first day of January 1876. PROVIDED, the said County of Bent shall subscribe to fifteen hundred shares of the capital stock of the Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company of the par value of one hundred dollars each, said subscription to be paid for by the issue and delivery of bonds of the county of Bent of the aggregate par value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; THEREFORE, by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Bent, be it RESOLVED, That the County of Bent do subscribe to fifteen hundred shares of the capital stock of the Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company of the par value of one hundred dollars each, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, said subscription to be paid for by the issue and delivery of bonds of the County of Bent of the following denominations, towit; two hundred bonds of the denomination of one hundred dollars each, one hundred bonds of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, and eighty bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, making in the aggregate the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; said bonds to be executed and dated on the day of the formal subscription made by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Bent to the stock of the Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company and to run for a period of thirty years from that date, and bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the first day of October 1875, until paid, payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July in each year thereafter; the interest coupons attached to said bonds shall state on their face that they are payable in lawful money of the United States when due at the office of the Treasurer of Bent County, Colorado or at such other place as the said railroad company and the said Board of County Commissioners may hereafter agree; and that the said coupons are receivable at par when due for all and any taxes of the County of Bent. That, upon the execution of said bonds (which shall be C. &. N. M. R.R. Co. when R. R. Co. gives sufficient bond for as soon as practicable after the ratification and acceptance Bent County Aid to of this proposition) by the proper officers of the county, they shall be deposited in trust with the Colorado National Bank, at Denver, Colorado, as trustee, who shall deliver Bonds to be delivered the same to the said Railroad Company, after said Railroad Company shall have given a good and sufficient bond in $150,000 conditioned the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Bent, to be approved by said board, conditioned as follows: as follows: R.R. Co. as to construction of track I. That the said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Condition of bond of shall be built and in running order to a point within two hundred and twenty five rods of the intersection of the and terminals. main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway with Bent Avenue in the town of West Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado, Provided, That a tract of land for depot purposes and right of way twenty-five rods long shall be secured to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company free of cost, a deed from the patentees or their assigns being accepted as sufficient title; but in case the above described tract of land, for depot purposes and right of way, is not secured free of cost to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company within thirty days after the bonds shall have been voted by said Bent County to the said Railroad Company, then said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company shall build suitable depot and freight houses and side tracks within one mile of the point of intersection of the main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway with Bent Avenue in the town of West Las Animas, Colorado, on or before the first day of January, 1876; and the said railroad shall also be built and completed to a connection with the Pueblo and Salt Lake Railroad to a point within either of the above described limits in which said depot, freight houses and side tracks shall have been located, by said day. as to terminals II. That the said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Further condition Company shall construct and complete suitable, convenient and sufficient freight and passenger depots and provide sufficient sidings at the following points on the line of said road, to-wit: at a point at or near the town of Las Animas, Bent County Aid to Penalty for nonperformance of foregoing conditions. R.R. Co. to reimburse county for interest accruing prior to completion of road and terminals. Gauge of track. Construction to begin in the county of Bent, and within one-half of one mile of the south end of the present Fort Lyon bridge across the Arkansas River; and also at a point within one-hundred and twenty-five rods of the intersection of the main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway with Bent Avenue in the town of West Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado - Provided, That a tract of land, for depot purposes and right of way, twenty-five rods wide and one hundred and fifty-four rods long shall be secured to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company free of cost, a deed from the patentees or their assigns being accepted as sufficient title; but in case the above described tract of land, for depot purposes and right of way, is not secured free of cost to said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company within thirty days after the bonds shall have been voted by said Bent County to the said Railroad Company, then said Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company shall build suitable depot, freight houses and side tracks within one mile of the point of intersection of the main track of the Arkansas Valley Railway and Bent Avenue in the town of West Las Animas, Colorado, and also at such other points along the line of said railroads as the business of the said railroad may require. III. That if the said railroad is not so built and completed by said day, and said depots built and completed, that the said railroad will reimburse and pay to said Bent County the costs of the election hereinafter ordered. IV. That the said railroad shall reimburse the said county of Bent for any interest accruing on said bonds prior to the completion of said road and the building of said depots as aforesaid. V. That the gauge of the track to be adopted from Granada to a point within the above described limits shall be of the same gauge as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. VI. That the construction of said road shall commence completed Jan. 1, 1876. on or before the first day of May, 1875, and continue until completed on the first day of January 1876. Manner of delivery of bonds. The said bonds of the County of Bent shall be subject to and deliverable to the said railroad company in the manner following, and on compliance with the following conditional Bent County Aid to terms, to-wit: Col. & N. M. R.R. Co. FIRST. There shall be an auditing board, to consist of Auditing Board. three persons, one of whom shall be elected by and out of the board of County Commissioners of Bent County, and two by and out of the board of trustees of said railroad company and its successors and assigns, the duty of which shall be to audit and allow all claims for work done and materials furnished for the grading, bridging, tying, and otherwise constructing the road bed. on accounts allowed by Auditing Board SECOND. Said trustees for said bonds shall deliver the Bonds to be delivered bonds of the said county to the said railroad company as the work of construction progresses in amounts proportion- each month. ate to the work done and materials furnished, the value of which is to be ascertained, allowed and certified by the said auditing board, or a majority thereof, who shall meet on the fifteenth day of each month at Las Animas, in said county, and audit all claims for the month preceding; Pro- Bonds not to be paid vided, that said bonds shall not be paid out at less than eighty per cent of their par value. out at less than 80% of par value. Certificate of stock for $150,000 to be likewise deposited with same bank as trustee, to be delivered on performance of THIRD. That the certificate of stock to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the Colorado & New Mexico Railroad Company shall likewise be placed in the hands of the said Colorado National Bank, as trustee, and on compliance with and in accordance to the condi- agreements. tional terms herein imposed on said railroad company said trustee shall deliver said one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bonds to said railroad company, and shall deliver to said county of Bent, its successors and assigns, said one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of stock of the said railroad company. AND WHEREAS, The requisite number of qualified voters Petition for election. of the county of Bent, to wit: two hundred and thirty, have in due form petitioned the board of County Commissioners of said county to call a special election to approve and vote said subscription of stock and authorize the issue of said. bonds in payment; therefore BE IT ORDERED, That a special election be held on Election ordered. Tuesday, the sixteenth day of March, 1875, at the several |