The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Nov. 8, 1917: The annual meeting of the New Mexico Educational Association Thanksgiving week will be an event of the first magnitude in Santa Fe.

It promises not only to be by far the most largely attended, but also the most interesting and helpful in this history of the association.

A program covering an exceptionally wide range of topics and presenting a list of speakers of prominence has been arranged in addition to the regular business and section meetings.

Nov. 8, 1967: New Mexico lost in another bid for absentee balloting Tuesday despite an overwhelming favorable statewide vote.

But five other proposed constitutional amendments were approved by nearly 2-1 margins or better and a sixth clung to a narrow but steady lead.

Two of the eight New Mexico constitutional amendments apparently failed.

They were the absentee balloting, which required a two-thirds majority in each county an a three-fourths majority in the state, and a change to permit loans of state money to private business for promotion of economic growth.

Nov. 8, 1992: When Santa Fe relied solely on local water supplies, it cost the water company less than $50 a year to supply the average household with water. That era is over.

Santa Fe uses more water than the Santa Fe River and eight local wells can supply.

Water is being imported to meet current demand, and will be needed in much greater amounts to meet demand in the future.

To deliver that imported water the Sangre de Cristo Water Co. pays at least $138 per 100,000 gallons, the amount an average house household uses in a year. That, local city and water officials say, is the price Santa Fe is paying for growth.