New Mexico § 63-2-7 - State lands; granting right-of-way over and right to appropriate water thereon

§ 63-2-7. State lands; granting right-of-way over and right to appropriate water thereon

There is hereby granted to every railroad corporation formed under the laws of New

Mexico a right-of-way for its railroads and telegraphs to the width of one hundred

feet on each side of the center line of the track over and through any of the swamp

or overflowed lands or other lands, which belonged to the territory of New Mexico,

and in cases where deep excavations, or heavy embankments, or other cuttings, ditches,

drains, canals, culverts or structures to protect the road beds and to facilitate

the use and enjoyment of the same, is or may be required for the grade or other uses

of said roads, then, at such places, a greater width of such lands may be taken by

such corporation, and the same is hereby further granted to such corporation, not

exceeding, in addition, five hundred feet wide. And the right is hereby further granted to such corporation to locate, occupy and

hold so much of said lands as may be necessary for sites and grounds for watering

places, depots, stations or other buildings or structures, along the line of said

railroads necessary for the accommodation of the public, the operating of said roads

and the transaction of the business of such corporation. And the further right is hereby granted to such corporation to appropriate to its

use, by means of pipes, ditches, aqueducts or other conduits, so much of the waters

of any springs or streams on said lands as may be necessary to the operating of the

roads and the transaction of the business of such corporation, together with the right-of-way

over said lands to such springs or streams for such pipes, ditches, aqueducts or other

conduits.