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taining many hundred feet of drifts, tunnels, 

 and shafts, but the openings of which had 

 been filled up and all surface trace of them 

 obliterated at the time of the Pueblo Indian 

 insurrection two hundred years ago, when the 

 Spanish residents were all slaughtered or 

 driven out of the country and permitted to 

 return several years later only on condition 

 that the mines should never again be worked. 

 Several of these have been rediscovered, and 

 some of them are being redeveloped with 

 profit. 



Coal. The Gallup mines, in the western part 

 of Bernalillo County, on the line of the Atlan- 

 tic and Pacific Railroad, are the most extensive 

 coal-mines in the Territory. These mines are 

 supposed to be on the southern point of a 

 coal deposit about 10 miles wide from east 

 to west, and widening northward into Colora- 

 do, a distance of 200 miles. The output for 

 the year was 300,000 tons. The Monero and 

 Aruargo mines, in Rio Arriba County, on the 

 Colorado border and near the Denver and Rio 

 Grande Railroad, also produce an excellent 

 quality of coal. Excellent bituminous coal is 

 also found in Lincoln County, in the vicinity 

 of White Oaks. The output "of the Blossburg 

 mines, near the Colorado border, was 156.000 

 tons, and of the San Pedro Coal and Coke 

 Company in Socorro County, 59,000 tons the 

 latter rendered into 14,000 tons of coke. Coal 

 has been found also in other portions of the 

 Territory. 



Irrigation. The Governor, in his last annual 

 report, says it has become evident that the 

 present system of independent ditching must 

 be abandoned, and that t in its stead the - 

 must assume jurisdiction of the water-supply 

 and its distribution by a carefully devised and 

 adjusted system that shall economize the wa- 

 ter-supply and guarantee equal rights in it. 



Political. On May 7 a Democratic Territorial 

 Convention met at Santa Fe and nominated 

 delegates to the National Convention. The 

 platform adopted at that time, after approving 

 of the administration of President Cleveland, 

 continues as follows : 



That we approve of that portion of the Democratic 

 platform whicn promised that Territorial offices should 

 be filled by bona-nJe residents of the Territories, and 

 believe that the only method of securing Democratic 

 -- is by a fair, honest, and manly fulfillment of 

 that promise. 



That we feel that no prosperity can come to this 

 people until the titles to our lands are finally settled 

 and determined, and that we approve the bill intro- 

 duced bv our delegate for that purpose, and m 

 spectfullv request all of our friends in Congress to aid 

 him in the passage thereof, calling to their attention 

 the tact that under the existing laws, which have now 

 been in force for forty years, not one twentieth of the 

 claims presented have been passed upon, and there 

 are now unsettled and undetermined more tha^ 

 claims, the greater number of which, though small 

 and insignificant as to the quantity ot land claimed, 

 constitute the homesteads ot fully' 10,000 of our peo- 

 ple, not one of whom can sell or dispose of his land at 

 its reasonable value on account of the uncertainty of 

 the tenure of title which has during all of this time 

 rested upon it, and that there is & multitude of small 



claims involving from twenty to forty acres that have 

 never been presented, owing to the fact that the prose- 

 cution thereof under the present law involves the ex- 

 penditure in costs and fees of more than the value of 

 the land, thereby virtually working a confiscation 

 thereof. 



The Republican Territorial Convention met 



:ita Fe, on May 15, to elect delegates to 



the Chicago Convention, and adopted a long 



series of resolutions, of which the following 



are the more important : 



"We earnestly denounce the wholesale and unwar- 

 ranted action of the Administration in procuring to 

 be Drought hundreds of indictments against re- 

 ble and honest citizens of this Territory for alleged 

 violations of the land and timber laws, and assert that 

 such action was taken for political purposes, and for 

 the obtaining of fees by tne different court officials 

 and the smirching for political effect of the characters 

 of good and reputable citizens. 



That we denounce the administration of the Gov- 

 ernor of this Territory. Edmund G. Ross, appointed 

 by President Cleveland, as characterized by corrup- 

 tion, imbecility, and a total disregard of the laws of 

 the Territory of New Mexico. 



That, it being the plain intent of the act of Con- 

 : eating the office of surveyor-general to submit 

 the inquiry as to the existence, validity, nature, and 

 extent of our Mexican land-titles to a learned, honest, 

 and impartial tribunal, we view with indignation and 

 at the action of the President in forcing upon 

 our Territory as surveyor-general such an embodi- 

 ment of stilted vanity 'and mendacious partisanship 

 as George W. Julian, who, coming hither in the guise 

 of a fair-minded judge, has devoted himself to the 

 vandal work of overturning long-settled titles granted 

 by Spain and Mexico, luliv recognized by those Gov- 

 ernments and guaranteed by the" treaty o'f Guadalupe 

 Hidalgo, and in this criminal work of'destruction has 

 prostituted an office judicial in nature to personal and 

 political ends. 



That we condemn the action of Gov. Ross in the 

 exercise of the pardoning power, by which he has 

 released from the Territorial Penitentiary large num- 

 bers of the most atrocious criminals, who had been 

 convicted at great expense. 



Early in July the Prohibitionists placed in 

 nomination J. C. Tiffany as delegate to Con- 

 gress, and, a few weeks later, a Republican 

 convention nominated M. S. Otero for the 

 same office. The Democrats renominated 

 Delegate Joseph. At the November election 

 Joseph received 17,525 votes, and Otero 15. 775. 

 But the Republicans elected a majority of the 

 Legislature for 1880. which will stand: Senate 

 Republicans. <"> : Democrats, 5 ; House Re- 

 publicans, 14; Democrats. 9. 



>EW YORK (STATE). Stetf GoYernmfnt. The 

 following were the State officers during the 

 year : Governor. L)avid B. Hill, Democrat ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor. Edward F. Jones : 

 retary of State. Frederick Cook : Comptroller, 

 Edward Wemple : Treasurer. Lawrence J. 

 Fitzgerald: State Engineer and Surveyor, 

 John Bogart : Attorney-General, Charles F. 

 Tabor; Superintendent "of Public Instruction, 

 Andrew S. Draper ; Superintendent of Pris- 

 ons, Austin Lathrop ; Superintendent of In- 

 surance Department. Robert A. Maxwell ; Su- 

 perintendent of Bank Department, Willis S. 

 Paine : Superintendent of Public Works, 

 James Shanahan ; Chief -Judge of the Court 



