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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NEW YORK.) 



The wool-clip for 1901 is put at 20,000,000 pounds, 

 which is somewhat above the average, but this 

 advantage was offset by lower prices. The es- 

 tablishment of scouring works at several points 

 in New Mexico, especially at Albuquerque and 

 Las Vegas, has done much to benefit the wool 

 interests. 



Militia. Gen. William H. Whiteman, the Ad- 

 jutant-General of New Mexico, has thoroughly 

 reconstructed the militia system of the Territory, 

 and in 1901 he introduced reforms so sweeping 

 that the militia has been transformed from a 

 purely ornamental institution into a practical and 

 useful division of the public service one that is 

 kept in constant readiness for work. 



Health-Seekers. The rapidly increasing num- 

 ber of invalids who seek health in the dry and 

 mild climate of New Mexico has caused much 

 attention to be given to this matter, and accom- 

 modations in the way of comfortable resorts for 

 invalids have been provided in various sections 

 of the Territory, and at altitudes ranging from 

 3,000 feet to 8,000 feet above sea-level. As a sup- 

 plement to these efforts in the line of providing 

 sanitaria, the University of New Mexico has add- 

 ed a department of climatology, and a building 

 exclusively for this purpose has been erected at a 

 cost of $20,000. This building, known as Hadley 

 Hall, has been thoroughly equipped with labora- 

 tory conveniences, and with the best apparatus 

 obtainable for investigation and experiment in 

 the line of work to which the department is de- 

 voted. It is the only institution in the United 

 States devoted exclusively to the study of cli- 

 matic conditions and peculiarities with respect to 

 their influence in curing or preventing disease. 



NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the orig- 

 inal thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 26, 

 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The population, 

 according to each decennial census, was 340,120 

 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 959,049 in 1810; 1,372,111 

 in 1820; 1,918,608 in 1830; 2,428,921 in 1840; 

 3,097,394 in 1850; 3,880,735 in 1860; 4,382,759 in 

 1870; 5,082,871 in 1880; 5,997,853 in 1890; and 

 7,268,012 in 1900. Capital, Albany. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Benjamin B. 

 Odell, Jr., Republican; Lieutenant - Governor, 

 Timothy L. Woodruff; Secretary of State, John 

 T. McDonough; Comptroller, Edward C. Knight; 

 Treasurer, John P. Jaeckel; Attorney-General, 

 John C. Davies; State Engineer and Surveyor, 

 Edward A. Bond; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Charles R. Skinner, whose term of office 

 expired April 6, 1901, when he was reappointed; 

 Superintendent of Insurance, Francis Hendricks; 

 Superintendent of Banking Department, Freder- 

 ick D. Kilburn; Superintendent of State Prisons, 

 Cornelius V. Collins; Superintendent of Public 

 Works, John N. Partridge; Commissioner of La- 

 bor Statistics, John McMackin; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, Ashley W. Cole, George W. Dunn, and 

 Frank M. Baker; Chief Judge of the Court of 

 Appeals, Alton B. Parker; Associate Judges, John 

 C. Gray, Denis O'Brien, Celora E. Martin, Edward 

 T. Bartlett, Albert Haight, and Irving G. Vann, 

 together with Judson S. Landon, William E. 

 Werner, and Edgar M. Cullen, who are judges of 

 the Supreme Court, sitting in the Court of Ap- 

 peals. 



The term of the State officers is two years. 

 They are elected in November of even-numbered 

 years. The Legislature meets every year in Janu- 

 ary. 



Finances. According to the report issued by 

 the State Comptroller, the balance in the treasury 

 on Oct. 1, 1900, was $7,289,802.55; receipts from 



all sources, $30,544,694.88; total, $37,834,497.43. 

 The payments were $28,045,146.27, leaving a bal- 

 ance in the treasury on Sept. 30, 1901, of $9,789,- 

 351.16, distributed as follows: Canal fund, $883,- 

 247.27; school fund, $398,965.34; general fund, $8,- 

 254,621.09; and trust and miscellaneous funds, 

 $252,517.46. The total receipts from the corpora- 

 tion tax law were $4,966,680.93, including $1,398,- 

 799.30 from trust companies and $705,333.12 from 

 savings-banks. The organization tax yielded 

 $293,856.72, while the transfer tax, commonly 

 called the inheritance tax, produced $4,084,606.87. 

 At the time that the tax rate was fixed by the 

 Legislature, it was estimated that the receipts 

 from these three sources would aggregate $4,500,- 

 000, whereas the total was $9,345,144.52. 



The State tax was 1.20 mill (the lowest in forty 

 years), compared with 1.96 mill in 1900, and 2.49 

 mills in 1899. The estimated revenue, including 

 surplus, was $15,511,418.13. The tax was dis- 

 tributed as follows: Canal, maintenance, 0.17 mill; 

 canal, extraordinary repairs and new work, 0.15 

 mill; canal, payment of debt, 0.13 mill; free school 

 fund, 0.75 mill; total tax levy, 1.20 mill. This tax 

 is on the estimated valuation of property in the 

 State of $5,672,249,753, which will realize as fol- 

 lows: Canal maintenance, $964,282.45; extraordi- 

 nary repairs and new work, $850,837.47 ; payment 

 of canal debt, $737,392.47; the free school fund, 

 $4,254,187.31; total, $6,806,699.70. 



Valuation. The State assessors during the 

 year were J. Edgar Leaycraft, George E. Priest, 

 and Lester F. Stevens, each of whom receives a 

 salary of $2,500. According to the report issued 

 on Sept. 3, the total valuation of real and per- 

 sonal property available for State taxation was 

 $5,686,921,678, compared with $5,461,302,752 for 

 the preceding year, which was distributed among 

 the different counties in the following proportion : 

 Albany, 1.644; Allegany, 0.267; Broome, 0.590; 

 Cattaraugus, 0.405; Cayuga, 0.574; Chautauqua, 

 0.546; Chemung, 0.450; Chenango, 0.288; Clinton, 

 0.167; Columbia, 0.406; Cortland, 0.217; Delaware, 

 0.248; Dutchess, 0.512; Erie, 5.310; Essex, 0.170; 

 Franklin, 0.186; Fulton, 0.243; Genessee, 0.403; 

 Greene, 0.232; Hamilton, 0.052; Herkimer, 0.373; 

 Jefferson, 0.563; Kings, 12.615; Lewis, 0.161; Liv- 

 ingston, 0.465; Madison, 0.361; Monroe, 2.377; 

 Montgomery, 0.466; Nassau, 0.459; New York, 

 50.295; Niagara, 0.684; Oneida, 1.061; Onondaga, 

 1.898; Ontario, 0.497; Orange, 0.756; Orleans, 

 0.266; Oswego, 0.469; Otsego, 0.379; Putnam, 

 0.122; Queens, 1.706; Rensselaer, 1.289; Rich- 

 mond, 0.898; Rockland, 0.265; St. Lawrence, 

 0.578; Saratoga, 0.456; Schenectady, 0.337; Scho- 

 harie, 0.195; Schuyler, 0.117; Seneca, 0.253; 

 Steuben, 0.551; Suffolk, 0.766; Sullivan, 0.099; 

 Tioga, 0.228; Tompkins, 0.290; Ulster, 0.479; 

 Warren, 0.135; Washington, 0.323; Wayne, 0.442; 

 Westchester, 2.662; Wyoming, 0.262; Yates, 0.187. 



Taxation. The State Board of Tax Commis- 

 sioners reported to the Legislature on Jan. 29 as 

 follows : " A year's practical working has dis- 

 closed some changes which can be made in the spe* 

 cial franchise law to its betterment in execution. 

 The principle has thoroughly approved itself. 

 There are several variations in administrative de- 

 tails which we shall ask you to consider in the 

 form of proposed amendments. These relate chiefly 

 to the procedure prescribed, and are as follow: 

 First, restoration to local assessment of property 

 upon highway crossings where the occupation is 

 less longitudinally than 250 feet; second, the law 

 should authorize and direct this board to equalize, 

 after hearings, special franchise valuations found 

 by it to conform with the local assessment of 

 other real estate in the tax district where special 



