ARIZONA. 



is estimated at less than $40,000, making the 

 total public indebtedness, Territorial and local, 

 nearly $3,500,000. 



An act was passed by Congress and approved 

 June 25 of this year which provides for funding 

 all the floating indebtedness Territoral, county, 

 municipal, and school, and such of the bonded 

 indebtedness as can be lawfully redeemed at a 

 rate of interest not to exceed 5 per cent, per an- 

 num, the bonds to run fifty years, but redeem- 

 able after twenty years. The Territory, under the 

 act, assumes the obligations of counties and 

 municipalities, and all securities that can be fund- 

 ed are made Territorial, the Territory being pro- 

 tected by equalized taxation. The law provides, 

 not only for the funding of outstanding indebted- 

 ness, but also authorizes the placing of sufficient 

 bonds to provide for all the legitimate expenses of 

 government now due or to become due up to 

 Jan. 1, 1891. After that date all expenses must 

 be met by a tax levy sufficient to prevent indebt- 

 edness. 



The total assessed valuation of the Territory 

 for 1890 was $28,050,234.73. Included in the 

 assessment were 3,493,062 acres of land valued at 

 $3,938,564 ; improvements thereon valued at 



ritory. The Territorial University, at Tucson, 

 Pima County, has not been opened. The build- 

 ing is unfinished. 



Population. The returns of the national cen- 

 sus of 1890, compared with those for 1880, are 

 shown in the following table (Cochise, Graham, 

 and Gila Counties have been formed since 1880) : 



Penitentiary. The Territorial Penitentiary 



at Yuma contained 122 convicts on July 1, 1889. 



Mining-. The following table, compiled by the 



Territorial geologist, shows the mineral product 

 of the Territory bj 



sy counties during 1889 : 



$2,139,049; city and town lots valued at $1,863,- 

 S93 , improvements thereon valued at $2,232,- 

 D68; 641,016 head of cattle valued at $5,321,809 ; 

 291,238 sheep valued at $436,849 ; 40,956 horses 

 valued at $1,071,963 ; 1,695 mules valued at $64,- 

 289; and railroad property, including 1,093 miles 

 of track, valued at $6,615,467. The tax rate for 

 Territorial purposes in 1890 was 80| cents on 

 each $100. 



Education. Each county in the Territory is 

 divided into school districts, which are governed 

 by three trustees, elected at a special election in 

 which both men and women participate. The 

 probate judge of each county is ex officio super- 

 intendent of schools for his county. The schools 

 are supported by a direct Territorial tax of 3 cents 

 on each $100 value of taxable property, collected 

 and paid into the Territorial treasury, and then 

 apportioned to the counties on the basis of school 

 population. In addition a tax is levied on each 

 county at a rate of not less than 50 cents nor 

 more than 80 cents on each $100 valuation for 

 the support of the schools in that county. The 

 Territorial normal school at Tempe, Maricopa 

 County, was established in 1886. Seventy-nine 

 students have been enrolled, of whom eleven have 

 been graduated and are now teaching in the Ter- 



Indians. There has been no regular out- 

 break since the surrender of Geroriimo in 1888, 

 but several murders have been committed by In- 

 dians, and a general feeling of distrust prevails 

 in portions of the Territory adjacent to the San 

 Carlos reservation, upon which the most objec- 

 tionable Indians are placed. In November, 

 1889, while Sheriff Jefferson Reynolds and his 

 deputy, of Pinal County, were taking eight con- 

 victed Apache murderers to their punishment, 

 the officers were overpowered and killed, and 

 the Indians escaped. The outlaws have all been 

 run down and killed or captured except one. 

 Several murders have been committed by In- 

 dians since the escape of these prisoners. 



Mormons. The Governor says in his last an- 

 nual report: "This Territory borders Utah on 

 the south, and is very accessible to immigration 

 from that Territory, and at this time the county 

 government and the public schools of Apache 

 County are largely subservient to Mormon influ- 

 ences, and great dissatisfaction is expressed by 

 the people. Yavapai County also borders on 

 Utah, and the northeastern part of the county 

 has several Mormon settlements. Graham County 

 lies directly south of Apache County, and has 

 quite a large Mormon population. Cochise 



