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have no doubt these cities will have similar systems 

 in a short time. 



There are between three and fonr hundred 

 rf these persons in Nashville. The fees paid to 

 the medical officers entirely support the hos- 

 pital. The adoption of this plan, therefore, in 

 other cities, will be attended by no expense ; 

 on the contrary, it would save, if universally 

 adopted, millions of dollars and hundreds of 

 lives every year. 



TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 The present divisions of the vast domain of the 

 United States, which have been organized into 

 territories, are Arizona, Colorado, Dakota, Ida- 

 ho, Indian Territory, Montana, Nebraska, New 

 Mexico, Utah, and Washington. For their area, 

 population, original organization, etc., see AN- 

 NUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, 1862. 



AEIZONA. The explorations in 1864 brought 

 to light and led to the occupation of districts 

 of rare value in this territory. Adding the re- 

 sources of northern and central Arizona, now 

 known to those long developed below the Gila 

 River, and there is, with many barren acres 

 common in all metalliferous countries, an ex- 

 tent of mineral, agricultural, pastural, and 

 timber lands, equal in the aggregate to the 

 area of the State of New York. In gold, silver, 

 platinum, copper, and lead, no portion of the 

 world is richer. The agricultural lands on the 

 Salinas River are capable of supplying food for a 

 State. Irrigation is not necessary in that region 

 if the rains are as frequent as during the last 

 year; other parts have suffered for two years 

 from drought. In the southern districts, where 

 it is required, the rivers are large and regular 

 in their flow. The wheat produced is excellent, 

 and the grasses unsurpassed in nutritious quali- 

 ties. Wood is abundant. 



The seat of Government is Prescott. The 

 territorial officers are John N. Goodwin, of 

 Maine, Governor; Richard C. McCormick, of 



New York, Secretary; Turner, of Iowa, 



Chief Justice; Coles Bashford, of Wisconsin, 

 Attorney General. A weekly newspaper called 

 the "Arizona Miner" is published at Fort 

 W hippie. At the election for delegate to Con- 

 gress, Charles D. Poston, Republican, received 

 514 votes; Charles Leib, Democrat, 226, and 

 145 scattering. 



COLORADO. This territory is unusually rich 

 in gold. The delegate from the territory to 

 Congress, Mr. H. P. Bennett, made the follow- 

 ing statement before the House : " Judging from 

 what I know of the undeveloped resources of 

 this country, from what I am told by practical 

 miners who are well informed upon this subject, 

 I say here to-day, before this House and before 

 this country, to be placed upon the records and 

 read of all men, that within five years' time, 

 and by the year 1869, the gold fields of Colorado 

 Territory will produce 50,000,000 annually, 

 and even, then its full resources of mineral 

 wealth in gold alone remain not wholly de- 

 veloped. I speak from the united testimony 

 oi practical miners who have spent several 



years in the mines of California, v. 

 that the gold-bearing region of Colorad,, 

 more extensive, quite a- inexhaustible, and the 

 gold-bearing quartz of a much richer quality 

 than in California." 



In 1859 the amount of Colorado gold received 

 at the Philadelphia mint was $(;:>,<">"; j : . 

 it was $1,000,000, and in 1864 it wa- 

 nt 120,000,000. Some difficulties occurred with 

 the Indians during this year. The military 

 force of the territory is strong and able to con- 

 tend with them. An act was passed at the last 

 session of Congress to enable the people of tho 

 territory to form a State Government. The 

 people, however, postponed the subject. The 

 Governor of the territory is John Evans, who 

 resides at Denver City. 



^ DAKOTA. The Governor of this territory i* 

 Newton Edmonds. The capital is Yankton, on 

 the Missouri River, due west from Chicago, and 

 "about sixty miles from the Iowa State line. 

 The state of hostilities which prevailed a year 

 ago between a portion of the Sioux tribes and 

 the Government continued during 1864, and 

 great excitement has necessarily existed even 

 among those tribes who are friendly to the 

 whites. The failure of the crops among the 

 Indians has been so great as to make it neces- 

 sary to provide supplies to keep them from 

 starvation. 



IDAHO. This territory was organized under 

 an act of Congress of March, 1863. Its Gov- 

 ernor is Caleb Lyon: the Secretary, W. B. 

 Daniels. Two weekly newspapers are publish- 

 ed in the territory, the " Boise News" at Idaho 

 City, and the "Golden Age" at Lewiston. At 

 the election for delegate to Congress, the Demo- 

 cratic candidate was chosen by a small majority. 

 The boundaries of the territory were thus de- 

 fined by Congress : 



"Beginning at a point in the middle channel 

 of the Snake River, where the northern boun- 

 dary of Oregon intersects the same ; then follow 

 down said channel of Snake River to point 

 opposite the mouth of the Kooskooskia, or Clear- 

 water River; thence due north to the forty- 

 ninth parallel of latitude; thence east, along 

 said parallel, to the twenty-seventh degree of 

 longitude west of Washington; thence south, 

 along said degree of longitude, to the northern 

 boundary of Colorado Territory; thence west, 

 along said boundary, to the thirty-third degree 

 of longitude west of Washington ; thence north, 

 along said degree, to the forty-second parallel 

 of latitude ; thence west, along said parallel, to 

 the eastern boundary of the State of Oregon ; 

 thence north, along said boundary, to the place 

 of beginning.". 



This boundary was changed at the session of 

 Congress of 1863-'64. The last section of the 

 Montana Act provides that "until Con, 

 shall otherwise direct, all that part of the terri- 

 tory of Idaho included within the following 

 boundaries, to wit: Commencing at a point 

 formed by the intersection of the thirty-third 

 degree of longitude west from Washington with 



