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ing. The vote resulted in the authorizing of 

 the bonds by a majority of 4,537. 



Penitentiary. On Nov. 30, 1884, there were 

 372 convicts in the Penitentiary. The total 

 expense for the past two years has been as fol- 

 lows: 



Maintenance of prisoners $167,464 23 



Stable account 6.517 75 



Expense of brick-yard and quarries 11,767 96 



West cell-building 20.00000 



Purchase of land 5,50000 



Gate 862 15 



Improvement and repairs 9,915 81 



Sundries 



Total $221,876 23 



The improvements for the past two years are 

 estimated at $52,000, consisting of cell-building, 

 female prison, bath-house, kitchen, laundry, 

 extension of walls, etc. 



The earnings for the past two years have 

 been $50,405.83, while shows a decrease of 

 $9,381.31 from the two previous years. This 

 decrease is due to the general depression of 

 business, causing a falling off in the demand 

 for lime, and to the passage of an act by the 

 last Legislature, restricting convict-labor to the 

 prison-grounds, and to the failure of those en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes 

 with convict-labor to carry out their contract. 



Insane Asylum. The new Insane Asylum has 

 been occupied by the male patients since Nov. 

 20, 1883. The main building is 320 feet long 

 by 100 feet in depth, with two dormitories 64 

 by 28 feet, and three stories in height. The 

 east wing is designed for the male patients, and 

 the west wing for the females ; each wing is 

 divided into three wards; each ward will ac- 

 commodate 35 patients, so that the building 

 when completed will accommodate over 200 

 patients. In the east wing two wards have 

 been furnished, and are now occupied by 70 

 male patients. The third ward has been com- 

 pleted, but is not furnished. The west wing 

 has not been completed. 



On Nov. 30, 1882, there were 49 patients 

 at the asylum ; since then 125 have been ad- 

 mitted making a total of 177 treated in the 

 two years ending Nov. 30, 1884. Of this num- 

 ber, 77 have been discharged, 53 having recov- 

 ered, 1 improved, 3 escaped, and 20 having 

 died, leaving 97 at the asylum at the present 

 time being an increase of 48 since 1882. 



The maintenance expenses for the two years 

 ending Nov. 30, 1884, amounted to $55,676. 78. 

 The entire sum expended on the new building 

 so far is as follows : 



In 1881 and 1892 $55.000 00 



In 1888 and 1^K4 88,146 90 



Outstanding indebtedness 25,718 00 



Total $163,864 90 



Estimated cost of completing and furnishing 

 west wing $20,000 00 



Mote and Blind Institute. The last Legislature 

 appropriated $6,000 to complete the third story 

 of the Institute building, which has been done. 

 During the past two years provision has been 

 made for instructing the blind. There are now 



10 blind children and 37 deaf-mutes at the In- 

 stitute. 



State Industrial School. There were 75 boys 

 at the school in November, 1882. By Jan. 1, 

 1884, this number had increased to 140. 



There have been 196 boys sent to the school 

 since it was established. 



On a basis of 150 boys a day, the trustees 

 ask for the following appropriations for the 

 two years ending Jan. 1, 1887 : 



150 boys at 80 cents per day each f 85.040 



Officers' salaries and expense of trustees 15,250 



Fuel and lights 2,250 



Repairs and improvements 10.000 



Water- works and library 1,250 



Total 103,790 



Existing deficiency 20,000 



Grand total |S8,790 



Irrigation. The State Engineer represents 

 that the total appropriation of water in the 

 State amounts to 43,546 cubic feet a second. 

 One cubic foot of water a second will irrigate 

 about fifty acres of land, and is estimated to 

 be worth $750. On this basis the water rights 

 of the State have a value of over $30,000,000. 

 The present ditch capacity is sufficient to irri- 

 gate 2,000,000 acres of land. As the land un- 

 der ditch is not worth over $12 an acre, it will 

 be seen that water in Colorado is more valua- 

 ble than the land. 



The Governor recommends the perfecting of 

 the laws relating to irrigation and water rights, 

 and the protection of the forests of the State. 



State Lands. Exclusive of public-school lands, 

 which embrace every sixteenth and thirty-sixth 

 section, except mineral lands, the following 

 lands have been given to the State by the Gen- 

 eral Government : 



GRANT. Acre*. 



Internal improvement 500,000 



University 46,080 



Penitentiary 82,000 



Public building 32,000 



Saline 18,886 



Agricultural College 90,000 



Total acres donated 718,916 



The following amounts have been selected 

 and confirmed in the different funds : 



GRANT. Acre.. 



Internal improvement 492,860 



University 44,841 



Penitentiary 25,227 



Public building 29,146 



Saline... 



Total acres confirmed CIO, 410 



The present Land Board have selected 52,- 

 954 acres of the Agricultural College grant, 

 and have forwarded a description of the same 

 to the proper authorities at Washington for 

 confirmation. 



The total number of leases now in force is 

 967, embracing 577,357 acres, at an annual 

 rental of $29,178.34. 



The total receipts from land-sales and leases 

 in 1881 and 1882 were $112,184.04; the total 

 receipts from land-sales and leases for the two 

 years ending Nov. 30, 1884, $289,508.89, an in- 

 crease of $127,324.85 in the past two years. 



