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NEVADA. 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



of children of school age in 1890 was 10,022 ; the 

 number of school-houses, 254; of teachers, 251 ; 

 average number of months of school, 7 ; average 

 monthly wages of male teachers, of whom there 

 were 41, $97.68 ; of female teachers, $63.86. 



The State University, at Reno, had 145 stu- 

 dents in 1890. It forms a part of the public- 

 school system, and is free to residents of Ne- 

 vada. It is coeducational, and has five depart- 

 ments namely, schools of mines, agriculture, 

 and liberal arts, a normal school, and a business 

 department. As an agricultural and mechani- 

 cal college, it will hereafter receive aid from the 

 United States Government, beginning with $15,- 

 000 annual appropriation, and increasing $1,000 

 a year until it reaches $25,000. The State made 

 an appropriation of $8,000 for the construction 

 of a laboratory and its maintenance for 1891 and 

 1892, and $20,000 for the support of the univer- 

 sity for two years. The amount held in trust 

 by the State for the institution in bonds and 

 cash was $124,254.57. 



State Prison. The support of the State 

 Prison during the year required $33,508.01 ; the 

 receipts from the> prison were $2,678.25. The 

 number of prisoners during the years 1889 and 

 1890 averaged 95. 



Charities. An appropriation of $26,000 was 

 made for the support of the State Orphans' Home 

 for the years 1891 and 1892, one of $85,000 for 

 the State indigent insane, and $1,000 for the 

 deaf, dumb, and blind ; the total amount ex- 

 pended on State charitable institutions in 1891 

 was $54,807.15. 



Agricultural Experiment Station. This 

 is at Reno, and receives $15,000 annually from 

 the Government, under the provisions of the 

 Hatch act. Experiments have proved the soil 

 well suited for potatoes, a large number out of 

 the 100 varieties tried having been successfully 

 cultivated. Thirty varieties of grasses were tried, 

 and many were found suitable to a dry climate, 

 but it was shown that alfalfa could not be sur- 

 passed. More experiments are to be made. 



Mining. The product of the mines for the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1891, was 375,708 tons ; the 

 gross yield or value, $5,948,563.19 ; the net yield, 

 $762,895.71. The yield of the Comstock lode for 

 1890 was about $4,228,903.31 (the last quarter 

 estimated from the other three). The number 

 of men employed on that lode is from 1,500 to 

 2,000. Some of the placer mines have been put 

 in condition to be worked more successfully by 

 the building of flumes for conveying water to 

 them. A company has been formed to reclaim 

 from the sands in the bed of Carson river, by 

 means of dredges and electric amalgamators, the 

 gold and silver they are supposed to contain. 

 These sands have been swept into the river from 

 the mills reducing the ore of the Comstock lode. 

 It is believed that the value of these deposits 

 may reach $100,000,000. 



The gross yield of salt, borax, and soda for 

 three fourths of 1890 was $72,047.85, and the net 

 yield $18,418.02. It is said that extensive beds 

 of niter have been found on the south of the 

 Central Pacific Railroad, near the sink of Hum- 

 boldt river. 



Manufacturing. The total number of manu- 

 facturing establishments in 1890 was 166, of 

 which 118 were quartz mills, 13 smelting fur- 



naces, 11 flour and grist mills, 11 saw mills, and 

 10 borax works. 



State Lands. The report of the Surveyor- 

 General for the years 1889-'90 was published in 

 1891. It gives, among many important statistics, 

 a statement of the results of a survey ordered by 

 the Government of California to correct and es- 

 tablish that portion of the eastern boundary line 

 of that State southeastward from Lake Tahoe. 

 Two surveyors from Nevada were appointed to 

 act with those from California. The monument 

 on the State-line point at the northern shore of 

 the lake, marking the boundary, was found to be 

 1,609 feet too far west ; the point of intersection 

 of the one hundred and twentieth meridian of 

 longitude with the thirty-ninth parallel of lati- 

 tude was found to be 4,073-3 feet too far west as 

 formerly established : and the boundary monu- 

 ment in latitude 358 on the Colorado river was 

 found to be, according to this survey, 1,264 feet 

 due east of the true State line. 



Governor's Message. In his inaugural mes- 

 sage to the Legislature, Gov. CoTcord called at- 

 tention to the inequalities of assessment and 

 taxation. He said that, while the amount now 

 required for State purposes is 90 cents on each 

 $100, if all the property could be assessed at 70 

 per cent, of its actual cash value, the require- 

 ments would not exceed 55 cents on the $100. 

 For this purpose he recommended a State board 

 of equalization. Other recommendations made 

 by the Governor were the adoption of the Aus- 

 tralian ballot system, the investment of the 

 school funds on hand in cash in bonds of other 

 States, a moderate appropriation for an exhibit 

 at the World's Fair, a provision for an annual 

 encampment of the State troops, and an ap- 

 propriation for the Fish Commission. 



NEW BRUNSWICK. The Hon. Sir S. L. 

 Tilley, C. B., K. C. M. G., continues in the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governorship of the province, with a Cabi- 

 net consisting of Hon. N. G. Blair, Attorney- 

 General and Premier ; Hon. James Mitchell, Pro- 

 vincial Secretary and Receiver-General ; Hon. P. 

 G. Ryan, Chief Commissioner of Public Works; 

 Hon. L. J. Tweedie, Surveyor-General ; Hon. 

 William Pugsley, Solicitor-General ; Hon. Archi- 

 bald Harrison and Hon. C. H. La Billois, without 

 office. By the appointment of seven members 

 the Legislative Council has been increased to its 

 full strength of eighteen. In the House of As- 

 sembly but one change has taken place, a new 

 member elected to fill the vacancy through res- 

 ignation in the representation for the county of 

 Kent. 



Legislation. The important measures passed 

 at the session of the Legislature in March and 

 April were : 



An act to further facilitate the construction of 

 public works. This act provides for the rebuild- 

 ing of bridges, where required, with stone pier;* and 

 iron or steel superstructure, and authorizes a loan not 

 to exceed $250,000 at 4 per cent, interest, to be met by 

 a sinking fund annually taken from the appropriations 

 for public works. It repeals the act passed in 1890 

 for a similar purpose, under which no operations had 

 taken place. 



-An act respecting the office of Queen's printer, 

 which changes the mode of Government printing, the 

 Queen's printer becoming an officer of the Provincial 

 Secretary's department, and provides that all money 

 received for the public printing and advertising shall 



