ARIZONA. 



A II KANSAS. 



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ainoiini'-d to $0,278,893, and the total product ..f 

 gold, -diver, and copper for the following year 

 reached l'!i,-'.' s ,~07, the highest point ever at- 

 tained. A rapid decline in the price of silver 

 during the past three years lias resulted in clos- 

 ing nearly all the silver mines, reducing the out- 

 put for last year to $2S?.4',!<i, while the value of 

 the total prndnt-t <>f metals (including copper in 

 'lipped for treatment was $6,782,007. The 

 reduction in the silver output has been in a 

 mcaMire made up by the increased production 

 of copper. 



Of the copper companies in the Territory five 

 gave an output for the year of 38,712,507 pounds. 

 During 1893 there has been a marked movement 

 in prospecting mid mining for gold, with such 

 fav<>ral>le results that the total mineral product 

 for the year will probably reach $6,000,000. 



Forests and Lnmber. The chief timber 

 region of the Territory is in the northern and 

 central portion of Arizona, and covers an area 

 of about 2,750 square miles. The high mountain 

 ranges of the south and eastern portions of the 

 Territory are also very liberally timbered. Pine 

 wood is generally found at altitudes of 5,000 to 

 10,000 feet. Below this line the timber is juni- 

 per, live oak, mesquite, and palo verde. The 

 two last named supply the fuel of the Territory. 

 It is estimated that the total quantity of pine 

 timber fit for commercial purposes is 10.000,000,- 

 000 feet. Nearly all of this is located in the 

 northern and central portions of Arizona, and 

 will be of little service to the southern section 

 until rail communications are completed. At 

 present the lumber for this section is supplied 

 by California and Oregon, at prices varying from 

 $30 to $60 per 1,000 feet, the high price being 

 due to cost of transportation. The value of 

 merchantable lumber in the pine forests of the 

 north, where the output ranges from 10,000,000 

 to 12,000,000 feet annually, runs from $12 to 

 $15 a 1,000 feet. 



Church Statistics. The strength of the 

 various church organizations in the Territory is 

 as follows : 



Methodist Episcopal: Missions, 12; preaching 

 places, 23 ; preachers, 15 ; membership, 554 ; Sunday 

 schools, 20; pupils. 1,098; value of church property, 

 $45,200. 



Methodist Church, South : Churches, 6 ; preachers, 

 13; membership, 374 5 value of church property, 

 $20,500 ; Mexican missions, 2 ; membersnip, 63 ; 

 church property, $3,200. 



Presbyterian : Churches, 5 j ministers, 8 ; adher- 

 ents, 500; enrolled communicants, 280; value of 

 church property, including Indian training school, 

 $80,000. 



Baptist: Churches, 9; preachers, 9; membership, 

 550 ; value of church property, $2,000. 



Episcopal : Churches, 5 ; membership, 320 ; value 

 of church property, $18.000. 



<';itholic: Churches, 9; chapels, 13; resident 

 in ii >ts, 9, and a presiding bishop. The number of ad- 

 herents of this Church is nearly as large as those of all 

 other churches combined. There are two commodious 

 hospitals under the cyire of the Catholic sisters, who 

 have also charge of two orphan asylums. There is a 

 number of other charitable institutions under the di- 

 reeti'in of this Church. 



Mormons : Churches, 16 ; members, 8,910, includ- 

 ing Sunday-school children. It is estimated that 

 of the members 3,818 are on the Sunday - school 

 roll. 



Petrified Forest. In Apache County, in the 

 eastern portion of central Arizona, about 20 

 mile- fn.rn llolbrook, a town on the Atlantic 

 and Pacific Railroad is Arizona's petrified forest. 

 The area it occupies i- covered by the land grant 

 of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, every alter- 

 nate section of which is reserved by the Govern- 

 ment. It is estimated that there are about 

 10.000 acres in this forest, which consists of huge 

 logs, in some cases six feet in diameter. The 

 ground is nearly all covered by trunks and 

 limbs of petrified trees of every size and color, 

 quantities of which have been snipped to various 

 parts of the world and converted to ornamental 

 uses. Recently persons have been wantonly 

 destroying many of these logs with giant powder, 

 blowing them open in order to obtain crystals 

 that are found in the center. 



Silver Convention. A convention of the 

 silver leagues of the Territory was held at 

 Phenix in the latter part of May, at which the 

 silver problem was discussed and resolutions 

 were adopted favoring the free coinage of silver 

 at the ratio of 16 to 1. 



ARKANSAS, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 15. 1836 ; area, 53,850 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 97,574 in 

 1840 ; 209,897 in 1850 ; 435,450 in 1860 ; 484,471 

 in 1870 ; 802,525 in 1880 ; and 1,128,179 in 1890. 

 Capital, Little Rock. 



government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, William M. 

 Fishback, Democrat ; Secretary of State, H, B. 

 Armistead ; Auditor, C. B. Mills ; Treasurer, 

 Richard B. Morrow; Attorney-General, James 

 P. Clarke ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Josiah H. Shinn ; Commissioner of Mines, Manu- 

 factures, and Agriculture, George M. Chapline, 

 appointed Dec. 13, 1892, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of John D. Adams on Dec. 7, 

 1892; State Land Commissioner, Charles B. 

 Myers; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Sterling R. Cockrill, who resigned in April, and 

 was succeeded by H. G. Bunn, appointed by the 

 Governor May 1 ; Associate Justices, Burrill B. 

 Battle, Simon P. Hughes, W. W. Mansfield, and 

 Wilson E. Hemingway, who resigned on March 

 13, and was succeeded by Richard H. Powell, 

 appointed by the Governor May 10. 



Finances. The following figures are taken 

 from the latest report of the State Auditor: 

 General revenue fund, balance on Oct. 1, 1890, 

 $427,571.30; total receipts for the two years 

 succeeding, $1,109,693.81; total expenditures, 

 $1,349,524.18; balance on Oct. 1, 1892, $187,- 

 740.93. Common school fund balance on Oct. 

 1, 1890, $203,183.54; total receipts for the two 

 years, $668,587.07; total expenditures, $907,- 

 774.78: balance on Oct. 1, 1892, $23,995.83. 

 Permanent school fund balance on Oct. 1, 1890, 

 $274,201.82; total receipts for the two years, 

 $5,253.10; total payments, $989.46 ; balance on 

 Oct. 1, 1892, $278,465.46. Sinking fund balance 

 on Oct. 1, 1892, $2,935,282.75 ; total receipts for 

 the two years. $l.:{5.->.?f>:5. > .2:2 : total payments. 

 $3.028,306.08; balance on Oct. 1, 1892, $1,262,- 

 729.89. Special sinking fund balance on Oct. 

 1, 1890, $445,775.13; total receipts for the two 

 years, $258,521.87; total payments, $690,158.27; 

 balance on Oct. 1, 1892, $14,138.73. The total 



