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NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the l'nit.,1 



. or-ani/ed Sc|.t. i). iN.'iO ; aivn, l^'L'.oNO 

 square null's. Tin 1 population, according i 

 decennial census, was 01,547 in 1850; 9;J,. r )l(i in 

 iscii; !i|.s74in 1870; 119,565 in 1880 ; and 153,- 

 593 in 1H90. Capital, Santa 1'Y. 



(ioirriimriit. The following were the Ter- 

 ritorial olliriTs <luring the year: Governor, Wil- 

 liam T. Thornton, Democrat ; Secretary of State, 

 Lorion Miller; Auditor, Demetrio I'ere/. ; Treas- 

 urer, llufus.J. 1'alen; Solicitor-General, Edward 

 L. Bartlett ; Adjutant-General, W. S. Fletcher ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Am ado 

 ('have/; Secretary of the Bureau of Immigra- 

 tion, Max Frost ; Chief Justice, Thomas Smith ; 

 Associate Justices, William D. Lee, Albert B. 

 Fall, Edward P. Seeds, Alfred A. Freeman. 



Finances. The Auditor reports that during 

 the forty-third fiscal year warrants were issued 

 as follow: Penitentiary, $84,106.08; Capitol 

 current expense, $4,608.92 ; salary fund, $301.66 ; 

 court fund, $72,606.13; miscellaneous, $28,572.- 

 81 ; Territorial institutions, $21,860.68 ; com- 

 pensation of assessors, $9,315.40 ; transportation 

 of convicts, $2,820.60 ; interest on warrants, 

 $6,570.45 ; school fund (proceeds of licenses to 

 insurance agents), $419.50 ; pay of officers and 

 employeesof thirtieth Legislative Assembly, $17,- 

 728.80 ; special appropriations, $5,686.05 ; license 

 fund, $329.75. Warrants were also issued against 

 the balance of funds of forty-second fiscal year 

 to the amount of $20,898.45 ; against the deficit 

 funds of 1889 and 1890 to the amount of $4,- 

 098.04, and against general funds, in settlement 

 of accounts prior to March 3, 1889, to the amount 

 of $31.50; total, $259,899.61. 



The Territorial indebtedness Aug. 29, 1893, 

 was: Capitol-building bonds, $200,000; Peni- 

 tentiary-building bonds, $109,000 ; current-ex- 

 pense bonds, $150,000 ; on all these bonds the 

 rate of interest is 7 per cent. Provisional in- 

 debtedness fund, $150,000 ; Capitol contingent 

 bonds, $50,000 : insane-asylum bonds, $25.000 ; 

 refunding bonds, $95,000 : on foregoing bonds 

 interest is at the rate of 6 per cent. Casual 

 deficit bonds, $75,200, on which the interest is at 

 the rate of 5 per cent. ; and outstanding war- 

 rants, $7,512.27. Total indebtedness, $911,712.27. 

 The Treasurer reports a cash balance of $121,000 

 on June 30, 1893. The rate of taxaton for all 

 purposes is 0-01405 on the dollar, a trifle less 

 than a cent and a half. 



The assessed valuation on real estate, live 

 stock, and other personal property amounts to 

 $41.602,198.41. 



Banks. Ten national banks in the Territory 

 show an average reserve of 24*61 per cent. ; loans 

 and discounts, $1,774,729.90; United States 

 bonds to secure circulation, $265,000 ; total re- 

 sources, $3,342,208.69; individual depositors, 

 $1,563,088.30. The amount deposited in sav- 

 ings banks June 1, 1892 was $149,449 by 900 de- 

 positors, an average of $166.05 each. 



Education. The revenue for the public 

 schools is derived from a tax of 3 mills on the 

 dollar of all taxable property, from a poll tax of 

 $1 on each voter, from the proceeds of certain 

 fines, and from licenses. This revenue is ap- 

 portioned to each county, and the share of each 

 county is apportioned to the districts. The 

 amount this year collected was $275,747.58; the 



balance on hand from last year was $78,482.25 ; 

 balance on hand Oct. 1, 1893, $92,019.21. The 

 nmnlier of school districts in the Territory is 

 582; teachers employed during 1883, 547, of 

 whom 368 were men and 179 women ; pupils en- 

 rolled, 21,690; average daily attendance, 14,160. 

 The number of public -schools is 519. All the 

 i. \i books used are English, except a Spani*b- 

 and-Knglish primer. 



An act of t he last Legislature provided for the 

 holding of 5 normal institutes during vacation 

 of each year. These were held at Las Lunas, 

 beginning May 29 ; at Mora, beginning June 1 ; 

 at Fernandez de Taos, beginning June 21 ; at 

 Chama, beginning July 10 ; and at Roswell, be- 

 ginning July 10. Each institute continues in 

 session eight weeks, and tuition is free. 



The School of Mines, at Socorro, opened for 

 business Sept. 5, 1893 The session is to be of 

 eight months' duration, and besides a preparatory 

 department, courses in general chemistry, assay- 

 ing, and metallurgy are provided. Tuition is 

 free, but a matriculation fee of $10 is charged. 

 The building, which cost $42,940.53, is T-shaped 

 135 feet long by 32 feet deep, with a central as- 

 say wing 54 feet long by 42 feet wide. It is of 

 gray trachyte, in broken ashlar, trimmed with 

 red sandstone. 



The New Mexico Military Institute (formerly 

 the Goss Military Institute), at Roswell, was 

 made a Territorial institution by an act of the 

 last Legislature. Military instruction is a promi- 

 nent feature of this institution, and by act of 

 Congress an army officer may be assigned as mili- 

 tary instructor. Ample buildings have been pro- 

 vided. Last year there were 47 students. 



An agricultural experiment station, with an 

 appropriation of $5,000, was established in San 

 Juan County by an act of the last Legislature, 

 and others at Taos and Rio Arriba. The Deaf, 

 Dumb, and Blind Institute, at Santa Fe, was 

 opened in September. There are 225 deaf and 

 300 blind persons in the Territory, and about 

 40per cent, of them are of school age. 



The United States Indian School, at Santa Fe, 

 by direction of the Secretary of the Interior, has 

 been changed into a normal training school for 

 preparing Indians to take the place of white 

 teachers in their own schools. The children 

 who were in attendance have been distributed to 

 other educational institutions. 



Penitentiary. The Penitentiary at Santa 

 Fe has accommodations for 250 prisoners, and an 

 additional building is in process of construction, 

 in which United States prisoners will be con- 

 fined. The labor of the convicts is employed 

 wherever it is practicable. They are making the 

 brick of which the new wall around the prison 

 is being constructed, at the rate of 8,000 a day. 

 A tile and drainage pipe manufacture has also 

 been established. There remained in prison, 

 July 1, 1893, Territorial prisoners, 130, all of 

 whom were males. Of the United States prisoners, 

 16 were confined at the beginning of the year, 31 

 were received during the year, and 16 remained 

 July 1, of whom 25 were males and 6 females. 



Insane Asylum. The Territorial Insane 

 Asylum, at Las Vegas, was opened May 1, 1893. 

 The present capacity is 55. The count ies will be 

 allowed one patient to every 3,000 of population. 

 The cost of maintaining the patients is shown to 



