

NEW MEXICO. 



subsistence is 12 cents a day. The cost of their 

 clothing is 2 cents. 



Court of Private Land Claims. By this 

 court 38 cases have been determined during the 

 year, and grants of 779,611 acres have been con- 

 firmed. Among these is the grant of 4 square 

 leagues to the city of Santa Fe, measuring from 

 the center of the plaza in each direction. Sur- 

 veys of 10 grants, covering 218,282 acres, have 

 been made. 



Public Lands. During the year ending June 

 30, 1894, the entries at the various land offices 

 of the Territory embraced 130,807-27 acres. 

 There remain vacant and surveyed in the Santa 

 Fe and Roswell districts 20,081,800 acres; un- 

 surveyed, about 9,857,860 acres. About 600,000 

 acres have been reserved by the Territory. The 

 immigration during 1894 was greater than in 

 any preceding year. 



Irrigation. The reclaiming of arid lands by 

 irrigation has made about 450,000 acres available 

 for settlement, and large irrigation plants are 

 being established in all parts of the Territory. 

 It is estimated that the acreage under cultiva- 

 tion by means of irrigation is 400,000, and 900,000 

 acres are under works for ditches. The general 

 law of the Territory is that all water courses, 

 large or small, are to be considered in the light 

 of public acequias, or irrigation canals. The 

 sundry civil appropriation acts of the last Con- 

 gress gives to each of the public-land States, ex- 

 cept Colorado and South Dakota, 1,000,000 acres 

 of arid land, patents for any part thereof to be 

 issued only on proof that the lands so granted 

 are irrigated, reclaimed, and occupied by actual 

 settlers, the requirement being that not less than 

 20 acres in each 160-acre tract shall be cultivated. 



Mining*. As silver and lead are the two met- 

 als most largely produced in New Mexico, mining 

 has suffered from their depreciation in value ; 

 but new mining districts, rich in gold, silver, and 

 copper, have been discovered, and are being de- 

 veloped rapidly. The 'Cochili district, about 30 

 miles west of Santa Fe, is especially rich in the 

 deposit of gold, all ore shipped being worth 

 more than $100 a ton. Since the discovery of 

 this great mineral wealth, last January, about 

 2,500 locations have been made. 



There are 21 coal mines in the Territory, with 

 a force of 1,472 employees. The total coal out- 

 put during the year was 615.415 tons, a decrease 

 of 23,902 tons from last year's output, caused by 

 the mining strikes. 



Railroads. The only railroad built during 

 the year is that from Eddy to Roswell, of the 

 Pecos Valley line. This was opened by a grand 

 celebration at the latter town. 



Statehood. A bill for the admission of New 

 Mexico passed the House of Representatives 

 during its last session, and the Senate Commit- 

 tee reported it favorably ; so it is hoped that the 

 new State will be admitted early in 1895. 



Census Statistics. The census bureau re- 

 port, dated Feb. 20, 1894, gives the statistics of 

 manufactures in the Territory as follows : Num- 

 ber of establishments, 127 ; value of land, $60,- 

 507: value of buildings, $185,295; value of 

 machinery, etc., $471,948; value of live assets, 

 $248,188 ; average number of employees, 944 ; 

 total wages, $691,420; value of products, in- 

 cluding receipts from custom work and repair- 



NEW YORK. 



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ing, $1,516,195. The valuation of real and per- 

 sonal property is given by the report of March 

 13, 1894: Real estate, including improvements 

 $113,729,183; live stock on farms, etc., imple- 

 ments, and machinery, $7,538,320; mines and 

 quarries and products on hand, $21.692,388; 

 gold, silver coin, and bullion, $2,524,943 ; ma- 

 chinery of mills and product on hand. $471,- 

 948; railroads (including street railways) and 

 equipment, $75,469,333 ; telegraphs, telephones, 

 shipping, and canals. $614,372; miscellaneous, 

 $9,419,410; total, $231,459,897. The bonded 

 indebtedness had increased from $46,179 in 1880 

 to $2,595.988 in 1890. The average rate of in- 

 terest had decreased from 8'33 in 1880 to 6'59 in 

 1890. 



NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the 

 original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 

 26, 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial census, was 

 340,120 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 959,049 in 

 1810; 1,372,111 in 1820; 1.918,608 in 1830; 

 2,428,921 in 1840; 3,097,394 in 1850; 3,880.735 

 in 1860 ; 4,382,759 in 1870 ; 5,082,871 in 1880 ; 

 and 5,997,853 in 1890. According to a State cen- 

 sus taken in 1892, the population was 6,513,344. 

 Capital, Albany. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Roswell P. 

 Flower, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, Wil- 

 liam F. Sheehan : Secretary of State, John Palm- 

 er; Comptroller, James A. Roberts; Treasurer, 

 Addison B. Colvin ; Attorney-General, Theodore 

 E. Hancock; State Engineer and Surveyor, 

 Campbell W. Adams ; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, James F. Crooker; Superintendent 

 of Insurance, James F. Pierce ; Superintendent 

 of Banking Department, Charles M. Preston ; 

 Superintendent of State Prisons, Austin Lathrop ; 

 Superintendent of Public Works, Edward Han- 

 nan ; Commissioner of Statistics of Labor, 

 Thomas J. Dowling; Railroad Commissioners, 

 Michael Rickard, S. A. Beardsley, and Alfred C. 

 Chapin ; Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, 

 Charles Andrews; Associate Judges, John C. 

 tfray, Rufus W. Peckham, Denis O'Brien, Fran- 

 cis M. Finch, Edward T. Bartlett, Robert Earl. 



Finances. The balance in the treasury on 

 Oct. 1, 1894, was $1,548,286.57: the receipts to 

 Dec. 31, 1894, were $2,772,641.56 ; and the pay- 

 ments, $3.927,119.93 ; leaving a balance, on Jan. 

 1, 1895, of $713,708.20. The treasury receipts 

 during the year ending Sept. 30. 1894, were $18,- 

 357,948 as follow : State tax, $6,018,170 : tax on 

 inheritances, $1,688,954; fees received from coun- 

 ty clerks, $37,885 ; tax on organization of corpo- 

 rations, $150,761. The receipts from the corpo- 

 ration tax levied annually were $1,645,878 as 

 follow: From insurance companies, $132,511; 

 transportation companies, $839,489; telegraph 

 and telephone companies, $61,597; gas, mining, 

 and miscellaneous companies, $565,419; banks, 

 $46,860. The pool-tax receipts, which are distrib- 

 uted among the agricultural societies through- 

 out the State, amounted to $22,752. The ex- 

 penses of the Legislature were $528,010 ; of the 

 Constitutional Convention, $338,301; printing 

 payments, $319,020. The balance in the State 

 treasury on Oct. 1, 1894, was $3,193,349; the 

 receipts during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 

 1894, were $18.537,948 ; the payments were $20,- 



