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NEW MEXICO. 



assets, or present worth of the outstanding shares, 

 is $47,561,890." 



Manufactures. According to the report of the 

 Bureau of Labor, the number of manufacturing 

 establishments considered is 1,738; of these, 934 

 are managed by private firms and 804 by corpora- 

 tions. The aggregate number of partners com- 

 prising the private firms is 1,636, and the stock- 

 holders in corporations, 28,774; the partners aver- 

 age in number 1.8 to each firm and the stock- 

 holders 35.7 to each corporation. The capital in- 

 vested in establishments managed by private firms 

 amounts to $48,761,189, and by corporations $206,- 

 922.361. Average amount of capital owned by 

 partners is $28,586, and by the stockholders 

 $7,191. The total amount of capital invested in 

 the 1,738 manufacturing establishments is $255,- 

 r.vi.550. The cost value of all stock or material 

 used is $200,901,900; the selling value of the goods 

 manufactured is $355,465,970. The average num- 

 ber of persons employed (male and female) 

 throughout the year is 185,285; the total amount 

 paid in wages is $76,161,051. 



Political. The Democratic State Convention 

 was held June 1. The platform denounced " im- 

 perialism," expressed sympathy for the Boers, 

 favored election of United States Senators by the 

 people, and on State matters declared for reduc- 

 tion of official salaries, abolishment of the fee 

 system, and the placing of all officials on a salary 

 basis; enactment of laws in the interest of organ- 

 ized labor and for the protection of the wage work- 

 ers of the State ; repeal of all laws that abridge the 

 right of juries to fix the amount of damages in 

 cases where the death of a person is caused by 

 wrongful act ; and the release of the administration 

 of State affairs from the control of corporations, 

 and their restoration to the authority of the people. 



The Republican platform contained this declara- 

 tion: 



" We believe it is the duty of the President 

 of the United States to use all the forces at his 

 command to suppress insurrection wherever the 

 authority of the Government is opposed; and we 

 deprecate and denounce the conduct of recreant 

 Americans who, by abuse of the right of free 

 speech, give aid and encouragement to insurrection 

 and rebellion among peoples owing allegiance to 

 our flag. 



" When peace shall have been restored in our 

 new possessions a Republican administration, fol- 

 lowing the traditions of the party, will give to 

 their peoples a government under such form as will 

 afford them the largest individual participation 

 that their civilization and intelligence will per- 

 mit." 



The platform of the Prohibitionists contained 

 these paragraphs: 



" We declare that the nullification of the anti- 

 canteen enactment by the President of the United 

 States under the hypocritical pretense of following 

 the opinion of his legal adviser, Attorney-General 

 Griggs, in behalf of and at the behest of the liquor 

 dealers' association, demands the stern rebuke of 

 every lover of his country and friend of its sol- 

 dier. 



" We deplore as the crime of the age the devas- 

 tation caused by the liquor traffic following the 

 flag into our newly acquired territory. We hold 

 it to be a monstrous assumption that beer and 

 bullets are means ordained by the will of God in 

 the work of benevolent assimilation of foreign 

 populations to American institutions or for the 

 extension of Christian civilization. 



" We denounce the Republican and Democratic 

 parties as the friends, partners, and tools of the 

 organized liquor traffic. 



" We hold that the right of suffrage should not 

 be denied on account of sex." 



The only State officers voted for were members 

 of the Legislature. That body, in 1901, has a 

 Republican majority of 13 in the Senate and 30 

 in the House. The Republican candidates for 

 presidential electors received 221,707 -votes: the 

 Democratic, 164,808; the Prohibitionist, 7,183; the 

 Social-Democratic, 4,609. Six Republican Con- 

 gressmen were elected and 3 Democratic. 



NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the United 

 States, organized Sept. 9, 1850; area, 122..YSO 

 square miles. The population, according to each 

 decennial census, was 61,547 in 1850; 93,510 in 

 I860; 91,874 in 1870; 119,565 in 1880; 153,593 in 

 1890; and 195,310 in 1900. Indians, not taxed, 

 in 1900, 2,937. Capital, Santa Fe. 



Government. The Territorial officers in 1900 

 were: Governor, Miguel A. Otero; Secretary. 

 George H. Wallace; Treasurer, J. H. Vaughn; 

 Auditor, L. M. Ortiz; Adjutant General. William 

 H. Whiteman; Attorney-General, E. L. Bartlett; 

 Superintendent of Education, Manuel C. de I'.aca 

 all Republicans. Supreme Court Chief Justice. 

 William J. Mills; Associate Justices, John R. Me 

 Fie, Jonathan W. Crumpacker, F. W. Parker, and 

 C. C. Leland; Clerk, Jose D. Sena all Repub- 

 licans. 



Population. The census of 1900 showed the 

 population by counties to be as follows: Bernalillo, 

 28,630; San Miguel, 22,053; Santa Fe, 14.C..YS: 

 Rio Arriba, 13,777; Valencia, 13,695; Grant. 12,- 

 883; Socorro, 12,195; Taos, 10.889; Mora, 10,304; 

 Donna Ana, 10,187; Colfax, 10,150; Guadalupe, 

 5,429; Lincoln, 4,953; San Juan, 4,828; Otero, 

 4,791; Chaves, 4,773; Union, 4,528; Eddy, 3.2-JH: 

 Sierra, 3,158. 



Finances. The Territory's 4-per-cent. bonds 

 command a premium; $45,000 of outstanding 

 bonds were purchased and retired in 1900. The 

 total assessed valuation of real and personal prop- 

 erty was $38,452,181.30; the total Territorial in- 

 debtedness, including the bonded and floating debt 

 of the counties, is $4,178,123.09. 



Education. A direct tax is levied for the sup- 

 port of the public schools, varying from 1A to 3 

 mills, annually. Under the operation of the school 

 laws, the illiteracy of the Territory has decreased 

 rapidly. There are 52,652 children of school age, 

 and the total enrollment is 27,173. The number 

 of schools is 576; of teachers employed. TOO. \\lue 

 average monthly pay is $39.19. The reports show 

 that male teachers are in excess of female teach- 

 ers, which is hardly true in any other section of 

 the country. Some of the school districts an as 

 large as counties at the East. They are poor and 

 sparsely settled, and they have no industries to be 

 taxed; but every district has its school, and at- 

 tendance and interest are increasing. In Santa 

 F6 the schools have been crowded. 



The following is the report for 1900 of the Pn-- 

 byterian mission schools at Los Leutes and IV 

 jarito, Valencia County: "The former has 1 

 teacher who teaches nine months a year, an en- 

 rollment of 48, an average daily attendance of 43: 

 value of property, $600; expenditures during the 

 year, $512. The Pajarito school has 1 teacher, a 

 school term of nine months, an enrollment of 'J7. 

 an average daily attendance of 21, a properly 

 valuation of $800, and annual expenditures 

 amounting to $512." 



The United States Government Industrial In- 

 dian School, at Santa F6, opened in 1890, is a model 

 in every respect. It became a normal school in 

 1894. Of the 300 pupils, 218 are boys; 67 per 

 cent, are full-blooded Indians, about 58 per cent. 

 being Pueblos. They are comfortably and neatly 



