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ARKANSAS, 



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v. $5*163 



ud 



. $43.. 



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< MI account 

 oflnunirtpelUiea-iM 



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1M1 T)w U*al liahi 



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report showed ' 



:05, a redaction of $8.600 over 

 the* previous year. 



YalaalleM. TV ,' figures show the 



' tn\nbl,. | 

 Hi lU,r'l of Kou 

 $fej$t77.1<>: m.pr-.x. Mient*, $I.898.28.V> : town 





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, - . $g0 160 . railroads, 



* - ,. $i.212..-il4.52: 



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i laid In Ui nit Bjafi 



Lacwatun- that be oonsidcrrd the report of 

 us represent ing only about 



one third the actual property value of t he Terrifc .ry. 

 ami recommended Uurt corporations be compelled 

 returns: also that a more exact and 

 equitable system of taxation beado] 



valuations in the capital ooon! 

 the Territory showed : Lands, 259347 acres, value 

 MttUBI. value of improvements $800,515. 

 value $8.438.886: town a. 

 7. iraprovemenU $1.1 1 T.'.'l". total $3,47 j 



.8.070 head, $80,966: mules, 198 head, $8,688 ; 



19 bead, $110; . - : 



.;<:.;.., $71.701 : g ats,25? head, $810; 



111476 all other propcrt v. 

 $1.1*6.1M : rnilrfii miles. $468,940.17. 



Total value of all proper! v in Marie- -pa County, 

 IftjBOl.Ol' 



\ iine.itiuii. i <-nsoj towed !;.!::<; 

 children of school age for 1896. an increase of 



.-... >.. n: \--ix per cent, of 

 these were enrolled in the pnoUo schools. The 

 number of school districts in the Territory i 

 and there are 296 grammar and primary schools. 

 Average teachers' salaries are $7'J.!M per month for 

 males, and $66^6 for females. Total sch,.ol expend- 

 *214.450.HX. In May the 



.- ' i''''. | I ' : S:;II.IMNI ..f tMOdl f--r addi 

 lional school facilities. The sum of $38,264 ha- 

 been expended on the reform-school building, not 

 yet finished. 



Territorial Prison.- vintendent re- 



ported that up to January, 1897, 288 prisoners had 

 been received and 184 discharged. The gross ex- 

 penses of 1896 amounte.i to $33.731.82, and the 

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-76--a redu-tion on the i . m cost of 



15.17, and of <mcost of 



$151 The toUl value of the prison i.roi"-r 



estimated at $148.1K. T) !,a- a libnirv of 



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charging visitow to the prison a fee of 85 cents. 



Irrigation. to secure water by arte- 



sian wells in some of the valleys of the Territory is 

 proving highly successful A i wells 



have been developed between Fairbank and Ben- 

 son, in the San Pedro valley. The last well bored 

 gave water at a depth of 140 feet, and a larjr- 

 .-. basbsenfl ;i.^ - 



Agriculture. It hn- been suggested that Ari- 



M Phoenix Herald" ha- the follow- 



successful crops of cotton were irrown in this \al- 

 inip- !! of it. -liMi |...unl-. \\a- <>n exhi- 

 bition at tin- N ion. and it was 

 i.ronoun-'d l.y . \p.-it- to IK- of the finrxt. tli,. tiUr 

 being eqoal to the famed sea islaiul cotton. This 

 bale Was \>. roj. ,.f t.-n a.-r<- which yielded 

 iily a splendid iller Imt an enormonj crop, 

 principal troiiMe wit h the husiness was that, 

 and railroad tarilT-. 



.-.-Uld Hot eii||l|iele with H 



farther >t that had water transportation and 



and abundant labor: and that i- principally 



the difllculty that remain- to-day to pr-\rnt the 



growing of COtton in central A i- no 



tion as to the facility with \\hieli it .-an be 



raised, tin- line. |..n:: flbei it will |imduee. or the 



great <piant it y it \\ill produce ; 



The experiment >tatiui .f the Territory was sup- 

 plied with (Jeinian imar-beet seed for distribution, 

 an<l all residents were duly notified that seed 



cotton, and 



ing to MV on the sui 



unknown in the Salt River valley. In 1 







be secured upon reijue-t. Tobacco ha- been i:r.i\\n 

 in cMii-iderable (|uant it ies alone; the Killito. in I'ima 

 i'ounty. and experiments are beiiiLT made with it 

 in other -ectii.n-. Au-tralian salt-bush ha- been 

 grown upon the experiment stat ion ground- at Tin-- 

 son without water for over two year-. The |... 

 of the plant- is upon the SMM north of the 

 where it i- exceedingly dry. This is held to indicate 

 that this forage plant" i> valuable f..r at 

 The station at Tuc-on has distributed seed j 

 throughout the Territory for the purpose ,,f !,, 

 the plant thoroughly tested. The f the 



Tuc-on Experiment Station announced that he had 

 ed oilers from fi.n-i^n capitalists to enter into 

 contracts for ramie liber in the rou^h at from $40 

 to $50 a ton. and stated that from re-ult- obtained 

 >erimentin^ with ramie it mijjht be ^rown 

 with ease in the Territory and onu'lit : 

 paying crop. The date industry i- receiving much 

 att'entioji. and experiments have proved succe ful 



pie-lion. 



IH-t i 1 1 insr. IMst illini: is carried , ,n in Ai 

 at only 'J pl.i - ^^ sa, Maricopa County, and I'ima. 

 Ghrabam County. At the r.nner is a grape distil- 

 lery and at the latter one fruit and one urrain distil- 

 lery. Distilling in Marie.. pa is carried on mainly 

 for the purpo-e of supplying brandy for the fortifi- 

 cation of sweet wines, the oonnbr having produced 

 18,000 gallons of snoh wine in 18 pt immdv 



!'-r 1 his purpose only '.17 gallons were reportecL 

 I '.randy u-ed in the making of wine is by law ex- 

 empt f'rom the !Mi-ceii- 



Mininir. Ari/ona i- reported as raj. idly coming- 

 to the front as a gi Bivproaucii 



With the comiiletion of tin- (Jila. (Jlolie and North- 

 ern n.al to Qlobe the fourth great c.,pper camn of 

 the Territory will be opened and <] 



iy in Operation Bisbee. Clifton, and Tnitcd 

 Verde are said to be immen-e prodm-ci-. though 



none is be; i to its full capaejly. At 



i -iher are fmind associated with 

 r. the former showing grxxl value-. Th-- 

 Whiti- Hills camp, in Mohave dm- ..rt.d 



to have yielded about $2.<MKMH)0 in gol.l and 



\I;K\NS\N. 3onthero State, admitted to the 



I'nion .Inn. ]'>. l-:;; ; Miilr'-. 



The population, according to each decennial < 



adn.i-ion. wa- !7.:,7J in IX|M : 2M!.sj7 in 

 00; 1-1.171 in !- 25 n, 



1880: and 1.1->.17U in 1MJM). |; y . 

 on th- -,f ls!C, it was 1,248,056 in that 



l-ital. Littl<- Kock. 



'riiment. ] :. Eblloi ing wen- the - 

 officers daring the year: ' !>aniel \N'. Jones; 



Secretary of > : , - . Hull; Treasurer. 



Ransom Gulley; Auditor, Clay Sloan ; Attorney- 



