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NEW MEXICO. 



tendent of Public Instruction, Manuel C. de Baca; 

 Mine Inspector, J. \V. Fleming; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, William J. Mills; Associate 

 Justices. Frank \V. Parker, Jonathan W. Crum- 

 packer, John K. McFie, and Charles Leland ; Clerk, 

 Jose D. Sena. 



Finances. The latest available report of the 

 finances, a quarterly statement beginning March 7 

 and ending May 28, 1898, shows balances in the 

 treasury, $163,781.14; receipts during the quarter, 

 $38,418".41 ; total to be accounted for, $197,199.55 ; 

 payments during the quarter, $76,281.22 ; balances 

 Slay -28. $120.918.33. 



Valuation. The property valuation subject to 

 tax amounted to $39,478.119.18, distributed among 

 the counties as follows: Bernalillo, $7,395,184; 

 Chaves, $1,475,829; Colfax, $2,722,180; Dona Ana, 

 $2,446.092.85; Eddy, $1,113,075; Grant. $3,468,- 

 236.45; Guadaloupe, $420,558 ; Lincoln, $1,413,832 ; 

 Mora, $968,135; Rio Arriba, $800,222; San Juan, 



advanced course. During the year 1897-'98 the 

 enrollment reached 72. The scholastic year consists 

 of forty weeks. 



Coal. The output of coal for the year 1897-'98 

 amounted to 858,583 tons, valued at $1,408,680. 

 Bernalillo County produced 372,611 tons; Colfax, 

 213,972; Santa Fe, 248,000; Rio Arriba, 22,500; 

 Socorro, 1,500. Total number of men employed in 

 coal mining, 1,888, an increase of 523 over th'e pre- 

 vious year. 



Penitentiary. The total number of convicts in 

 confinement in 1897 was 305; in 1898, 215. The 

 largest number of convicts during 1898 was 222, 

 the smallest number 186, making a daily average of 

 207, as against 197 in 1897. Regarding religious 

 instruction in the Penitentiary, the report says : 

 " Divine services have been very much neglected, 

 owing partly to the fact that the last Legislature 

 refused to make a small appropriation for a chap- 

 lain, and partly to the employment of a large num- 



NBW MEXICO'S TERRITORIAL CAPITOL. 



$729,310; San Miguel, $4.209.564; Santa Fe. $1,- 

 851,701; Sierra, $1,055,072.30; Socorro, $4,611,482; 

 Taos, $953.689; Union, $1.174,850; Valencia, $2,- 

 668,506.5 



Education. Seventy-nine per cent, of the in- 

 habitants are able to read and write, leaving 21 per 

 cent, of illiteracy. The district schools number 

 523 : enrollment, 20,674 ; teachers, 546 ; average 

 daily attendance of pupils. 16,845. 



It is officially reported that the Indian industrial 

 schools at Santa Fe and Albuquerque, supplemented 

 by the governmental schools at the various pueblos, 

 are doing good work for the education of Indian 

 children. The report says : " Nearly every Indian 

 child in New Mexico is provided with the means of 

 education, and the schools are very largely attended. 

 For many years it was difficult to obtain the con- 

 sent of the parents for the education of their chil- 

 dren at these public institutions, as they had much 

 hesitancy in permitting their children to leave home 

 and go under the control of the teachers. All this 

 is now changed, and the parents are taking the 

 greatest interest in the schools, in many instances 

 showing intense anxiety to have their children edu- 

 cated. From present appearances, the majority of 

 the Indian children of the Territory will be as well 

 educated in a few years as the other youths." 



The Normal School at Silver City has completed 

 the fourth year of its existence. Students who de- 

 sire to teach are offered both an elementary and an 



ber of the convicts at the rebuilding of the Capitol 

 every Saturday afternoon. These men return to 

 the Penitentiary from their work too late to be 

 bathed, shaved, and cleansed, and as this has to be 

 done every Sunday morning divine service has to 

 be omitted." 



Insane Asylum. There were 57 inmates of the 

 asylum 33 males and 24 females the majority ol 1 

 whom were reported to be incurable. The superin- 

 tendent says : " Since the opening of this institut ioi 

 the number of chronic and incurable cases admitti-t 

 has gradually but steadily increased, until the vacan- 

 cies have been reduced to a very few. rendering i 

 impossible, for lack of room, to admit many curable 

 patients. This fact will account for the small num- 

 ber discharged as cured." 



Railroads. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa 

 Fe Railroad traverses the Territory from north to 

 south, with numerous branches running into tin; 

 mountains. The Denver and Rio Grande road 

 affords egress by way of Denver, and is claimed t<> 

 be " the most magnificent scenic line ever^ built.'' 

 The Pecos Valley and Northeastern road extends 

 89 miles from Pecos City, Texas, to the county sea; 

 of Eddy County, and 73 miles to Roswell. th> 

 county seat of Chaves County. A contemplated 

 extension to Amarillo will be 208 miles, making tho 

 entire length of the line 372 miles. By the exten- 

 sion of this road the Territory will be able to ship 

 stock and various products directly to larger mar- 



