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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (ARIZONA.) 



Frank H. Parke; Game Commission, W. L. Pin- 

 ney, T. S. Bunch, Eugene Allison; Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court, Webster Street, succeeded 

 March 21 by Edward Kent; Associate Justices, 

 Richard E. Sloan, Fletcher M. Doan, George R. 

 Davis; Clerk, Lloyd Johnston, succeeded by 

 Shelby M. Collum. 



The Territorial Legislature meets biennially in 

 January of the odd-numbered years; the session 

 is limited to sixty days. The Council has 12 

 members and the House 21. 



Finances. The biennial report of the Auditor 

 for 1901-'02 shows that Territorial wan-ants 

 have been drawn to the amount of $585,521.09, 

 and that the floating indebtedness of the Terri- 

 tory is now $119.839. The total valuation of 

 the taxable property of the Territory is $39,083,- 

 177.57, an increase of $229,343 over the valuation 

 of 1901. The rate of taxation, which was '1.17 

 that year, was reduced in 1902 to 13 and a frac- 

 tion. The counties pay on their indebtedness 

 annual interest aggregating a little more than 

 $65.000. 



Bonds for $30,000 were issued this year for 

 the purpose of making a Territorial exhibit at 

 the St. Louis Exposition. Territorial bonds were 

 redeemed as follow: Insane asylum 7 per cents., 

 $20,000; University 7 per cents., $7,000. The net 

 indebtedness of the Territory is $1,065,461.90, a 

 decrease of $5,388.17. 



Education. The census reports show the 

 number of illiterates in the Territory to be 27,307. 

 The percentage of persons between ten and four- 

 teen years of age able to read and write was 

 79.62 in 1890 and 77.79 in 1900. The number of 

 inhabitants that speak no English is 29,911. An- 

 other table shows the monthly wages of male 

 teachers in the Territory to be $73.23, and of 

 female $63.17. 



There are about 23,000 children of school age; 

 the average expenditure for each is $15.11. 



A class of 18 was graduated at the Tempe Nor- 

 mal School in June. A girl's dormitory is in 

 process of construction, to cost, with its furnish- 

 ings, $12,000. 



Last winter the State Board of Education of 

 California, upon examination of the quantity and 

 quality of the work at the Tempe Normal School, 

 officially recognized the latter as on a par with 

 their own normal schools. 



The university graduated 3 women in the liter- 

 ary course, and 6 men in the department of 

 mining engineering. All the men in the institu- 

 tions are taking either this course for a degree 

 or the shorter course in mining and assaying. 



Banks and Loan Associations. The report 

 of the Bank Examiner at the close of the year 

 shows that there were 16 incorporated Territorial 

 banks, 6 building-and-loan associations organized 

 under the laws of the Territory, and 7 national 

 banks. Some of the Territorial banks since the 

 ma'tter for the report was gathered have been 

 converted into national banks. Great gains are 

 shown in the business of both the Territorial 

 banks and the building-and-loan associations. 

 The resources of the former have increased within 

 a year from $3,918.806 to $4,675,032.33. The 

 operations of the building-and-loan associations 

 have been increased from $588,369.45 to $701,- 

 472.09. The increase of deposits in banks, both 

 Territorial and national, have been for the last 

 two years as follows: For 1901, $6,225,480.86; 

 for 1902, $7,015.087.98. Of the total increase of 

 $789,607.12, $632,390.07 has been in Territorial 

 banks and $157,217.05 in national banks. 



Railroads. In 1901 new tracks aggregating 

 85.04 miles were laid in the Territory. The Santa 



Fe, Prescott and Phoenix has been improved by 

 the construction of what is known as the Hell 

 Canon Cut-Off. It is shorter than the old line 

 by 3 miles; the maximum north-bound ascending 

 grade is ij per cent., against 3 per cent, on the 

 old line. The most notable feature of the Hell 

 Canon Cut-Off is that of the Hell Canon viaduct, 

 crossing a deep caiion, which, to the time this 

 improvement was conceived, was considered 

 practically impassable. The viaduct is a line 

 steel structure, 645 feet in length, and crosses the 

 canon at an elevation of 165 feet. 



The total railroad and Pullman car valuations 

 this year amounted to $4,998,434.32. This is an 

 increase over the valuation last year of $175.4u.~>.- 

 41, which, however, did not include the El Paso 

 and Southwestern. 



Corrections. About 300 convicts are confined 

 in the Territorial prison at Yuma. No satisfac- 

 tory solution of the convict-labor problem has yet 

 been found. 



A reform school for boys and girls has been 

 built near Benson, with grounds comprising 40 

 acres. It is of tufa, has 30 rooms, and cost -">.- 

 000. It will be ready for occupancy after the 

 next session of the Legislature. 



Irrigation. The greater part of the irrigated 

 land of the Territory is in the Salt river valley. 

 The total expanse of the fully irrigated land in 

 Arizona is 185,396 acres. In the past ten years- 

 545 miles of canals have been constructed, at a 

 cost of $1,500,000. Artesian water is used to a 

 limited extent in the San Pedro and Gila valleys, 

 near Benson and Safford. A new y corporation lias- 

 acquired the Peoria Canal property, near Gila 

 Bend, on which $1,000,000 has been spent. The 

 dam is to be rebuilt and about 80,000 acres of 

 good land reclaimed. The Government has spent 

 $13,000 for new ditches on the Prnia Indian reser- 

 vation. 



Around Yuma the main interest concerns the 

 Imperial Canal, which heads near by, on the 

 California side of Colorado river. The new Rock- 

 land Canal, north of Yuma, will irrigate lO-OOO 

 acres. About 100 horse-power will be developed 

 on the Ludy Canal, west of Yuma, to be used in 

 pumping water to higher line lands. 



An organization has been formed to secure the 

 construction of the proposed Tonto creek storage- 

 dam on Salt river, near Phoenix, under the gen- 

 eral irrigation act of Congress. The dam was to- 

 be 210 feet high, and the cost of the entire enter- 

 prise is estimated at $2.000,000, and it is to im- 

 pound 840,000 acre feet of water. The engineers- 

 are considering plans for building the dam 40 

 feet higher, impounding 1,400,000 acre feet of 

 water. 



The unique feature of the whole enterprise 

 is the scheme for development of electric power. 

 A canal will be dug, heading at the upper end 

 of the reservoir site, capable of carrying the mini- 

 mum flow of the river. This force will be utilized 

 in generating electric power to be used in making 

 the necessary cement from materials close at 

 hand, for running all the huge construction ma- 

 chinery that will be used in the building of the 

 dam and in the operation of the head-gates, and 

 later, when all is finished, it will be cabled to the 

 valley and employed in raising the underground 

 supply. 



Products and Industries. Arizona has 34 

 manufacturing establishments, with a capital of 

 $10,157,000. employing an average of 3,2C> wage- 

 earners, and paying per annum in wages $2,3C>!'.- 

 065. The value of the annual product is $21.31-"-.- 

 189. This classification includes copper-smelteis. 

 The principal wealth of the Territory lies now n 





