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of months taught in all schools, 7.35. The total 

 paid to teachers was $412,340.28 ; annual receipts, 

 $838,018.70; annual expenditures, $723,048.32; to- 

 tal value of school property, $2,071,702.25. 



There was expended in improvements on public- 

 school property $242,617.60. The average month- 

 ly salary of teachers in all schools was $54.21. 

 The average annual cost of educating pupils in 

 all schools was $17.07. 



In 1902 the United States Government expend- 

 ed in New Mexico $252,000 for educational work 

 among the Indians. Thirty-three schools were 

 maintained, and there was an average daily at- 

 tendance of 2,114. The larger number of these in- 

 stitutions are day-schools, on the reservations or 

 within the several pueblos, but about one-third of 

 all the children included in the total enrolment 

 attended the two large schools one at Albu- 

 querque and the other at Santa F6. Both of these 

 are manual training-schools and boarding-schools, 

 and supply the pupils with clothing as well as 

 board and lodging. 



The annual meeting of the Teachers' Associa- 

 tion of the Territory was held at Las Vegas on 

 Dec. 22 and 23, and was well attended. The re- 

 ports from the various districts were all very en- 

 couraging and went to show that the cause of 

 popular education has been making gratifying 

 progress. 



Minerals. A very large area of coal, iron, and 

 oil-bearing lands has passed to private ownership 

 during the year, and energetic operations have 

 been inaugurated for their development. Oil- 

 drill rigs are at work in 5 or 6 different districts, 

 with every promise that New Mexico will become 

 a producer of merchantable oil before many 

 months. Several new and important coal camps 

 contiguous to the new lines of railroad have been 

 established, and notable gold and copper discov- 

 eries have been made. The coal and coke indus- 

 try gives employment to 2,000 persons, and the 

 machinery and operating plants are valued at 

 $715,000. The net output for the coal-mines for 

 the year was 1,102,046 tons, valued at the mines 

 at $1,609,898.90. The coke production for- the 

 year amounted to 25,012 tons, valued at $58,207. 

 Of gold, silver, lead, and copper, the Territorial 

 product for the year is estimated by the Governor 

 between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000, and the tur- 

 quoise mined in New Mexico is put by the same 

 authority at about $138,000. 



Irrigation. Some progress was made in the 

 construction of irrigation works, though compara- 

 tively little, for the reason that practically all the 

 natural openings for the construction of successful 

 irrigation works on a small scale have already 

 been utilized, and whatever is done hereafter to 

 increase the area of irrigated land must be done 

 by the construction of works too expensive and 

 costly to be compassed by individual effort such 

 as the building of dams to conserve the flood 

 waters of the streams and the construction of res- 

 ervoirs to store the storm waters of the country, 

 especially of the mountains. The total length of 

 Irrigation ditches in operation in the Territory is 

 estimated by the Governor, in his annual report 

 for the current year, at a little more than 3,000 

 miles, and he plkces the cost at $6,000,000. 



Live Stock. The live-stock interests of New 

 Mexico were fairly successful during the year; 

 133,835 head of cattle were inspected for removal 

 from the Territory, and the revenues derived by 

 beef-raisers from such shipments were about 

 $3,000,000. There are 1,246,237 head of beef cat- 

 tle now on the range. The wool-clip for the year 

 exceeded 20,000.000 pounds. The lamb crop in 

 the spring w r as about 1,000,000 head, and there are 



on the ranges of New Mexico nearly 5,000,000 

 head of sheep. The shipments for the year were 

 406,908 head. The Angora goat industry is en- 

 joying great prosperity. At a conservative esti- 

 mate, the live, stock on the ranges of New Mexico 

 has a value of $40,000,000. The weather during 

 the summer was very favorable, there was good 

 feed on the range at the beginning of winter, and 

 the season, up to the close of the year, was mild 

 and comparatively free from snow except in the 

 mountains. 



Invalids. A much larger number of invalids 

 than usual came to New Mexico this year as 

 a health resort, especially persons afflicted with 

 diseases of the respiratory organs. To such 

 an extent has this class of immigration increased 

 that facilities for the special accommodation of 

 such persons are being provided in various parts 

 of the Territory. The Santa Fe Railway Com- 

 pany has expended $100,000 on a hotel of this 

 kind at Albuquerque, which was opened this year. 



The Sisters of Charity opened a large sanita- 

 rium at Albuquerque, with a view to giving spe- 

 cial care to persons of this class; but this is prop- 

 erly a hospital rather than a hotel. 



In the summer an enterprising hotel-keeper put 

 up at Santa Fe what he called a " tent city " for 

 the entertainment of guests of this class. An eli- 

 gible site was selected near the town, and was 

 regularly laid off in streets, but instead of houses 

 there were rows of tents on either side, about 

 100 feet apart, furnished with all the necessary 

 comforts for camping out, while a central hotel 

 tent served meals to such as did not prefer to do 

 their own cooking. 



There are also hotels for the special accommo- 

 dation of health seekers at Las Cruces, Alama- 

 gordo, Deming, Silver City, and other places in 

 the Territory. 



The greater part of the immigration to New 

 Mexico consists of health seekers, and fully 10 

 per cent, of the present population is composed of 

 persons of this class. 



NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the 

 original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 

 26, 1788; area, 47,620 square miles, excluding 

 water surface. The population, 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; 5,997,853 in 1890; and 7,268,012 in 1900. 

 Capital, Albany. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Benjamin B. 

 Odell, Jr., Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, Tim- 

 othy L. Woodruff; Secretary of State, John T. 

 McDonough; Comptroller, Nathan L. Miller, who . 

 succeeded Erastus C. Knight, who resigned on 

 Jan. 1 to become Mayor of Buffalo; Treasurer, 

 John P. Jaeckel; Attorney-General, John C. Da- 

 vies; State Engineer and Surveyor, Edward A. 

 Bond; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Charles R. Skinner; Superintendent of Insurance, 

 Francis Hendricks; Superintendent of Banking 

 Department, Frederick D. Kilburn : Superintend- 

 ent of State Prisqns, Cornelius V. Collins; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Works, Charles S. Boyd, 

 who succeeded John N. Partridge, who resigned 

 on Jan. 1 to become Police Commissioner in New 

 York city; Commissioner of Labor Statistics, 

 John McMackin ; Railroad Commissioners, Ashley 

 W. Cole, George W. Dunn, and Frank M. Baker; 

 Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Alton B. 

 Parker; Associate Judges, John C. Gray, Denis 

 O'Brien. Celora E. Martin, Edward T. Bartlett, 

 Albert Haight, and Irving G. Vann, together with 



