The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-07
ARIZ0NA'S WEALTH.
Annual Report of the Acting
Governor.
Assessed Valuation Of The Taxable Prop
erty $28,O00,0O0.
The POnded Debt-0utput Of the Mineral
Wealth Recommendations Suggested.
Indians 10 Be DiSaTmed.
srecial to THE MORNING CALI

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-Hon. n. o. Muir
ply, Acting Governor of Arizona Territory,
in his annual report to the Secretary OF the
Interior, expresses the opinion that the
population of the Territory will reach
10000 people before the end of the present
fiscal year. There are at least, he says,
1900 Mormons il the Territory engaged in
agriculture and mining. The following
shows the kind and quality Of the taxable
property of the Territory and its valuation.
according to the report of the Territorial
Board for the current year: Number OF
acres, 8, 3,344, 668; value of the same, 1907
121 ; value Of the improvements, S2.302, 214;
value of city and town lots, S1,972, 252;
value OF improvements on the same, s., 34F,-
424; number of horses, Al, ,912: value, S1.1SS.-
16S. There are also owned in the Territory
1857 mules, 720,94O head of cattle and 2SS, 727
sheep. There are also 1888 miles of railway,
making a total valuation on all taxable
property Of the Territory SIS, 270, 466. This
amount, however, the Acting Governor re-
CARDS as entirely too low. He is Of the
opinion that S7e,00OOOO would be much
nearer the facts.
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS.
The bonded debt of the Territoryis given
at S606, 900; interest thereon S45,S90; float
ing debt S19O,030; interest thereon Sl5,9 $50;
making a total Indebtedness of 1856, go.
The Indebtedness of the several counties
aggregates 81 175,605. The Indebtedness of
the cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott and
Tombstone aggregates SlSS,93S. The average
rate of Interest throughout the Territory is
3.28 per cent. The total number of acres
rented under the public land laws during
the year is given as 1915
TIE MINERAL WEALTH.
Mining has always been the foremost
ealth-producing industry of Arizona, and
the report says that during the last year it
has been very active. The mineral output
of 1891 it is thought will exceed that OF any
previous year. The Acting Governor esti-
mates the copper output at 80, coo, 900 pounds.
the gold output at S1,132, ,9j5, silver Sl,6S3,-
5S5. During the year very valuable deposits
of superior onyx have been discovered, and
the quality is said to be first class. The
pine forests of Northern and Central Ari-
zona cover an area of about 2700 square
miles, or, approximately, t750,000 acres.
The cOmmon-school system of the Territory
is said to be firmly established. well main
tanned. and compares favorably with any
in tie country.
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.
The Acting Governor recommends that
Arizona be admit ID into the Union as
State upon the adoption of proper c0nsti-
tuition by the people; that all the pabic
lands within her borders be ceded by the
Government to the Territory or State; that
all the public lands be surveyed; that the
school lands be made once available; that
the Apache Indians be disarmed and pro-
hibited from using arms that the mineral
lands in the San Carlos reservation be
0pened to occupancy and development by
white citizens, and that the proceeds of the
sale of the same be he'd in trust for the In
dians. His recommendations OF last year
were also renewed.
DEFENsEs ON THE LAKES.
1t Is altogether probable that the Secretary
of the Navy will in his annual report, or
perhaps through communication by the
President TO Congress, recOmme nd the mOdi-
ficaton, ,abrOgatiOn or extension of the agree
ment Of 1917. by which the United States and
Great Britain are restricted to the maiDten-
ance on the lakes of very small force Of
vessels, permitted to be kept up by the
agreement which was apparently one
solicited BY the United States. While
no cause of irritation is now apparent
that will call for the presence on the
lakes of feet of armed vessels the grow
ing Importance of the lake ports and the
commerce of the United States on the lakes,
together with some restrictions placed upon
the Government in the use of money to in
crease the means OF defense in the event of
hostile demonstrations, render it advisable
that there should be new understanding,
and that it should afford this country an
opportunity of making use of the means at
its command to provide for more adequate
defense in the case of any interruption in
the existing friendly relations.
RECIPROCAL, RELATIONS WITH GERMANy
The negotiations with Germany which
happily resulted in the anUulment of the
prohibitory decree against the importation
of pork from the United States into that
country included, also, propositions look
ing to the removal or modification Of the
heavy duties imposed by Germany upon
breadStuffS and some other agricultural
products imported from the United States
in consideration of the liberal action of Con-
gress and the President in respect to the free
admission of sugar produced in foreign
countries. There is reason to believe that
the considerations urged upon Germany by
the Administration and its representatives
In behalf of the repeal or reduction of the
duties on certain agricultural products of
the United States, strengthened and aided
as they have been by the meager harvests
In the former country, have produced
deep impression upon the German Emperor
and his c0unselOrS, and that there are fair
prospects that the pending negota-
tions will be successful. Germany
is hard pushed by Austria-Hungary
in competition to find market for her sur
plus beet sugar. and both countries have
their eyes fixed upon the rich markets of
the United States. which it would be within
. the power of President Harrison to close
against them after January l, 1892, if he
should become satisfied that Germany and
Austria-Hungary, or either of them, impose
duties or other restrictions upon the agri-
cultural or other products of the United
States, which in view of the free admission
of beet sugar. he may deem to be recpro-
callY unjust and unreasonable.