Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-25


work in five or six different districts,
with every promise that New Mexico
will become a producer of merchant
able oil before many months. Several
new and important coal camps contigu-
Gus to the new lines of railroad have
been established, and quite a number
of notable gold and copper strikes have
been made. The coal and coke indus
try gives employment to some 1000
persons, and the machinery and oper-
ating plants are valued at $715 900.
The net output for the coal mines for
the year was 1902, 046 tons. valued at
the mines at 81, 609, 1913. 80. Coke pro-
dlction for the year amounted to U.s.
012 tons. valued at $5S, 207. OF gold,
silver, cad and copper, the territorial
product for the past year is estimated
a. between six and seven million dol
lars, and the value Of the turquoise
mined in New Mexico is in the neigh
borhood of S13S, 1000.
The important industries at present
are the smelling of copper and lead
ores, with a product valued at nearly
1000, 900 a year; flour milling, with a
product valued at 1851, 10S; the scour-
ing of wool, with S77,S75 as the re-
ceipts for last years work. Flour and
grist mills number about twenty, and
there are numerous fruit canneries,
| distilleries and wineries in operation.
There are thirty-one saw mills in the
territory, with an invested capital of
$3.50, 79S. employing 243 men, earning
I $50, ISL per year, whose annual product
Is worth $780, 27. OF mills saving 50,-
900 to SOC, 900 feet per year there are
13; of mills saving 500 900 to 900 900
feet per year there are 4; of mills saw
ing 1000, 900 to 5000, 900 feet per year
there are IA. There are thirteen plan
ing mills, employing forty-one people,
who earn SIS. 291 annually, and who
produce s75,O50 worth of material per
year.
The number of Indians in the terri
tory is IL, 7o0, and considerable prog
ress has been made by them toward
civilization. There are thirty-three
schools devoted solely to the training
of the Indian youth, in which 2,1S3
people were enrolled, with a daily av-
erage attendance Of ALA. The cost
of maintaining these schools is 1882,
LOST, and the total value of the school
property in the territory Is 1851 900.
Special attention is directed to the eff
forts of the department toward sup
plying the Pueblo Indians with irriga,
ton facilities.
An interesting chapter in the report
is devoted to the thermal springs OF
Now Mexico, of which there are
great variety, both hot and cold, in
many sections of the territory. Much
space is also given to the public health
the remarkable ~salubrity of the eli
mate, and its effects upon tubercu
lcsis and kindred diseases. The fac
that the government has recognized
the superiority of the territory's nat
ural climatic conditions by establish
: ing government sanitariums for thu
7 sick of its military and marine branch
! es at Forts Bayard and Stanton. re
spectively, is referred TO in commenda
. tory terms, and a technical review O
tie results thus far accomplished !
given. Several large private sanital
i iums are conducted at various point
; throughout the territory, and many n
! coveries of patients suffering frol
l consumption, through the effects of tn
n pure air, altitude and sunshine, wit
cut the use of medicine or drugs, al
reported.
. Detailed reports are given OF II
e status OF the various eleemOsynary, /
&c situations of the territory, which sho
" New Mexico to be in this respect full
"a abreast Of the spirit of the times. TT
ic moral and social status of the territol
e is reported as excellent, and the va
. amount of data presented regardiI
the operations Of the judicial bran'
Of the territorial government indicat
s. the general good order prevailil
All throughout the year and the utmo
security of life and property in II
territory under the present admin
mr. ~tration Of public affairs
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