Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

eracy has peer cut down to less than
20 per cent.
There are now more than 500 schools
and more than 1000 teachers in New
Mexico. The school property of the
'e~rritory Is valued at a million dollars,
and nearly a like amount is annually
paid out in salaries to instructors. OF
the So, 700 children of-the school age.
uliy 80 per cent are enrolled as schol
airs. and the average daily attendance
is heal $4,000.
New Mexico has provided facilities
ior higher education and schooling In
the agricultural and mechanical arts.
normal training and mining. The high
est of these institutions, the Univer-
sity of New Mexico, is located at Albu-
1uerque, and, with the exception OF
post graduate work, carries Students
as far as Harvard or Yale. The Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
at Mesilla Park, near Las Cruces, fts
young men for lives of usefulness and
competency in these branches of In
dustry. The Noraml university, also
at Las Vegas, Ats students for teach
ing in the grades, and the Normal
School of New Mexico, at Silver City.
is q training school for teachers. The
New Mexico School OF Mines Is situ-
! ated in Socorro, and embraces courses
in geology, m~Ineralogy, chemistry, a.
saying and metallurgy. The New Mex
leo Military Institute Is at Roswell.
Other institutions.
Among the other territorial institu-
lions are the ~penitentiary, asylum for
the deaf and dumb. insane asylum and
hospitals, reform schools. orphanages.
homes for the INDECENT, ETC.. though
the two latter are more properly coun-
ty institutions.
Taxes, Etc.
The assessed valuation Of New Mex
ico's taxable property 10 under $4O.-
900 900, but the actual value of such
property approaches more nearly $780,
600, 900. The bonded indebtedness a
the territory Is only q little over ST.
900 100, or about 81 per capita, and II
being yearly reduced. New Mexico
bonds are at q premium, and the credit
of the territory is good In ell the
money centers of the world.
Statehood.
The statehood bin, which includes
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma,
passed the house of representatives at
the last session of the national con-
gress and will undoubtedly pass the
house of representatives at the last
session of the national congress and
will undoubtedly pass the senate at tho
next session, and the presidents sig
nature will create the state Of New
Mexico.
Climate.
New Mexico could ask no better tes-
timonial to the excellence of her eli
mate than the United States govern
ment gave voluntarily when Fort Bay
ard and Fort Stanton sanitariums were
founded. Fort Bayard is in the south
western part of the territory. and Ia
maintained for the benefit of consump-
tive soldiers. Fort Stanton is in south
central New Mexico, and is a marine
hospital and s~anitarium for naval con-
sumptives.
1t may be roughly stated that there
are more one-time consumptives in ro-
bust health in New Mexico than in all
the other states of the union. Sufferers
from tuberculosis have come here in
the last stages of the dread disease,
when friends and physicians have de-
SPARED oil %prolonging their lives, and
have practically recovered.
New Mexico covers a wide area, but
there is no place in the territory that
is not favorable to a palliation Of the
disease, though there are many locali-
ties where the conditions are particu-
larly c%ongenial. The altitude varies
from $500 to 1900 feet, there is a
slight variation of temperature and q
difference in the precipitation. In all
parts the air is free from humidity, ex-
cepting when rain falls, which Is very
~infrequently. The skies are blue and
the sun shines nearly every day in the
year. Extremes of heat and cold are
unknown. The thermometer Is hardly
a fair registrar of the temperature in
the high attitudes anywhere in the
Rocky mountain region. and a quota
ton of the degrees marked by the mer-
curry would convey a misimpression.
The only intelligent way of expressing
the utmost severity experienced is to
say that it is never too cold to be warm
in the sunshine and never too warm
to be cool in the shade, for heat and
cold are not so keeply felt in a rariied
atmosphere as in denser and moister
air.
outiawry.
For the e~dification of eastern read
ers, who are very generally misin-
formal on the suhiect II NAV he said