Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-02-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Three new railroads will be built IN
/ central New Mexico this year
rho coal oil Inspection law has very
'cw friends IN the territorial lesisla.
turc.
The territory Should nolp Silver City
n building dam to protect the city
rom hood water
Senator Albright is serving his FIRST
/ torn, bat he takes TO legislation like q
veteran. lie is making good record
/ Two bills providing TOR the creation
3 1t new counties have been introduced
the legislature, ana others are in the
inside pockets of certain members
The ri Paso Times says that If Sen.
ator Quay succeeds in passing the om-
nibus statehood biz. his name and
fame will live forever in the terri.
tories
The territorial insane asylum should
be enlarged. In nearly every county
there are insane patients who cannot
be sent to the asylum on account OF the
crowded condition OF that institution.
whether New Mexico will make an
exhibit at st. Louis depends very much
on the passage of the statehood bill. II
the measure is defeated by the senate
New Mexico will quit squandcrine
money on outside oxposltions.
The Cochiu railroad win be com.
p'eted from Thornton to Bland this
year. This new road will be about
twenty i've miles in length and viii be
the means of developing the rich mines
0f the Cochiti district
The report OF the railroad commits
sioners Of Massachusetts shows that
an actual decline of steam passenger
traffic has taken place there during the
past decade In 1893. 119,779,947 pas
sengers were carried in the steam rail.
roads; in 1902, only 1865, S97. a de.
crease of 4,l34050. The street railway
returns make, however, n different
showing. In 1898, these lines carried
2l3,552 009 passengers In 1902, 465..
i74.3s2, an increase of 251,922.373.
These extraordinary changes indicate
the vast influence OF electricity as a
motive power in rallroading in that
state. The electric roads are cutting
into the suburban business of the
steam roads in all directions.
Tho anfipacp eantip,nvt L.. -. 49,.
ular at Santa Fe
Up to date the legislature is strong
er than the lobby at Santa Fe.
Belen is destined to become a large
town and DESTROYS to be the county
scat of Valencia county.
Valencia county will never again
give a solid republican vote. Sixteen
saloons are being opened at Belen.
No other city In the west has such
bright prospects as Albuquerque. II Is
certain that this city win double in
population within a couple of years
The Beverldge crowd may beat Sen
ator Quay. but of they do IL will be
after one of the most memorable con
tests in the History OF the United
States senate.
The territorial assembly is now
ready to dispose of legislation. Any
one desiring changes In existing laws
is requested TO make the same known
to their representative at Santa Fe.
II the United States had shown to
Nav Mexico the same favoritism that
has been showered upon Porto Rico.
this territory would have been thor
oughly Amerlcanized soon after the
close OF the Mexican war. All that the
United States has done for New Mex
leo has been to collect taxes from the
territory and call upon the people to
furnish volunteer troops during two
wars.
| But II law succeeded in making
foods pure. how do any of us know that
we could like them?
J. NJ. Hawkins, formerly with the Ell
Paso News, has gone to Alamogordo,
and has connected himself with the
News Of that town.
The heartrending press dispatch
that Professor Mommsen. of Germany,
has accidentally singed his hair is well
| calculated to cast pale blue gloom
over the entire civilized world.
| A bill In the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture makes It an offense to cartoon
men In the guise of animals. Probably
the cartoonists will get around this by
picturing animals in the guise OF men.
The spot where the center Of popula-
ton by the census OF 1900 was found
to be, near Columbus, Bartholomew
county, Indiana, is naked by monu.
ment which has this inscription: Cen.
ter OF Population. 1900" The monu-