The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-23
Gov. Hagerman' Message
to the Legislature
Continued From Yesterday

is made, published and distributed
copies of a book called mines and
Minerals of New Mexico" $4,000 cop
les of a booklet entitled "Ho, to the
Land of Sunshine" 1000 booklets ca
titled How / cured myself of on
sumption in New Mexico" 5000 Ber-
nalillo county pamphlets, 5000 San
Juan county pamphlets, 1000 Santa
Fe county pamphlets, 500 pamphlets
on New Mexico mines, and 5000 cop
les, second edition, of the 446 page
book called ITO the Land of Sun
sine
Tine book ITO the Land of Sunshine"
was originally prepared and publish
ed by Mr.. Max Frost n others for
distribution at the Worlds Fair in
St. Louis, and cost the Territory
through the Board of Exposition Man
ayers the sum of about $1,5O0.OO.
There was then prepared by the Blu
reau of immigration another edition
of the work which was the same as
that used for the Exposition Board
with the exception of a few pages;
or which there was paid he publish
er by the Bureau of immigration
about 100000. During the past year
the new edition mentioned in the
report of the Secretary of the Blu
reau was prepared. Towards the ex-
penses of the publication of this d
ton the Bureau paid, according to
report of the Public Printer, the sum
of $2,14S.16. This book has cost the
Territory in one way and another $4,-
100000 or more. Many testimonials as
to it's merits are contained in the re-
port of the Secretary of the Bureau
of immigration.
Over 1000 copies of the boo were
distributed by Delegate Andrews and
letters commencing it written by
him, by Senator Penrose and the Hon.
E. l.. Hamilton are included in the
report.
The valuable book on Mines and
Minerals of New Mexico, by Profess
sor Fayette A Jones, was also origin
ally compiled, published and paid for
by the st. Louis Exposition Board.
There can he no doubt, as the many
testimonials contained in the Secre-
tary's report attest, but that both of
these volumes are interesting n in
.structive and that they contain con-
siderable valuable and accurate in
formation. Pictorially they are attrac-
tive, being full of illustrations furn-
ished by the New Mexican Publishing
Company of Santa Fe.
Outside of the county bulletins on
San Juan, Santa Fe and Bernalillo
counties published and distributed
during the last two years, there were
letias on various other counties of the
territory distributed during the same
period.
The booklet "Ho to the Land of
Sunshine" has been generally com
mended by the passenger n adver-
Using agents of the railroads and by
others. and is an excellent publication
advertising purposes. The rail-
roads could well afford to buy thous-
sands OF copies of this pamphlet to
increase the business on their lines.
The question as to whether the Ter
ritory is justied in appropriating
considerable sums of money to pay
for the compilation M printing of
of his nature, is one
which merits your serious c~onsidera-
ton. Since 1890 about $4,000 has
been appropriated and spent for the
maintenance of this Bureau. Many
of pounds of various kinds
of matter have been sent out by the
Bureau and large quantities are still
hand. Much of this matter has
been good, but a great deal of 1T in
and exaggerated N not
All parts of the Territory
not been equally well treated
as far as county bulletins are con-
1t would be impossible with
out even a far larger appropriation
for the Territory to pay for all the
publications useful IN advertising the
resources of the different rapidly de-
veloping and changing counties of the
Territory.
The Boards of Trade Of the various
Cities and Towns. the various county
organization, the land companies, the
railroad companies and all who i'm
mediately profit by such advertising
are mucA better fitted to pre-
pare it thar a central official located
1t the Capital, where interest in the
publications cannot be the same as
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