Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-30

large portion or the report was oeNos- ed to various conditions of the public lands and the forestry. Following are extracts from the report of special in terest to Arizona and this section of the West:
 Arizona
 The present population of the Ter ritory is estimated to be about 200, 900. the bulk of the immigration coming from the Eastern and Middle West ern States.
 The past year has witnessed a sub stantial increase in the output of the mines and the products of the soil.
 The receipts for the year ending June 30, 1909, were $917.4s0.20, as against SSs2, 2,S27.5S for the preceding year. The expenditures for the year amounted to s9SO,916O5. leaving a cash balance in the Treasury June 30, 1909, of s376,7O4.SS. The bonded city, county and territorial debt, segregat- ed June 30, 1909. amounted to S3,o9S,- 275.29.
 The output of the mines during the year 1908 was the largest in the his . tory of the Territory, there having been produced 2S9, ,523, ,267 pounds of copper 117,647 ounces of gold, 2,S0S,- 45O ounces of silver, 2.92S,00O pounds of lead and BOA, ,OOO pounds of zinc.
 New Mexico
 The estimated population of the Territory is noY 47e,00O, an increase of about 10000 over last year. The additions to the population have been mostly from the Middle, Northern and Middle Western States the foreign immigration being less than l per cent.
 The finances of the Territory are in good condition, the net bonded in. debtedness on May 31, 1909, being s912,420.51; the net receipts for the eleven months ending May 31 were s1,611, ,I59.83, and the expenditures during the same period were S1,0S3,, 93467, leaving a balance on hand, June l, of s527,225.16. All territorial funds are deposited with approved de positories, are protected by ample bonds and draw interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum on daily bal ances,
 The coal mines have produced more 2 coal and coke than in any preceding year. 2,70S, ,624.4S tons having been shipped from the mines, of which 6s2.772.21 went to the coke ovens and the rest to the market The total val ue of the coal and coke was SS,SS1,- 50g.57. The total number of persons employed in and about the coal mines was 2,231, and the fatalities were re. dueed from O.926 per. cent, of the per sons employed, in the preceding year, to 0.556 per cent in the fiscal year ending June 90, 1909.
 The total valuation of public school property exceeds s1,O0O, 900. The to tai expenditure for school purposes exceeded s600,o0o. Forty-seven thou sand nine hundred and eighty-seven pupils were enrolled in the public schools
 Reclamation Service
 The act approved June r, 1902 known as the reclamation act, clothes the Secretary of the Interior with a broad discretion in the construction of irrigation works and the disburse ment of the reclamation fund, into which fund had been paid, up to and including June 30, 1908, the total sun of $50, ,661, ,549.27, and the net invest ments from which in reclamation works on June 30, 1909, amounted to the sum of s45.757, ,91S.94 The cash receipts from water-right charges to June 90, 1909, were: Building charges S299, 22; operation and mainten ance charges, s7O,S25.S8; total, s370, 667.10. Because of the. magnitude ol the work and the desirability of mak ing plans far in advance, it has been found necessary to make estimates oi the amounts that will become avail able before the actual receipts can be known. The estimated total receipts in the fund to June 30, 1909, are S5S, 5s2 ,14O.66 Upon this basis, and esti mated receipts which will become available. before December 31, 1910 s5,52S, ,05O have been allotted for recla nation purposes to December 31, 1910 The discretion imposed by the ac also carries with it commensurate re responsibilities and blogations. whicl my predecessors have carried ,out witt the utmost fidelity to the public good
 Some of the most important elt ments of conservation of tie natEra resources of the public domain i within the purview of this atatute the dormant power of stream an flood being conserved for the trans formation of the de3ert into vast 1T able areas.
 As the law fixed. the responsibiht for the successof these investment peculiarly upon the secretary Of th interior, have felt 1t incumbent ul on me to visit during the last fo1 months as many of the governmer undertakings as possible, and 10 d. termine upon the ground what, if an changes in administration were d.