Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-27

there were received during the year 256, of which 35 were United States prisoners; there were discharged dur ing the year 32s, as follows: By expiration of sentenee.- g By communication of sentence--.13SI By parole 31 By pardon By } By execution. .-.....--....-.-.-.--.-.-.- 1 By death-...-..---...--....-.-.-- 4 By order of supreme court 2
 Of the inmates ou June 90, 1910. 434 were men and 3 were women.
 Territorial Asylum for the Insane.
 During the year new hospital building at the asylum for the insane was completed, furn shed and occu- pied, relieving to a large extent the crowded condition of other buildings. At the present rate of increase in the population of the institution fur ther additions win soon be necessary and unless some provision Is made in the near future it will again be neces- sary to again utilize the old base ment wards, which are wholly made Iquate.
 The institution Is equipped with an up-todate cold-storage and ice plant installed during the past year. As in the case of the prison, much of the work of construction has been done by the inmates of the insti tuition. who have rendered effcien. service of benefit alike to themselves and the institution, and an extensive garden has been brought into culti |. yation by the inmates under the di rection of a competent gardener which furnishes the institution witt much of its table supplies and feed flor the stock.
 The number of inmates in the in, stitution on June 30, 1910, was SGT of these, 290 were males and v fe, males There were admitted Al new patients during the year and were clerks and carriers during the year The secretary of the livestock saI- itary board ir his report for the year suggests that losses on cattle ranges for the most part are due not so much to Jack of feed as to q scarcity of drinking places. Cattle in period Of comparative drought congregate in the vicinity of tanks and other watering places, which re suits in an exhaustion of the feed at such places. In this connection ] desire again to call attention to the pending bill, known as H. R. 12425 introduced by MT. Cameron, delegate in congress from Arizona This bill is one which is intended to re lieve such situation as that men tioned above. It has the approval of the territorial livestock sanitary board and of cattle men generally throughout the territory. The bill provides for the location and entry for well purposes of 40 acres of land not chiefly valuable for some other purposes, such lands to be paid for after the completion of the well at the rate of s1.25 per acre. It is hoped that congress will give this measure early and favorable con lsideration.
 Historian.
 Realizing the importance of collect ing and perpetrating existing data needed for compiling an accurate and Icomprehens ye history of Arizona, the Legislature created the office of his- torian, and during the past year ex- ltensive research has been carried on and marked progress made in the work
 | irrigation.
 The dam at Roosevelt is to all in tents and purposes completed Some work at the top and on the ap- breaches remains to be done. The late winter floods were smaller than usual, so that comparatively little water was impounded. yet this water has been of such immense benefit during the year as to prove beyond quest on the efficiency of the dam. The impoundei water supplementiny the normal flow of the Salt and Verde rivers has enabled the farm ! CTS in the Salt River Valley to STOW the largest crops on the largest acre age in the history of the valley. The precipitation on the water shed of Salt river, tributary to the dam is usually light in the summer. but heavy in the winter season. If the normal precipitation in the shape of rain and snow should occur during the next winter. no apprehension need be felt that any shortage of water should occur in the Salt River