The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-02-16
(By Walter J. Ballard)

could not reasonably expect should de remain a territory.
 Education
 Arizona enters statehood with the knowledge that it has an excel lent school system maintaining high standard for teachers and affording advantages to children equal to those found in older states.
 The public school statistics are: Chilren of school age, sixteen
 to twenty-one ...... .-.39,611 Enrolled in the public
 schools 31,636 Enrolled in high schools ..... 1,343 Attending private schools
 alone 2,104 Average daily attendance,
 public and high ..... 21,776 Male teachers s.... 14O Female teachers ........ .736 Total number of teachers ...-. S76 New schoolhouses built, 191O 1911 SS Primary schools ......... 535 Grammar schools .. ...... 217 High schools -~-. Is Volumes in school libraries :. 32,O1S Average monthly salary
 Male teachers .... ........ $110.92 Average monthly salary Female teachers ........ 7991 School revenue for year. 1886, ,049.0O School expenditure for the year ....-..... .1,152, ,716.OO ICobooI f,1ndc oD hand 6Q0 241 00 Total value of school prop erty 1895 ,2S6.OO Bonded debt of school dis tricts I, ,323, ,997.O .Oo Manual training and domestic science departments have been added to nearly all the graded schools and are giving the best of satisfaction tive and well-equipped.
 Immigration and Farming 2
 The Salt River irrigation project | Roosevelt Damp is practically conn pleted at cost of $1O,OOO,OOO. It will fertilize 29O,OO0 acres. The La guna Dam project in progress will when complete irrigate another 130,- 900 acres. The Salt River valley shipped 1,120 cars of cantaloupes and other melons in the season. About 4,000 acres were planted to sugar beets. The ostrich farms are doing well. Crops for the year all round were exceedingly gcod and prices fair ly satisfactory The fruit crop was generally good Thirty carloads of oranges and grape fruit were sent east. More farmers are wanted, as there are not yet enough to use all the lands that are under ditch, and for which there is an assured supply of water. This is true, says the gov ernor, of lands about Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Florence, Buckeye and Yuma.
 Livestock Industry.
 The livestock industry in Arizona is exceeded in importance only by mining and agriculture. Cattle grow ing ranks first and sheep growing next. Outside the Indian reservations the new state has S0O,000 head of range cattle and 100000 head of sheep.
 Arizona has mining production in the year-copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc-worth $42,229,2s2 de | crease from 1909 of $717,462. There were no new developments of special importance during the year, but eX- pIoration work was successfully con- tinued in the Miami district and also at Ray. Prospecting met with en- couraging success, but mining capital for new work is lacking. The gold mines of Mohave county have some what increased their production
 The New State Finances.
 Revenue for the year ..$1, ,11O,259 Disbursements for the year 1,115,571 Money on deposit in banks 519,949 Bonded debt, net, only ..... 946,972 City and county debt, funded 2,09S,3O2 Valuation of property for
 taxation .... .9S, ,O32, ,1OS Total bank resources June