Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-01

year il was 1.777,445 ounces. The
lead production in 1905 was S73,7G3
pounds last year the production was
lS,403,392 pounds. In 1908, the to-
tai valuation Of ore production was
$l,525,O9l; last year it was sll,04s,-
9S2. Five years ago, the coal pro-
duction in New Mexico was valued ut
$3,9S4, $50 last year it was $3.50 71.
Civic Progress.
New Mexico this year expended
80. 225, 600 on its schools and higher
educational institutions. The school
census this year totaled 1l0,939. In
practically every one of the more than
! 600 school districts at least seven
months school were held and more
new modern school houses were built
In the state the past year than in any
two years previous In one county
alone. that Of Santa Fc. forty-five
new modern school houses went up.
The state university, for tho first
time, had more than $4,000 to eX-
pend, and the revenues OF the state
institutions are growing constantly
through income from the state lands
appropriations, the total state land
office receipts this year being $751;
3I9.75. or more than the entire reve-
nue of the commonwealth two de-
cades ago
On good roads, the state IS expend
ring the proceed OF a $500, 900 bond Is
suc besides a state levy of $ll0, 600 a
year and county levies totaling $500,
Gee.
Important Work.
The state has undertaken the pres
| ervatl0n aud restoration of it's prehis-
toric ruins and historic landmarks in
which it is richer than any other
commonwealth in the union. II has
established a state museum in the his
toric Palace OF the Governors, now
valued at s250.000 and IN the spring
will build. with the assistance OF ptl-
vatc contributions and the gift Of a
site by the citizens Of Santa Fe, a
state art gallery and auditorium for
/ 800, 600, as an annex to the museum,
modelling II after the 200 years -old
mission church on the Rock of Acoma
/ Twenty thousand dollars were ex-
pended this year OH excavations and
rest orations of prehistoric communal
| dwellings 10y scientists from other
states Thirty thousand tourists
passed through the state museum this
year, showing the widespread interest
in New Mexico and its antiquities.
New Mexico is reaping the material
benefits OF the publicity given II by
splendid exhibit at the Panama
| California exposition, where its build
| ing was ono Of tho chief attractions.
Its exhibit was different unique, an
cient and yet right up-to-date In
stead of showing heaps Of pumpkins,
apples. corn and wheat, such as might
| be gathered in any state of the union,
| it displayed models OF its landmarks,
artistic pictures and motion films OF
its industries, Its farms, its towns, its
| institutions. its mines and factories;
1t distributed high-gradc literature,
well-edited and well printed, and the
results already Justify the expendi-
ture 1t will continue this work dur
ing 1915.
| But New Mexico took even a larger
share in the success Of the exposition
( than merely in the New Mexico build
ing. A Kew Mexican. DR. Edgar T.
Hewett. Of Santa re, was director o.
exhibits Of the exposition n New
Mexico man Jesse Nusbaum bull
the Painted Desert il was a New
Mexico school. the School of Ameri
can Archaeology. that produced thos'
wonderful Maya replicas in the Call
fornia building, which are the ip~'
striking features of the entirg<
sition; il was the PRESIDENT
managing committee Of THAI