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Show 570 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY 1880 tion of Governor Mills, and from the time of the creation . a commission, consisting of the governor, territorial ee a ae commissioner of public lands, in 1909, there were examinec igs a thousand miles of highway, and more than five hundred mi — ‘ tional were surveyed and platted. In the main, the oe ie these roads was good, the principal roads being the Picac a " road from Roswell to Lincoln, the La Bajada Hill, on i roa ie Santa Fé to Alburquerque, the road between Silver City me mining camps in the Mogollon Mountains, and the peas a north of Las Vegas, extending in the direction of Raton, and? : the Raton Pass to the Colorado state line. The total a ie expenditures of the commission from the date of its to July 1, 1911, were $134,538.44. Convict labor was a used i i Ons ion of these highways. ae ee Bae tant. in ‘ie maintenance of the public institutions for the year ending June 30, 1911, were $580,488.19 and a were balances in the several institution funds on June 30, 1911, amounting to $104,655.46. In the ne of the public roads the several counties a liberal appropriations, many localities contributing more than " amount derived from the general territorial fund devoted to roa urposes. : the first day of June, 1910, there was to the credit of the i ous territorial funds $485,149.14. During the year there was ue lected from sources other than taxation the sum of $363,986.62, a from taxation $653,703.99, making a total of collections and oe by the treasurer of $1,017 ,690.61 and a total to be accounted for : $1,502,839.75. The expenses for all purposes during the fiscal ye The Territory was possessed of large bodies Granted by the Fergusson Act Less acreage sold of land, as cabo 55m Granted by Enabling Act of 1910 Grounds occupied by Palace of a Governors Grand total The total receipts of the commis sioner from 1910, were $168,129.52 and the total Act, $8,724.81, 69,920. 2.60 cee «1 of public lands, in expenditures for ees ing June 30, 1911, for schools, institut ions, ete., was withdrawals and the Carey $21,657.49, 589,252.72 f 71,080.95 eet a leaving ee a balance Ju ate palances endwith certain ne 30, 1911, of were $977,564.63, treasurer on June TO 1912 leaving aggregate 1, 1911, d71 balances in the hands of the of $525,275.12. The financial condition of the territory was never better. The total bonded indebtedness was $975,000.00. The total assessed valuation of prope rty in New Mexico for 1911 amounted to $60,4 48,880.75. The total county and school district bonded ‘indebtedness was, for the counties, $3,400,909.42, and for school districts, $708,631.13. The income and cost of county governments is given in a note.4®° In 1911, the ‘banking interests #81 of New Mexico were in a most prosperous condition. In public education there had been marked progress and advancement. The census of 1910 showed 99,30 8 persons of schoo] age. The school enrollment in June, 1911, was approximately 58,000. More than 1,600 teachers were employed in about 1,200 elementary schools *80 County receipts: — Balances, June 30, 1910 Taxes collected $1,423,417.00 $2,458,654. 33 450,071. 77 39,379.97 13,363.71 Schools From sale of county and schoo County Proportion of Fores l bonds t Reserve ceived from Territorial Trea surer All other receipts funds 23 127,930.41 re- 21,915.81 98,595.81 Spe County Cost of county oarding $4,395,181.29 expenditures :— county governments funds prisoners paid from general 319,542.11 Cost of holding cour ts nterest on bonded ld animal] 14,850.69 203,369 . 66 173,405.78 32.515.38 189,716.14 215,395.86 604,888.38 Treasurers’ Municipal ublie Ponds All 171,460.70 taxes 209,273.12 Schools redeemed Other 838,085.79 61,789.90 expenses “sétegate balances on Pee, cole 7, Jot, “8! There were 87 banking gabtalization oR There institutions, of $3,343,490.00, were 13 building and and 83,677.45 1,277,210.33 $4,395,181. 29 42 national and 45 territorial, with a total resources and liabilities of $26,417,loan associations with assets of $1,331,- |