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Show LEADING 522 FACTS MEXICAN OF NEW HISTORY 1880 Under the provisions of this law the territorial legislature, by an act approved March 16, 1899, established a board of public ~~ consisting of the governor, solicitor-general, and commissioner 0 public lands, for the leasing, sale, and general management of all public lands or public funds granted to the territory. The office of land commissioner was created, and Alpheus A. Keen, a life-long friend of governor Miguel A. Otero, was named by the executive for this position.**° acres; thousand hundred ve . improvement the for of Rioi the Gran de in Now irene and the increasing of the surface flow of the water in . pees one hundred thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance 0 ae ; for the insane, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and a ee school of mines, fifty thousand acres; a school for the deaf an pee oi thousand acres; for a reform school, fifty thousand acres; for a rp for the blind, fifty thousand acres; for normal schools, one sie é heel acres; for a hospital for disabled miners, fifty thousand ayes ig’ - rl! institute, fifty thousand acres; for the enlargement and main ae ue territorial penitentiary, fifty thousand acres. The palace of the gov ea be all the lands and appurtenances connected therewith were also gran territory by this law. 440 The sae statement shows the total acreage of school lands New Mexico became entitled by virtue of the Fergusson act; the to antsy losses from the grant by reason of land grants, military and aneey - forest reserves, patented lands, ete., and the status in 1910 of the cl j is Total estimated area of sections 16 and 36, granted to New Mexico Deductions: by the act of June Perv, e i Teme 4.244,480 21, 1898 ’ 220,216.87 peo os ... ceee le Lands 941,600. 04 Total Area of Sections 16 and 36, title to which is absolutely . 599,879.96 A ORO oa ogg ns oe ne uss on 0 ee Eee Lands selected by the territory and approved by the department of the interior in lieu of deductions tions, on account of Indian rese 307,082.00 ete oe Lands to which the territory has absolute title.........---+++++7° Lands selected by the territory and awaiting approval of the department of the interior Lands to be selected: In lieu of selections rejected by land offices * In lieu of deductions for mining : claims, ete 3,102." 95 In lieu of deductions for patented lands In lieu of deductions O23 while the republicans controlled the lower house, Wil- liam H. H. Llewellyn, of Dofia Ana, being the speaker of the latter, and Antonio Joseph, the president ‘of the upper branch of the assembly. Thereafter, during the entire territorial period, the republican party secured and maintained control of both branches of the legislative assembly. William McKinley had no sooner been inaugurated president than Military Reservations Mining Claims, ete Patented 1912 The free silver heresy of 1896 found few supporters in New Mexico, although the territory was surrounded by states on the east and north and the territory of Arizona on ADMINISTRATION OF the west where the political adherents GOVERNOR MIGUEL A. OTERO of William J. Bryan were to be found in great number. Early in 1896, Mr. Bryan visited New Mexico, made a number of addresses at the principal cities and towns, was entertained by Governor Thornton at Santa Fé, and, in the democratic national convention. of that year, succeeded in securing 'the support of the New Mexican delegation. There were a few converts from the republican party but this loss was fully offset by the refusal of many old line democrats to support the democratic platform. However, Thomas B. Catron, renominated by the republican party for delegate to congress, was defeated by Harvey B. Fergusson. The causes leading up to this result are not chargeable to any change of political front on the part of the people of New Mexico at that period. In 1894, his plurality over Anthony Joseph, democrat, was 2,762. In 1896, he was defeated by 1,930 votes. The democratic party elected a majority of the members of the council, by the territory in lieu of the above losses: TO for forest reserves 7 184, Se . es 3,609,961.96 397,870.59 the leading politicians of New Mexico, solicitous for their own futures in the territorial political arena, laid siege to the presidentia l citadel in the matter of appointments in New Mexico. The appli- Wallace, later cants most Strongly urged for the position of governor were Pedro P erea, William H. H. Llewellyn, and George H. named ag Secretary. Mr. Perea failed because of the neglect of Senator Elkins to keep an appointment with the president and the a reary of the interior. Major Llewellyn was successfully opposed Grand total of lands to which the territory has absolute title, a to which it has no absolute title but which have been *sregated from ge ‘ the public domain and are awaiting approval Y the department of the interior, and lands not yet selected. . . .4,244,480.00 _ 71,080.95 er acre, acres of these lands had been sold at an average price of |