People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — NEW MEXICO. [ARTICLE]

NEW MEXICO.

Gov. Thornton Presents His Report on the Territory. Washington, Oct. 29.—The annual report of Gov. Thornton, of New Mexich, has been submitted to the secretary of the interior. The governor says there has been no material change in population, but a healthy growth has set in of a desirable class of immigration in almost every county of the territory, especially in the agricultural portion. At the end of the last fiscal year there was a cash balance of $139,899 in the treasury of the territory. “The traffic in whisky,” the governor says, “which has been the cause of so much poverty among the Navajos and has led to so much crime in the past, has, during the past year, largely decreased.” The total school enrollment was 45,389. The governor says that the process of raising crops by the aid of irrigation ditches has been very beneficial in New Mexico, as without ditches or wells agriculture would be a failure in the territory.