less than two days before and conveyed its passengers with as much comfort and far less fatigue than is experienced in making the journey from New York to Chicago. The wonderful rapidity with which steel rails had been extended into this sparsely settled country of magnificent distances was not more marvelous than the many striking manifestations on every hand of an astonishing awakening from the slumber of two centuries, attributable to the inspiring and stimulating influence of railway lines, bringing the long-neglected Territory in close touch with the enlightened progress and fruitful modern methods of the Eastern States. In the early history of the utilization of steam for transportation purposes it was supposed that a country must be settled and developed before it could support a railway, and those who projected new lines followed the great routes which internal commerce had already established for itself and whose facilities it had outgrown. The pioneer railway builders sought to connect the large town, and to secure a traffic already important and likely to grow. Soon after the close of the civil war this theory was abandoned, and the railway has since been the advance agent of civilization in the country. It has pushed out into countries that were almost destitute of population and which had not felt the stimulating influence of outside capital, following close upon the trails of Government exploring expeditions, whose reports of developed natural resources and descriptions of scenic and climatic attractions have been among its most important guides. The men who have invested in the construction of most of the railways of the West have not done so because they believed the traffic of the regions through which they were projected was sufficient at the time to support the enterprises, but because they were persuaded that the roads would rapidly create a profitable volume of business for themselves. These remarks may be applied with peculiar propriety to the several lines of New Mexico. They have not only quickened the entire Territory into new life, attracting desirable immigration from all parts of the country, and giving a fresh and healthful impulse to all the useful activities of the people, but have actually created a large part of the traffic that is already making them more than self-supporting, and insures them large and steadily increasing profits in the future, thus satisfactorily demonstrating the wisdom of their projectors and affording substantial encouragement for the early construction of the important new lines projected in the Territory. Not one of the ten railway lines in New Mexico is in the hands of a receiver, and after passing through the various trying vicissitudes inevitably incident to the development of natural resources, all of them have reached a point where they annually show net earnings. Justly sharing in the general and unexampled prosperity of the entire Territory, including particularly the mining, lumber, stock-raising, wool-growing, agricultural and horticultural industries, the railways of this region have earned larger profits during the past year than during any twelve months since the first locomotive whistled in New Mexico, about twenty years ago. And the future is bright with promise of richer rewards to come. The development of the magnificent possibilities of the Territory has so far only been initiated. When its vast and only partly explored mineral belts, carrying untold values in gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron, and precious stones, are systematically opened up and their riches rendered available; when its extensive coal measures, some of them still miles from railways, are worked to their full capacity and their product utilized in smelting and manufacturing plants; when its comparatively untouched forests of fine timber, such as are found in the Black Range and elsewhere, are placed within reach of enterprise by means of adequate transportation facilities and are united with its building stones and brick-making materials, boundless in quantity and unexcelled in quality, in structural work; when its immense and apparently inexhaustible deposits of salt, soda, alum, sulphur, gypsum, kaolin, and fire clay are accessible and brought into use; when the raising of blooded and graded cattle fully supplants the old range method and an approximation of the Ohio plan is adopted in the production of sheep and wool; when all its arable lands are placed under the magic touch of water and rendered fruitful by means of a general system of storage reservoirs and irrigation canals, the railways of New Mexico will enter upon an era of prosperity equal to that enjoyed by those that gridiron the great Commonwealths of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. These manifest possibilities will sooner or later be realized. The railways have already contributed immensely toward the development of the Territory. They will do more in the same direction each year. ANOTHER IMPORTANT RAILROAD. Since the above was written a charter has been filed by Henry L. Waldo, solicitor in New Mexico for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, for the construction of 385 miles of main line and branches in eastern and central New Mexico, the title of the corporation being "The Eastern Railway of New Mexico." The line already surveyed is 265 miles in length, extending from the eastern boundary of the Territory to a connection with the Santa Fe-Pacific, and crossing the Rio Grande Valley at Belen. This is designed to form a cut-off for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's transcontinental business and will afford a line much shorter than any existing transcontinental road. The branch lines are intended to improve the Santa Fe's facilities for reaching the Gulf ports via Fort Worth and the Mexican border at El Paso. This new company is capitalized at $9,625,000 of which $379,000 has been subscribed by E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe road. It is said construction work will begin immediately. This new enterprise will have a marked effect in the rapid development of that part of New Mexico lying east of the Rio Grande Valley. U. S. INTERNAL-REVENUE SERVICE. COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO, SIR: Complying with your request dated July 30, 1902, I hand you herewith statement of business for New Mexico for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902: TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, OFFICE OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Santa Fe, N. Mex., June 30, 1902. SIR: I have the honor to make this my fifth annual report of the condition of the National Guard on the 30th day of June, 1902. The guard is composed of 7 companies of infantry, 1 troop of cavalry, and a signal corps, which with officers and men and the staff aggregates 610. The signal corps was organized in September, 1901, but has not been equipped for the reason that I found, upon making requisition, that the War Department would not issue signal-corps supplies to be paid from the Congressional allotment of funds. The corps has kept up its organization, and we are waiting for the passage of the Dick bill, now pending in the United States Senate, the provisions of which will allow us to draw supplies for any arm of the service. The term of service of the Gatling-gun squad expired a short time ago, and a reorganization has not been effected up to this time. This was an excellent organization, well drilled and efficient, and I regret to have lost it from the service. Companies C and I of the First Regiment of Infantry were disbanded during the year, the first company named from lack of interest and the other because of expiration of its term of service. The term of service of Troop E of the First Squadron of Cavalry, stationed at Santa Fe, expired during the year, and no steps have yet been taken to reorganize. Troop A of the First Cavalry was organized in East Las Vegas on the 10th day of January, 1902, and now has 69 officers and men, under the command of Capt. W. C. Reid, and is doing excellent work. Three new infantry companies were organized during the year, viz, Company D at Silver City, commanded by Capt. O. G. Myhre; Company H at Socorro, commanded by Capt. T. J. Mathews, and Company K at Las Vegas, commanded by Capt. A. R. Da Costa. These companies are doing excellent work; officers and men have taken hold with enthusiasm and show a disposition to bring their drill and discipline up to the standard of the older companies. I am glad to say that I believe the guard is in better condition now than ever before better uniformed and equipped; better discipline is observed; officers and men are more punctual and regular in their attendance at drill and take more interest in their work. The one great thing lacking to bring the guard up to a higher standard is the opportunity to give them drill in battalion and regimental formation, in guard mounting and guard duty, and the various other duties incumbent upon a soldier when in camp. It was expected that we would get relief in that respect from the passage of the Dick bill, which provides for the holding of State and Territorial encampments and the use of the Congressional allotment in paying the expense of the same, but failure to pass the bill in the Senate will prevent our holding a Territorial encampment this year. I will arrange, however, to accommodate such companies as wish to hold company encampments or make practice marches by furnishing them the necessary equipage for the purpose. We are not supplied with a large amount of camp equipage, for the reason that we have no permanent armories; and our appropriation being too small to admit of our holding encampments, I have felt that it was not good policy to have a large quantity of supplies on hand that we could not use. The following is the official roster of the National Guard of the Territory, with the stations of the several organizations, viz: Hon. Miguel A. Otero, governor, commander in chief, Santa Fe; Brig. Gen. W. H. Whiteman, adjutant-general and ex officio quartermaster and commissary general, inspector-general, chief of ordnance, and chief of staff, Santa Fe; Col. R. E. Twitchell, judge-advocate-general, East Las Vegas; Col. W. R. Tipton, surgeon-general, East Las Vegas; Col. W. E. Dame, inspector of rifle practice, Albuquerque; Col. E. GodwinAusten, aid-de-camp, Las Vegas; Col. E. W. Dobson, aid-de-camp, Albuquerque; Col. Venceslado Jaramillo, El Rito; Col. J. E. Hurley, aid-de-camp, East Las Vegas; Col. A. S. Greig, aid-de-camp, Alamogordo; Col. J. W. Fleming, aid-de-camp, Silver City; Col. Jan Van Houten, aid-de-camp, Raton; Col. J. W. Willson, aid-de-camp, Roswell. First Regiment of Infantry, headquarters Albuquerque: Col. John Borrodaile, commanding, Albuquerque; lieutenant-colonel, vacant; major, First Battalion, vacant; major, Second Battalion, vacant; major, Third Battalion, Eugene Van Patten, Las Cruces; major surgeon, John F. Pearce, Albuquerque; chaplain, vacant; adjutant, Capt. E. L. Medler, Albuquerque; quartermaster, Capt. Frank H. Strong, Albuquerque; adjutant First Battalion, First Lieut. B. F. Forsythe, East Las Vegas; quartermaster First Battalion, First Lieut. H. W. Kelley, East Las Vegas; assistant surgeon First Battalion, Capt. H. M. Smith, East Las Vegas; chaplain First Battalion, Capt. George Selby, East Las Vegas; adjutant Third Battalion, vacant; quartermaster Third Battalion, First Lieut. William Ascarite, Las Cruces; assistant surgeon Third Battalion, Capt. John McConnell, Las Cruces; chaplain Third Battalion, Capt. Pedro Lassaign, Las Cruces. Company A, Las Cruces: Captain, Oscar Lohman, Las Cruces; first lieutenant, Louis Goodman, Las Cruces; second lieutenant, Theodore Roualt, Las Cruces. Company B, Las Cruces: Captain, J. Francis Findlay, Las Cruces; first lieutenant, William F. Jacoby, Las Cruces; second lieutenant, Rex H. Hart, Las Cruces. Company D, Silver City: Captain, O. G. Myhre, Silver City; first lieutenant, L. J. Newell, Silver City; second lieutenant, Colin Neblett, Silver City. Company F, Santa Fe: Captain, John Shoemaker, Santa Fe; first lieutenant, Juan B. Sandoval, Santa Fe; second lieutenant, Henry Alarid, Santa Fe. Company G, Albuquerque: Captain, J. E. Elder, Albuquerque; first lieutenant, Charles Whiting, Albuquerque; second lieutenant, Ralph L. Goodwin, Albuquerque. Company H, Socorro: Captain, T. J. Mathews, Socorro; first lieutenant, S. Abeyta, Socorro; second lieutenant, W. M. Swisher, Socorro. Company K, Las Vegas; Captain, A. R. Da Costa, Las Vegas; first lieutenant, Bonifacio Lucero, Las Vegas; second lieutenant, Adolph Mennet, jr., Las Vegas. First Squadron Cavalry, headquarters, East Las Vegas: Major, R. C. Bankin, commanding, East Las Vegas; adjutant, First Lieut. A. P. Tarkington, East Las Vegas; quartermaster, First Lieut. Robert Gross, East Las Vegas; commissary, First Lieut. R. C. Reid, East Las Vegas. Troop A, East Las Vegas: Captain, W. C. Reid, East Las Vegas; first lieutenant, James G. McNary, East Las Vegas; second lieutenant, George A. Fleming, East Las Vegas. Signal corps, Gallup: First Lieut. John H. Young, commanding, Gallup. At the last session of the legislative assembly an appropriation of $600 was made for the publication of 500 copies of a roster of New Mexico volunteers in the SpanishAmerican war, the publication to be made under the direction of the adjutant-general, and I regret to report that the work has not been done. I have met with obstacles from the start. First I applied to the War Department for the military record of Colonels Wood and Roosevelt, thinking the work would not be complete without the record of the distinguished commanders of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry. My application was refused upon the ground that that regiment was not a Territorial volunteer regiment, but was a United States volunteer organization, and that it was against the rules of the Department to furnish to State officers information concerning national volunteers, and that when rosters of such organizations were published it should be done by the War Department. This office not having been furnished with the muster-out rolls of the several troops from New Mexico in that regiment, I applied to the several troop commanders for the use of their retained copies of such rolls to assist me in preparing the roster; they all promised me to do so, but it is sufficient to say that I did not get them, and, having no accurate data from which to make up the roster, the work was dropped; and the appropriation will, under the law, be covered back into the Territorial treasury. I made the annual inspection of the New Mexico Military Institute, located at Roswell, on the 16th day of March, 1902, and am glad to say that I found everything pertaining to it in good condition and the institute prosperous in all its affairs. It is a pleasure to me to be able to say that at each inspection of this school I have found the conditions improved over the preceding year, which shows that the superintendent and his assistants are earnestly alive to their work and are striving to excel. I have so often described this institution, its buildings, course of study, and surroundings that it seems unnecessary to repeat the same. By direction of your excellency I attended the commencement exercises in June of this year, and delivered to the honor graduates their commissions in the National Guard, which the law provides they shall receive. The graduates in the order named were Lloyd T. Buell, of Santa Fe County, George W. Read, jr., and Earl Patterson of Chaves County, who have the honor of being the first graduates of this excellent institution. The commencement exercises were of a high order, and showed that the instruction through the entire course had been thorough and the students diligent. The failure of Congress, for lack of time, to pass the bill for the validation of the act of the legislative assembly authorizing the regents to issue bonds in the amount of $25,000 for the construction of additional buildings has been a disappointment to the regents and officers of the institute. The great need of the institution now is an additional building which will increase its capacity. So many county cadets are maintained in the school at actual cost that until the accommodations are increased to the extent that a larger number of paying students may be admitted the institution can not be made self-supporting. I earnestly renew my recommendation made last year, that the law be amended so as to permit Territorial and county cadets to remain in the institution for a full course of four years. The law as it stands, which authorizes the governor and eachmember of the legislative assembly to appoint a cadet, will in its operation turn out many of the cadets at the end of a two years' term. Very respectfully, Hon. M. A. OTERO, Governor of New Mexico. NEW MEXICO LAW LIBRARY. W. H. WHITEMAN, SANTA FE, N. MEX., September 1, 1902. SIR: Responding to your written request that I furnish a report on the Territorial law library, showing the number of volumes therein contained, with the number added during the present year, etc., for incorporation in your annual report to the honorable Secretary of the Interior, I have the honor to report as follows: The total number of law books in the law library proper and in the capitol building belonging to the Territory is at this date 7,500, of which 1,939 have been added by purchase and exchange with the several States and Territories since my report to the last legislative assembly, and of these 739 have been so acquired and added during the year last past. After encountering and overcoming many difficulties, not necessary here to enumerate, the Territory has at last established a library in which it may justly take pride. For many years after the Territory was organized the library consisted of such books only as were sent to the various Territorial secretaries by the courtesy of the several States and Territories, who, as a rule, filed and preserved the same in their office. These, after many years' accumulation, were at length recognized by the legislative assembly as a Territorial library by passing an act providing for the appointment of a librarian and making appropriations for the payment of his salary, the purchase of books, and other expenses. The appropriations have since been repeated by every subsequent legislature, and on so liberal a scale as at length to establish for the Territory a good and efficient working law library, with commodious and convenient quarters in the capitol building, where it is habitually visited and consulted by the bench and bar of the entire Territory. Respectfully submitted. Hon. M. A. OTERO, L. EMMETT, Librarian. Governor of New Mexico. JUDICIAL AFFAIRS. UNITED STATES COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, SIR: I take pleasure in inclosing herewith, in compliance with your request, a report on the business of the Court of Private Land Claims for the period from August 10, 1901, to June 30, 1902: Very respectfully, Hon. MIGUEL A. OTERO, MATT G. REYNOLDS, United States Attorney, Court of Private Land Claims. Governor of New Mexico. SCHEDULE NO. 1.-List of cases in New Mexico district decided by the Court of Private Land Claims from August 10, 1901 (the date of the last report to the governor of New Mexico), to June 30, 1902. Remarks. $3,632.94 Claim for money damages against the $3,632.94 3, 632.94 SCHEDULE NO. 2.-Grant surveys approved in New Mexico district during same period. |