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Rio Grande Woolen Mills Company, Albuquerque, November 24, 1902, $1,000,000. Rio Hondo Reservoir and Improvement Company, Roswell, April 4, 1896, $250,000. Rio Puerco Irrigation and Agricultural Company, Albuquerque, January 20, 1890, $2,500,000.
Rio Puerco Irrigation Company, Albuquerque, April 30, 1895, $500,000.
Rio Puerco Irrigation and Improvement Company, Albuquerque, July 19, 1889, $500,000.
Roswell Building and Loan Association. Roswell, February 8, 1901, $250,000.
Roswell Electric Light Company, Roswell, August 30, 1904, $250,000.
Roswell Telephone and Manufacturing Company, Roswell. April 14, 1894, $50,000. Roswell Water Company, Roswell, April 23, 188Q. $50,000.
San Andreas Irrigation Company, San Marcial, February 3. 1902, $400,000. San Juan Canal Company, Bloomfield, February I. 1888, $200,000.
San Juan Canal and Development Company, Blanco, March 4, 1904. $1,000,000.
San Juan Irrigation and Improvement Company, Ohio, August 27, 1891, $150,000. San Juan Land and Canal Company, Aztec. June 3. 1887. $300.000.
San Juan Water Company. Bloomfield, April 30, 1889, $200,000.
San Marcial Building and Loan Association, San Marcial. March 30, 1894, $200,000. San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Company (Conn.), San Pedro, May 3, 1880, $10,000,000.
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Santa Fé City Water Works, Santa Fé, December 17, 1881, $300,000.
Santa Fé Electric Light and Power Company, Santa Fé, September 22, 1883, $50,000.
Santa Fé Gas Company, Santa Fé, April 9, 1880, $100,000.
Santa Fé Gas and Electric Company, Santa Fé, August 1, 1894, $100,000.
Santa Fé Gas Light and Coke Manufacturing Company, Santa Fe, December 27, 1879, $50,000.
Santa Fé Irrigation and Colonization Company, Santa Fé, December 13, 1887, $2,500,000.
Santa Fé Water Company, Santa Fé. June 8, 1893, $500,000.
Santa Fé Water and Improvement Company, Santa Fé, October 27, 1880, $500,000. Santa Fé Water and Light Company (N. Y.), Santa Fé, February 28, 1900, $50,000.
Santa Fé Water Works Company, Santa Fe, December 29, 1879, $100,000.
San Vincente Cattle Company, Mangus Springs, April 6, 1892. $6,000,000.
John Schrock Lumber Company, Roswell, March 26, 1903, $250,000.
Short Horn Cattle Company, Albuquerque, February 1, 1884, $500,000.
Sierra Grande Ranch Company, Springer, August 6, 1888, $750,000.
Silver City Building and Loan Association, Silver City, April 19, 1887, $1,000,000.
Silver City Gas Company, Silver City, January 2, 1882, $50,000.
Silver City Water Company, Silver City, December 27, 1886, $100,000.
Silver City Water Works, Silver City, March 3, 1883, $60,000.
Socorro Building and Improvement Company, Socorro, November 23, 1881, $100,000.
Socorro Building and Loan Association. Socorro, April 13, 1885, $200,000.
Socorro Gas Light Company, Socorro, November 17, 1881, $100,000.
Socorro Illuminating Company, Socorro, December 3, 1881, $100,000.
Socorro Irrigation Company, Socorro. December 28, 1904, $250,000.
Socorro Water Company, Socorro, July 28, 1884, $100,000.
Southwest Development and Exploration Company of New Mexico, Albuquerque, February 1, 1904, $2,000,000.
Southwestern Savings, Loan and Building Association, Las Vegas, April 14, 1899, $2,500,000.
Stephenson-Bennett Consolidated Mining Company, Las Cruces, April 24, 1905, $1,250,000.
Spring City Town Company, Socorro, April 10, 1882, $90,000.
Springer Land Association, Springer. March 16. 1889, $320,000.
Taos County Irrigation and Improvement Company, Questa, July 16, 1902, $1,000,000.
Tijeras Water Company, Albuquerque. June 10, 1891, $250,000.
Trujillo Ranch Company, Las Vegas, April 17, 1885, $500,000.
Tuerto Water Company, Santa Fé, February 27, 1880, $10,000,000.
Tularosa Irrigation Company, Tularosa, October 14, 1889, $220,000.
Tularosa Reservoir and Irrigation Company, Tularosa, December 7, 1894, $100,000. Tuxpan Land Company, Albuquerque, February 17, 1894, $2,000,000.
Union Stock Yards Company, Albuquerque, February 5, 1891. $50,000.
United States Agricultural Society, Fort Bascom, July 23. 1881, $2.500,000.
Ute Creek Ranch Company, Raton, February 3, 1902, $50,000.
Valencia Bridge Company, Los Lunas, June 30, 1882. $25.000.
Valverde Irrigating Ditch Company, San Marcial, September 5, 1889, $5,000,000.
Vermejo Company, Colfaz County, March 9, 1889, $300,000.
Victorio Land and Cattle Company (California), Deming. February 17, 1899, $200,000.
Waddingham Cattle Association, Fort Bascom, June 18, 1881, $500,000.
Water Supply Company, Albuquerque, April 26, 1898. $150,000.
Western Homestead and Irrigation Company, Albuquerque, October 29, 1894, $1,000,000.
Western Ranch and Irrigation Company, White Oaks, May II. 1901. $1,000,000.
Western Union Cattle, Land and Irrigation Company, Socorro, July 23, 1887, $250,000.
White Sands Soda and Gypsum Company, Las Cruces, June 3, 1892, $1,000,000. Wise Automatic Computing Scale Company, Las Vegas, December 5, 1894, $100,000. Zuni Mountain Lumber and Trading Company, Albuquerque, September 27, 1902, $25,000.
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Among the early business corporations of the Territory was the Albu- querque Bridge Company, incorporated by act of Legislature January 24, 1865, with a capital stock of 1,000 shares of $50 each.
The incorporators were well known: Salvador Armijo, Thomas Gon- zales, Manuel Garcia, William Van, R. H. Ewan, W. T. Strachan, Cristo- val Armijo and W. H. Henrie. They were granted exclusive right to construct and maintain a toll bridge across Rio Grande at Albuquerque, toll not to exceed 5 cents for each person afoot, Io cents for each person horseback, 25 cents for each buggy or one-horse carriage, 10 cents addi- tional for each additional horse, 30 cents for vehicles drawn by two horses, etc., and I0 cents additional for each additional horse.
An act January 30, 1865, incorporated the "Taos and Mora Mountain Road Company," to construct a toll road across the mountain from Taos to Mora, by way of the Piedras Coloradas. The incorporators were: Colo- nel Ceran St. Vrain, Thomas Means, Antonio Jose Martinez, Juan Manuel Lucero, Antonio Jose Valdez, Pedro Valdez, Juan Santistevan, Ferdinand Maxwell, Diego A. Gallegos, Charles Rite, Aloys Scheurich, Moritz Biel- showski, David Webster, George A. Ross, Estevan Garcia, W. L. Blanc, Jose Gabriel Gallegos, Francisco Armijo, Adolph Guttmann, W. Friedmann, Miguel Ribera, Antonio Abad Romero, B. M. St. Vrain, Lucian Stewart, E. A. Du Brenil, Edward Pointer, Antonio Joseph, Juan de Jesus Valdez, and Gregario Valdez.
The greatest individual enterprise in New Mexico-the American Lumber Company-was organized in 1902 and incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The Company's great mills were located in Albu- querque, and the timber is obtained from a tract of three hundred thousand acres in the Zuni mountains. formerly owned by the Mitchell Brothers. This land, originally secured from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Rail- way Company, formerly was the property of the Territory, and under the laws should have been held in trust for the benefit of the schools of New Mexico, but, through the shrewd manipulation of the railroad company and politicians, the intention of the law came to naught and the title passed into the hands of individuals.
The American Lumber Company, upon obtaining control of this vast tract of land for a nominal sum, at once erected the great mills in Albu- querque and about thirty-five miles of logging railway in the timber field. The Albuquerque plant covers one hundred and ten acres, on which are a sawmill having a capacity of 325,000 feet per day of twenty-four hours ; the largest single-floor sash and door factory in the world, turning out an average of twelve hundred doors and eighteen hundred window sashes per day of ten hours; and a box factory with a capacity of six carloads of box material per day. Eight hundred and fifty men are employed in the plant at Albuquerque, and two hundred and fifty in the woods, and the pay-roll averages $45.000 per month. 'The mill began operations in February, 1903, the box factory in 1904, and the sash and door factory in 1905. The high grade output is shipped to the eastern states and the common lumber goes chiefly to the local market, Kansas and Oklahoma. The concern enjoys a large export trade. The capital stock is controlled largely by residents of Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan. The present officers are: President, W. P. Johnson; vice-president, W. H. Sawyer ; secretary and treasurer, D. E. Wright ; business manager, Jolin N. Coffin.
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One of the principal industries at Tucumcari, the Tucumcari Wool Scouring Company's mills, was established in April, 1904, by E. J. Huling, of Trinidad, Colorado, the M. B. Goldenberg Company, S. Florsheim and Merritt C. Mechem. Mr. Huling is president of the company and F. G. Chittenden is secretary. The mills cost $30,000, have a capacity of 14,000 pounds for ten hours' run, and employ twenty-five men. The concern handled 1,500,000 pounds of wool in 1905.
The Rio Grande Valley Woolen Mills Company, of Albuquerque, which began business about four years ago, is not only a big concern from a manufacturing standpoint, but is notable as one of the large co-operative enterprises of the country. Situated in the midst of a great wool-growing district, the business is conducted on those modern principles of co-opera- tion which bring an equitable distribution of profits to all shar- ing in the production and at the same time increase the quality of the out- put and economy in all departments of manufacture. The president of the company and the moving spirit in the enterprise is Mr. Johney H. Bear- rup, a well known business man of the Southwest.
The Crystal Ice Company of Albuquerque was incorporated in 1891 by William H. Hulvey, John T. Barraclaugh, William B. Childers and Angus A. Grant, William Barraclaugh being elected president, and William H. Hulvey, secretary. The latter's successors have been R. W. Hopkins, Henry Barraclaugh and C. A. Hawks. Water for the manufacture of ice is obtained from a well sixty-five feet deep. The capacity of the plant is about thirty-five tons per day. Shipments are made to several towns in the Territory.
The Automatic Telephone Company of Albuquerque, which was or- ganized in 1895 by Walter C. Hadley, Neill B. Field, Joseph E. Saint, B. O. Green and others, operates in Albuquerque and vicinity. It was the first automatic telephone line in the southwest.
The Superior Lumber & Planing Mill Company at Albuquerque, or- ganized by G. E. Gustafson and Wallace Hesselden in February, 1906, is the outgrowth of the enterprise established by Mr. Gustafson, who arrived in Albuquerque, January 2, 1899, and became a partner in the Albuquerque Planing Mill, now owned by John Newlander. For one year Mr. Gustaf- son operated the latter plant under lease and in September, 1905, erected. the establishment which the company now occupies. He had been en- gaged in business for twelve years in Chicago as a contractor and in plan- ing mill work, and came to New Mexico well qualified for the business now in his charge. This concern manufactures sash, doors, stair work and lathe work, operating twenty-two machines and employing from twenty- five to thirty workmen. The house supplies not only the local trade, but ships its product to outside points. The present plant represents an ex- penditure of about twenty thousand dollars and the business has become one of the leading productive industries of this part of the territory. It is growing rapidly, and to meet the increasing demands a large addition to the mill will soon be built on the five lots adjoining on First street, south of Coal avenue.
Mr. Gustafson is a native of Sweden and has been in the United States since June. 1886. He has noted with interest the business opportunities, and through a utilitarian spirit has taken advantage of these, working for
G. E. Gustafson
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his own success and at the same time belonging to that class of citizens who promote general prosperity while advancing their individual welfare. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Society and also the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
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NEW MEXICO OF TODAY
An act of the Thirty-fifth legislative assembly created the Territorial Board of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Managers of New Mexico. A similar board had been created by the Thirty-fourth assembly, but at the session of 1903 a clause providing for the repeal of the former act was inserted in the appropriation bill and was passed, owing to the inadvisa- bility of attempting to change a measure of such general importance and affecting so many conflicting interests. As soon as this action on the part of the Legislature became known, there was a demand from all sections of the Territory that immediate provision be made to continue the work of preparing for the exhibit; and the result was the passage of the bill pro- viding for the appointment of a board of managers March 19, 1903, and making an appropriation of not to exceed thirty thousand dollars to carry on the work. Pursuant to this act, May 18th Governor Otero designated the following as members of the board: Charles A. Spiess and Eusebio Chacon of Las Vegas, Fayette A. Jones of Albuquerque, Arthur Seligman of Santa Fé, Carl A. Dalies of Belen, Herbert J. Hagerman of Roswell, and William B. Walton of Silver City. On June I following the board organized by the election of Charles A. Spiess as president, Carl A. Dalies as vice- president, W. B. Walton as secretary, and Arthur Seligman as treasurer.
Shortly after the organization of the board Honorable M. W. Porter- field of Silver City was elected manager of the exhibit, and he performed the arduous duties of his office in a most capable manner, assuming per- sonal charge of the collection, installation and maintenance of the exhibit. Professor Hugh A. Owen of Silver City served as superintendent of the educational exhibit, J. A. Graham of Roswell as superintendent of the exhibit of agriculture and horticulture, Prof. A. R. Riddell as superintend- ent of the mining exhibit, and J. H. Huckel as superintendent of the ethno- logical exhibit. Valuable aid was also rendered by the Woman's Auxiliary Committee, of which Mrs. Miguel A. Otero was president. The other members of this committee were: Mrs. Louis Ilfeld of Albuquerque, Mrs. William Curtiss Bailey of Las Vegas, Mrs. G. T. Veal of Roswell, Mrs. John van Houten of Raton, Mrs. A. M. Branigan of Las Cruces, Mrs. J. O. Cameron of Carlsbad, Miss Isabel Lancaster Eckles of Silver City, Mrs. Florence Morse of Santa Rosa, Mrs. G. W. Prichard of White Oaks. Mrs. Walter H. Guiney of Deming, Mrs. Gregory Page of Gallup, Miss Louise A. Walton of Mora, Mrs. L. D. Koger of Alamogordo, Mrs. Alexander Goldenberg of Tucumcari, Miss Margaret Burns of Park View, Mrs. W. O. Oldham of Portales, Miss Clara H. Olsen of Santa Fé, Mrs. E. L. Med- ler of Albuquerque, Mrs. M. M. Page of Aztec, Mrs. Lizzie Hall of Hills- boro, Mrs. H. M. Dougherty of Socorro, Mrs. Antonio Joseph of Ojo Caliente, Mrs. J. C. Martinez of Folsom, and Mrs. Solomon Luna of Los Lunas.
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With funds very much smaller than those of other states and terri- tories, the people of New Mexico labored untiringly to assemble a display of their achievements and the resources of the Territory which should be a credit not only to New Mexico, but to the greatest of all international expositions. With an eye single to the purpose of displaying "a New Mex- ico of today," instead of picturing the Territory as a land of relics and curios, the board endeavored to illustrate what had been accomplished by pick and drill, by irrigation and many other industries which had reached a high degree of development during the period which had elapsed since the organization of the Territory. The exhibit was designed especially for showing the desirability of the Territory as a place of residence and for investment.
The building erected by New Mexico was one of the most attractive on the Plateau of States, despite its moderate cost-considerably less than ten thousand dollars. The mission style of architecture, characteristic of the earlier days of the Territory, was adopted. In the building were many valuable and interesting relics loaned by residents of the Territory. Among them were the "Maria Josefa," the oldest bell in America, which was cast in 1555, presumably in Spain, and in the sixteenth century, according to tradition, was brought to the present site of Algondones by one of the Franciscan missionaries. One of the most interesting features of the ex- hibit was the display collected and prepared by the women of New Mexico under the organization of the Woman's Auxiliary. It consisted of gold and silver plate, costly lace and other fabrics, relics and antiquities, with interesting romantic and tragic histories attached, all of which had been contributed by the women of the Territory. A pictorial display, which adorned the walls of the building and was contained in albums, was the most complete ever sent out by the Territory. It was prepared under the supervision of Mrs. William Curtiss Bailev. manager of the Woman's Aux- iliary Board, and illustrated every industry, the scenery, the people, the homes, the conditions and every phase of New Mexican life.
The educational exhibit was complete, illustrating the school system of the Territory, in both the higher and lower branches. All the higher educational institutes in the Territory had exhibits which excited the wonder and admiration of eastern educators. Many of the public schools were represented by excellent displays.
The mineral exhibit was the most comprehensive collection ever made in the Territory. It was officially characterized as containing "perhaps the greatest variety of mineral and mineral products shown by any state or country at the exposition." Here were exhibited side by side iron, zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold in their combinations and mineralogical forms, sulphur, mineral paints, mica. asbestos, gypsum, salt, marble, onyx, build- ing stone, precious stones, and coal, both anthracite and bituminous, telling a silent story of the diversified deposits of ore and other mineral values which are known to exist, and placing New Mexico before the world as an exceptionally interesting field to the mining engineer, the expert, the capi- talist, the prospector and the miner. Among the more striking features of this exhibit was a four-ton block of coal obtained from the Hagan coal fields-the largest specimen of its kind on the grounds, with the single ex- ception of one from Pennsylvania. Huge cubes of sulphur from the famous Jemez sulphur hot springs, beautifully tinted specimens of copper, the
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largest sheet of native copper in the world from the ancient Santa Rita copper mines ; mineral paints of various tints, gypsum from that great natural curiosity-the "white sands" of eastern New Mexico, salt from the exten- sive salt lakes near the central part of the territory, marble from Gila valley-thus, in almost interminable variety, could be recounted the various unique and interesting specimens that this Territory has yielded to the prospector and miner. Magnificent specimens of gold ore from Pinos Altos, Cooney, Golden and White Oaks, and of rich silver ore from Lake Valley, Kingston, Georgetown and other sections attracted rare interest. There were three fine private collections, embracing almost every known mineral-the Laidlaw Economic-Scientific collection, the Abraham col- lection and the Hillsboro collection. The zinc exhibit of the New Mexico School of Mines, from the Magdalena district, was important, having been prepared from a scientific standpoint. The turquoise exhibit, the only one at the exposition, was noteworthy from the fact that fully eighty per cent of the world's production of this gem comes from the mines of New Mex- ico. Professor Fayette A. Jones, chairman of the committee on mines and mining, and M. W. Porterfield, doubtless the greatest living authority on the turquoise, rendered material assistance in the assembling and arrange- ment of the exhibits. The former prepared a volume of three hundred and fifty pages descriptive of the mineral resources of the Territory, which was published at the expense of the board and distributed among those who evinced an interest in mining matters.
The horticultural and agricultural exhibit was intended to prove to the world what, under adverse conditions and without government aid, had been possible of accomplishment by the aid of irrigation during the decade ending with the year of the exposition. The superior character of the products of farm, field and orchard was a revelation to visitors from all lands, demonstrating that the very best results and most perfect devel- opment may be obtained in New Mexico by irrigation and sunny skies. This was the only state or territory having an exhibition, every day of the fair, of apples grown during the year 1904. A glass jar containing varie- ties of apples as large as pigeon's eggs, picked April 8, 1904, from a five hundred and eighty-acre orchard near Roswell, was displayed the first day of the exposition, and a new shipment was received every fifteen days to illustrate the early maturity in this region. Cotton from the lower Pecos valley was pronounced by some of the judges who saw it to be of the very finest staple. The Mesilla valley made a fine showing in cereals, and the Pecos valley of alfalfa and vegetables. The exhibit received thirty-two awards, which was a greater number than those received by some of the old states, though the exhibit was smaller.
The ethnological exhibit filled an entire room in the Anthropological building, thirty-two by forty-five feet in dimensions. It was second only to that made by the United States government, and proved of the greatest interest to visitors. Many scientists from all parts of the world pronounced it one of the best collections ever placed on exhibition. The Navajo blank- ets and Indian baskets exhibited were probably the most perfect display of this character ever made in the history of the world. A private exhibition of modern pueblo pottery, containing fifty-one pieces, represented all the potterv-making pueblos of the present day, including Acoma, Zuni, Zia, San Il Defonso, Santa Clara, San Juan and Isleta.
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The list of awards demonstrated the wide range and excellence of the resources of the Territory. The following complete list is deemed worthy of perpetuation :
In AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE: Gold medals .- John Becker Com- pany, Belen, wheat ; Jose Rodriguez, San Miguel, peas, wheat; New Mexico Agricul- tural Experiment Station, wheat ; J. J. Hagerman, Roswell. alfalfa, hay, corn, fruit ; D. J. Jones, Berino, alfalfa; Mrs. M. Armer, Kingston, wool; J. J. Jacobson, Fay, wood, roots; Territory of New Mexico, collective exhibit of fruit. Silver medals .- Alellan Growers' Association, ,Roswell, canteloupes; Alvino Chaberilla, Mesilla, wheat ; L. Clapp, Hatch, wheat; W. N. Hager, Mesilla Park, wheat; Margarite Padillo, Las Cruces, wheat ; Catarino Rodriguez, San Miguel, wheat ; Oscar C. Snow, Mesilla Park, alfalfa; Jesus Soles, Hatch, alfalfa; George M. Williams, Las Cruces, wheat ; H. Mertin, Rodey, wool; New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station, two fleeces from Angora goats; R. F. Barnett, Roswell. apples; Robert Beers, Roswell, fruit ; Beers Orchard, Roswell, fruit: Charles De Bremond, Roswell, fruit; Parker Earle Orchard Company, Roswell, plums; Ingleside Orchard, Roswell, peaches; E. Kim- mick, Swarts, apples; Love Orchard, Carlsbad, peaches; L. F. D. Orchard, Roswell, apples ; George Medley, Roswell, apples; F. G. Tracy, Carlsbad, peaches. Bronze medals .- Jose Baca, Las Cruces, wheat ; Clifton Chisholm, Roswell, Indian corn grown by irrigation : Chamber of Commerce, Roswell, canteloupes ; Anastacio Garcia, Mesilla, wheat ; Frank Knapp, Las Cruces, barley : Felipe Lopez, Mesilla, wheat ; Jose Madrid, Mesilla, wheat : Lebiro Ramico, San Miguel, wheat : Emilio Ramirez, San Miguel, wheat ; J. E. Wilson, Roswell, potatoes; Mesilla Valley Canning Company, Las Cruces, tomatoes, chili peppers in cans; Latham Brothers, Lake Valley, wool; J. R. Slease, Roswell, honey in comb and in jars; Mrs. Lucy C. Slease, Roswell, honey in jars; General R. S. Benson, Carlsbad, apples; Pickering Orchard, Roswell, fruit ; Roswell Chamber of Commerce, Roswell. peaches ; C. H. Sansel, Roswell, apples ; Mrs. Goodwin Ellis, Lincoln county, apples; G. W. Stevens, Roswell, fruit.
In MINES AND METALLURGY: Gold medals .- Territory of New Mexico, mineral resources ; New Mexico World's Fair Commission, coal and ores. Silver medal .- New Mexico School of Mines, zinc ores and minerals, Bronse medals .- C. H. Laidlaw, Fairview, mineral specimens: A. B. Renehan, San Pedro, mineral paint ; New Mexico Fuel and Iron Company, Santa Fé, bloedite and bituminous coal; Kelly Mine, Kelly, zinc and lead ores; Graphic Mine. Kelly, zinc ores and calcites ; Mogollen Gold and Copper Company, Cooney, copper ores; C. B. Hickman, Silver City copper minerals: Central Mining District, Grant county, native copper.
In EDUCATION: Gold medal .- New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park, students' work. Silver medals .- New Mexico Commis- sion (collective), elementary education ; Department of Horticulture, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, photographs and charts showing benefits from arsenical sprays against the codlin moth and also the number of breeds of this insect. Bronse medals .- Gallup Board of Education, Roswell Board of Education, Las Vegas Board of Education, Santa Fe Board of Education, University of New Mex- ico (general exhibit ).
In MANUFACTURES: Gold medal .- Richard Wetherill, Putnam, rare old blankets.
In ANTHROPOLOGY : Bronse medal .- To George Tietzel, Albuquerque (col- laborator with Fred. Harvey) : Apache group, Chief Trucha Tafoya, leader, Dulce; Acoma group, Juan Antonio Saracini, leader, Laguna ; Pueblo group. Antonio Chavez, leader, Santa Clara Reservation. Grand prise in Archaeology .- Territory of New Mexico, aboriginal blanketry and basketry.
"New Mexico Day." at the exposition, was appropriately observed on Friday, November 18th. The date had been set for October 27th, but owing to the unusual climatic conditions prevailing in the southwest about that time and the disarrangement of railroad traffic, by reason of wash- outs, it became necessary at the last moment to postpone the ceremonies until the date mentioned. An interesting program was carried out. In the morning Governor Otero and his party, after calling on President Francis, joined the procession of exposition officials at the New Mexico
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building. Addresses were made by President Francis, Governor Otero and Judge John R. McFie, of Santa Fé, associate justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. A reception was held in the afternoon, followed in the evening by a dinner given by the board of managers to President Francis, Governor Otero and invited guests.
An immediate and direct result of the magnificent mineral exhibit made at St. Louis was a marked revival in the mining industry of the Territory. It is a noteworthy fact that New Mexico outclassed every state in the Union, and the whole world, as to the variety of her mineral products. By reason of this distinction the jury of awards conferred on the Territory a gold medal for the best collective exhibit. The general standing of the Territory at the exposition was outlined as follows by Charles M. Reeves, of the Department of Domestic Exploration, in an article from his pen, which was published in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States :
"The ten or eleven years that have elapsed since the Columbian Ex- position at Chicago, have brought great changes to New Mexico, and the marked advancement and progress made along all lines is emphasized by a comparison of her exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition with those at Chicago. The Territory has large and excellent exhibits here, displayed in a most attractive and interesting manner, and showing many of the splendid products of that country, as well as the educational facili- ties and other interesting features, and the chance for statehood has been advanced many points by the excellent impression made at the fair.
"Great irrigation enterprises within the last decade have reclaimed large areas of fine agricultural lands, richer than the valley of the Nile, providing happy homes for thousands of people in the most beautiful and delightful climate in the world.
"The superior products shown here in New Mexico's agricultural and horticultural exhibits are a revelation to visitors from all lands, and have demonstrated that the very best results and the most perfect development in fruits and farm products is obtained by irrigation and sunny skies. The fruits, grains, and other vegetables and products of the soil shown here have few equals and no superiors. The exhibits are larger and better than have ever been made by the Territory at previous expositions.
"New Mexico's exhibit in the beautiful Palace of Mines and Metal- lurgy ably presents the status of one of her most important industries, showing the products of a vastly greater number of producing mines than it was possible to show ten years ago, or when the Territory made an exhibit at Chicago; and it also includes a far greater range of minerals, perhaps the greatest variety of minerals and mineral products shown by any state or country at the great exposition-anthracite and bituminous coal, iron, zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold, in their many combinations and various mineralogical forms, besides mica, gypsum, salt, sulphur, bloedite, asbestos, marble, onyx and building stone. A unique and most important product of the mines of New Mexico is the beautiful blue gem stone, the finest and most valuable turquoise found in any part of the world. This Territory has the only turquoise exhibits at the exhibition. One of these is in the mineral exhibit in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. A larger, and perhaps the most extensive exhibit of this stone ever shown, is in the Varied Industries Building ; also an exhibit of a turquoise mine and its prod-
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NEW MEXICO OF TO-DAY
ucts is shown in the gulch or outside mining exhibit, where a reproduction of the famous Porterfield turquoise mines near Silver City, New Mexico, shows the actual geological occurrence of this gem, which was accomplished by bringing to the fair several tons of the rock from the mine, with turquoise embedded in it, just as it was placed there when the chemical processes of nature were preparing the beautiful jewels which were intended to delight the eye of man and to rival the flowers, the birds and many other heaven- born charms which brighten the earth.
"New Mexico's greatest pride is her educational exhibit, which, as one writer puts it, 'is exciting the approval and astonishment of all visitors and many easterners, whose hazy ideas about the west receive a strong and wholesome readjustment when they see the actual results of the splendid school room work, and, by photographs, the grand and stately school build- ings, which demonstrate that New Mexico is, in proportion to her popula- tion, in no way behind the older states in her public school system, and far ahead of many in other educational institutions.' It is remembered that at Chicago the school exhibit represented only a few institutions, and these 'n a limited way, while here a very large number of splendid graded schools and country schools are represented by fine exhibits, besides the work of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the Military Institute, a uni- versity, a school of mines, two normal schools, also a number of denomina- tional schools of higher order.
"The beautifully arranged ethnological exhibit which fills room No. 3 in the Department of Anthropology, consists of a most valuable collection, chief among which is the wonderful Harvey collection, brought here from Albuquerque. From an artistic point of view, it cannot fail to interest anyone who delights in the beautiful and that it is very superior from a scientific standpoint is proven by the great interest it has excited in per- sons from all parts of the world who are qualified to judge, and who pro- nounce it by far the best collection of its kind at the exposition, and one of the best ever brought together.
"At Chicago the three territories, New Mexico, Arizona, and Okla- homa, joined in the erection of a building which was scarcely as large as New Mexico maintains alone at this exposition. Among the endless va- rieties of beautiful buildings which adorn the Plateau of States, many of which are reproductions of historic structures or homes of some of the nation's famous citizens, stands the pretty structure erected by New Mexico, a gem in point of architecture and interior decoration, a monument to the progress of the Territory, a credit to her citizens and one of the ornamental features of the greatest universal exposition of this or any other age."
BOUND TO PLEASE THE Heckman Bindery. INC.
JUNE. 66
N. MANCHESTER,
INDIANA
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