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 irrigation projects will reclaim 4,500,000 acres additional. The area to be reclaimed under the Federal Reclamation Act in New Mexico alone extends to 250,000 acres. The Rio Grande project provides for reservoir construction for the irrigation of 180,000 acres in New Mexico and Texas. Private enterprise also is devoted largely to reservoir and canal construction. The farm animals in 1910 comprised 133,000 horses, 29,000 milk cows, 901,000 other cattle, 4,729,000 sheep, and 32,000 swine. In 1911 the wool clip amounted to 20,250,000 pounds of wool, valued at 3,804,800 dollars. The national forest area covers more than 11,111,300 acres, and there are about 4,000,000 acres of heavily forested country in private ownership. The State has valuable mineral resources. In 1911 the metallic output comprised gold, 36,847 fine ounces (761,700 dollars); silver, 1,341,400 fine ounces (724,300 dollars commercial value); copper, 2,860,400 pounds (357,550 dollars); lead, 1,381 short tons (124,290 dollars); zinc, 3,778 short tons (430,692 dollars). In the same year 3,148,158 short tons of coal were produced, valued at 4,525,925 dollars. The quarries yielded granite, sandstone, limestone, and marble to the value of 406,454 dollars. Turquoise is profitably worked in four localities within the State, the sands contain traces of platinum; gypsum is produced in small quantities; as is also mica. The total mineral output of the State in 1911 was valued at 7,869,918 dollars. The manufactured output of New Mexico in 1910 amounted to the value of 7,978,000 dollars, of which nearly half was for car construction and repair by railway companies. The industries next in importance are lumber and timber work, and flour and grist milling. There are also woollen mills and cement works. The aggregate capital of all industries was 7,743,000 dollars; the number of wage-earners was 4,143, earning in a year 2,591,000 dollars, and the cost of materials used was 3,261,000 dollars.

In 1910 there were 2,967 miles of railway and 14 miles of electric railway track within the State.

Books of Reference.

Official.

Report of the Secretary of New Mexico.—Legislative Manual. Biennial. Santa Fé.—Publications of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration, descriptive of the various resources of the State. Albuquerque.

Constitution and Government.—From 1609 to 1664 the region now called New York was under the sway of the Dutch; then it came under the rule of the English, who governed the country till the outbreak of the War of Independence. Between July 9, 1776, and April 20, 1777, a Convention framed a Constitution under which New York was transformed into an independent State, afterwards, in 1788, entering the Union as one of the 13 original States.

The legislative authority is vested in a Senate of 51 members elected every two years, and an Assembly of 150 members elected annually. There are annual sessions. L L