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 580 UNITED STATES: — NEW MEXICO

put valued at 21,837,396 dollars; the chief product being sanitary ware, in which New Jersey is pre-eminent. New Jersey ranks second in the produc- tion of zinc ore ; it mined 668,449 tons in 1918. The iron ore mined in 1918 was valued at 1,945,651 dollars. The chief stone quarried is trap rock, the total output in 1918 being valued at 1,475,358 dollars. Limestone was also quarried to the value of 674,397 dollars. In 1918 sand and gravel to the value of 2,462,864 dollars was produced. New Jersey also produces Portland cement, coke, lead and zinc pigments, mineral waters, peat, green- sand marl (from which potash salts are being made), and other products of minor importance.

The manufacturing industries within the State are prosperous. In 1918, the manufacturing establishments numbered 3,216 and employed 499,279 wage-earners ; the raw material used was valued at 1,834,560,122 dollars, and the output at 2,990,939,855 dollars. The principal industries (with value of output in 1918) are oil refining (1918, 328,] 20, 677 dollars), high explosives (197,074,042 dollars), foundry and machinery (184,085,155 dollars), silkgoods (120,075,052 dollars), chemical products (189,117,335 dollars), drawn wire and wire cloth (93,350,127 dollars).

In 1918, according to State statistics, there were 44 establishments for canning fruit and vegetables, employing 4,610 persons, who packed 4,134,117 pounds of fruit, and 144,727,505 pounds of vegetables, of a total value of 5,797,094 dollars.

In 1919 the length of railroad within the State was 2,461 miles ; electric railway track, 1,593 miles ; the length of canals was 175 miles.

On June 30, 1919, there were 27 savings banks in the State with 374,839 depositors who had to their credit 173,756,000 dollars, being 465*55 dollars to each depositor. There are 24 State Banks having time deposits amounting to 12,619,889 dollars ; and trust companies having 767,239 depositors and 372,282,783 dollars on deposit.

Books of Reference Concerning New Jersey.

Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey. By T. F. Fitzgerald. Trenton. Annual Reports of: State Treasurer; Comptroller of the Treasury; Commission of Banking and Insurance ; Bureau of Industrial Statistics, and other State Authorities. New Jersey Archives. 40 vols. Issued by the N. J. Historical Society. Fisher, (E. J.), New Jersey as a royal province New York, 11U1. Lee (F. B.), New Jersey as a Colony and a State. 190'2. Tanner (E. P.), The province of New Jersey. New York, 1908.

NEW MEXICO.

Constitution and Government. — New Mexico from the time of its discovery by P^uropeans was politically associated with Mexico. On May 11, 1846, the Mexican war began ; when peace was made February 2, i848, New Mexico was recognised as belonging to the United States. On Sep- tember 9, 1850, the Organic Act of the Territory was passed by the United States Congress. The boundaries of the Territory had been made to include part of Texas, but Utah was formed into a separate Territory ; in 1861 put of New Mexico was transferred to Colorado, and in 1863 Arizona was dis- joined, leaving to New Mexico its present area. On June 20, 1910, Congress passed an Enabling Act permitting the Territory of New Mexico to frame a State Constitution, ana in November, 1911, New Mexico was admitted to Statehood.

The State legislature consists of 24 members of the Senate and 49 members of the House of Representatives.