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Excerpt from Admission of New Mexico as a State Her Resources and Future: Speech of Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, Delegate From New Mexico, in the House of Representatives, May 21, 1874
The average increase of twenty or more of the older States during that time was only about 20 per cent., and the actual increase proper of New Mexico has been about 10 per cent. Greater in the last ten years than that of Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Arkansas, Dela ware, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, massachusetts, -missis sippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Tennessee. The present population is estimated to be about The south ern, northern, and eastern portions of the Territory are rapidly set tling, and have been since 1870, with a very substantial class of inhabitants, devoted as they are for the most part to stock-raising and farming. This increased impetus given to immigration to the por tions of the Territory just named is owing to the fact that for the last three years New Mexico has been free from Indian hostilities, for which reason also, since 1870, in those portions large mining districts have been opened and occupied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
