Excerpt from Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern, Vol. 3: The Nation's Youngest Commonwealth Within a Land of Ancient Culture, BiographicalConvicts whenever paroled were required to work. Governor Hughes' maxim was that savages could not be civilized, nor criminals reformed, without labor.His prison policy aided much in the large reduction referred to in prison maintenance. The Governor's three annual reports to the secretary of the interior and congress proved of great public value, as they contained much data on climate and wealth resources of the territory, the Indians and their needs, and the moral and progressive character and interests of its diversified population. The information furnished therein was the subject of much favorable comment in the press of the country. There were five thousand copies of the 1893 and 1894 reports published, and so great was the demand for these that of the report of 1895, containing one hundred and nineteen pages, seventeen thousand five hundred copies were issued by the government and distributed. It scarcely need be added that these proved a valuable advertising medium for the territory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.