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950,732; special school funds, $1,523,903 

 total, $8,898,816. In addition to the annual 

 income from these several funds, one fourth of 

 the State revenue is devoted to the support of 

 the schools. On the 1st of November there 

 were in attendance on the three normal schools 

 513 students at Kirksville, 237 at Warrensburg, 

 and 184 at Cape Girardeau ; and there were 

 497 students at the State University, 105 at 

 the Lincoln Institute for colored youth, and 71 

 at the School of Mines. At the Lincoln Uni- 

 versity an entire corps of colored instructors 

 was in charge for the first time in 1880. 



The State Board of Immigration was created 

 by an act passed in 1879. By a subsequent 

 act, the appropriation, which the original law 

 provided should be $10,000 per annum, was 

 cut down to $4,000 per annum for the ensuing 

 two years. An office was opened at St. Louis. 

 Information was solicited concerning the prod- 

 ucts, prices, and quality of lauds, and capabil- 

 ities for receiving immigrants of the differ- 

 ent sections of the State. A pamphlet, suc- 

 cinctly describing the resources of the State, 

 was issued, with an accompanying map show- 

 ing the railroad extensions to date. Andrew 

 McKinley was appointed Superintendent of 

 Immigration. On the recommendation of the 

 State Board, county immigration societies were 

 organized. There are not over 2,000,000 acres 

 of public lands remaining, of which only a 

 small portion is of superior quality, and this 

 is not easily available, owing to the destruction 

 of the records during the war. The need and 

 capacity of Missouri for immigration are, how- 

 ever, felt to be great, the county societies are 

 active, and a warm interest is generally taken 

 in the State board, which asks for an appropri- 

 ation of $30,000 for the next two years in or- 

 der to take advantage of the large immigration 

 movement from Europe, and spread informa- 

 tion as to the prospects afforded in the unde- 

 veloped parts of Missouri. 



A census bulletin gives the following foot- 

 ings for the State of Missouri: Males, 1,127,- 

 424; females, 1,041,380; natives, 1,957,564; 

 foreign, 211,240; white, 2;023,568; colored, 

 including 92 Chinese and two half Chinese, and 

 96 Indians and half-breeds, 145,236 total, 2,- 

 168,804. 



Missouri now has 4,007 miles of railroad in 

 operation, 390 miles having been built in the 

 last year. The number of miles of steel track 

 increased from 1,500 to 2,000 in the same time. 

 The narrow-gauge system is represented by 195 

 miles. There is not a county north of the Mis- 

 souri without a road, and only twenty-two 

 south of the river. The gross earnings of all 

 the roads in the State in 1880 were $21,000,- 

 000, which is but a little less than the taxable 

 valuation of the roads. There is one mile of rail- 

 road to every 542 inhabitants in the State, and 

 one mile to ev"ery 400 inhabitants in the north- 

 ern part of the State. Many of the southern 

 counties embraced in the Ozark Hills do not 

 possess the areas of productive valley and prai- 



rie which are found in the central and north- 

 ern parts of the State, but these counties pos- 

 sess other elements of wealth iron, lead, zinc, 

 and valuable earths suitable for the manufact- 

 ure of porcelain and paint, large forests of 

 valuable pine and cedar, and a considerable 

 number and variety of healing springs. 



A destructive wind-storm swept over the 

 southern part of the State, April 18th, causing 

 the loss of over one hundred lives. The town 

 of Marshfield was almost entirely destroyed. 

 Such whirlwinds seem to have become more 

 frequent of recent years, Houstonia and Rich- 

 mond having been devastated in the same man- 

 ner within two or three years, as well as Mount 

 Carmel in Kansas. 



The city of St. Louis, after a long period of 

 quiescence, seems to have entered upon a new 

 career of commercial growth. During the year 

 1,854 building-permits were issued, and $3,790,- 

 650 were expended upon the construction and 

 alterations of buildings. The cotton receipts 

 for 1879-'80 amounted to 480,000 bales ; but 

 a considerable portion of this trade belonged 

 properly to Memphis, the yellow fever having 

 caused the temporary transfer of the business 

 to St. Louis. The receipts of the year 1877- 

 '78 were 246,674 bales, and the receipts for 

 1880-'81 promise to be far greater. The quan- 

 tity received in 1870 was less than 20,000 bales. 

 For this business, which now amounts to over 

 $30,000,000 a year, a new Exchange Building 

 is to be erected. A call board has been organ- 

 ized, and dealings in futures were commenced 

 September 1st. The grain-trade has grown 

 with a like rapidity. The receipts of wheat in 

 1876 were 7,604,265 bushels; in 1879 they had 

 increased to 17,093,362 bushels; and in 1880 to 

 18,349,403 bushels. The consumption of the 

 St. Louis mills in 1880 was fully 5,000,000 bush- 

 els. The receipts of corn in 1880 were 21,227,- 

 358 bushels, against 13,360,636 bushels in 1879. 

 Exports to Europe through the port of New 

 Orleans have within the short time that the jet- 

 ties have been open reached a high figure, and 

 already exceed in quantity the consignments by 

 rail. In 1879 the river shipments from St. 

 Louis amounted to 2,390,897 bushels, being 

 about one half the quantity sent overland. In 

 1880, 5,578,240 bushels were shipped in bulk 

 to New Orleans, nearly as great a quantity as 

 was shipped eastward by railroad. The quan- 

 tity of corn shipped in barges down the Missis- 

 sippi was 9,450,358 bushels in 1880, against 

 3,585,589 bushels in 1879. The total grain re- 

 ceipts of St. Louis aggregated 50,629,940 bush- 

 els in 1880, against 38,001,398 bushels in 1879. 

 The shipments of pork and meats fell off from 

 216,207,923 to 198,672,105 pounds. The re- 

 ceipts of horses and mules increased from 

 33,289 to 46,001 head. The elevator capacity, 

 which was 4,950,000 bushels, had been in- 

 creased to 6,850,000 bushels in 1880. The 

 bank clearings increased from $1,119,368,256 

 to $1,422,918,978. The confidence of the peo- 

 ple in the banking institutions of Missouri was 



