UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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Barrett till July 1, Avhen the office \v;is abolished; 

 State Examiner, II. A. Langlie, .succeeded in 

 March by K. E. Wallace; Chief Veterinarian, 

 J. W. Dunham; Board of Pardons, the Governor, 

 the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, T. E. 

 Fox, and R. S. Adams; Game Warden, George 

 Watson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Alfred Wallin; Associate Justices, N. C. Young, 

 David E. Morgan. All are Republicans. 



The State officers are elected for terms of two 

 years in November of the even-numbered years. 

 The Legislature meets biennially in January of 

 the odd-numbered years. 



Finances. The Treasurer's report for the first 

 half of the year shows the cash balance in all 

 funds at the beginning of the year to have been 

 $158,164.33. The receipts from all sources in the 

 six months were $833,060.11. Of this amount, the 

 fees to the several State departments, insurance 

 taxes, and other incidental sources of revenue 

 were $208,231.60. The insurance companies paid 

 nearly $40,000 in taxes. Interest and income for 

 the tuition fund amounted to over $70,000. About 

 $51,000 was received from the sale of school and 

 institution lands. 



Mileage and per diem of the last Legislative 

 Assembly amounted to $32,521.70; per diem of the 

 officers and employees of the Legislative Assem- 

 bly, $26,960. Insurance on public buildings cost 

 $6,620. About $1,700 was paid out for expenses 

 of extraditing criminals. Transportation of con- 

 victs cost $2,254, and of patients to the insane 

 asylum $6,154. For the care of the blind $1,428 

 was paid. The permanent school fund paid $26,- 

 700 for purchase of bonds from school districts. 

 The sum of $19,866 was paid out of the operating 

 fund of the twine and cordage plant. The Treas- 

 urer redeemed $16,787 of wolf bounty certificates. 



The total expenditures during the six months 

 were $743,238.57, and the balance on hand in all 

 funds July 1 was $247,985.87. 



Valuations. The total valuation of real prop- 

 erty, as equalized by the State board, was $77,- 

 739,637. There are 18,929,742 acres of land on 

 the tax rolls. The value of the land, exclusive 

 of structures, is $62,790,487. Structures on the 

 land are assessed at $3,450,466. Town lots in the 

 State are assessed at $4,983,920, and structures on 

 lots at $6,514,764. 



The total value of personal property was fixed 

 ,at $27,849,290. Nearly half of this sum is repre- 

 sented by live stock. Elevators are assessed at 

 $1,519,488, warehouses at $98,800, and grain 

 therein at $93,916. The railroad property is val-. 

 ued at $17,993,367; express companies, $139,220; 

 telephone companies, $108,297; telegraph compa- 

 nies, $287,290. 



The rate of taxation for all State purposes was 

 9 mills. 



Education. The total school population, June 

 30, was 97,055; in 1900 it was 92,437. 



Eight students received degrees at the com- 

 mencement of the Agricultural College, at Fargo, 

 in June. In the summer more than $60,000 was 

 expended for new buildings, repairs, and apparatus. 



The first law class was graduated at the State 

 University, at Grand Forks, in June. The enrol- 

 ment was 175 the first day of the fall term. 



The Valley City Normal School opened with 

 102 pupils, 30 more than in the year previous. 

 The graduating class numbers 19. 



Penitentiary. There were 115 prisoners in 

 June, 30 fewer than the year before. Fifty work 

 in the twine factory: about three-fourths of the 

 product had been disposed of. The State sells 

 binder twine to the farmers as nearly as possible 

 at cost. 



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Products and Industries. 

 turns show l,i:io ,i , . ,, , . .,, t m lt 

 were reported for Norili ': 

 earners emj)loyed, 

 wages. The prodnei 



Flour-milling gave ;i ] 

 023, or 45 per cent, of t tie 

 all the manufacturing in 

 Between 1890 and 1900 Hi 

 the State increased <>,2<M),<iO acre*. 



The wheat-crop of 1901 was r.-,! im.it. 

 000,000 bushels, and the flax-crop at n. -n if 

 000,000 bushels. Half of the flax grow,, , tl,, ; 

 country is raised in this State. 



The corn-product amounts annually to alout 

 1,000,000 bushels; barley, 0,000,000; oats, l.HOO,- 

 000; and rye, 500,000. The potato-crop amounts 

 to about 2,000,000 bushels, and the hay-crop to 

 1,500,000 tons. There are more than 100 cream- 

 eries. The wool-product of 1900 was 1,800,000 

 pounds. 



The largest industrial organization ever formed 

 in the State has been incorporated for the buying, 

 selling, and mining of coal and other lands, the 

 buying and selling of merchandise of all kinds, 

 manufacturing and selling brick, tile, and sewer- 

 pipe, erecting, maintaining, and operating electric 

 railway and telephone-lines, etc. The capital 

 stock is $1,000,000. 



Banks. The abstract of the condition of the 

 131 State banks, Sept. 30, shows large gains in 

 the holdings. There was an increase of over 

 $1,500,000 in the deposits subject to check over 

 the statement of July 15, and of over $209,000 

 in certificates of deposit. The total resources of 

 the banks of the State are more than $9,500,000. 



Insurance. A table giving details of fire in- 

 surance in the various States covers for North 

 Dakota the twelve years 1889-1900, and shows 

 that the risks taken in those years aggregate 

 $285,019,136, while the premiums paid in that time 

 reach $5,733,147. The total amount paid on life 

 policies in 1900 was $233,852. 



Lands. Some of the school lands were sold in 

 the autumn for the purpose of getting a part of 

 the endowment in productive form. The amount 

 sold was 29,288.13 acres, of which 120 acres were 

 institution land, the remainder being common- 

 school land. The total amount received is $429,- 

 371.23. The highest average price was in Caas 

 County, $17.43 an acre. The general average was 

 $14.70. 



At Minot, where is one of the five United States 

 land-offices in the State, there were in the year 

 5,621 original homestead entries. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature con^ 

 vened Jan. 8, and adjourned March 8. Robert 

 M. Pollock was Speaker of the House. On joint 

 ballot there were 92 Republicans and 11 Demo- 

 crats. During the session 210 laws and 4 resolu- 

 tions were passed. 



A committee was appointed to investigate the 

 departments and report as to their management 

 and the possibility of reducing expenses,, and an- 

 other for devising ways and means for increasing 

 the revenues. Many of their recommendations 

 were embodied in the laws. 



It was provided that no party should have more 

 than one list of nominees on the official ballot, 

 and none should be represented by more than 

 one organization. Delegates from caucuses are 

 required to have a plurality only of the vote 

 cast, not a majority, as formerly. The State v 

 redivided into 40 senatorial districts, providing 

 for 40 Senators and 100 Representatives 



Hereafter no insurance company not incorpo- 

 rated under the laws of this State shall writ* 



