550 



MICHIGAN. 



Post-Office and Telegraphs. The domestic 

 postal traffic in 1888 was 31,665,123 letters and 

 cards, and the international amounted to 5,843,- 

 699. In 1889 the inland traffic, including news- 

 papers and other mailing matter, was 87,509,640, 

 and the foreign 37,193,403, receipts amounting 

 to $976,571 and expenses to $1,039,818. 



The telegraph lines in 1889 had a length alto- 

 gether of 27,861 miles, of which 14,841 miles 

 were Federal property and the rest belonged to 

 the States, to railroad companies, and to tele- 

 graph companies in nearly equal proportions. 

 There were 4,174 miles of telephone. 



MICHIGAN, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union Jan. 26, 1837; area, 58,915 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 212,267 in 

 1840; 397,654 in 1850; 749,113 in 1860; 1,184.059 

 in 1870 ; 1,636,937 in 1880 ; and 2,093,889 in 1890. 

 Capital, Lansing. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Cyrus G. 

 Luce, Republican ; Acting Lieutenant-Governor, - 

 William Ball, President of the Senate; Secre- 

 tary of State, Gilbert R. Osmun ; Treasurer, 

 George L. Maltz ; Auditor-General. Henry H. 

 Apliri; Attorney-General, Stephen V. R. Trow- 

 bridge, who resigned early in the year, and was 

 succeeded by Benjamin W. Huston ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Joseph Esta- 

 brook; Commissioner of Railroads, John T. Rich ; 

 Commissioner of Insurance, Henry S. Raymond ;. 

 Labor Commissioner, Alfred H. Heath ; Commis- 

 sioner of Mineral Statistics, Charles D. Lawton ; 

 Commissioner of the State Land Office, Roscoe 

 D. Dix ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 John W. Champlin ; Associate Justices, James 

 V. Campbell, who died on March 26, and was 

 succeeded by Edward Cahill, Allen B. Morse, 

 Charles D. Long and Claudius B. Grant. 



Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as ascer- 

 tained by the census of 1890, compared with 

 similar figures for 1880 : 





* Decrease. 



County Debts. The total debt of Michigan 

 counties in 1890 was $1.615,028, an increase of 

 $718,328 in ten years. Of this sum, $1,315,000 

 was a bonded debt, and $300,028 a floating debt. 



Finances. The following is a summary of 

 the operations of the State treasury for the year 

 ending June 30, 1889: Balance on June 30, 1888, 

 $1,188,567.70 ; total receipts during the year, $3,- 

 062,551.48; total disbursements, $3,134,929.99; 

 balance on June 30, 1889, $1,116,189.19. The 

 summary for the general fund is as follows: 

 Balance on June 30, 1888, $903,857.83 ; receipts 

 for the year, $1,928,013.36 ; expenditures, $1,973,- 

 173.59 ;' balance on June 30, 1889, $858,697.60. 

 Included in the general fund receipts is the sum 

 of $1,892.351.70, received of county treasurers 

 from the State tax levy. The State also received 

 a revenue of $947,171.66 during the year from 

 taxation of railroad, insurance, telegraph, tele- 

 phone, mining, and other companies. Of this 

 sum, all but $61,127.72, transferred to the gen- 

 eral fund, was devoted to educational purposes. 

 The following table shows the cost of maintain- 

 ing the various State institutions for the year 



