WKST VIRGINIA. 





825 



ming County line. The length ..f this road will be 



about 100 miles. Boone Count? and part- of K 



wha. Raleigh, Lincoln, and Logan COB 



drained by the vat-- :-ibu- 



taries. This area embraces about 1> 



miles of land, well timber 



water level workable veins of superior b: 



cannel. coking, splint, and bituminous coal. T 



veins range in different localir 



feet in thicki. Marsh Fork of 



river a vein of coking coal 9 feet thick lias 



found '270 feet below water level by boring. 



An important enterprise in the New riv t -r >ection 

 of the State is the building of the Glenjean, Lower 

 Loup Creek and Deepwater Railroad. This road is 

 _:in on Upper Loup creek, about 6 miles from 

 Thurmond station, where the present Loup < 

 division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway inter- 

 sects with that road, and then to run up White Oak 

 branch 6 miles, thence down Lower Loup creek 16 

 miles to Deepwater. a small town at the head of 

 navigation on the Kanawha river. At Deepwater 

 the company proposes to build a bridge across the 

 Kanawha to intersect with the Kanawha and Michi- 

 gan Railroad, so that they will have facilities for 

 shipping coal by rail over that road as well as by 

 the Chesapeake and Ohio. 



Road System. The Governor, in his message, 

 notes that " there are but few decent roads in the 

 State." There are good roads in only about 5 coun- 

 ties. The system of having the labor of the county 

 do the work of repairing roads is condemned as in- 

 convenient and expensive. The Legislature is ad- 

 vised to provide that the road-making in the coun- 

 - under the control of one central body. 



Building: and Loan Associations. The Gov- 

 ernor renews former recommendations concerning 

 building and loan associations and fraternal socie- 

 ties. " They are." he says. " virtually operating in 

 this State without inspection. Thousands of dol- 

 lars of our money is placed in these societies every 

 year, and there is absolutely no supervision of 

 them." 



Political. The Republicans met in State con- 

 vention in Clarksburg on May 14. A platform was 

 adopted demanding a return to the policy of pro- 

 tection and reciprocity : denouncing " as unbusiness- 

 like and unpatriotic that mad revel of party perfidy 

 and dishonor which has taken bread out of Ameri- 

 can mouths and money out of the American Treas- 

 ury, and has created in the public revenue a defi- 

 ciency of $136.000.000"; rejoicing that "the 

 aroused self-interest of the country is about to hurl 

 from power the party which has written in our 

 nation's history this most shameful chapter of im- 

 becility " : denouncing the issue of Government 

 bonds in times of peace : demanding a sound-money 

 policy " which will maintain at an equality of pur- 

 chasing power every dollar of American money " : de- 

 claring that "every American dollar must be worth 

 100 cents, and the monetary system must be the 

 soundest and safest in the world " : approving liberal 

 appropriations for internal improvements: indors- 

 ing " the principle of protection to American indus- 

 tries as taught and maintained for thirty years by 

 the Republican party " : favoring ' such legislation 

 as will protect and restore American shipping and 

 compel the foreign commerce of the United States 

 to be carried in American ships '" : advocatir. _ 

 return to the policy of Washington. Jefferson, and 

 Madison, of discriminating duties in favor of Amer- 

 ican ships, which secured 90 per cent, of our carry- 

 ing trade to American bottoms " : demanding the 

 rigid enforcement of existing immigration laws, and 

 favoring " such further legislation as shall reduce the 

 volume and improve the quality of the human tide 

 that pours into our ports " ; favoring a liberal 



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. 

 WISCONSIN, 



population, 



ad in: 

 1,054 



f 1805 it - 

 >n. 



(oUTiiiiirnt. The following v. 

 officers during tin r. William H. 



Upl; itenant *. F.mil 



Baei. . udi- 



- 



il. William H. My 



General, Charles King: Superintendent of 1' 

 Instruction. John 0. Emery : " ner of In- 



surance. William A. Fricke : Railroa> : ner, 



D. J. McKenzie ; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, John B. 



U. Pinney, John B. Winslow, and A. W. S 

 man ; Clerk of the Supreme Court. Roujet D. Mar- 

 shall. 



Finances. The general fund embraces all the 

 revenues of the State applicable to the payment of 

 the ordinary expenses of the State government, the 

 sources from which it is derived being a tax on 

 civil actions, license of railroad companies, log- 

 driving and booming companu . and tele- 

 phone companies, insurance companies, hawkers and 

 peddlers, fees received from notaries public, from 

 various State offices, and from the sale of books and 

 reports. The expenditures from this fund are au- 

 thorized by permanent and temporary appropria- 

 tions, and by the several laws requiring the Secre- 

 tary of State to audit accounts. The general fund 

 receipts for 1896 exceeded those for 



:. and for 

 38,809.52,* total for the two y 



The disbursements v . less 



in 1896 than in 1895. the figures being, for 

 *2. 11 1.370.51: for : i of 



K than the receipts. 



The balance in the trust funds has grown from - 

 511.19 in I '..0-25.1* in l^l'rt. The re. 



for 1895-'96 were $3,837,32 .41<- disbursements, 

 -'.295.31. The actual receipts of the general 

 fund for the same term were ?3.913.377.09. of which 

 the largest item was from the rai 

 546.14. The disbursements. aggregatir._ 



^alaries and expen?- ~.5o; 



permanent appropriations. *'.'-,'. ,:e census, 



-J.j.45 : legislative expnst- - 74: chari- 



table and penal institutions. > - ''4 : clerk 

 hire. $133.483.33: labor about Capitol. * 100.163.69; 

 for sundry purposes. - ..'.'2. The legislative 



expenditures include -<'1.4n4.7'' for the special 

 sion of 1896. Under sundry expenditures are in- 

 cluded the maintenance of the National Guard, 



! : the transfer in lieu of 



the payment of trust-fund loans, amounting with 

 intei .': maintaining insane in coun- 



44: free high schools. *95.490.- 

 '.06 ; payments to county agri- 

 cultural societies. *71. 157.01 : special appropria" 



-"i: bounty on wild animal- and 



tl smaller expenditures. The receij 

 bursements for the two years included : School 

 fund receipt^ -bursenu-: 



- hool fund income recei i 



23 : disburseme : - y fund- 



receipts, s I iisbursements, $413,997. Uni- 



