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The entire cost is about $1,000,000 a year, or 

 $1.67 to each inhabitant, and $8.89 for each 

 pupil registered. The salaries of teachers are 

 small, the length of terms quite limited, and 

 the attendance hardly u^to the average stand- 

 ard. The following statistics give a clear ex- 

 hibit of the whole matter : 



Whole number of scholars between four and 



twenty-one 



Number registered in summer schools 



Average attendance 



Number registered in winter schools 



Average attendance 



Probable number of truants or absentees 



Estimated value of all school property 



Number of male teachers employed in winter. . 

 Number of female teachers employed in winter 



Amount of school -money voted 



Amount of school land 



225,508 



120,295 



134,065 



107,717 



18,989 



$2,488,523 



1,801 



2,180 



$743.326 



312,975 



There are two Normal Schools in the State, 

 one at Farmington, and one at Castine. Two 

 hundred and sixty-four of the graduates of 

 these institutions have taught in the public 

 schools during the year. Buildings and fur- 

 niture have been supplied by the State, at 

 Farmington, at an expense of $14,000, but at 

 Castine the proper buildings have never been 

 erected, although $15,000 have been appro- 

 priated for the purpose. The Governor rec- 

 ommended in his last message an increase of 

 the funds, and a new and appropriate building 

 is likely to be erected during the coming year. 



The State-prison appears to be under excel- 

 lent management, and its income for the year 

 exceeded the expenses by $6,591.64. There 

 is a Reform School for Boys at Bangor, which 

 had 134 inmates. The expenses of the insti- 

 tution amounted to $20,810.79. The products 

 of the farm yielded $7,105.15. In pursuance 

 of a resolution of the last Legislature, a com- 

 mission has been appointed to devise a plan 

 for an Industrial School for Girls on the family 

 system, and report to the Legislature of 1872. 



Considerable progress has been made in ex- 

 tending the railroads of the State during the 

 year. The Androscoggin, which extends from 

 Brunswick to Leeds, has branches to Lewis- 

 ton and Farmington, the entire line being 7l 

 miles in length. Its earnings for the year 

 ending June 30th were $232,930.05, and its 

 expenses $130,549.44. The Portland, Saco & 

 Portsmouth road extends from Portland to 

 Portsmouth, N. H., 52 miles. Its earnings for 

 the year ending May 31st were $628,430.58; 

 expenses, $445,869.80. The European & North 

 American, the opening of which was cele- 

 brated at Bangor with much enthusiasm on 

 the 18th of October, has 114 miles within the 

 State, viz., from Bangor to Vanceboro. Its 

 entire length is 205 J miles, and, when com- 

 pleted to Halifax, it will have a continuous 

 line of 467 miles from the Penobscot River to 

 the chief port of Nova Scotia. This will 

 shorten the time required to go from New 

 York to Liverpool, via Halifax, by about two 

 days. The distance between the principal 

 points on the portion of the route on land are 

 as follows : 



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Halifax to St. John 260 



St. John to Bangor 202 



Bangor to Portland ' 138 



Portland to Boston 108 



Boston to New York 236 



Total from Halifax to New York 944 



The bonded debt of the road amounts to 

 $3,000,000, of which $2,000,000 is covered by 

 its own bonds, secured by bonds given by the 

 State, and $1,000,000 by State bonds, issued 

 to aid in its construction. The Portland & 

 Rochester road has been completed to Roch- 

 ester, N. H. Its earnings for the year end- 

 ing August 31st were $85,569.90; expenses, 

 $54,952.46. It has a debt of $1,050,000. The 

 Boston & Maine has now only 2 miles in the 

 State, from Salmon Falls to South Berwick; 

 but a new extension, which will give it an in- 

 dependent through line to Portland, has been 

 located. The Portland & Oxford Central ex- 

 tends from the Grand Trunk at Mechanics' Falls 

 to Canton, 27i miles. The Dexter & Newport 

 is 14 miles long, and is leased by the Maine 

 Central, for $18,000 per year. A branch of 

 the New Brunswick & Canada road extends 

 three miles into the State to Houlton. The 

 Maine Central, Portland &Kennebec, and Ken- 

 nebec & Somerset, have been consolidated. 

 The first of these sections now extends from 

 Bangor to Cumberland, 127 miles; the second 

 from Portland to Augusta, 62^ miles, with a 

 branch 9 miles long to Bath ; the last is 37 

 miles long, extending from Augusta to Skow- 

 hegan. The debt of the consolidated road is 

 $5,154,700. The Portsmouth, Great Falls & 

 Conway has 4J miles in the State, and is open 

 to Conway, N. H., its entire length being 65 

 miles. The St. Croix & Penobscot extends 

 from Calais to Princeton, 22 miles. It is pro- 

 posed to continue it at once to Grand Lake,, 

 13 miles farther. The Knox & Lincoln Rail- 

 road, from Bath to Rockland, 50 miles, was 

 opened for regular trains on the 6th of No- 

 vember. The Belfast & Moosehead Lake road 

 has been leased by the Maine Central for fifty 

 years, at a rent of $36,000 per annum. It ex- 

 tends from Belfast to Burriham, and is 33|- 

 miles in length. The Bangor & Piscataquis> 

 has been extended during the year from Dover 

 to Guilford, and is now 48 miles long, connect- 

 ing with the European & North American at 

 Oldtown. The Portland & Ogdensburg was- 

 opened in August to Conway, N. H., and is to 

 be continued through the White Mountains- 

 and across Vermont so as to establish direct; 

 communication with the West. The Atlantic & 

 St. Lawrence is practically merged in the 

 Grand Trunk of Canada by a lease for 999' 

 years. It has 82 miles of its length in this 

 State, which portion has been undergoing ex- 

 tensive repairs during the year. The total 

 length of railway in the State is 871 miles, of 

 which 174 were opened in 1871, and 73 miles 

 are in course of construction. The Kennebec 

 & W : scasset is to be constructed on the nar- 

 row-gauge plan. 



