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MICHIGAN. 



Two-million Loan Bonds, 6's, due January 

 1, 1873 $458,000 00 



Two-million Loan Bonds, (Ts, due January 

 1,1878 436,00000 



Two-million Loan Bonds, 6's, due January 

 1,1863 1 723,000 00 



Renewal Loan Bonds, 6's, due July 1, 1878. . 160,000 00 



War Bounty Loan Bonds, 7's, due May 1, 

 1890 463,000 00 



Canal Bonds, 6's, clue July 1, 1879, guaran- 

 teed by State 81,000 00 



Total interest-bearing bonded debt.. $2,321,000 00 

 Non-interest-bearing bonded debt : 



Matured adjusted bonds, in- 

 terest $3,000 00 



War Loan Bonds 50 00 



Outstanding, part paid (unrec- 

 ognized) bonds, $54,000 ad- 

 justable at 31,24278 34,892 78 



Aorcrregate bonded State debt, September 

 30,1871 $2,355,29278 



The general State tax levy for the year 1871 

 is as follows : 



General purposes $328,750 00 



Military tax 27,976 05 



University aid 15,000 00 



University buildings 37,500 00 



New Capitol 100,000 00 



Reform School 35,000 00 



Asylum for Insane 100,300 00 



Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the 



Blind 47.500 00 



Additions to State-prison 50,000 00 



State Public (Charitable) School 15,000 00 



Aggregate $757,026 05 



The school statistics for the year were as 

 follows : Number of counties reporting, 67 ; 

 towns, 883 ; children between five and twenty 

 years of age, 393,275 ; between eight and four- 

 teen, 175,1)20; attending public schools, 292,- 

 466 ; attending school under five and over twen- 

 ty, 7,644 ; average months, school taught, 7 ; 

 stone school-houses, 77; brick, 570; frame, 

 4,024 ; log, 629 ; value of school buildings and 

 lots, $7,155,995 ; qualified teachers employed, 

 male, 2,971; female, 8,303; aggregate wages 

 to males, $602,187.89 ; females, $926,923.69 ; 

 average monthly wages of males, $49.92 ; of 

 females, $27.21 ; volumes in district libraries, 

 101,760 ; in town libraries, 48,470 ; attending 

 select schools, 8,772 ; moneys on hand at be- 

 ginning of year, $437,939.23 ; received from 

 State two-mill tax, $409,541.20 ; received from 

 primary-school fund, $182,922.25 ; for tuition 

 of non-resident scholars, $26,047.40 ; from dis- 

 trict taxes, $1,749,407.89 ; from tax on dogs, 

 $25,608.78; from all other sources, $499,506.05 ; 

 total resources of the districts for the year, 

 $3,367,868.81 ; paid for buildings and repairs, 

 $662,896.11 ; for all other purposes except 

 teachers, $648,342.02 ; amount on hand, $527,- 

 128.52 ; total indebtedness of districts, $1,146,- 

 569.14; expenditures for the year,$2,840, 740.29. 

 The number of newspapers and other periodi- 

 cal publications in the State is 189, of which 

 15 are daily, 3 are German, and 3 are Dutch. 



Messrs. Lewis and Headley's annual state- 

 ment of the business of Saginaw Valley for the 

 year shows, 755,015 barrels of salt, being an 

 increase of 108,599 for the year. Amount on 

 hand, 108,294 barrels. Capital invested, $2,041,- 



000 ; this does not include the business at Port 

 Austin and Mount Clemens, which, however, is 

 small. Lumber manufactured in the valley, 

 529,682,878 feet ; this is probably not far from 

 one-third the total manufacture of the State. 

 Of the forest-fires in October, Messrs. Lewis 

 andHeadley say: " The month of October, 1871, 

 will be ever memorable, not only in connection 

 with the terrible fire which decimated one of 

 the fairest cities in the West, but as well in 

 connection with the destruction of vast forests 

 of pine-timber throughout this find the neigh- 

 boring State of Wisconsin. In the region trib- 

 utary to the Saginaw Valley, the effect of the 

 fires was most disastrous and widely spread. 

 To realize the extent of territory embraced in 

 what is known as the ' burnt district,' a glance 

 at the map of Michigan becomes necessary. 

 Commencing at a point on Lake Huron near 

 Lexington, a line drawn across Sanilac, Lapecr 

 and Genesee Counties, to the south line of Sagi- 

 naw County, thence in a northwesterly direc- 

 tion across the State to the north line of Oceana 

 County, will mark the southern limits of the 

 destructive fire, while all the country north of 

 this line and east of the Saginaw Bay was 

 involved in the conflagration. On the west 

 side of the bay, a line drawn from the north 

 line of Bay County, west to, and including 

 Manistee County, and embracing all the terri- 

 tory south to the first given line, will give the 

 reader a very good idea of the amount of land 

 burned over. According to the closest esti- 

 mates which can be made, an amount of tim- 

 ber equal to five years' cut of the valley has 

 been destroyed ; or, in round numbers, four 

 thousand million feet. Of this vast quan- 

 tity, no doubt a large amount, variously esti- 

 mated at from three hundred to five hundred 

 million feet, has been watered during the 

 present winter, and w r ill be saved. The balance 

 of the timber will probably be attacked by 

 the insect whose destructive effects are always 

 manifested in down timber, and, while avail- 

 able for coarse stuff for building purposes, will 

 be worthless for the nicer work to which our 

 lumber is applied ; its distance from streams 

 rendering it in its depreciated value nearly 

 worthless. The loss in the coarser timber, 

 particularly hemlock, the value of which is 

 but now beginning to be appreciated, is beyond 

 computation." 



Regarding the great October fires, the fol- 

 lowing information is given by Governor Bald- 

 win in a message to the Legislature : 



"While the people of Michigan were engaged 

 in the noble work of furnishing relief to the 

 sufferers in Chicago, the same devouring ele- 

 ment was making sad havoc in our own 

 State. Thriving towns, farm and school 

 houses, churches, stock, crops, and thousands 

 of acres of valuable timber, were consumed. 

 Nearly 3,000 families, or about 18,000 persons, 

 were rendered houseless, and deprived of the 

 necessaries of life. 



" Immediately after the fires, two State Relief 



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