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The following statistics were gathered from 

 the report of the Board of State Charities for 

 1871 : Aggregate value of property (real and 

 personal) invested in the several organized 

 private charities, reporting during the year 

 1871 to the Board of State Charities, is $976,- 

 255.32. Tho cost of maintenance of these for 

 the year was $162,226. The whole number 

 of beneficiaries reported was 26,538, the num- 

 ber for the current year being 2,204 ; yet the 

 same report indicates that these are not all 

 the organized private charities of the State. 



The following school statistics were con- 

 solidated from returns received at the office of 

 the State School Commissioner in 1871 : 



White. Black. 



Boys 526,109 Boys... 13,402 



Girls 505,656 Girls 12,881 



Total White. . . 1,031,765 Total Black. . . . 26,283 



Whole number of scholars between 5 and 21 1,058,048 



Average number in daily attendance upon pub- 

 lic schools 431,290 



Whole number enrolled 726,354 



Number of school-rooms in the State 13,373 



Number of teachers employed 22.107 



Males 9,563 



Females 12,544 



Whole number of colleges, universities, and 



academies in the State 90 



Students in attendance 11,043 



Males in attendance 6,477 



Females in attendance 4,566 



Students in the pagan classics 4.704 



Males in the pagan classics 2,777 



Females in the pagan classics 1,927 



Classical graduates during 1870 530 



Classical graduates during 1870, males 297 



Classical graduates during 1870, females 233 



Aggregate cash value of all colleges, universi- 

 ties, and academies $6,105,120 



Aggregate income from all sources 404,697 



The following are the taxation statistics for 

 1871: 



Number of acres of land 25,445,242 



VALUATIONS. 



Value of lands $698,489,198 



Value of real estate in cities and towns . . . 327,129,836 

 Value of chattel property 476,516,937 



Total taxable valuation $1,502,135,971 



STATE TAXES. 



For sinking fund $1,199,80487 



For general revenue fund 1,649,603 94 



For State common-school fund 1.501,319 47 



Total State taxes $4,350,728 28 



COUNTY TAXES. 



For county expenses $1,828,773 11 



For poor purposes 607,208 72 



For bridge purposes 1,434,382 57 



For building purposes 866,600 80 



For road purposes 1,041,337 98 



For railroad purposes and debts 527,284 58 



Total county taxes '. . . $6,305,587 76 



TOWNSHIP, SCHOOL, SPECIAL, CITY, AND TOWN TAXES. 



For township expenses $656,367 24 



For school and school-house purposes 5,103,581 33 



For other special purposes 1,147,93034 



For city and village purposes 5,391,193 45 



Total township, special, and city taxes.. $12,299,072 36 



Total county and other local taxes 18.604,660 12 



Total taxes for all purposes 22,955,388 40 



Delinquencies and forfeitures 632,275 08 



Total taxes, including delinquencies 23,587,654 24 



The following figures present a resume of 

 the results obtained from reports of railroads 

 doing business in Ohio, to the Commissioner 

 of Railroads and Telegraphs, for the year end- 



ing June 30, 1871: Length of finished roads, 

 main line and branches, entire lines, exclusive 

 of sidings and double tracks, 6,175 miles, of 

 which 3,457i miles are in Ohio. Capital 

 stock paid in, entire lines, $210,387,148.87; 

 proportion for Ohio, $115,432,037.91. Amount 

 of bonded and floating debts, $177,552,701.90 ; 

 proportion for Ohio, $95,844,981.30. Total 

 amount of capital stock and debts, $391,788,- 

 964.52; proportion for Ohio, $209,564,675.54. 

 Total cost of roads and equipments, $365,778,- 

 316.25 ; proportion for Ohio, $158,152,405.56. 

 Gross earnings, passengers, $16,333,218.82 ; 

 freight, $39,296,617.11 ; mail, express, etc., 

 $3,521,582.89; total, $59,151,418.82; propor- 

 tion for Ohio, total, $30,384,518.27. Operating 

 expenses, total, $40,296,667.38 ; proportion 

 for Ohio, $20,776,222.59. Total net earnings, 

 $18,854,742.44; proportion for Ohio, $9,608,- 

 295.70. Interest paid on bonded debt, includ- 

 ing taxes, $7,505,432.31 ; paid during the year 

 by reported lines for construction, $4,029,503.- 

 10. Animals killed, 2,348; amount paid for 

 them, $55,490.03. Accidents on lines in Ohio, 

 441 ; lives lost, 161 ; persons injured, 280. Of 

 the persons killed, four were passengers, all 

 from causes within their own control. Of the 

 injured, eighteen were passengers, of whom 

 seven were injured from causes beyond their 

 own control. The number of passengers car- 

 ried in Ohio is estimated at twelve millions. 

 The casualties to passengers were in the pro- 

 portion of one person to 545,454 persons car- 

 ried. The number of passengers killed, all 

 from misconduct or carelessness of themselves, 

 was one to three millions of those carried. 

 Nineteen employe's were killed, and forty-three 

 injured, from causes beyond their control. 

 From misconduct and carelessness, fifty-four 

 employe's were killed, and one hundred and 

 sixty-two injured. Sixty-one persons were 

 killed, and thirty-one injured, while walking 

 or riding upon tracks. The reports made by 

 telegraph companies are quite unsatisfactory, 

 the companies maintaining their former habit 

 of omitting to answer questions when they 

 choose to do so, and additional legislation will 

 be asked for by the Commissioner on this 

 point. The number of miles of telegraph-lines 

 in Ohio is reported 5,038 of poles, and 12,535 

 of wire. Number of offices, 464 ; number of 

 employe's, 595. 



The work of the Geological Survey, during 

 1871, progressed in charge of four parties, 

 numbering fifteen persons operating in differ- 

 ent parts of the State. Twenty-two counties 

 were surveyed during the season, bringing the 

 work nearly to a close. Of the eighty-eight 

 counties in the State, twelve only remain un- 

 surveyed. The field-work is to be finished 

 next season. The organic law provides that, 

 after the field-work is done, the results shall be 

 embodied in a final report and map. Of the 

 final report, two volumes are done. They in- 

 clude descriptions of the general geology of 

 the State and of half of the counties, with sixty 



