INDIANA. 



399 



201.85, leaving a balance in the Treasury of 

 $763,356.37. On the 15th of October, the 

 school revenue, amounting to $335,052.50, was 

 apportioned among the several counties, which 

 allowed fifty-two cents to each of the 631,447 

 children between the ages of six and twenty- 

 one in the State. 



There are about 3,600 miles of railroad in 

 the State, consisting of the following lines and 

 short branches connected with them : 



Mibs. 



Cincinnati & Indianapolis 80 



Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne 92 



Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis 85 



Detroit, Eel River & Illinois 110 



Evansville & Crawfordsville 132 



Evansvillc, Terre Haute & Chicago 54 



Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginavv 50 



Forte Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati 109 



Grand Rapids & Indiana 55 



Indiana North & South 15 



Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western 75 



Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette 200 



Indianapolis & Vincennes 117 



Indianapolis & St. Louis 76 



Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago 161 



Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis 225 



Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 185 



Lafayette & Chicago 51) 



Logansport, Crawlbrdsville & Southwestern., 92 



Louisville, New Albany & Chicago 288 



Michigan Central 50 



Ohio & Mississippi.. 225 



Peninsular 30 



Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis 450 



Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago 165 



St. Louis. Terre Haute & Indianapolis 75 



Toledo, Wabash & Western 155 



White Water Valley 88 



The Northern Penitentiary, at Michigan City, 

 has had an average of 314 inmates during the 

 year. On the 13th of July the chair-shop of 

 the institution was destroyed by fire, and has 

 heen rebuilt at an expense of $7,250. The 

 total receipts of the institution for the year 

 were $46,841.81, ordinary expenses, $42,868.94, 

 making the profits of the year $5,972.87. 



The House of Refuge, at Plainfield, con- 

 tained on the 1st of January, 1873, 191 in- 

 mates, 64 of whom were admitted during the 

 year. This institution has a farm, a chair- 

 factory, and shoe-shop. 



The following is a statement showing the 

 number of inmates remaining, and the num- 

 ber admitted, discharged, and died, during 

 the year, at the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at 

 Knightstown : 



Number remaining October 31, 1871. . . . . 307 



Number of children admitted 41 



Number returned to parents 19 



Number placed in homes 5 



Number died 2 



Number of soldiers transferred '. '. '. . . . ." 42 



Remaining in the Home October 31, 1872. . . '. '. . . . . . '. 280 



The Home for Disabled Soldiers, formerly 

 connected with this institution, was burned 

 on the 25th of December, 1871, and the soldiers 

 have been transferred to the National Asylum 

 at Dayton, Ohio. 



According to the census of 1870 there were 

 in the State 10,104,279 acres of improved land, 

 7,189,334 of woodland, and 826,035 of other 

 unimproved land. The cash value of farms 

 was $634,804,189 ; of farming implements and 

 machinery, $17,676,591 ; the total amount of 



wages paid during the year, including value 

 of board, $9,675,348; total (estimated) value 

 of all farm productions, including betterments 

 and additions to stock, $122,914,302; value 

 of orchard-products, $2,858,086 ; produce of 

 market-gardens, $486,477; of forest-products, 

 $2,645,679 ; value of home manufactures, 

 $605,639; value of animals slaughtered and 

 sold for slaughter, $30,246,962 ; value of all 

 live-stock, $83,776,762. There were 497,883 

 horses, 43,259 mules and asses, 393,736 milch- 

 cows, 14,088 working-oxen, 618,360 other 

 cattle, 1,612,680 sheep, and 1,872,230 swine. 

 The chief productions were 161,991 bushels of 

 spring and 27,585,231 of winter wheat, 457,468 

 of rye, 51,094,538 of Indian-corn, 8,590,409 of 

 oats, 356,262 of barley, 80,231 of buckwheat, 

 9,325,392 pounds of tobacco, 5,029,023 of 

 wool, 35,526 bushels of peas and beans, 

 5,399,044 of Irish and 150,705 of sweet pota- 

 toes, 19,479 gallons of wine, 29,915,385 pounds 

 of butter, 283,807 of cheese, 936,983 gallons 

 of milk sold, 1,076,768 tons of hay, 61,168 

 bushels of clover-seed, 17,377 of grass-seed, 

 63,884 pounds of hops, 37,771 of flax, 401,931 

 bushels of flax-seed, 1,332,332 pounds of maple 

 sugar, 2,026,212 gallons of sorghum molasses, 

 227,880 of maple molasses, 395,278 pounds of 

 honey and 12,049 of wax. 



The total number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 11,847, using 2,881 steam- ' 

 engines, of 76,851 horse-power, and 1,090 

 water-wheels of 23,518 horse-power, and em- 

 ploying 58,852 hands, of whom 54,412 were 

 males above sixteen, 2,272 females above 

 fifteen, and 2,168 youths. The capital invested 

 amounted to $52,052,425 ; wages paid during 

 the year, $18,366,780 ; value of materials con- 

 sumed, $63,135,492; products, $108,617,278. 



There were 293 newspapers and periodicals, 

 having an aggregate circulation of 363,542, 

 and issuing 26, 964,984 copies annually. There 

 were 20 daily, with a circulation of 42,300; 

 3 tri-weekly, circulation 2,200 ; 1 semi- 

 weekly, circulation 350 ; 233 weekly, circula- 

 tion 239,342; 6 semi-monthly, circulation 

 9,200; 28 monthly, circulation 64,150; 2 bi- 

 monthly, circulation 6,000. The total number 

 of libraries was 5,301, containing 1,125,553 

 volumes; of these, 2,968, with 497,659 volumes, 

 were private, and 2,333, with 627,894 volumes, 

 other than private, including 20 circulating 

 libraries containing 8,248 volumes. 



The number of religious organizations of all 

 denominations was 3,698, having 3,106 edifices, 

 with 1,008,380 sittings, and property valued 

 at $11,942,227. The leading denominations 

 were : 



