756 WASHINGTON" TERRITORY. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



These Indians are divided into abont forty 

 small tribes. The production of lumber is the 

 most important industry in the Territory. The 

 entire product in 1870 consisted of 128,743,- 

 000 feet of lumber, 17,000,000 laths, and 10,- 

 450,000 shingles. The quantity of all kinds 

 of lumber produced in 1875 is estimated at 

 250,000,000 feet, valued at about $3,000,000. 

 The Territory constitutes one customs district, 

 that of Puget Sound, of which Port Townsend 

 is the port of entry. The value of imports 

 from foreign countries for the year ending 

 July 31, 1875, was $49,125 ; of exports to for- 

 eign countries, $759,230, including 33,907,000 

 feet of assorted lumber, valued at $352,510, 

 and live-stock, grain, provisions, etc., valued 

 at $406,720. The number of entrances was 

 315, with an aggregate tonnage of 117,062; 

 clearances, 348, tonnage 134,506. The en- 

 trances in the coastwise trade were 132, ton- 

 nage 75,215 ; clearances, 51, tonnage 22,123. 

 There were 18 vessels built, of an aggregate 

 tonnage of 3,986 ; number of vessels owned in 

 the district, 108, tonnage 26,548. Including 

 domestic commerce, which is carried on chief- 

 ly with San Francisco, the total value of ex- 

 ports for the year is estimated at $5,000,000. 

 The fisheries are of considerable importance ; 

 their value, according to the census of 1870, 

 was $289,746. The product consisted of 1,000 

 quintals of cod, 70,000 bushels of oysters, 

 2,143 barrels of salmon, and 1,810,000 pounds 

 of canned salmon. The salmon-fishery, the 

 most valuable, is carried on chiefly in the Co- 

 lumbia River, near its mouth. Oysters are 

 shipped from Shoal water Bay to Portland, 

 Oregon, and San Francisco. There are two 

 railroads in the Territory, the Pacific division 

 of the Northern Pacific and the Walla Walla 

 and Columbia (narrow gauge). The former 

 extends from Kalama, on the Columbia River, 

 to Tacoma, on Puget Sound, one hundred and 

 five miles, and is designed to form part of the 

 transcontinental line now completed west to 

 the Missouri River in Dakota. The latter ex- 

 tends from Walla Walla to Wallula, on the 

 Columbia River, thirty-two miles. 



The valuation of property in 1860 and 1870, 

 according to the Federal census, was as follows : 



The total taxation in 1870 was $163,992, of 

 which $33,743 was Territorial, $119,291 coun- 

 ty, and $10,955 town, city, etc. ; public debt, 

 $88,827, of which $71,196 was county, and 

 $17,631 town, city, etc. The assessed value 

 of property in 1875 was $14,569,156 ; Territo- 

 rial tax levied, $58,295.33. The balance in the 

 treasury on September 30, 1873, was $3,805.25 ; 

 receipts during the two following years, $87,- 



936.06 ; disbursements, $79,398.69 ; balance 

 October 1, 1875, $12,342.71. The Territorial 

 debt on that date amounted to $20,599.99. 

 There is a Territorial Insane Asylum at Stei- 

 lacoom. A penitentiary has been erected by 

 the United States on McNeil's Island, in Puget 

 Sound, near Steilacoom. The public schools 

 are supported by taxation, fines under crimi- 

 nal statutes, and private contributions. In 

 1875 there were 305 districts ; schools taught, 

 238 ; persons of school age (four to twenty- 

 one), 11,291 ; number attending school, 7,566; 

 teachers, 240 ; amount paid teachers, $48,358 ; 

 school revenue, $51,556. The Territorial Uni- 

 versity at Seattle has a preparatory department 

 in operation. Holy Angels' College (Roman 

 Catholic) is 'at Vancouver. Three counties 

 (Columbia, San Juan, and Whitman) have been 

 formed since 1870, making twenty-four in all. 



WEST VIRGINIA. The provisions of the 

 law passed on February 20, 1875, enacting the 

 temporary removal of the seat of government 

 from Charleston to Wheeling, were carried 

 into effect on May 21st. The Governor and 

 the other executive officers removed to the 

 city of Wheeling ; but the archives and other 

 movable property of the State could not be 

 taken out of Charleston till the latter part of 

 September ensuing; the delay was owing to 

 the obstruction caused by the residents of the 

 Third District of West Virginia, chiefly of the 

 city of Charleston. Soon after the adjourn- 

 ment of the Legislature, members of the Charles- 

 ton bar presented to Governor Jacob a protest 

 against the execution of the said law as uncon- 

 stitutional; and on April 30th a process by 

 writ of injunction, granted by the Judge of the 

 Ninth Circuit Court, was served on the Govern- 

 or and the other officers of the Executive De- 

 partment, and on the Clerks of both Houses of 

 the Legislature, restraining them from remov- 

 ing any papers, books, or other movable prop- 

 erty of the Legislative and Executive Depart- 

 ments, from Charleston to Wheeling, or else- 

 where, "until the further order of the Circuit 

 Court of Kanawha County, or of a judge in 

 vacation." 



The question of the alleged unconstitutional- 

 ly of the act was argued in the first instance 

 before the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, 

 which decided it on May 18th, by affirming the 

 act constitutional, and dissolving the injunction; 

 asserting also its own jurisdiction, which the 

 Governor had refused to recognize, and grant- 

 ing to the plaintiffs a suspending order that 

 they might apply for an appeal and superseded*. 

 In the second instance the case was heard by 

 the Supreme Court of Appeals in September, 

 when all the judges, by a unanimous decision, 

 affirmed the controverted act to be constitu- 

 tional, and also denied the jurisdiction of the 

 Circuit Court of Kanawha County in the mat- 

 ter. 



Before the close of September the archives 

 and all other movable property appertaining 

 to the Executive and Legislative Departments 



