PENNSYLVANIA. 



729 



The counties having the largest net debt 



are 



Allegheny $21,591001 



Berks l,24-.5tf 



Chester 954,821 



Crawford 7iil.y.T> 



Dauphin 1.472,259 



Delaware $1.044,896 



Erie 1,194,589 



Lancaster 1,135,116 



Lehigh 978,897 



Schuylkill 746,78 



These figures represent the sum of the debts 

 owed by all the corporate divisions of the 

 counties with the county debt proper. The 

 net county debt proper of Allegheny County 

 is $4,839,254; of Berks, $180,000; Chester, 

 $418,020; Crawford, 290,000; Dauphin, $283,- 

 278; Delaware, $473,200; Erie, $9,114; Lan- 

 caster, $368,972; Lehigh, $73,349; and Schuyl- 

 kill, $254,900. 



The following counties have no debt as conn- 

 ties : Adams, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, 

 Green, Lycoming, Northampton, Snyder, Sus- 

 quehanna, Union, Washington, Westmoreland, 

 and Wyoming. 



The total township debt of the State is $389,- 

 051, of which $293,568 is floating. There are 

 twenty-nine cities in the State, each having 

 over 7,500 population. Their net debt and its 

 per capita are shown in the following table: 



The debt of Philadelphia city in detail is: 



Bonded $70.970,042 



Floating 1,294,554 



Gross.. ..$72,264.590 

 Sinking-fund 18,040,753 



Net $54,228,944 



The following is the official return of the 

 population of towns and cities in Pennsylvania 

 of 10,000 inhabitants and upward : 



Philadelphia ......... 848,984 Altoona... . 19T18 



Pitteburj? ........... 156,881 WUJIamsport ....... 1- ..- 



Allegheny ........... 7S,6S1 Allentown. ........... 18,088 



Scranton ............ 45,360 , Chester ...... UJN 



Reading ............ 43,2*0 York ................ 18,940 



Harrisburg .......... 80,760 , 



Erie ................ 27,780 i 



Lancaster ........... 25,759 ! 



Wilkesbarre ......... 28,889 | 



, PotUrille .......... l -i 



i Morristown .......... 18,084 



! Easton. . ........ 11924 



| Shenandoah .......... io.l4t) 



In the production of iron and steel in blast- 

 furnaces, rolling-mills, steel-works, forges, and 

 bloomeries, Pennsylvania takes the first rank. 

 The capital invested in these industries in the 

 United States in 1880 amounted to $230,971,- 

 884, of which Pennsylvania furnished 46 per 

 cent. The total product was 7,265,140 tons, 

 of which Pennsylvania produced 3,616,668, or 

 nearly 50 per cent. 



The following counties re the principal cen- 

 ters of production of iron and steel: Alle- 

 gheny, 848,146 tons; Lehigh, 324,875; North- 

 ampton, 322,882 ; Cambria, 260,140; Dauphin, 

 223,676; Berks, 213,580; Mercer, 182,881; 

 Montgomery, 168,628; Lackawanna, 151,273. 



Of 3,781,021 tons of pig-iron and direct cast- 

 ings produced in 1880, in twenty-two States, 

 Pennsylvania made 1,930,314 tons, or 51 per 

 cent. Of 2,353,248 tons of rolled iron of all 

 kinds produced in twenty-nine States and Ter- 

 ritories in 1880, Pennsylvania made 46 per cent. 



The total production of rails for 1880 was 

 1,217,497 tons. Of the total production of 

 rails, Pennsylvania made 47 per cent. 



Of steel ingots, the total production in 1880 

 was 985,208 tons. Of this, Pennsylvania made 

 56 per cent. Of the production of Bessemer 

 steel rails, Pennsylvania made 55 per cent. 



The total product of iron-ore in the United 

 States in 1880 was 8,022,398 tons, of which 

 Pennsylvania produced more than any other 

 State, viz., 2,173,415 tons, or 27'09 per cent. 

 The principal ore-producing counties are : Le- 

 high, 821,322 tons; Lebanon, 285,629; Berks, 

 252,940 ; Blair, 154,914; Northampton, 104,- 

 788! The State produced, in 1880, 28,640,819 

 tons of anthracite, being the entire product of 

 the country except 6,176 tons. It also pro- 

 duces more bituminous coal than any other 

 State, viz., 18,425,163 tons in 1880, out of a 

 total of 42,420,581 tons for the United States. 

 Of barley, it produced 438,100 bushels; buck- 

 wheat, 3,593,326 ; corn, 45,821,581 ; oats, 83,- 

 841,439; rye, 3,683,621; wheat, 19,462,405. 



The Republican State Convention met at 

 Harrisburgon the 8th <>f September, and nomi- 

 nated General Silas M. Baily, of Fayette Coun- 

 ty, for State Treasurer. The platform adopted 

 contained the following among other resolu- 

 tions : 



Retohed, That the Republican party of Pennsyl- 

 vania is in most hearty accor.l uith the Ailmini^tru- 

 tion of President Garfield, and, while uniting in the 

 prayers of all food people for hi* speedy recovery. 

 pledges continual Unity and most active support in 

 prompt and courageous correction of all governmental 

 abuses. Ai* R'j>ul>lican<, we urc in favor of any i>rl>- 

 er, well-considered reform, either in govornnu-iit, 

 nation, State, municipality or county, ainl WP court 

 murkest ion* to any or all of these ends, and only ask 

 that in their advocacy well-established safeguard)) 



