NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Deaf-Mute Mission, $150 ; support of indigent 

 insane, $6,000 ; Asylum Library, $100 ; convict 

 insane, $3,233.92; Industrial School, $6,000; 

 Prisoners' Aid Association, $14.25. 



Industrial School. The number in the school 

 on April 1, 1885, was 108 ; number during the 

 year, 146 ; " discharged on expiration of sen- 

 tence, 18 ; on probation, 9 ; honorably dis- 

 charged, 7 ; number in school in April, 1886, 

 112. Average time of detention of those dis- 

 charged, two and a half years. Nationality of 

 inmates : American, 67; Irish, 45 ; French, 24 ; 

 Scotch, 3 ; German, 3 ; English, 1 ; negro, 2 ; 

 Indian, 1. The inmates are taught reading, 

 writing, arithmetic, geography, history, and 

 natural history. Good health has generally at- 

 tended them during the year. The boys learn 

 farm- work, chair-seating, carpenter and ho- 

 siery work, making coarse shoes, and house- 

 painting. The girls do housework, finish the 

 hosiery, and mend and make their clothing. 

 The farm produces bountifully. 



State Prison. The whole number of convicts 

 on May 1, 1885, was 127; committed during 

 the year, 56 ; whole number during the year, 

 183 ; number died, pardoned, and discharged, 

 during the year, 51 ; the- number remaining 

 May 1, 1886, 132. The earnings of the pris- 

 on, for the year, amounted to $17,652.95 ; ex- 

 penses, $20,299.68; balance against the prison, 

 $2,646.73; the cost of each inmate was 45 

 cents a day ; the daily average cost of each in- 

 mate, after deducting earnings, was 6'01 cent. 



Military. The New Hampshire National 

 Guard, as organized in 1876> consists of a 

 brigade of three regiments of infantry of eight 

 companies each, one four-gun battery, and 

 one company of cavalry, under the command 

 of Brigadier-General Daniel M. White. The 

 strength of the brigade is 112 commissioned 

 officers and 1,097 enlisted men ; total, 1,209, 

 well uniformed and equipped. The brigade 

 holds an annual encampment, in Concord, five 

 days, and is well disciplined and drilled. The 

 encampment-grounds consist of forty acres, in 

 excellent condition for such purposes, within 

 a mile and half of the State-House. On these 

 grounds is located the State Arsenal, a fire- 

 proof brick building, forty by eighty feet. 



Population. The increase of inhabitants ap- 

 pears chiefly in the cities and manufacturing 

 towns, and in the northern portion of the 

 State, induced by the summer travel thereto, 

 and extensive lumbering business ; and also by 

 the manufacturing of wooden- wares and wood- 

 pulp. Fine water-powers are close at hand, 

 and steam-power is generated from the refuse 

 wood and timber. In the exclusively agri- 

 cultural towns, especially those remote from 

 the markets, and away from the railroads and 

 water-ways, population is on the decrease. A 

 class of the foreign population, however, are 

 buying these cheapened lands, and are thriving 

 by their cultivation. 



Boundary. In 1885 the Legislature author- 

 ized the appointment of a commission to inves- 



tigate the true boundary between New Hamp- 

 shire and Massachusetts, long in dispute ; Mas- 

 sachusetts appointed a similar commission, and 

 the two commissions entered upon the work 

 of survey and investigation, with their engi- 

 neers, and went over a part of the ground the 

 past season, marking the line by suitable bounds 

 along the course of Merrimack river. After 

 several attempts at adjustment, New Hamp- 

 shire appealed, in 1735, to the King, George 

 II, and in 1740 obtained a favorable decision : 

 That the boundary-line should follow the Mer- 

 rimack, three miles north from the right bank, 

 to Pawtucket Falls near Lowell, thence in a due- 

 west line to New York State. In acceding to 

 the decree of the King, Jonathan Belcher, Gov- 

 ernor of Massachusetts, ordered his surveyor 

 to allow ten degrees for the variation of the 

 needle, which should have been about eight de- 

 grees. This variation from the due-west line 

 took from New Hampshire 59,872 acres, equiva- 

 lent to three townships of about 20,000 acres. 

 The same fault applied to the " New Hampshire 

 Grants," now Vermont, only that the triangle 

 increased in width as it proceeded westward. 

 This boundary-line is still in controversy ; but 

 its equitable adjustment is hoped for. A trian- 

 gulation of the State has been carried on by the 

 assistance of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey. 



Minerals. Besides the unlimited supply of 

 granite, quarried at Concord and many other 

 places, soapstone is largely quarried at Fran- 

 cestown and wrought into stoves and a variety 

 of other uses at extensive works in Nashua. 

 Mica is found abundantly in the coarse granite 

 veins of Grafton, Groton, and other towns, and 

 has been quarried with great success, even in 

 plates a yard square. The Ruggles Mica Com- 

 pany, of Grafton, has been notable in its pro- 

 duction; at the Palermo mine, North Groton, 

 a quantity amounting to 4,400 pounds was re- 

 cently taken out. 



Precious Metals. The existence of gold was 

 discovered in the valley of the Connecticut 

 river at Plainfield in 1854, and subsequently 

 traces of it were mined in Lebanon, Hanover, 

 Lyman, and Lisbon. It was found in galena, 

 clay slate, and in quartz-veins in Lisbon. Gold 

 and silver have been mined with some success, 

 in Lisbon, from the quartz. In the census year, 

 from these mines, the gold product was 532 

 ounces, valued at $11,000; silver, 12,375 ounces, 

 valued at $16,000; total value, $27,000. Rich- 

 er quartz-veins have recently been opened in 

 the Lisbon mines. In the brooks on the west- 

 ern slope of Moosilauke mountain, gold has 

 been washed from deposits of sand. Placer- 

 mining is said to be meeting with success in 

 Warren. Copper is mined at Monroe and Ly- 

 man. 



Business Affairs. The total number of busi- 

 ness failures reported in 1886 was 75, against 

 86 in 1885. The liabilities in 1886 were $411,- 

 000 ; in 1885, $1,293,000. The actual assets, in 

 1886, were $181,000; in 1885, $559,000. 



