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008,883.54 from the teacher's fund. In the 

 same year the whole number of children be- 

 tween the ages of five and twenty-one was 

 638,156, and there were enrolled in the public 

 schools 480,788, with an average attendance of 

 284,567. The superintendent reports that the 

 law of the Twenty-first General Assembly, 

 requiring instruction in the public schools in 

 relation to the effects of stimulants and nar- 

 cotics upon the human system, has been gen- 

 erally obeyed. The State Industrial School, 

 since its foundation, had brought under its in- 

 struction 1,580 children. On July 1 there were 

 at this school 330 boys and 112 girls, for whom 

 an expenditure of $90,699.14 has been made 

 during the past two years. The Agricultural 

 College, the State Normal School, the College 

 for the Blind, and the Institution for the Deaf 

 and Dumb, are all in successful operation. 



State Institutions. The completion of a sub- 

 stantial and commodious wing to the Hospital 

 for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant, at a cost of 

 $100,000, gives capacity to that institution to 

 accommodate 200 additional patients. Two 

 years ago the number of patients at this hospi- 

 tal was 544; this year there were 707. During 

 the past two years 1,311 patients have been 

 treated, at an aggregate cost of $223,211.66. 

 At the Hospital for the Insane, in Independ- 

 ence, an additional cottage has been completed, 

 and the capacity of the institution thereby in- 

 creased to accommodate 100 more patients. In 

 July, 1885, there were 694 persons at this 

 place, and this number had increased to 791 at 

 the same time this year. The expenditures 

 during this time were $251,549.68. On July 

 1, 1887, there were 1,498 patients in the two 

 hospitals for the insane. The foreign-born 

 population of the State is about 17 percent, of 

 the whole, while the foreign-born patients at 

 the hospitals for the insane are 45 per cent, of 

 the whole number. The new Hospital for the 

 Insane at Clarinda is nearly ready for occu- 

 pation. At the Institution for Feeble-minded 

 Children there were 259 patients in 1885, and 

 331 in 1887, an average of 271. The Soldiers' 

 Orphans' Home and Home for Indigent Child- 

 ren, since its opening in 1862, has received 1,496 

 soldiers' orphans, of whom only 42 remain. 

 Since the institution was opened for indigent 

 children in 1876, there have been received 542 

 such, of whom 251 remain, making the whole 

 number now in the home 293. The Soldiers' 

 Home at Marshallstown was formally opened 

 on November 30 of this year, and had received 

 over 60 soldiers before the end of December. 

 The number of convicts in the Fort Madison 

 penitentiary two years ago was 412, and on 

 July 1 of this year 360 ; average number, 390. 

 The total expenditures were $142,245.21. At 

 the Anamosa penitentiary 313 prisoners were 

 confined on July 1, against 255 two years before. 

 The expenditures here for two years were 

 $177,447. The construction of this peniten- 

 tiary is still in progress. There were only 6 

 more convicts in both places on July 1 than at 



the same time two years ago. This unusually 

 small increase, in comparison with the growth 

 of the State's population during the time, is 

 attributed to the prohibitory liquor law. 



Railroads. The report of the railroad com- 

 missioners shows that the number of miles of 

 railway in the State, June 30, 1887, was 7,997, 

 of which the number built Jast year was 432. 

 The amount of stock representing the roads in 

 Iowa is $147,350,517 and the amount of bonds 

 for the same $150,296,919. The cost of the 

 roads and equipment in Iowa is placed by the 

 commissioners at $261,747,197. At the close 

 of the year the number of miles of road in 

 operation had increased to 8,203. The amount 

 of taxes paid to the State by railroads during 

 the year was $1,011,530, against $962,229 in 

 1886. In no State have the railroads been more 

 generously aided in their enterprises. They 

 have received as donations 4,393,436 acres of 

 public lands in the State, or about one-eighth 

 of its entire acreage. 



Mining. The number of coal-mines operated 

 in the State at the close of the year was 515. 

 The coal product in 1886 amounted to 3,853,- 

 372 tons; in 1887 it was 4,014,490 tons, an in- 

 crease of 161,118 tons. The amount of capital 

 invested in this industry is estimated at $9,487,- 

 125. The relations of capital and labor dur- 

 ing the year have been harmonious. 



Agriculture. The following table shows the 

 value of the chief farm-products, the quantity 

 produced, and the area cultivated, in 1887: 



Loss in 1887, as compared with 1886 . . $20,514,491 



The number and value of live-stock were as 

 follow: horses 973,808, valued at $71,926,052; 

 mules, 48,052, valued' at $4,186,822; milch- 

 cows, 1,243,002, valued at $32,541,792; other 

 cattle, 2,116,417, valued at $47,369,232 ; sheep, 

 425,498, valued at $1,020,515 ; hogs, 4,461,087, 

 valued at $23,065,603 ; total, 9,267,864 head, 

 valued at $180,110,016. 



Banks. The latest returns give the following 

 figures as to the number, capital, and deposits 

 of the State and national banks: 



