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IOWA. 



coal, $2,887,852; average price at the mines, 

 $1.02 per ton ; total number of employes, 6,532 ; 

 total wages paid, $2,201,044 ; number of persons 

 employed underground, 5,782. 



IOWA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 28, 1846; area, 56,025 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 192,214 in 1850; 674.913 

 in 1860; 1,194,020 in 1870; 1,624,615 in 1880; 

 and 1,911,896 in 1890. Capital, Des Moines. 



(xovernment. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Horace Boies, 

 Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, Alfred N. Poy- 

 neer, Republican ; Secretary of State, W. St. Mc- 

 Farland ; Auditor, James A. Lyons ; Treasurer, 

 Byron A. Beeson; Attorney-General, John Y. 

 Stone : Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Henry Sabin ; Railroad Commissioners, Frank 

 T. Campbell, Spencer Smith, and J. W. Luke ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Joseph M. 

 Beck; Associate Justices, James H. Rothrock, 

 Gifford S. Robinson, Josiah Given, and Charles 

 T. Granger. These officials are all Republicans, 

 except Gov. Boies. 



Finances. For the biennial period ending 

 June 30, 1891, the receipts of the State treasury 

 were as follow: From counties, $3,120,287.96; 

 from insurance companies, $174,615.30; from 

 State officers (fees), $78,760.19 ; from telephone 

 and telegraph companies, $39,680.81 ; from mis- 

 cellaneous sources, $76,178.15; transfers from 

 temporary school fund, $30,957.31 ; balance on 

 June 30, 1889, $25,181.67; total receipts for the 

 period, $3,544,961.39. The disbursements for the 

 period aggregated $3,056,902.44, leaving $488,- 

 058.95 as the cash balance on hand on June 30, 

 1891. At the latter date there were warrants 

 drawn upon the treasury, outstanding and un- 

 paid, amounting to $33,960.42, leaving as the 

 actual available surplus, $454,098.53. The rate 

 of State taxation for 1891 was 2 mills on the 

 dollar. There is no State debt except a perma- 

 nent bonded debt of $245,345.19 held by the 

 State School fund. 



Education. The following public-school sta- 

 tistics for the years ending July 1, 1890, and 

 July 1, 1891, are reported by the State Superin- 

 tendent : 



For the year ending July 1, 1890, the state- 

 ment of school finances is as follows : Balance 

 on hand July 1, 1889. $2,976,676 ; receipts from 

 district taxes, $5,385,413 : from semi-annual ap- 

 portionment of State School fund, $799,578 ; 

 from other sources, $651,885 ; total receipts, $9,- 

 813,552; paid for teachers' wages, $4.318,871; 

 paid for school houses and sites, $509,205 ; paid . 

 on bonds and interest, $327,363 ; paid for fuel, 

 rent, repairs, etc., $834,831 ; paid for other pur- 

 poses, $720,046: total payments. $6,710,316; bal- 

 ance on June 30, 1890, $3,103.236. 



At the State University there were 737 stu- 

 dents in 1889-'90 and 890 in 1890-91. The ex- 



penses for the period were $252,623.40. The Nor- 

 mal School contained 657 pupils in 1889-'90 and 

 746 in 1890-'91 ; its expenses being $52,493.65. 

 The students at the State Agricultural College 

 in 1891 numbered 425, and the expenses were 

 $154,010.62. 



Charities. The Soldiers' Orphans' Home and 

 Home for Indigent Children at Davenport had 

 426 inmates at the close of the year, of whom 

 255 were boys and 171 girls. The Soldier's Home 

 at Marshalltown contained about 460 inmates at 

 the same date. 



In the Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleas- 

 ant there were 759 patients on June 30, 1889 : in 

 the two years following 643 persons were ad- 

 mitted and 586 discharged, leaving 816 on June 

 30, 1891. The current expenses for 1889-'90 

 were $133,569.14, and for 1890-'91, $139,161.60. 



The Hospital for the Insane at Independence 

 contained 766 patients on June 30, 1889; G17 

 were admitted in the succeeding two years and 

 550 discharged,- leaving 833 on June "30, is<)i. 

 For the year 1889-'90 the cost was $131,649.53, 

 and for 1890- '91, $131,051.89. 



In the Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda 

 there were 242 patients on June 30, 1889 ; in the 

 two years following 313 were admitted and 246 

 discharged, leaving 309 on June 30, 1891. The 

 current expenses for the two years 1889-'91, 

 were $113,933.98. 



The Institution for Feeble-minded Children 

 at Glenwood contained 432 pupils at the begin- 

 ning and 457 at the close of the biennial period 

 ending June 30, 1891. The number admitted 

 during this period was 194; discharged, 167. 

 The expenditures for the two years were $185,- 

 968.98. 



At the College for the Blind at Vinton 171 

 pupils were enrolled in 1889-'90 and 184 in 

 1890-'91. The expenditures for the two years 

 were $61,996.84. 



Agriculture. The following estimate of the 

 product of Iowa farms in 1891 is made by the 

 officers of the State Agricultural Society upon 

 the basis of data collected by the society : 



