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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



be fitted and prepared for the grave and responsible 

 duties of citizenship ; that in liberal, progressive 

 education the future weal and prosperity of the 

 Commonwealth is assured, while criminal neglect 

 of a matter supreme in its importance will assuredly 

 tend to demoralization, and result in serious conse- 

 quences under the changed conditions of society. 



It was resolved not to nominate a State ticket. 



The People's Party had electors in the field, 

 but no State ticket. The Prohibitionists made 

 no nominations. At their convention in May, 

 they resolved to request the various newspapers 

 of the State each to grant them the use of a col- 

 umn during the canvass, which the county com- 

 mittees should fill with appropriate matter. 



The vote of the State was as follows : Cleve- 

 land, 54,692; Harrison, 13,345 ; Weaver, 2,407. 

 Six Democrats were elected representatives in 

 Congress, and one Republican ; G. W. Murray, 

 Rep., receiving a plurality of 40 in the 7th 

 district. The vote for Governor Tillman was 

 56,673. The State Senate will consist of 36 

 Democrats ; the House, of 120 Democrats and 4 

 Republicans. 



SOUTH DAKOTA, a Western State, admitted 

 to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 77,650 square 

 miles ; population, according to the census of 

 1890, 328,808. Capital, Pierre. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Arthur 

 C. Mellette, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 G. H. Hoffman ; Secretary of State, A. 0. 

 Ringsrud ; Treasurer, W. W. Taylor ; Auditor, 

 L. C. Taylor ; Attorney-General, Robert Dol- 

 lard ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Cortez Salmon ; Commissioner of School and 

 Public Lands, Thomas H. Ruth ; Commissioner 

 of Labor, R. A. Smith ; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, John E. Bennett ; Associate 

 Justices, A. G. Kellam and Dighton Corson. 



Finances. The entire bonded indebtedness of 

 the State on June 30, 1892, was $1,040,200. 

 In the latter part of the year the Treasurer suc- 

 ceeded in refunding $92,500 of this amount 

 from 4i per cent, to 3| per cent, bonds, the 

 latter being sold at par. He also refunded $15,- 

 000 of Dakota University 6 per cent, bonds into 4 

 per cents., which sold at a premium $600. 



On Dec. 1, 1890, the total balance in all funds 

 of the treasury was $63,422 ; the total receipts 

 for the 19 months following were $1,396,795 ; 

 the total disbursements $1,151,103, and the 

 balance on June 30, 1892, $309,114. In the 

 general fund alone the balance on Dec. 1 , 1890, 

 was $10,052 ; the total receipts for 19 months 

 following were $814,580 ; the total payments were 

 $784,948, and the balance on June 30, 1892, 

 $39,684. On the latter date the balance in the 

 permanent school fund was $148,189. 



The receipts from the State ad valorem tax 

 during the period amounted to $424,794. 



The assessed valuation of property in the 

 State for 1892 aggregated $127,478,228, against 

 $128,318.244.50 for 1891. The valuation of real 

 and personal property was $118,228,307 ; of rail- 

 roads, $8,816,698, and of telephone, telegraph, 

 and express companies, $338,283. 



Education. The Governor, in his biennial 

 message, says : 



There are within the State, according to the 

 census of 1892, 87,317 persons of school age, with an 



average enrollment of 73,962 pupils for the past two 

 years. The average number of teachers employed 

 for the same period is 4,298, of whom 1,169 are male 

 and 3,129 female, the latter receiving $966,603, the 

 former $415,238 total, $1,381,841. The total number 

 of school buildings in 1892 is 3,253, showing a 

 marked increase over the previous year. The valu- 

 ation of school property is $2,704,933. The public 

 school lands belonging to the State at the date of 

 admission amounted to 2,823,320 acres, of which 

 101,879 acres have been sold and contracted at an 

 average price per acre of $13.64, amounting to 

 $1,387,318.71, leaving 2,721,464.76 acres, which at 

 an average price of $10 per acre, the minimum price 

 at which, under the law of Congress and the State 

 constitution, they can be sold, will realize $27,214,- 

 947.60, and this added to the sum already realized 

 as above stated, fixes the minimum permanent 

 school fund to result from the sale of lands at the 

 enormous sum of $28,602,260.31, yielding upon six 

 per cent, securities $1,716,201.97. The income from 

 present sales and leases enabled the commissioner 

 of school lands to disburse 52 cents for each school 

 child for the year 1891, and for the year 1892 the 

 apportionment will be 86 cents. 



The total attendance at the State University 

 for the year ending in June was 251, a decrease 

 of about one-third compared with the previous 

 year. The buildings are in need of repair, and 

 new structures are required for some of the de- 

 partments. At the Agricultural College the 

 attendance for the year was 279, and at the 

 School of Mines at Rapid City there were 56 

 pupils. The Normal School at Spearfish enrolled 

 161 pupils in the normal department and 218 in 

 the training school; and the Madison Normal 

 School, 180 pupils in its single normal depart- 

 ment. 



Charities. The School for Deaf Mutes con- 

 tained only 41 pupils during the last term of 

 1892, although there are in the State about 120 

 children who are entitled to the privileges of the 

 institution. The Soldiers' Home was opened on 

 Nov. 25, 1890. From that date to June 30, 1892, 

 155 persons had been admitted, of whom 80 re- 

 mained at the latter date. 



Prisons. On Dec. 1, 1890, there were 96 con- 

 victs in the State Prison ; during the subsequent 

 nineteen months, 88 were admitted and 102 re- 

 leased, leaving 82 prisoners on June 30, 1892. 

 Of all the State prisoners incarcerated during the 

 nineteen months, exactly half came from the 

 Black Hills. Convict labor is employed entirely 

 in the quarrying of stone, but the product is not 

 thrown upon the market to compete with free 

 labor. It will be used in the construction of 

 such buildings as the State may decide to erect. 



At the State Reform School there were 68 in- 

 mates on June 3052 boys and 16 girls. 



Banks. There are in the State 50 private 

 banks, 40 State banks organized under the gen- 

 eral corporation law, and 70 State banks doing 

 business under the banking law passed at the 

 last session of the Legislature. The private 

 banks are not under supervision, owing to 

 a decision of the State Supreme Court holding 

 that the banking law that sought to subject pri- 

 vate banks to examination was unconstitutional. 

 During the last fiscal period 8 private banks 

 have failed, while among the State banks there 

 have been but 2 failures. In all the private 

 banks that failed there were county deposits, 

 which resulted in considerable losses of public 



