NOVA SCOTIA. 



559 



50,000 for the Windsor and Annapolis Rail way 

 Company : 55,000 for the Western Counties 

 Railway Company. 



The assets of the province at the same date 

 were as follow : 



Counties road service 



County of Halifax education 



Western Counties Railway Company balance . . 



Government of Canada provincial debt account 



Educationcounty loan 



Hospital for Insane : 



Due by municipalities $52.(>46 95 



" private patients 6,767 9H 



" counties old accounts.. . 33,6^206 



Department of Mines royalty, etc 



Total. 



$101,329 81 



11,998 11 



127,813 85 



1,056,289 19 



21,945 00 



93,036 94 

 56,998 IT 



$1,469,411 07 



The revenue of the province for the fiscal year 

 closing Sept. 30, 1893, amounted to $760,575. 

 This includes the Dominion subsidy, which was 

 $432,814.46, considerably more than half the 

 entire revenue. The next important source of 

 revenue was that derived from mines, which 

 amounted to $174,801.87. 



The expenditure for the year was $829,864.16. 

 $130,955.75 in excess of the revenue. The most 

 important items in the expenditure were as fol- 

 low : Debenture interest, $118,265.24; education, 

 $166,798.71; legislative expenses, $50,925.86; 

 Hospital for the Insane and General Hospital, 

 $88,912.70; road service, municipalities, $76,- 

 101.50; salaries, $15,896; Works Department, 

 $14,933.77 ; public printing, $10,261.89 ; steam- 

 boats, packets, and ferries, $13,717 ; mines, $10,- 

 403 ; and agriculture, $13,005.63. 



Fisheries. The following is a statement of 

 the production in each branch of the fisheries of 

 the province for 1893 : 



KINDS OF FISH. 



Quantity 



Minerals. The production of coal in Nova 

 Scotia in 1893 amounted to 2,355,797 tons, of 

 which about one third was taken by the province, 

 and nearly all the remainder by the neighboring 

 provinces. The coal fields of Nova Scotia and 

 Cape Breton are all practically on tide water. 



Heretofore the shipment of coal by sea in 

 winter has been almost impossible, and when at- 

 tempted has involved a considerable increase in 

 the cost of handling and shipping. The com- 

 pletion of the railway from Sydney to Louisburg, 

 now being built, will give the coal of the Sydney 

 fields a harbor the year round, and make easy 

 the distribution of coal during the winter. 



(xOld. In the province, in 1893, 26 mines were 

 worked, which yielded 14,030 ounces of gold 

 from 28,040 tons of quartz crushed. The gold- 

 bearing quartz lodes of Nova Scotia occur in the 

 Cambrian or Cambro-Silurian measures, and be- 

 long chiefly to the class of " bedded " lodes, 

 from which by far the greater bulk of the gold 

 produced has come. The regular lodes vary 

 from 2 to 30 inches in width, their richness 

 varying from $3 to $16 a ton. The general aver- 

 age since 1862, when gold was first discovered in 

 the province, has been about $14.50 a ton. 

 There are 35 localities in Nova Scotia in which 

 workable deposits of gold have been found, and 

 over 3,000 persons are engaged in mining. 



Marine. The British, Canadian, and foreign 

 tonnage, carrying cargo in and out of the prov- 

 ince in 1893, was : British, 1,081,703 ; Canadian, 

 923,781 ; foreign, 437,054. 



In the Nova Scotia division of the lighthouse 

 service there are 177 lighthouses, showing 190 

 lights, 1 lightship, 16 steam fog alarms, 17 hand 

 fog alarms, 2 fog bells, 1 signal-bomb station, 14 

 automatic signal buoys, 10 bell buoys, 95 iron 

 can buoys, 700 other buoys, 8 stationary beacons, 

 15 lifeboat stations, 3 humane establishments, 

 and 4 signal stations. 



Marine hospitals are established at Yarmouth, 

 Pictou, Sydney, Lunenberg, and Point Tupper. 

 To defray the'expense of the treatment of sick 

 and distressed mariners, all vessels of over 100 

 tons register are required to pay a duty of 2 

 cents a ton 3 times a year, vessels under 100 tons 

 paying only once in the same period. 



Education. The Council of Public Instruc- 

 tion consists of the members of the Executive 

 Council of the provincial Government. There 

 is also a Superintendent of Education. During 

 1894 the estimated number of pupils in the pub- 

 lic schools was 88,000 ; the number of schools, 

 2,291 ; the proportion of the population enrolled 

 in the public schools, based on the estimated 

 population of the province, was 1 in 4*4. The 

 total estimated Government expenditure for edu- 

 cation for the year was $220,430; the county 

 fund was $122,128, and the sectional assess- 

 ment $418,017. 



Timber. The area in forest is estimated at 

 6,464 square miles, being about 31'45 per cent, 

 of the total area, The exports of timber were 

 lower by 3,000,000 feet than in 1893. 



The preliminary arrangements regarding the 

 construction of the Dartmouth branch railway 

 were completed about the close of 1894, and the 

 contract for building the road was awarded. 

 This branch railway will extend from Dart- 

 mouth to Windsor Junction. 



