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Finances. The State Treasurer's report for 

 the fiscal year ending Nov. 15 showed the re- 

 ceipts for the general fund, including balance of 

 $138,015.16 from preceding year and sale of 

 $500,000 bonds payable July 1, 1896, to have 

 been $4,337,622.96, and expenditures $3,982,- 

 895.11. Sinking fund receipts, $924,626.82; ex- 

 penditures, $593,305.86. School fund receipts, 

 $1,802,390.49; expenditures, $1,709,394. State 

 University fund receipts, $113,253.28 ; expendi- 

 tures, $90,033.67. Balance on hand Nov. 15, 

 1894, $802,264.91; against balance on hand, 

 Nov. 15, 1893, $618,338.77. The public debt of 

 the State, bearing 3 per cent, interest, was on 

 Nov. 15, 1894, $2,041,000, payable in varying 

 sums annually until July 1, 1900. In addition, 

 there were outstanding domestic loans on which 

 interest had ceased, $1,655. 



Railroads. The report of the State Com- 

 missioner of Railroads and Telegraphs said, there 

 were in the State 54 corporations, operatipg 84 

 railroads. The total mileage, including branches, 

 sidings, yards, etc., on June 30, 1894, was 12,596 

 miles, compared with 12,278 miles at the same 

 date in 1893. There are 1,505 miles operated 

 under lease, 1,296 under contract, 215 under 

 trackage rights ; 11,123 miles of track has steel 

 rails, 1,473 iron rails; 8,553 miles of road and 

 12,395 miles of track are standard gauge; 185 

 of road and 200 of track narrow gauge. The 

 mileage and equipment of the 84 railroad cor- 

 porations within Ohio represent an investment 

 of $560,250,961, an average per mile of $65,739.64. 

 The cost of construction and equipment of the 

 railroad mileage within Ohio amounts to $544.- 

 671,604, an average per mile of $63,899.83. The 

 earnings derived from operations within Ohio 

 for the year ending June 30, 1894, were $60,140,- 

 831.56, which showed a falling off from the pre- 

 ceding year of $22,982,910.86. All the items of 

 receipts showed a decrease, but the falling off in 

 freight was $20,325,164. The operating expenses 

 were $43,230,655, or .$4,947.34 a mile, against 

 $53,522,536, or $6,122.31 a mile in 1893. The 

 income from the operations within the State were 

 $16,910,176.41 in 1894, against $29,601.250.84 in 

 1893. The Commissioner reported that when 

 the fixed charges are added to the operating ex- 

 penses the statistics show an actual deficit from 

 the operation of railroads doing business in Ohio 

 of $6,054,162.79 during the year. During the 

 year 54,733 employees were paid salaries, aggre- 

 gating $30,546,709. There were carried 27,231,- 

 220 passengers, and 59,639,559 tons of freight. 

 From Jan. 21 to Dec. 21, 1894, there were 443 

 fatal accidents, of which 107 were to employees 

 and 336 to other persons, 1 being a passenger. 



Mining 1 . The report of the Chief Inspector of 

 Mines, made in July, covered the statistics for 

 the calendar year 1893. The coal production 

 was the greatest in the history of the State, ag- 

 gregating 14,828,097 tons, of which 2,553,074 

 tons were produced by mining machines. There 

 were 28,810 persons employed in coal mining ; 

 107 new mines were opened, 46 remained sus- 

 pended, and 62 have either been worked out or 

 abandoned. At the close of the fiscal year there 

 were 1,009 mines in the State, of which 419 em- 

 ploy more than 10 men each ; 957 were in opera- 

 tion. There were 327 accidents to mine em- 

 ployees during the year ; of this number 34 re- 

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suited fatally, 32 were in coal mines, 1 in an 

 iron-ore mine, and 1 in a fire-clay mine. There 

 were 45,345 tons of coal mined for each accident 

 that occurred during the year. The production 

 of iron ore is given at 68,220 tons. 



Manufactures. The returns to the State Com- 

 missioner of Labor gave the number of manu- 

 facturing establishments reporting at 2,298; 

 value of goods made during the year, $186,210,- 

 992 ; capital invested, $156,210,216. The great- 

 est amount of capital invested was in breweries, 

 the amount being $15,444,461. In the manu- 

 facture of soap and candles there was invested 

 $5,795,812 ; in strawboard and paper, $6,645,000; 

 in furniture, $4.276,772 ; machinery, $5,281,069 ; 

 printing and binding, $3,504,247; agricultural 

 implements. $11,054,618: boots and shoes, $2,- 

 931,844; boilers and tanks, $3,453,973; brick, 

 tile, and sewer pipe, $3,903,430; castings, $4,187,- 

 539 ; carriages and wagons, $5,697,959 ; carriage 

 and wagon materials, $1,143,432; railroad and 

 street cars and car furnishings, $3,675,000; 

 men's clothing, $5,663.063 ; flour-mill products, 

 $2,437,974 ; foundry and machine shops, $4,071,- 

 130 ; coffin and burial cases, $1,152.000 ; cooper- 

 age, $1,145,643; electrical supplies, $1,181,600; 

 leather, $1,890,690; sash, doors, and blinds, 

 $2,985,536 ; stoves and ranges, $1,530,720 ; vapor, 

 gas, and gasoline stoves, $1,670,000 ; tobacco and 

 cigars, $1,435,781 ; wire rods and wire cloth, 

 $1,104,500. 



State Employment Offices. In 1894 the 5 

 free employment offices of the State found em- 

 ployment for nearly 10,000 people, a falling off 

 of 3,000 as compared with 1893. The cost of con- 

 ducting these offices was less than $10,000. 



Shipping 1 . For the first time, a State report 

 on the lake shipping interests of Ohio was issued 

 in 1894. The commissioner placed the value of 

 the lake vessels owned in Ohio at over $20,000,- 

 000, showing that Ohio has greater tonnage than 

 any other State, both in sailing and steam ves- 

 sels. Over 80 per cent, of the entire lake ton- 

 nage is controlled by an association originated 

 and having its headquarters in Cleveland. Four 

 thousand men are employed on the lake wharves 

 in Ohio, the vast majority of whom are foreign- 

 ers. Returns from 2,784 vessel employees gave 

 the average earnings for 1893 as follows: Mas- 

 ters, $985; first mates, $463; second mates, 

 $521.63 : chief engineers, $700.60 ; second engi- 

 neers, $500.59: wheelmen, $242.36; lookouts, 

 $234.15; sailors, $243.08; cooks, $337.37; deck 

 hands, $165.38 : boys, $119.35. Out of the num- 

 ber questioned 52 per cent, sought work in winter, 

 some went to salt water, others to lumber camps, 

 and many found work in the shipyards. 



Charitable and Penal. The total number 

 of inmates of the State benevolent and penal 

 institutions during 1894 was 17,075, with a daily 

 average of 12,791 and a total cost of $1,887,708. 

 The county jails, workhouses, infirmaries, and 

 children's homes had 41,233 inmates, at a cost of 

 $1,384,557. Outdoor relief was given in 100,361 

 cases to the extent of $585.457, and the Soldiers' 

 Relief Commission expended $318,192 on 30,000 

 persons. 



Yital Statistics. The returns of deaths in 

 the State are imperfect, notwithstanding the vig- 

 orous efforts by the officials to secure full records. 

 The statistics contained in the report of the Sec- 



