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OREGON. 



catch for the season. The number of persons 

 engaged in the fisheries during the year was not 

 larger than the year before, the object of the 

 Departments of Marine and Fisheries being to 

 curtail fishing as much as possible in certain 

 localities, in order to avoid injury by overfish- 

 ing. The following table gives the product of 

 the provincial fisheries for 1893 : 



Agriculture. The following table gives the 

 area and produce of the principal field crops of 

 Ontario for 1893-'94 : 



The rural area in garden and orchard in 1894 

 was 203,160 acres, being 4,100 over that of the 

 year before. 



The numbef of live stock in the province in 

 1894 was estimated as follows : Horses, 674,777, 

 valued at $50,520,000; cattle. 2,099,301, valued 

 at $47,758,025 ; sheep, 2,015,806, valued at $9,- 

 268,118; hogs, 1.141,330, valued at $7,227,129; 

 poultry, 7,r>r>2.602, valued at $2,331,158. There 

 were sold or killed during the same year of 

 horses, 41,910: cattle. 441,688; hogs, 1,030,567; 

 poultry, 2,132,220. The wool clip for 1894 

 amounted to 6,235.036 pounds, as compared 

 with 5.H9().891 for is'K!. 



The 897 cheese factories operated during the 

 year used 911,791,204 pounds of milk, from 



which was produced 86,166,719 pounds of cheese, 

 having a gross value of $8,338,709. 



Business Failures. The number of business 

 failures in the province during last year was 752, 

 with assets of $3,049,276 and liabilities of $6,- 

 709,822. The number of failures for the whole 

 Dominion was 1,781, with assets of $7,388,692 

 and liabilities of $15,690,404. For the previous 

 year the failures for the whole country amounted 

 to 1,682, with assets of $4,848,095 and liabilities 

 of $11,603,210. 



The following table shows the capital sub- 

 scribed and the assets and liabilities of the 86 

 loan and investment companies for 1893 : 



Public Events. The annual Industrial Fair 

 was opened at Toronto on Sept. 5 by Sir John 

 Thompson, Premier of the Dominion. The pro~ 

 ceeds of the fair amounted to $60,000. 



A monument to Sir John A. Macdonald was 

 unveiled at Toronto in September by his succes- 

 sor, Sir John Thompson. 



A line of railway to extend from Toronto to 

 Niagara Falls was begun in the summer of 1894. 

 In the autumn of the same year efforts were 

 made to secure the construction of a railway line 

 to extend from Toronto to James Bay. 



Military. The Royal Military College at 

 Kingston, which is under the control of the 

 Militia Department, was founded in 1875. Of 

 the total number of cadets who have been gradu- 

 ated, 85 have been gazetted to commissions in 

 the British army. Four commissions are offered 

 annually by the British Government. In 1893 1 

 cadet received a commission in the Royal Engi- 

 neers, 1 in the Royal Artillery, and 2 in the in- 

 fantry. At present there are 64 cadets in the 

 college. 



OREGON, a Pacific coast State, admitted to 

 the Union Feb. 14. 1859 ; area, 96,030 square 

 miles. The population was 13,294 in 1850: 52.- 

 465 in 1860 ; 90,923 in 1870 ; 174.768 in 1880 ; 

 and 313,767 in 1890. Capital, Salem. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Sylvester 

 Pennoyer, Democrat; Secretary of State, Audi- 

 tor, and Insurance Commissioner, George W. 

 McBride ; Treasurer, Philip Metschan ; Attor- 

 ney-General, George E. Chamberlain; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, E. B. McElroy; 

 Adjutant General, R. W. Mitchell; Railroad 

 Commissioners, H. B. Compson, I. A. Macrum, 

 find James B.Eddy; Pilot Commissioners, John 

 F. Brown, B. F. Packard, and John Fox ; Food 

 Commissioner, Charles Holman ; Fish Commis- 

 sioners, G. T. Myers, George Ginstin, Allen 

 Parker, W. J. Riley, and Joseph P. Paquet; 



