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turned to the counties, tax on premiums on for- 

 eign fire insurance, personal fees, annuities for 

 right of way, oleomargarine licenses returned to 

 the agricultural department, oleomargarine, im- 

 pure food, and other fines returned to the agricul- 

 tural department, and fines for violation of the 

 game laws returned to the Game Commission, 

 amounting in the aggregate to $2,558,613.26, 

 which leaves a balance available for the payment 

 of appropriations of $14,289,820.15. This latter 

 is the amount of revenue for the last fiscal year 

 available to meet appropriations made by the 

 Legislature. From it, together with the revenue 

 for the year 1899, the appropriations made by the 

 last Legislature have been paid and the deficit 

 liquidated. 



The sinking fund amounts to $6,021,402.12, 

 while the public debt on Dec. 1, 1900, amounted to 

 s<;.s 15.299.02. leaving a balance of funded State 

 debt of only $783,896.90. 



Valuation and Taxation. The latest report 

 of the Secretary of Internal Affairs shows the 

 value of all real estate at $3,027,649,299, being 

 an increase over the preceding year's total of $46,- 

 547,210. The total of taxable real estate is given 

 as $2,728,163,336. The total amount of taxes col- 

 lected for all purposes is reported as $55,808,585.- 

 32, being an increase for the year of $5,492,714.51. 



Banks. The Commissioner of Banking, in his 

 latest report, gives us for 1899 the following to- 

 tals: Banks, 91; trust companies, 95; savings in- 

 stitutions, 16. Capital is shown as follows: 

 Banks, $8,152,920; savings institutions, $110,200; 

 trust companies, $36,853,497.50. Surplus: Banks, 

 $5,955,419.78; savings institutions, $7,515,626.59; 

 trust companies, $13,124,811.88. Deposits: Banks, 

 $67,151,966.66; savings institutions, $99,261,413.- 

 90; trust companies, $158,467,325.28. 



Insurance. The Insurance Commissioner, in 

 his latest report, gives the following figures con- 

 cerning life and accident insurance as for 1899: 

 In 1899 the companies of the State issued 7,616 

 policies, insuring $20,095,459 upon the lives of 

 residents of this State, an increase over the busi- 

 ness of the preceding year of 1,557 policies and an 

 increase of $2,735,416 insurance. Companies of 

 other States issued 602,617 policies in the State, 

 insuring $183,226,321, making an aggregate by all 

 companies of 610,233 policies, insuring $203,321,- 

 780, being an increase of 144,457 policies and an in- 

 crease of $44,784,279. The total losses paid by all 

 life companies in the State during the year 1899 

 was $12,477,959.61, of which home companies paid 

 $1,852,452, and companies of other States $10,- 

 625,507.61. 



The insurance in force at the end of 1899 upon 

 the lives of residents of Pennsylvania, including 

 industrial policies of small amounts, aggregated 

 2,034,017 policies, insuring $867,973,742, of which 

 52,858 policies, insuring $138,234,318, were in com- 

 panies of this State, and 1,981,159 policies, insur- 

 ing $729,739,424, in companies of other States and 

 foreign countries. The Pennsylvania life com- 

 panies had in force at the close of the year 1899 

 a total of 162,393 policies, insuring $410,325,423, 

 against 114,483 policies, insuring $304,656,265, at 

 the close of the year 1898. The same companies 

 had a total net premium income of $15.443.451.10 

 in 1899, against $12,086,481.75 in 1898, and a 

 total income from all sources of $19,498,219.41 in 

 1899, against $16,286.411.95 in 1898. 



Education. In the year ending the first Mon- 

 day of June, 1900, the whole number of teachers 

 on. ployed was 29,390, the total enrollment of pupils 

 was 1,151,880, the total receipts for schools and 

 buildings were $24.916,668.69, and the total ex- 

 penditures were $21,476,994.90. The number of 



school districts in the State is 2,510; number of 

 schools, 28,330; number of graded schools, 15,720; 

 number of superintendents, 140; number of male 

 teachers, 9,394; number of female teachers, 19,- 

 996; whole number of teachers, 29,390; average 

 salaries of male teachers per month, $44.25 ; aver- 

 age salaries of female teachers per -month, $37.74; 

 average length of school term in months, 8.33; 

 average number of pupils in daily attendance, 

 854,640; teachers' wages, $11,205,482.61; cost of 

 school text-books, $806,148.30; cost of school sup- 

 plies other than text-books, $422,696.87 ; fuel, con- 

 tingencies, fees of collectors, and other expenses, 

 $4,978,540.36. The State appropriation for the 

 school year ending June 5, 1899, was $5,500,000, 

 and the estimated value of school property was 

 $54,797,506.32. 



Railroads. The steam railroads of the State, 

 on June 30, showed a capitalization, including 

 stock, bonds, and current liabilities, of $2,965,- 

 077,932, with assets of $3,067,955,557. The com- 

 panics included in the reports have 25,885 miles of 

 road; own 11,747 locomotives, 10,709 passenger 

 cars, and 512,048 freight cars. On these roads 

 there are employed 307,737 persons, to whom 

 there was paid during the year $176,762,468 as 

 compensation for services. The trains of these 

 corporations during the year traversed 257.777.- 

 050 miles and carried 205,939,884 passengers and 

 578,995,338 tons of freight. The passenger earn- 

 ings amounted to $109,757,426, and freight earn- 

 ings to $331,013,955. With other earnings this 

 makes a grand total of $498,012,493. The opera- 

 tions of these steam railroads involve an expendi- 

 ture, exclusive of dividends, of $428,837,899, and 

 result in the payment to the stockholders of divi- 

 dends amounting to $37,823,306. 



Factories. The latest report of the Factory 

 Inspector for 1899 shows the total number of em- 

 ployees to be 773,443 35,440 between thirteen 

 and sixteen years of age, or less than 5 per cent, 

 of the total number of employees being children. 

 Many establishments will not employ children 

 between thirteen and sixteen years of age, on ac- 

 count of the law requiring age certificates and 

 record books to be kept on file. 



Forty-four selected industries in 1899 employed 

 154,422 persons, or 16,437 more than were em- 

 ployed in 1898; $78,179,333 were paid out in 

 wages to 154,422 persons in 1899, as against $62.- 

 676,615 in 1898: being an increase of $15,502.7 IS. 

 or 24.73 per cent. 



The average yearly earnings of the 154,422 per- 

 sons employed in the 44 industries, skilled and 

 unskilled, men, women, and children, was $506.27 

 against $454.52 for the 137,985 persons employed 

 by the same establishments in 1898, an increa-e 

 of $51.75 a year, or 11.38 per cent. The a irir regale 

 value of products for 1899 reached $377.934.411. 

 an increase over 1898 of $111,889,881, or 42. or, 

 per cent. 



Iron and Tin. The value of Pennsylvania's 

 production of pig iron for 1899, as officially n 

 ported, was $98,203,803. The a \ era-re earnings 

 for the year for skilled and unskilled labor wa- 

 $495.18, the average days of employment being 

 327. or nine days fewer than in 1898. 



The aggregated tinned production for 1 *'.'!> "' 

 the black plate and dipping works wa> :>:>1.<>S2. 

 734 pounds, and Pennsylvania's share of the en- 

 tire production of the United States of tin ami 

 terne plate in 1S9S was about 37 per cent. 



In addition to 21 black plate works, the Stair 

 had seven dipping works in operation in 1S!>!, 

 milking, with the 18 black plate work- thai 

 turned out a tinned production, 25 plants making 

 a lini-hed product of tin and terne plate. The ag- 



