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was $90,404.85. This includes the special appro- 

 priation of $10,760.65 made by the General As- 

 sembly of 1899, and of which was expended for 

 an addition to the girls' building $5,000; insur- 

 ance, $2,500; steam cooking appliances, electric 

 plant, and enlargement of gas plant, $3,260.65. 



The total attendance at the Deaf and Dumb 

 School was 235; the average, 224. 



The lifty-sixth session of the Blind School, end- 

 ing in June, 1900, was the most prosperous in 

 the history of the school ; 205 pupils were enrolled. 



Vanderbilt University celebrated its twenty-fifth 

 anniversary, Oct. 22. It received this year a large 

 bequest from Mrs. Mary J. Furman, of Nashville. 



At Central Tennessee College, Nashville, 540 

 were enrolled and 73 were graduated. 



Roger Williams University had 268 students, 

 of whom 117 were women. 



Lane College, for colored students, in Jackson, 

 has sent out 116 graduates from the normal de- 

 partment since it was organized, in 1878. 



The last General Assembly provided in the ap- 

 propriation bill that each Senator should designate 

 two colored persons, either male or female, to 

 scholarships. The appointment entitles the holder 

 to receive $50 per annum for two years. The in- 

 stitutions for the colored designated by the State 

 Board of Education under former legislative pro- 

 visions to receive these scholarship students are 

 Roger Williams University, Fisk University, Cen- 

 tral Tennessee College, LeMoyne Institute. Lane 

 College, Morristown Normal College, Freedman's 

 Normal Institute, and Athens Academy. When 

 a person receives a scholarship appointment he can 

 select either of these colleges. 



The General Assembly two years ago appropri- 

 ated $2.500 annually for teachers' institute work. 

 This appropriation was supplemented each year by 

 a donation of $1,200 by the Peabody Board of 

 Trust. Six institutes for whites were held, and 

 three for colored teachers. 



Charities and Corrections. The financial re- 

 port of the Central Hospital for the Insane shows 

 the balance on hand Dec. 19, 1900, to be $2.448.79. 

 Other statistics were as follow: Total receipts for 

 the two years were $145.050, divided as follow: 

 Balance Dec. 19, 1898, $10,606.07: appropriation 

 for 1889, $51,709.29: for 1900, $54,332.66: from 1(5 

 counties for pay patients, $6.635.38 ; private pay 

 patients, $18,162.80: farm articles sold, $3.803.80. 

 The disbursements were, from Dec. 19, 1898, to 

 December, 1899, $69,289.31 ; from December, 1899, 

 to Dec. 19, 1900, $73,511.40; total, $142,801.21. 



The statistics of the State Prison, as given by 

 the Prison Commissioners, include the following 

 items: On Dec. 1, 1898, there were on hand 1.525 

 risoners. There were received and recaptured 

 tiring the year 1,596. There were on hand Dec. 

 , 1900, 1,744 prisoners, composed of 1.516 State 

 nd 228 United States prisoners, being 1.110 in the 



ain prison and 634 at Brushy mountain. State 

 prisoners white males, 403: colored males. 1.057: 

 colored females, 52 ; w r hite females, 3. United 

 States prisoners white males, 138: colored males, 

 34. Total, 1,744. 



Of the 1,551 prisoners received during the two 

 years, there are: College graduates, 22: common- 

 school education, 89; read and write, 178; read, 

 519: no education, 743. 



The main prison is described as a little manu- 

 facturing city of 10 industries, consisting of a 

 foundry, harness factory, chair and carriage fac- 

 tory, box factory, shoe factory, hosiery mill, brick 

 manufactory, and the commissioner's manufactur- 

 ing department. One of the most important fea- 

 tures of the work coming under the jurisdiction 

 of the commission is that performed at Brushy 



mountain coal mines. There has been produced 

 for the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900 

 over 1,116,000 tons of coal, and the entries have 

 been driven nearly 17 miles. 



All the prisoners of the penitentiary system are 

 now confined at the main prison and at Brushy 

 mountain. 



Militia. By the annual statement of the Ad- 

 jutant General's office, it appears that Tennessee 

 has an organized military force of 14,000 men. 



Railroads, Telegraphs, and Telephones. 

 Full statistics of the roads and lines are given 

 in the biennial report of the Railroad Commission. 

 The total mileage of roads is 3,132, of which 2,947 

 is main line track. During the past two years 

 fifty-four and a fraction miles have been con- 

 structed. The entire assessed valuation of the lines 

 in Tennessee is $55,295,972.94, of which $52,943,- 

 494.44 is distributable and $2,352,478.50 localized 

 property. The total amount of tax payable per 

 mile of railroad property is $250.32, divided as 

 follows: State, $65.66; county taxes, $159.91; city 

 taxes, $24.65. The total State tax collected each 

 year is $201,410.70; total city or municipal, $73,- 

 452.40; total county, $474,144.78, making a grand 

 total of $749,007.90 taxes paid by the Tennessee 

 railroads. 



There are but two telegraph companies operat- 

 ing in the State, the Western Union and the 

 Postal. The Postal has 1,900 miles of lines, the 

 assessment footing up $86,070.60. The Western 

 Union Company has 13,820 miles of line, valued 

 at $621,930. 



The total telephone valuation is $628,220.20. 

 There are 11 lines, with a mileage of 10,240. 



An election was held in Nashville, Dec. 15, on 

 a proposition to subscribe $1,000,000 to the capital 

 stock of the Nashville, Florence and Northern 

 Railroad. The election resulted in a vote of 5,717 

 for to 934 against the subscription. 



Insurance. Attention has been called to the 

 fact that there are no life and few fire companies 

 in the State, those which have from time to time 

 been organized having failed or gone out of busi- 

 ness. This is said to be due in part to the fact 

 that the companies, besides paying a full property 

 tax, also pay an income tax upon their gross re- 

 ceipts nearly as large as the tax paid by the foreign 

 companies that pay no local or property tax in 

 the State. The 29 life companies doing business 

 in the State in 1899 received in premiums $2,512,- 

 091.90, and paid in losses $1,161,098.68. 



Products. The coal product in 1900 amounted 

 to 3,500,000 tons. For 1899 the figures of min- 

 eral production given by the Commissioner of 

 Labor were: Coal, 3,736,'l34 tons: coke, 440,157 

 tons; iron, 667,144 tons; copper, 100,022 tons; zinc, 

 3,750 tons; barytes, 14,000 tons; phosphate, 462,- 

 561 tons. At the time of the report there were in 

 the State 100 coal mines, 15 of which are new 

 ones opened during the year. New discoveries of 

 deposits of lead, zinc, and copper have been re- 

 ported. The number of phosphate mines has been 

 doubled, the reports showing 15 in 1899 and 30 

 in 1900. The production shows but little increase, 

 however. 



The cotton acreage this year was given as 

 814,260; the consumption in mills, 37,747 bales. 

 The number of spindles is 172,213. 



The report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 shows that $33.403.95 was received from the sale 

 of fertilizer tags. 



The Cumberland. At the Cumberland River 

 Improvement Convention, in November, resolutions 

 were adopted asking for appropriations to furnish 

 slack water from the mouth of the Cumberland 

 to Nashville, 190 miles, and from Nashville to 



