IDAHO. 



funds, $6,638 ; income : from tuition fees, $340 ; 

 from productive funds, $500 ; from State or munici- 

 pal appropriations, $6,000; from United States 

 Government, $37,000 ; total income, $43,840 ; bene- 

 factions, $100. 



Penal. The report of the warden of the State 

 Penitentiary for 1897 shows that there were 210 in- 

 mates ; the number discharged during the year was 

 63 ; largest number of prisoners at any one time, 

 150 ; of those discharged 37 went out on expiration 

 of sentence, 11 by pardon, 3 by commutation, 4 on 



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amount expended for the year was $36,758.16. The 

 net cost of maintenance was $29,002.53, or an aver- 



age daily cost per capita of 60i cents. 



Insane Asylum. By the latest report there 

 were 187 patients in the asylum, of whom 67 were 

 women. The amount exp'ended during the vear 

 was $32,731.39. 



Railroads. The total mileage in the State was 

 1,085.34, or 0.59 per cent, of all in the United States, 

 an increase in a year of 0.60 per cent. This was 1.29 

 miles for every 100 square miles of territory, and 

 115.30 miles for 10,000 inhabitants. 



Crops. By the latest report of the Department 

 of Agriculture the hay crop was valued at $2,365,- 

 178, there being 502,161 tons from an acreage of 

 193,139. The potato crop was valued at $188,957, 

 being 629,856 bushels from an acreage of 3,888. 



Indians. The area of Indian reservation in the 

 State is 1,364,500 acres, or 2,132 square miles; In- 

 dian population, 3,640 ; births in 1897, 88 ; deaths, 



Irrigation. A large irrigation scheme has been 

 inaugurated, the capital stock of the company be- 

 ing $1,000,000. An immense dam is being built on 

 Bear river, in the southwestern part of the State, 

 from which will run a ditch about 100 miles in 

 length, 40 feet wide, and 10 feet deep ; this ditch, 

 with its various laterals, will irrigate an area of 

 500,000 acres, about 300,000 acres of which is now 

 settled upon, the remaining 200,000 being Govern- 

 ment land. 



Fruit. A new corporation has undertaken to 

 plant 1,000 acres in fruit trees, the planting each 

 year to embrace 500 acres of prunes, 250 acres of 

 winter pears, and 250 acres of winter apples, this 

 planting to continue for five years. The prunes 

 are to be dried by evaporation. The finest of the 

 fruit will be shipped in the green state, but the 

 company will rely upon the drier for handling the 

 bulk of 'the crop. Storage facilities will be pro- 

 vided for the apples and pears, enabling the com- 

 pany to hold its crop of those fruits as long as 

 desirable. 



Prosperity. The year was reported as one of 

 substantial progress. In mining there was a 

 marked revival, the gold resources attracting the 

 attention of many capitalists. The " Idaho States- 

 man " said : " The blessings of large crops and good 

 prices have Ctiused the northern wheat counties to 

 feel a thrill of new life. Those counties have grown 

 -he largest crops harvested in any part of the 

 United States, and the prices obtained have enabled 

 ihe farmers to pay off mortgages and supply them- 

 selves with luxuries denied during the years of de- 

 pression. The fruit industry has expanded and 

 ;he wool growers and cattle men have all enjoyed a 



;ood year. They have secured high prices and 



ave all made money." 



Decision. Sections 6 and 14 of the sheep- 

 inspection law of 1895 were declared unconstitu- 

 tional in the case of the State vs. James Duck- 

 worth. In the lower court the defendant was con- 

 victed and fined for bringing sheep into the State 



JOHN R. TANNER, 

 GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS. 



without first having them dipped by a deputy in- 

 spector. An appeal was taken, and the judgment 

 of the lower court was reversed. 



ILLINOIS, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 3, 1818; area, 56,650 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census 

 was 55,162 in 1820 ; 157,445 in 1830 ; 476,183 in 1840 

 851,470 in 1850; 1,711,951 in 1860; 2,539891 in 

 1870; 3,077,871 in 1880; and 3,826,351 in 1890. 

 Capital, Springfield. 



Government. The State officers during the 

 year were : Governor, John R. Tanner ; Lieutenant 

 Governor, William 

 A. Northcott ; Sec- 

 retary of State, 

 James A. Rose ; Au- 

 ditor, James S. Mc- 

 Cullough ; Treas- 

 urer, Henry L. 

 Hertz ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public 

 Instruction, Henry 

 L. Inglis ; Attor- 

 ney - General, Ed- 

 ward C. Akin ; Ad- 

 jutant General, J. 

 N". Reece ; Superin- 

 tendent of Insur- 

 ance, James R. B. 

 Van Cleave ; Presi- 

 dent Board of Agri- 

 culture, J. Irving 

 Pearce all Repub- 

 licans. Board of 

 Arbitration, H. R. Calef, J. Keefe, W. S. Forman ; 

 Justices of Supreme Court, C. C. Boggs, J. J. Phil- 

 lips, J. W. Wilken, J. N. Carter. A. M. Craig, J. H. 

 Cartwright, B. D. Magruder all Republicans. 



Finances. The amount of funds in treasury 

 Oct. 1, 1896, was $886,346.13 ; receipts from Oct. 1, 

 1896, to Sept. 30, 1898 : from general revenue funds, 

 $9,911,738.52 ; from State school fund, $2,179,032.- 

 30 ; from local bond funds, $2,203,913.22 ; total re- 

 ceipts from all sources, $15,181,030.17; disburse- 

 ments for same time, $13,017,652.52 ; balance in 

 treasury Oct. 1, 1898, $2,163,377.65 ; total bonded 

 debt outstanding Oct. 1, 1898, $18,500, these bonds 

 having ceased to bear interest, but not having been 

 surrendered ; total amount paid into State treasury 

 by Illinois Central Railroad, from March 24, 1855, 

 to April 30, 1898, $16,980,666.23 ; securities depos- 

 ited with State treasurer by life insurance compa- 

 nies, $303.200 ; amount received from foreign corpo- 

 rations doing business in the State, $70,233.15. 



Valuation. The report of State Board of Equal- 

 ization gave the amount of real and personal prop- 

 erty of the State for the purpose of taxation as- 

 $799,695,853, of which $135,283,662 was personal 

 property ; total amount added to the assessment of 

 the State as reported by the Land Committee, $22,- 

 595,866 ; total equalized value of property assessed 

 by local assessors, $699,486,640 ; railroad property 

 assessed, $76,554,845 ; capital stock of corporations 

 assessed, $2,433,425 ; total equalized value of prop- 

 erty in State, $4,778,474,910 ; rate of taxation, 56 

 cents on $100. 



Banks. For the year ending Dec. 1, 1897, the 

 total receipts from the building and loan associa- 

 tions in the State were $24,568.55 ; number of 

 associations, 682 ; business of associations, $43,049,- 

 061.98. The statement compiled by the auditor of 

 public accounts, Sept. 21, 1898, gave the number of 

 State banks as 139 ; cash on hand, $20,181.632.88 ; 

 total resources, $159,956,854.13 ; capital stock, $17,- 

 148,000; surplus fund, $7,270,699.56; savings de- 

 posits subject to notice, $38,393.454.61 : total liabil- 

 ities, $159,956,854.13. The cash on hand in the 20 



