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training ship. Four more gunboats, an ironclad, a 

 cruiser, and 5 first-class torpedo boats are being 

 built in Europe. The personnel numbers about 

 90 officers and 500 men. 



Commerce and Production. The production 

 of rice in 1895 was 12,326 tons; of corn, 25,339,417, 

 and of wheat 3,536,327 tons ; of sugar, 143,578 ; of 

 panocha, 69,083; and of molasses, 57.825 tons; of 

 Liraiidy, 3,213,885 hectolitres; of henequen, 42,378 

 tons ; 'of cotton, 35,613 tons ; of logwood, 77,839 

 tons ; of cacao, 2,425, of coffee 19,060 tons ; of to- 

 bacco, 56,632 tons ; of rum, 483,352 hectolitres ; of 

 cocoanuts, 310,953. The cattle ranches are valued 

 at $500,000,000. The exports of gold ore in 1897 

 were valued at $349.082 ; of gold bullion, $5,858,366 ; 

 of gold coin, $98,632; of silver ore, $10,680,732; 

 of silver bullion, $32,137,257; of Mexican dollars, 

 $14,578,958; of coffee, $5,858,366; of henequen, 

 $7,431,852 ; of timber, $3,518,970 ; of hides, $2,903,- 

 229; of cattle, $2,720.091; of textile, $807,162; of 

 /acaton root, $1,187.700; of vanilla, $997,155; of 

 dyes, $1,936,668. The total value of imports in 

 1897 was $42,204,095, and of exports $45,164,417 

 for merchandise and $66,182,077 for precious metals, 

 making a total of $111,346,494. The distribution 

 of the trade among the principal nations was as 

 follows : 



In 1898 the imports were valued at $43,603,000, 

 and exports at $128,973,000. The export of pre- 

 cious metals was $75.042,000: of henequen, $11,- 

 589.000; of coffee, $10,649,000: of live animals, 

 $4,867,000; of tobacco, $4,490,000; of timber, $3,- 

 597,000: of hides, $3,590.000; of lead. $2,910,000; 

 of copper, $2,278,000. Of the imports, $21,491,000 

 came from the United States, $8,106,000 from Great 

 Britain, $5.436.000 from France, $4,782,000 from 

 Germany, $2,039,000 from Spain, $590,000 from 

 Belgium, and $1,159.000 from other countries. Of 

 the exports the United States took $94,975,000, 

 Great Britain $14,776,000, Germany $6,996,000, 

 France $5,320,000, Belgium $1,556,000, Spain $1,- 

 231,000, and other countries $4,119,000. 



Navigation. The number of vessels entered at 

 Mexican ports during 1898, including coasters, was 

 10,527, of 4,085,200 tons ; cleared, 10,452, of 3,880,940 

 tons. Of those entered, 5.112, of 3,731,323 tons, and 

 of those cleared, 4,953, of 3,535,898 tons, were steam- 

 ers. The merchant marine numbered 17 steamers, 

 of 4,081 tons net, and 51 sail ships of 9,317 tons. 



Communications. The length of railroads on 

 Sept. 1, 1898, was 7,750 miles. The length of tele- 

 graph lines belonging to the Federal Government 

 was 28.227 miles. Over these 1,865,303 messages 

 were dispatched in 1897. The length of other lines 

 was 13,924 miles. The postal traffic in 1898 was 

 86.750.000 letters and postal cards in the internal 

 service, and 26,000,000 in the international service. 

 The receipts were $1,409,528 ; expenses, $1,587.115. 



Internal Affairs. The Congress was opened on 

 April 1 and reassembled on Sept. 17. The revenue 

 for 1897-'98 was $52,500,000, exceeding by more 

 than $2.000,000 the receipts for the previous year, 

 notwithstanding a decrease in the yield of the im- 

 port duties, due to the development of manufactur- 

 ing industries. The greater activity of business 

 enterprise made the stamp revenue much larger. 

 When war broke out between the United States and 





Spain, att< mpts were made by Spaniards to foment 

 disturbances on the border in the hope of involving 

 Mexico, but the Government re-enforced the troops 

 on the frontier, broke up the band which the Span- 

 iards had organized, and punished the instigators 

 for their breach of the law. 



MICHIGAN, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 26, 1837; area, 58,915 square mile?. 

 The population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, was 212,267 in 1840; 397,654 in 

 1850; 749,113 in 1860; 1,184.059 in 1870; 1,636,937 

 in 1880 ; and 2,093,889 in 1890. By the State cen- 

 sus of 1894 it was 2,241,641. Capital, Lansing. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Hazen S. Pin- 

 gree ; Lieutenant Governor, Thomas B. Dunstan ; 

 Secretary of State, Washington Gardner; Treas- 

 urer, George A. Steel ; Auditor, Roscoe D. Dix ; 

 Attorney-General, Fred. A. Maynard ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, Jason E. Hammond; 

 Land Commissioner, William A. French; Bank 

 Commissioner, Josiah E. Just, who died Feb. 19, 

 and was succeeded by George L. Maltz ; Railroad 

 Commissioner, Sybrant Wesselius; Insurance Com- 

 missioner, Milo D. Campbell; Labor Commissioner. 

 Joseph L. Cox; Adjutant-General, E. M. Irish; 

 Food Commissioner, E. 0. Grosvenor; Oil Inspec- 

 tor, Thomas R. Smith; Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Claudius B. Grant; Associate Justices, 

 Robert M. Montgomery, Frank A. Hooker. Joseph 

 B. Moore, and Charles D. Long ; Clerk, Charles C. 

 Hopkins. All are Republicans. 



Finances. The report of the State Treasurer 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, shows that 

 the balance on hand July 1, 1897, was $783.888.04; 

 total receipts for the year, $5,122,859.36; total in 

 the treasury, $5,906,747.40 ; disbursements. $4,690,- 

 534.79 ; balance June 30, 1898, $1.216,212.61. 



The net receipts from taxes for the year were 

 $2,559,219.71. Other receipts were as follows : In- 

 terest on surplus revenue, $21,657.90 : unexpended 

 appropriations and funds returned, $2,990.81 ; fees 

 for examination of banks, $9,136.66. The receipts 

 not classified above aggregate $149,253.31. The 

 total receipts for specific taxes were $1,028,930.25, 

 divided as follows : From river improvement com- 

 panies. $2,870.10; railroad companies, $744,077.60; 

 insurance companies, $219,152.62 ; plank-road com- 

 panies, $591.98 ; express companies, $2,608.53: tele- 

 graph and telephone companies, $59,586.71 : freight, 

 sleeping, and palace-car companies, $42.65. There 

 were no receipts from mining companies during 

 the year, although these companies owe the State 

 $29,545.54. 



The outstanding bonds of the State now arc : 

 Interest bearing War loan bonds of 1898, 3i per 

 cent., $208,700 ; war loan bonds of 1898, 3 per cent., 

 $1-91,300; total, $400.000. Non-interest bearing- 

 Past due part-paid $5,000,000 loan bonds $19,000. 

 adjustable at $578.57 per 1,000, $10,992.83. Trust 

 fund debt Agricultural College fund, $625,790.98 : 

 Normal School fund, $66,125.12 ; Primary School 

 fund, 7 per cent, $3,861,018.52; Primary School 

 fund, 5 per cent,, $833,612.96; University fund, 

 $532,556.81 : balance trust funds, $5,919,104.39. 



The amount paid for the support of the insane 

 was $504,682.32. Of this, $440,651.30 was for the 

 permanent insane and $34,547.72 for criminal insane. 



During the year the State institutions received 

 from the treasury $2,106,232.02; from earnings, 

 $758,680.35; from loans, $21,000; total, $2,885,- 

 912.37. Their disbursements for current expenses 

 were $2.232.324.66; for building and special pur- 

 poses, $725,555.78 ; for payment of loans, $21,600 ; 

 total, $2,979.480.44. This' shows an excess of dis- 

 bursements of $96.568.07. -The institution balances 

 at the close of the year aggregated $125,073.63. 



