ORANGE FREE STATE. 



OREGON. 



685 



stamps, 35,399 from posts and telegraphs, 33,- 

 736 from transfer dues, 14,932 from quit rents, 

 and 17,429 from the native poll tax. Of the 

 expenditures 53,234 were for salaries, 49,667 

 for education, 29,660 for posts and telegraphs, 

 27,365 for public works, 13,156 for police, 

 and 10,543 for the artillery. The public debt 

 in 1897 was 40,000; in 1899 it was 460,000. 

 The property of the state is valued at 5,500,000, 



minus of the Cape line at Norval's Point, on 

 the Orange river, to Bloemfontein, and through 

 to Viljoens Drift, on the Vaal river, was trans- 

 ferred on Jan. 1, 1898, to the Government of the 

 Orange Free State, which gave debentures for 

 1,692,213. The net receipts for 1897 were 504,- 

 099, out of which 309,488 were paid for exten- 

 sions and equipment. The total length of rail- 

 roads is 36G miles, built at a cost of 2,500,000. 



BUSHMAN ENCAMPMENT. 



including railroads and public lands. The rev- 

 enue for 1898 was 899,758; expenditure, 956,- 

 752. For 1899 the revenue was estimated at 

 840,455, and expenditure at 948,523. 



Defense. The whole male population between 

 the ages of sixteen and sixty must turn out with 

 horse and rifle at a summons to arms from the 

 field cornet, or captain in command of the district. 

 The strength of the army that can be thus mobi- 

 lized is 17,381. There are 4 batteries of artillery, 

 with a force of 150 trained artillerists, at the 

 capital, and 550 men who have served their time 

 are retained as a reserve. 



Commerce and Production. The land is di- 

 vided into 10,499 farms, covering 29,918,500 acres, 

 of 'which only 250,600 acres are tilled. Sheep, 

 oxen, goats, and horses are reared. The total 

 value of the imports in 1897 was 1,231,699, of 

 which 913,158 came from Cape Colony, 185,- 

 469 from Natal, 107,987 from Basutoland, and 

 25.085 from the Transvaal. The value of the 

 exportg was 1,794,242, of which 735,883 went 

 to Cape Colony, 127.253 to Natal, 59,368 to 

 Basutoland, and 871,738 to the Transvaal. The 

 exports of diamonds in 1897 were 440,964 in 

 value. In 1898 the total imports were valued at 

 1,191,932, and exports at 1,923,425. Since 

 July 1, 1889, the Free State has formed a customs 

 union with Cape Colony, which Natal joined on 

 May 20, 1898. 



Railroads and Telegraphs. A railroad built 

 by the Government of Cape Colony from the ter- 



The telegraph lines have a total length of 1,429 

 miles, with 1,683 miles of wire, not including 333 

 miles of railroad telegraphs, with 999 miles of 

 wire. (See SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC.) 



OREGON, a Pacific coast State, admitted to 

 the Union Feb. 14, 1859; area, 94,560 square miles. 

 The population was 13,294 in 1850; 52,465 in 

 1860; 90,923 in 1870; 174,768 in 1880; 313,767 in 

 1890. By the State census of 1895 it was 362,- 

 513. Capital, Salem. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1899: Governor, Theodore T. Geer; 

 Secretary of State, Frank I. Dunbar; Treasurer, 

 Charles S. Moore; Attorney-General, R. D. N. 

 Blackburn; Superintendent of Instruction, J. H. 

 Ackermann; Adjutant General, B. B. Tuttle; 

 State Printer, W. H. Leeds; Food Commissioner, 

 J. W. Bailey; Game and Forestry Warden, L. P. 

 W. Quimby; Land Agent, T. W. Davenport, suc- 

 ceeded in March by L. B. Geer; Printing Expert, 

 A. F. Hofer, succeeded in March by Ross E. 

 Moores; Fish and Game Protector, F. C. Reed, 

 succeeding H. D. McGuire, who was drowned in 

 Umpqua river, April 8; President of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, W. H. Wehrung, and of 

 that, of Horticulture, H. B. Miller; Biologist, F. 

 L. Washburn; Librarian, James B. Putnam; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, C. E. Wolver- 

 ton; Associate Justices, R. S. Bean and F. A. 

 Moore; Clerk, J. J. Murphy all Republicans. 



Finances. The balance in the treasury Jan. 

 1 was $763,699.23; the receipts during the year. 



