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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (ILLINOIS.) 



may be classified as follows: Illinois joint-stock 

 fire and marine companies, 6; Illinois mutual fire- 

 insurance companies, 9; joint-stock fire and ma- 

 rine insurance companies of other States, 112; 

 foreign fire and marine insurance companies, 42; 

 mutual fire-insurance companies of other States, 

 12; total, 181. This shows a net loss of 17 com- 

 panies as compared with the number authorized 

 to transact business in this State at the date of 

 the last report. 



The aggregate capital stock and deposit cap- 

 ital of the stock and foreign companies doing 

 liu<iness in the State at this date is $3,786,500 less 

 than the aggregate capital at the date of the last 

 report. The total assets of the companies are 

 $314,615,880, an increase over the previous year 

 of $5,417,339. The total surplus was $94,870,553, 

 a decrease of $3,151,660. The total amount of 

 capital of these companies is given as $64,230,660, 

 a decrease from the year previous of $3,786,500. 

 The amount of risks written was $1,472,902,923, 

 a decrease of $15,212,163. The net excess of re- 

 ceipts over disbursements for 1901 was $15,633,974. 

 The risks in force at the close of the year were 

 $23,670,282,818, an increase of $395,467,156. 



The business done by the 49 legal reserve life- 

 insurance companies shows an increase of 8,339 

 policies, and $7,178,998 more insurance, exclusive 

 of industrial business, over the previous year. 

 The net increase of insurance in force on new 

 insurance written was 49 per cent., as against 44 

 per cent, in 1900. The total premiums received, 

 apart from industrial business, amounted to $18,- 

 441,158, and the total losses paid to $6,150,789. 

 The entire industrial business written shows an 

 increase of 6,869 policies and $435,885 of insur- 

 ance. The total business of all life-insurance 

 companies shows an increase in income of $48,- 

 200,310, in expenditures of $27,558,083, in assets 

 of $155,409,412, in liabilities of $110,869,786, and 

 an increase in surplus of $44,539,626. 



The 44 fidelity, surety, and casualty companies 

 show the following aggregate results: Capital, 

 $20,334,400; admitted assets, $128,335,984; lia- 

 bilities, $106,463,423; net surplus, $21,872,561; 

 risks in force, $5,440,889,761. 



There were at the date of this report 22 assess- 

 ment life and 6 assessment accident companies 

 doing business in the State, with total admitted 

 assets as follow: Life, $17,304,221; accident, 

 $263,231. 



The total admitted assets of 105 fraternal bene- 

 ficiaries in the State are $21,706,875. 



Railroads. The report of the Railroad and 

 Warehouse Commission for the year ending June 

 30, 1901, shows the total mileage of steam-rail- 

 roads in the State to be 17,351 miles, an increase 

 over 1900 of 571 miles. The mileage of surface 

 and elevated electric lines is 218 miles, which is 

 an increase over last year of 69 miles. The total 

 capital of all steam-railroads in Illinois is $3,140,- 

 822,020, an increase of $72,122,991. The increase 

 was not so great as during the previous year, but 

 is considered remarkable. The capital stock of 

 elevated and surface lines was $88,595,450, an 

 increase during the year of $5,528,150. Propor- 

 tionately this is a far greater increase than is 

 shown by the steam-railroads. The total amount 

 of taxes paid by the steam-railways was 4.725,- 

 2, an increase of $345,721. The taxes paid by 

 surface and elevated electric roads was $153,169, 

 an increase of $61,929. 



For the first time the State Department has 

 been able to secure definite information concern- 

 ing wages paid by the railroads. The highest 

 average salary is paid to general officers, and 

 amounts to $16 a day, and the lowest average 



salary is paid to trackmen, and is $1.28. The 

 highest average salary paid by surface and ele- 

 vated electric roads is $8.40, and the lowest is 

 $1.43 a day. 



The number of passengers carried on the steam- 

 roads was 40,638,781, and the passenger earnings 

 per mile were $2,402, an increase per mile of 

 $215. The number of tons of freight handled was 

 116,117,821. The number of persons employed on 

 steam-railroads in the State of Illinois was 88,230, 

 to whom was paid in salaries $51,999,868, an in- 

 crease of $639,178 over the year 1900. 



Agricultural. The State Board of Agricul- 

 ture issued a report, Aug. 1, 1902, showing the 

 condition of the crops and the number of bushels 

 of those already harvested. The area of wheat 

 harvested this season, 1,774,329 acres, is 85,000 

 acres less than that of 1901 ; nevertheless the 1902 

 wheat-crop exceeds that of 1901 by 5,475,985 bush- 

 els. The total crop, 36,588,783 bushels, is the 

 largest harvested in the State since 1894, when 

 the area was very much larger. The average 

 yield per acre, 21 bushels, is the highest average 

 ever reported. The ruling price of the grain Aug. 

 1 was 63 cents a bushel, making the value of 

 the entire crop on that date $22,906,930. 



The oats area amounted to 3,747,956 acres, not 

 quite so large as that of last year. The total 

 yield amounted to 141,434,585 bushels; total value 

 of crop, $47,377,905 the most valuable oat-crop 

 ever harvested in Illinois. The average yield per 

 acre was 38 bushels. The 113,836 acres devoted 

 to rye yielded 2,295,601 bushels, the price per 

 bushel on Aug. 1 being 50 cents, and the total 

 value of the crop $1,153,274. 



A larger area was devoted to corn this year 

 than last by 123,691 acres, the area reported being 

 8,201,412 acres. The condition of the crop at the 

 time of this report was excellent, being 96 per 

 cent, of a seasonable average. 



Education. The report of the State Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction for 1902 exhibits 

 the following facts relating to the public schools: 

 The last school census found 1,601,175 persons 

 between the ages of six and t\venty-one years. 

 There were 22,273 more boys than girls. The 

 average daily attendance in all grades was 765,- 

 057. There are 11,734 school districts in the 

 State, and 12,865 schoolhouses, 169 of them built 

 within the year. But 17 of the pioneer log school- 

 houses remain in the State. There were 27,186 

 teachers employed, at wages averaging $64.55 for 

 men and $54.18 for women. The total expendi- 

 tures for teaching amounted to $12,132,075. 



In the year $2,063.900 wns paid for new school- 

 houses. The total expenditures for public-school 

 purposes amounted to nearly $20,000,000. 



There are 1,008 private schools reported in the 

 State, and 350 high schools. The high schools 

 cost for maintenance $1.531.552. and the total 

 number of pupils in them was 41.951; the num- 

 ber of teachers employed was 1,606, the pay-roll 

 amounting to $1.314.600. 



The whole number of persons between the ai:' 1 - 

 of six and twenty-one years reported as unable 

 to read and write was 614. 



Mining. There are 54 coal-producing coun- 

 ties in Illinois. In the year ending July 1. 1902, 

 the total output of 915 mines was 30,021,300 tons. 

 The aggregate value of this coal at the mines was 

 $28.272,050. The total number of employees was 

 46,005. 



Charities. The bulletin of the State charita- 

 ble institutions for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 

 1902, shows the following facts: 



The number of inmates present in all the in- 

 stitutions, Sept. 30, was 11,055, the average num- 



