UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (MISSOURI.) 



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Finances. The bonded debt of the State on 

 Jan. 1, 1902, was $1,287,000, showing a reduction 

 in the year of $000,000. The State also has $4,- 

 393,839 in certificates of indebtedness outstand- 

 ing, in which the State school and seminary 

 funds are invested, making the total debt amount 

 to $5,680,839. The State's bonds draw 3J per 

 cent, interest, are dated Jan. 1, 1886, are due 

 Jan. 1, 1908, and are redeemable after Jan. 1, 

 1893. . The certificates of indebtedness draw 5 

 and 6 per cent, interest. The bonded debt of 

 cities and towns is $31,055,192. County and 

 township bonds to the amount of $9,000,000 are 

 outstanding. They are owed by 53 counties, 

 while 68 counties have no bonded indebtedness. 



Railroads. There are 154 steam-railways in 

 the State, operated by 54 companies. Their total 

 mileage is 8,656.26 miles, of which 7,300 is main 

 line, showing an increase of 200 miles within the 

 past year. Five counties in the State have no 

 railroads. The railways pay a total tax of 

 $928,572. The casualties last year were as fol- 

 low: Persons killed, 229; injured, 1,132. Of those 

 killed, 60 were employees and 4 were passengers. 

 Of the injured, 700 were employees and 160 pas- 

 sengers. All the railroads are of standard 

 gage except the Missouri Southern and the Se- 

 dalia, Warsaw and Southwestern, and the latter 

 is widening its tracks. 



Insurance. There are doing business in the 

 State 13 regular mutual fire-insurance companies, 

 10 Missouri town mutual fire, lightning, and tor- 

 nado companies, 26 foreign fire companies, 47 

 miscellaneous stock companies, 49 regular life 

 companies, 4 stimulated premium life companies, 

 3 assessment life companies and associations, 67 

 assessment accident companies and associations, 

 and 72 fraternal benefit associations. The busi- 

 ness done in the State in 1901 was as follows: 

 Fire risks written, $522,077,298.43; premiums 

 thereon, $5,900,949.39; losses paid, $4,216,794.43; 

 losses incurred, $4,490,332.96. Marine and inland 

 risks written, $10,317,743; premiums thereon, 

 $66,781.29; losses paid, $43,747.60; losses in- 

 curred, $43,445.56. Tornado risks written, -$28,- 

 435,469.44; premiums thereon, $124,110.55; losses 

 paid, $5,307.03; losses incurred, $5,183.92. Fidelity 

 and surety risks written, $56,660,081.23; premi- 

 ums thereon, $212,078.34; losses paid, $59,494.57; 

 losses incurred, $44,650.39. Miscellaneous risks 

 written, $227,839,080.45; premiums thereon, $1,- 

 257.405.23; losses paid, $593,185.52; losses in- 

 curred, $634,736.10. Grand totals other than life 

 risks written, $845,329,672.55; premiums there- 

 on, $7,561,324.80; losses paid, $4,918,530.14; losses 

 incurred, $52,018.348.93. The life business done 

 in the x State in 1901 was as follows: Policies in 

 force Dec. 31, 1901, number 105,756; amount, 

 $230,780.804.99; claims paid in 1901. $3,205,563.- 

 21; premiums collected in 1901, $8.842.241.76. The 

 industrial insurance business during 1901 was as 

 follows: The policies in force Dec. 31, 1901, num- 

 bered 441,895; amount, $60,189,164; claims paid 

 in 1901, $629,387.36; premiums collected in 1901, 

 $617.947.81. 



Education. The State school fund amounts 

 to $3,159,073.40, and the State seminary fund to 

 $1,235,839.42, all of which is invested in the State 

 certificates of indebtedness, and draws interest 

 at 5 and 6 per cent. The interest is annually dis- 

 tributed among the 9.948 school districts, in pro- 

 portion to the number of children of school age 

 that they contain. The State school system con- 

 *i>ts of the State University, Agricultural Col- 

 lege, School of Mines, 3 normal schools, 1 insti- 

 tute for colored teachers, 286 high schools, and 

 10,299 public schools. 



The State University has an endowment of 

 $1,236,000, and 47,108 acres of unsold land. It 

 receives annually from the United States Govern- 

 ment $38,150. Its total annual income is $41tt,- 

 000. The number of students enrolled in June, 

 1902, was 1,710. The School of Mines and Metal- 

 lurgy is at Rolla. 



The Normal School, at Kirksville, had an en- 

 rolment as follows at the time of the last report: 

 Men, 354; women, 501; total, 855. The total en- 

 rolment at the Normal School, at Warrensburg, 

 was 1,012. The total enrolment at the Cape 

 Girardeau Normal School was 442; and at Lin- 

 coln Institute for colored teachers, at Jefferson 

 City, 247, of whom 123 were men and 92 women. 



The following statistics of schools have been 

 condensed from reports of county commissioners: 

 Enrolment, white male, 341,593; female, 337,- 

 616; total, 679,209; colored male, 15,617; female, 

 16,894; total, 32,511; grand total enrolled, 711,- 

 720. Number of teachers employed, white male, 

 5,607; female, 9,759; total, 15,366; colored male, 

 285; female, 509; total, 794; grand total teachers 

 employed, 16,160. Average salaries of teachers per 

 annum men, $296; women, $308. Estimated 

 value of school property, $20,328,279. 



There are 128 private schools in the State, em- 

 ploying 1,275 teachers, and having an enrolment 

 of 19,517 pupils, and buildings and grounds worth 

 $7,853,604. They have a total permanent endow- 

 ment of $8,829,000. 



State Institutions. The State institutions 

 are the Penitentiary, at Jefferson City; the Re- 

 form School for Boys, at Boonville; the Girls' 

 Industrial Home, at Chillicothe; 4 insane asylums 

 at Fulton, St. Joseph, Nevada, and Farmington 

 a colony for the feeble-minded, at Marshall; a 

 Confederate Soldiers' Home, at Higginsville, 

 which costs $40,000 a year; and a Federal Sol- 

 diers' Home, at St. James, which costs $20,000 a 

 year. About $900,000 was spent in the last two 

 years on the buildings of public institutions. 



Agriculture. Seventy-seven per cent, of the 

 land area of Missouri is included in its farms, 

 of which 67.4 per cent, is improved. The number 

 of farms, according to the last census, was 284,- 

 886. The value of farm property in 1900 was 

 $1,033,121,897, of which $843,979,213 is lands, im- 

 provements, and buildings, $28,602,680 imple- 

 ments and machinery, and $160,540,004 live stock. 

 The value of farm-products was $218,296,970. 

 The total increase in the value of farm property 

 since 1850 was found to be 31.4. The number of 

 farms operated by owners was 197,989; by cash 

 tenants, 31,230; and by share tenants, 55,667. Of 

 the .farmers of the State, 98.3 are white and 1.7 

 colored. Of the white farmers. 69.1 per cent, 

 own all or a part of the farms they operate; of 

 the colored farmers, 30.9 per cent. Of the value 

 of crops, cereals contributed 65.5 per cent.; hay 

 and forage, 16.8 per cent.; vegetables, 7.2 per 

 cent.; fruits and nuts, 3.6 per cent.: forest prod- 

 ucts, 3.7 per cent.; all other products. 3.2 per 

 cent. 



Labor. There are 410 labor organizations in 

 the State, with a total membership of 52,426, of 

 which 51.426 are men and 1,378 women. The 

 total number of strikes in the State in 1901 was 

 177, of which, according to the Labor Commis- 

 sioner's report, 119 were settled satisfactorily to 

 the strikers, 33 were compromised, and 15 were 

 lost. 



Manufactures. The Bureau of Labor re- 

 ceived reports from 1,666 manufacturing con- 

 cerns. The aggregate value of their products in 

 1901 was $253.711,595, an increase over 1900 of 

 $77,053,963. The average number of males em- 



