UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (NOKTH CAROLINA.) 



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There are 41 patients in the hospital for the 

 dangerous insane, which is in the State Prison 

 building. The cost per capita is $114.98 a year. 



In April there were 850 convicts in the charge of 



the State. Of these, 439 were at work on the Ohio 



liver and Charleston Railroad. There are among 



the convicts 55 women, of whom 3 are white ; 155 



of the men are white, and 2 are Indians. 



The net profit of the present administration 

 las been $20,643.28. In 1901 the prison failed of 

 eing self-supporting by the sum of $32,773. 



From July 1, 1901, to July 1, 1902, the number 

 of criminal cases in the courts was 9,301 males 

 3,634, females 667 against whites 4,951, against 

 negroes 4,339, against Indians 11. Convictions 

 ind submissions 6,418, acquittals 1,183, nolle 

 grossed 1.594, otherwise disposed of 106. 



Railroads. The Corporation Commission this 

 /ear reduced the passenger-fare rate over the At- 

 lantic Coast Line Railroad, the Seaboard Air Line 

 lailroad, and the Southern Railway. The com- 

 lissionevs' standard rate of 2f cents a mile for 

 econd-class fare and 3J cents a mile for first-class 

 ire is now applied, in fact, to nearly every road in 

 the State. 



There are 3,681.95 miles of railroad in the State, 

 an increase of 30.82 miles over last year. There 

 pere, however, 66.63 miles of new road built, but 

 5.81 miles were abandoned. 



The aggregate earnings of the railroads were 

 ^16,476,173.56; the operating expenses, $10,187,- 

 100.64; the cost of roads, $104,864,959; bonded 

 debts, $52,697,380; capital stock, $77,877,115; 

 ixes paid, $547,262; number of employees, 11,- 

 )1; amount of wages, $4,452,590; accidents, 87 

 cilled, 1,068 injured. 



The gross earnings of the street-railways were 

 $531,019; operating expenses, $408,338; number 

 of passengers carried, 5,741,046. 



The Supreme Court decided that the law passed 

 by the last Legislature should not be construed to 

 mean that the franchises were to be taxed sep- 

 arately from the tangible property. 



Banks. In 1899, when the banks were placed 

 under the supervision of the Corporation Commis- 

 sion, there were 65 in the State. There are now 

 120 83 State, 23 private, and 14 savings. In 

 1902 the capital stock was $3,513,564; deposits, 

 $14,046,775 ; gold, silver, and national-bank notes 

 on hand. $1.158,810; total resources, $20,725,288. 



Building and Loan Associations. There are 

 30 building and loan associations, with assets 

 amounting to $2,020,676. 



Insurance. In the year ending Dec. 31, 1900, 

 the total of premiums received by North Carolina 

 companies was $208,021.03, and the amount of 

 losses paid $52,817.98. For companies of other 

 States doing business in North Carolina, the pre- 

 miums received were $765,082.49, and the losses 

 paid were $350,336.65. Premiums received by for- 

 eign companies doing business in the State 

 amounted to $369,162.16, and the losses paid were 

 $176.137.95. 



Industries and Products. Following are cen- 

 sus statistics on farms in the State: Number, 

 224,637 ; value, $194,655,920. Of the valuation 27 

 per cent, was in buildings and the remainder in 

 land and other improvements than buildings. 



The tobacco-crop of 1899 was 127,503,400 

 pounds, valued at $8.038,691. 



The cotton-crop of 1901-'02 was 550,000. The 

 estimate for 1902-'03 was 650,000. 



This State showed the largest yield of sweet po- 

 tatoes in 1899. From 68,730 acres the product 

 was 5,781,587 bushels, valued at $2,119,956. 



The wooded area of the State is 35,300 square 

 liles. 



The textile mills of the State show an increase 

 for the year 1901. The number of mills enu- 

 merated is as follows: Cotton-mills, 226; woolen- 

 mills, 11; knitting-mills, 41; carpet-mill, 1; jute- 

 bagging mill, 1; silk-mills, 3; total, 283. 



In 1900 the number of spindles in' use was 

 1,481,771; it is now 1,694,163. 



In the knitting-mills there are in use 3,814 ma- 

 chines, against 2,048 in 1900. The hours of labor 

 for the operatives run from ten in the knitting- 

 mills up to twelve and a half in the cotton-mills. 



The number of operatives employed is as fol- 

 lows: 18,171 men, an increase of 21 per cent, over 

 1900; 18,377 women, an increase of 15 per cent.; 

 7,996 children under fourteen, an increase of 5 

 per cent. 



In flour and grist mills $2,905,310 was invested 

 in 1900, and the product was valued at $8,867,- 

 462. 



The value of gold produced in 1901 was, approx- 

 imately, $55,500, and of silver $12,180. The pre- 

 liminary estimate for 1902 gives the gold value as 

 $91,713, and the silver "as $11,418. The agent in 

 charge of precious stones says that in 1901 the 

 deposit of rhodonite garnet in the Cowee valley, 

 Macon County, was worked extensively. Mining 

 for dark blue, green, and yellow beryls, for ame- 

 thysts, and for emerald matrix was carried on in 

 the State. 



High-ways. A good-roads congress was held 

 in Raleigh in February, and a State association 

 was formed. Among the resolutions passed were 

 one advocating greater use of convict labor on 

 roads, one favoring instruction in road-building 

 at the State colleges, and one asking for the crea- 

 tion of the office of highway commissioner, with 

 an appropriation for supervision. 



The State Fair. The first State fair of North 

 Carolina was held in 1852; the fiftieth anniversary 

 this year was marked by an unusually fine expo- 

 sition. 



Historic. A celebration was held on Guilford 

 battle-ground, July 4, when a monument to Na- 

 thaniel Macon was unveiled and an oration on his 

 character and services was delivered by the Hon. 

 T. S. Pittman. 



Elaborate preparations are making for celebra- 

 ting, on Roanoke island, the landing and settle- 

 ment of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonies and the 

 birth of Virginia Dare (in August, 1587), the first 

 Anglo-American. 



Federal Appointment. Considerable excite- 

 ment has been raised over the question of the re- 

 appointment of Sam Vick, a colored man, post- 

 master at Wilson. The people of the town testify 

 freely to his good character and capacity, and 

 place their opposition frankly on the ground of 

 his color. It is said there is not a white Repub- 

 lican in the town. 



Lawlessness. Reports have been published of 

 the lynching of 4 negroes, 1 for criminal assault 

 and 3 for murder. The negro lynched at Wash- 

 ington in March had poisoned the whole family 

 of Dr. D. T. Tayloe, none of whom died. The 

 Governor offered '$400 reward for the arrest and 

 conviction of each member of the mob that 

 lynched 2 negro brothers at Salisbury in June; 

 they were believed to have murdered a young 

 lady who had ordered them off her premises, 

 though there seems to have been some room for 

 doubt of the guilt of the younger, who was but 

 fourteen years old. In the case of the negro 

 lynched for criminal assault at or near Kinston, 

 the coroner's jury found that he came to his death 

 at the hands of parties unknown to the jury, and 

 added: "In view of the enormity of the crime 

 committed by said Tom Jones, alias Frank Hill, 



