UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (PENNSYLVANIA.) 



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$13,001,441; for other purposes, $30,856,147; total 

 amount of taxes collected for all purposes, $58,- 

 740,731. Personal property yielded a tax of 

 $3,608,415. 



Valuation. The value of all real estate Nov. 

 30, 1901, was $3,218,593,792, including both taxa- 

 ble and exempt from taxation, the valuation of 

 real estate exempt from taxation being $527,461,- 

 732. The aggregate value of all property subject 

 to taxation for county purposes was $3,063,047,- 

 023, and the amount of tax derived therefrom $23.- 

 316,707. The aggregate value of property subject 

 to State taxation was $761,337,664, from which 

 the State derived a tax of $3,055,208. 



Education. In the year ending June 2, 1902, 

 the number of pupils enrolled in the State was 

 1,163,509; teachers employed, 30,640; directors in 

 charge of schools, not including Philadelphia, 15,- 

 289; graded schools, 17,162; superintendents, 139. 

 The average daily attendance was 871,958; wages 

 paid to teachers, $11,831,871.38; cost of text-books, 

 $825,477.77; total expenditures, $23,027,678.82; 

 State appropriation for the school year, $5,550,- 

 000. There was a net increase of 17 districts, 537 

 graded schools, and 1,205 female teachers, with a 

 decrease of 609 male teachers. The increase in 

 the number of pupils was 1,985. In the State 

 normal schools the elementary course has been 

 extended from two to three years. The compul- 

 sory-education law of 1901 appears to be more ef- 

 fective than any similar law previously enacted 

 in the State. In February the twenty-third anni- 

 versary and fourteenth commencement of the Car- 

 lisle Indian Industrial School were held. The 

 school had an enrolment of 1,050, of whom 355 

 were on farms in the State. The graduating class 

 included 42 boys and girls. 



Building and Loan Associations. For 1900 

 and 1901 the number of building and loan associa- 

 tions in Pennsylvania was returned as 1,115, with 

 a total membership of 281,980, and assets amount- 

 ing to $110,493,510. For 1901 and 1902 the num- 

 ber of associations is given as 1,168; membership, 

 299,573; assets, $110,817,281. Pennsylvania has a 

 far greater number of these associations than any 

 other State in the Union, Ohio, which ranks next, 

 having 757. 



Banking. The annual report of the Banking 

 Department for 1901 shows the number of State 

 banks to have been 107; trust companies, 155; 

 savings institutions, 16; total, 278, an increase of 

 50 since 1900. The increase for the year of cash 

 on hand and due from banks and bankers was 

 $13,373,072.92; increase of loans, $54,233,104.56; 

 increase of investment securities, $34,885,183.41 ; 

 increase of capital, $15,135,580.17 ; increase of sur- 

 plus) $11,476,022.82; increase of undivided profits, 

 $5,867,757.85; increase of deposits, $76,093,989.36. 

 The amount of trust funds invested was $483,819,- 

 432.04; uninvested, $12,082,631.97: total, $495,902,- 

 064.01. The average of deposits to each depositor, 

 for all institutions, was $516.03; the number of de- 

 posit accounts was 836,319. 



Insurance. From the annual report of the In- 

 surance Commissioner it appears that in 1901 the 

 companies of the State issued 9,951 policies, insur- 

 ing $26,198,743 upon the lives of residents of the 

 State, an increase over the preceding year of 471 

 policies and $2,635,772 insurance. Companies of 

 other States issued 654,415 policies in this State, 

 insuring $206,292,735.12, making an aggregate by 

 all companies of 664,366 policies, insuring $232,- 

 491,478.12, an increase of 17,942 policies and $13,- 

 763,303.12 insurance. The total of losses paid 

 by all life companies in this State in 1901 was 

 $14,161,749.61, of which home companies paid 

 $1,797,864.16, and companies of other States $12,- 



363,885.45. Pennsylvania companies had in force 

 at the close of 1901 200,850 policies, insuring $41 U,- 

 844,590, against 178,624 policies, insuring $446,- 

 206,264 at the close of the year 1900, and a total 

 net premium income of $18,795,725.67, against 

 $17,148,353.82 in 1900. The total income-from all 

 sources was $24,064,016.84 in 1901, against $21,- 

 607,397.38 in 1900. The entire expenditures of 

 Pennsylvania life companies in 1901 were $15,17."),- 

 770,84, of which $10,341,534.12 was paid to policy- 

 holders. The entire income of assessment life 

 companies of Pennsylvania for 1901 was $149,169.- 

 89. The expenditures were $134,491.33. The as- 

 sessment companies of other States doing busi- 

 ness in this State, and reporting, showed in 1901 

 a total income of $18,910,871.70 and expenditures 

 amounting to $18,868,669.80. The fire and marine 

 companies in 1901 numbered 32, with assets of 

 $45,490,199; liabilities, $25,204,980; capital, $10,- 

 902,875; surplus, $9,382,334; total receipts, $21,- 

 901,647; losses paid, $11,632,381; dividends paid, 

 $1,183,581; total disbursements, $20,779,589; risks 

 in force, $2,852,180,526. 



Railroads. The annual report of the president 

 of the Pennsylvania Railroad for 1901 showed that 

 the road was never in better financial condition. 

 With all the improvements made and $5,000,000 

 set aside for others, the company was able to de- 

 clare its regular 5-per-cent. dividend and an extra 

 dividend of 1 per cent. It also ordered to be 

 built 19,000 new cars. The gross earnings of all 

 lines east and west of Pittsburg for 1901 were 

 $198,626,878, an increase over 1900 of $23,390,524. 

 The net earnings were $64,913,491, an increase 

 over 1900 of $10,175,414. After all expenses and 

 deductions there was left a balance of $10,857,672, 

 which was distributed among the stockholders in 

 a 6-per-cent. dividend. In 1902 the company 

 made a substantial advance of wages to its em- 

 ployees. 



Industries. Pennsylvania produced 7,364,295 

 gross tons of pig-iron in 1901, an increase over 



1900 of 992,607 tons. The market or realized 

 value of the production for 1901 was $106,883,000, 

 against $105,449,923 in 1900. The average yearly 

 earnings for all wage-earners, skilled and un- 

 skilled, $586.24, was an increase over 1900 of 

 $47.74. 



The production of 7,959,720 gross tons of all 

 kinds of steel for 1901 was an increase over 1900 

 of 1,702,945 tons. The 4,319,144 tons of Bessemer 

 was an increase over 1900 of 830,575 tons. The 

 production of 1,406,532 gross tons of rails in 1901 

 was an increase over 1900 of 208,434 tons. 



The capital invested in the tin-plate works man- 

 ufacturing their own black plate was $10,525.000 

 for 1901, an increase over 1900 of $753.112. The 

 production of 435,628,000 pounds of black plate 

 for tinning was an increase over 1900 of 123,626,- 

 000 pounds. 



Fourteen firms or ownerships in the State had 

 active cement plants in 1901, with a capital in- 

 vested of $19,271,981, and a total production, 

 based on barrels, of Portland, natural, and im- 

 proved cement, of 7,955,669, the market or realized 

 value of which was $7,334,891. 



In 1901 Pennsylvania had 200 active tanneries. 



The 12 bituminous coal districts of the State in 



1901 produced 80.914,236 tons of coal. The 8 an- 

 thracite districts have more than 30,000 more em- 

 ployees than the 12 bituminous districts, though 

 the'bituminous districts have more mines and pro- 

 duced more coal. This as well as the greatly in- 

 creased ratio of machinery and cost in all depart- 

 ments is accounted for by the difficulty in mining 

 anthracite compared with bituminous coal. 



Coal-mining in 1902 was seriously interrupted 



