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APPENDIX TO THOMPSON'S VERMONT. 



PBODUOTIONS OF IKDUSTET. REAL AKD PKRSONAL ESTATE. T^VXES. WAGES. TAUPERISM. 



REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE IN VERMONT. 

 Valuation of Real and Personal Estate, by Assessors, - _ - $71,671,65] 

 Estimated true value of Real and Personal Estate, . - - - 92,205,049 



TAXES. 



General State Tax, - - !i?138,533 



School Tax, . _ - . 88,930 



Poor Tax, - - 90,809 



County, Town, &c., Taxes, - -. - - - - - 401,142 



Total, $719,414 



WAGES. 

 Average iMonthly Wages of a Farm Hand, 

 " to a Day Laborer, with Board, 

 " to a Day Laborer, without Board, 

 " Day Wages to a Carpenter, without Board, 

 Weekly Wages to a Female Domestic, with Board, 

 Price of Board to Laboring Men, - - - - 



$13,00 

 0,72 

 0,97 

 1,44 

 1,19 

 1,95 



PAUPERISM. 



Whole No. of Paupers within the year ending June 1, 1850, 

 Whole No. of Paupers on June 1, 1850, _ _ _ _ 



Native. Foreiirn. Total. 

 2043 1611 3654 

 1565 314 1879 



CRBIE. 



Whole No. of Criminals convicted within the year ending June 



1, 1850, 34 



AVhole No. in Prison on June 1, 1850, ----- 64 



RAIL ROADS IN VERIMONT. 



Native. Foreign. Total. 



45 

 41 



79 

 105 



At the time of the publication of our 

 History of Vermont in 1842, we had nei- 

 ther canals nor rail roads within the state ; 

 but we ventured the opinion, (Part I, page 

 217) that Boston would in time be connec- 

 ted with Lake Champlain by a continua- 

 tion of the Lowell and Concord rail road. 

 At that time we little thought that the 

 short period of ten years would witness the 

 completion of a net-work of rail road over 

 the whole country. Ten years ago the con- 



struction of a railway across the Green 

 Mountains from the valley of the Connect- 

 icut to Lake Champlain, was very general- 

 ly regarded as a chimerical notion, which 

 would never be realized, and they who en- 

 tei'tained it were looked upon as visionaries. 

 But events have proved it otherwise. We 

 have already two rail roads crossing the 

 state from east to west, connecting these 

 vallies; and, also a road in each of these 

 vallies running nortli and south, through 



