MAINE. 



In slate the total number of companies doing 

 business is 11 : assessed value, $81,000 ; hands 

 employed, 420. 



There are 45 yards in the State used in ship- 

 building. Capital, $1,645,500; hands employed, 

 4,345; average wages of skilled labor, $2.53; 

 ordinary labor, $1.78; materials produced in 

 Maine, $357,500 ; all lumber, $1,076,800. 



Financial. The following table shows the 

 financial standing of the counties on the last 

 day of the year 1882 : 



MANITOBA. 



511 



The reduction of the indebtedness of coun- 

 ties for the year 1882 was $61,438.91. The 

 several counties expended in 1882 the sum of 

 $5,796,774.39, divided as follows: State tax, 

 $971,877.59; county tax, $-271,959.32 ; schools, 

 $903,698.76 ; highways and bridges, $692,- 

 415.82; support of the poor, $352,895.77; all 

 other purposes, $2,615,190.27. 



A net reduction was made in the public in- 

 debtedness in the State, for the year, of $924,- 

 572.76. 



The number of taxable polls in 1882 was 

 50,936; in 1883, 152,974. The total valua- 

 ' n in 1882 was $221,599,220 ; in 1883, $225,- 

 :94,075. 



Lumbering. Of the lumber rivers of the East, 

 Penobscot, in the magnitude of its product, 

 far above its competitors. In eighteen years 

 ast there has been cut upon the banks of this 

 river and its branches the immense amount of 

 3,137,903,254 feet of lumber, board measure, 

 and this has been sent to all parts of the world 

 from the port of Bangor. Th is is an average 

 " 174,327,958 feet a year. The foreign trade 

 clined from 1875 steadily, until in 1879 it was 

 most nothing, everything going coastwise, 

 he United Kingdom deal -trade was taken 

 om Bangor by St. John, New Brunswick, 

 hich, being in a British province, could sell 

 eaper. Then Banger's European deals were 

 wed into New York stuff, which paid better. 



West India trade continues. 

 About one third of the logs cut on the Pe- 

 obscot are sawed into lumber at the steam- 

 ills on the river at Bangor. The other two 

 irds are manufactured by the great water-mills 

 hich dot the valley at intervals of twelve 

 iles above the city. 



The lumber-cut of 1883-'84 will be smaller 

 1 over the State than was that of the previ- 

 us season. The principal reasons are the low 

 rices, a general feeling that the business has 

 en overdone, and the destruction wrought by 

 the recent tornado, which has made many lo- 

 calities impracticable for lumbering. The cut 

 of 1882-'83 was about 175,000,000 feet, the 

 largest for a long while, and, although the water- 



courses were not very high, there was an easy 

 driving-pitch in most courses, and only about 

 7,000,000 feet of logs were hung up or left be- 

 hind. When the river opened to navigation 

 there were about 35,000,000 feet of old logs at 

 the up-river booms and 12,000,000 feet at the 

 Bangor steam-mills. These amounts, added to 

 the amount of new logs driven in, made a to- 

 tal of 15,000,000 feet for the year's sawing. 



Agriculture* The acres of land under cultiva- 

 tion, including pasturing, are 2,865,661 ; acres 

 of waste land, bog, etc., number 813,404 ; acres 

 of hard-wood growth, 1,728,970 ; acres of soft- 

 wood growth, 2,274,399; acres of water-sur- 

 face, 476,664 ; number of farms, 60,835 ; num- 

 ber of farms occupied by owners, 53,737 ; num- 

 ber occupied by tenants, 3,403 ; number of 

 land-owners, 83,213 ; number of farm-laborers, 

 12,988 ; average wages paid per month, $18.90. 



Miscellaneous. During the year ending Nov. 

 30, 1883, 48,464 barrels of mackerel were in- 

 spected, 15,084 of herring, 307 of alewives, and 

 1,427 of cod. 



The report of the Attorney- General for the 

 year ending Dec. 1, 1883, shows the number of 

 prosecutions and offenses for the year to be 

 T,343, as follow : homicides, 4 ; arson, 7 ; per- 

 jury, etc., 4 ; forgery and counterfeiting, 4 ; 

 compound larceny, 45 ; larceny, 83; burglary, 

 5 ; robbery, 3 ; rape, 3 ; assault with felonious 

 intent, 20; assault and battery, 108; offenses 

 against chastity, morality, etc., 19 ; malicious 

 mischief, 11; cheating and conspiracies, 7 ; de- 

 fects in highway, 5; nuisances, 161; violation 

 of liquor law, 628 ; other offenses, 170 ; costs 

 allowed by court and county commissioners, 

 $59,521.89 ; amount of fines and costs imposed, 

 $43,520.01 ; amount of fines and costs collect- 

 ed, $39,919.10. 



MANITOBA, a province of the Dominion of 

 Canada, formed in 1870. Area, about 125,000 

 square miles. Winnipeg, the capital, stands at 

 the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red riv- 

 ers, near lat. 50. In 1870 it was simply a Hud- 

 son Bay Company's post, named Fort Garry, 

 with a 'population of about 200. The census 

 of 1881 showed a population of 8,000, and since 

 then it has increased to about 25,000. Seven 

 lines of railway center in the city. 



History. Owing to the disturbed state of the 

 colony during the years 1866-'67, the Hud- 

 son Bay Company expressed to the Govern- 

 ment of Great Britain a desire to give up the 

 civil control of the colony, merely retaining 

 its commercial rights. With a view to amal- 

 gamate this territory with the other British- 

 American provinces, provision was made in 

 1867m the " British North America Act," for 

 this purpose. The negotiations for the trans- 

 fer of the territory from the Hudson Bay Com- ' 

 pany to the British Government, and from it 

 to Canada, were completed during 1868. The 

 company reserved the right of trade, and its 

 forts with the lands surrounding them, as well 

 as one twentieth of all the land between the 

 Lake of the Woods and the Rocky mountains 



