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469.63I) average I28.94 ; Illinois, 1,072,956, average value $30.- 
90 ; New York, 621,343, value 149.67 each ; Rhode Island, 10,- 
129, value I75.25 each. The lowest priced horses are in Okla¬ 
homa, which has 39,099, valued at #13.40 each. In the State 
of Washington, where they have been reported as sellincr at $2 
each, there are 176,691, valued at #20.45 each. There are 
261,428 mules in Texas, valued at #29.85 per head ; Georgia 
has 164,380, averaging $62.95 head ; New Jersey, 7492 
valued at $76.70; New York, 4534, valued at $55.05 each • 
Kentucky 11^854, at $33.95 each ; Mississippi, 215,466, at 
$29.90 each. Total number in United States, 2,215,654, valued 
at $92,302,000, an average value of $41.65. In 1892 the value 
of horses in this country, numbering then 15,498,140, exceeded 
$1,000,000,000. In the succeeding five years the value de¬ 
creased nearly $600,000,000, while the number fell off only 
about 1,000,000. In mules much the same effect is noticed. 
Progress of the Horseeess Carriage. —We received 
the following extract from a Rochester (N. Y.) paper from Dr. 
J. H. Taylor, of Henrietta, N. Y., dated Sept. 20, who says: 
“ I witnessed the grand performance and went home more satis¬ 
fied than ever with the horse, and with no fear that he would 
ever be driven out by this machine. There were three machines 
to start, but two of them would not go at all and one of the two 
balked several times in going less than two miles. The extract 
IS as follows: “ Horseless carriages are a decided frost, iudo-ino- 
from those exhibited at the Western New York Fair, which 
closed yesterday. The fair managers had advertised the car¬ 
nages as a feature and got the machines there at a great ex¬ 
pense, and they have every reason to feel sore. Before the 
owners got the $500 for exhibiting their carriages, they prom¬ 
ised to run races daily and to match their inventions against 
bicycles and furnish unlimited sport in other ways. When the 
tiinefor the actual test came, but one of the carriages could be 
made to go. That one went a mile in a few seconds less than 
four minutes. There was quite an argument between one dis¬ 
gusted manager of the fair and one of the owners of the car¬ 
nages. The latter wanted to wager that he could make the 
machine go a mile in 2:35. The fair official offered to bet any 
amount of money up to the thousands that the other fellow 
couldn’t make good his claim. The argument resulted in 
nothing definite, as both men only talked and didn’t show any 
money. Outside of the horseless carriage fake, the fair was a 
success, both socially and financially.” 
