Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-28
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.


MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 90, 1889.
Gov. WALLACE's MEssAGB.--The mes
sage of David Wallace, governor of In
diana, strikes us as one of the most plain,
strait forward, respectable documents we
have ever seen. 1t does not exhibit tha;
evidence of ambitious conception and miser
able execution, that is visible in the Shan.
nonian affair, but is eminently plain, un-
assuming exhibit of those matters, of which
it is the province OF the governor to treat.
We select few topics upon which our rea-
ders will naturally feel the most interested.
The taxable polls, in the state, as return
ed by the assessors, amount to 95, ,29l. The
governor, however, expresses an opinion,
that close and careful assessment would
have returned not less than $4,000 polls"
AS it is, the increase of the year is 6,75e.
The number of acres of land taxed in
the state, is 7,475,S3O; but it is proved, by
Gov Wallace, that there are nearly nine
millions of acres subject to taxation.
The value of taxable property IN the state,
as per assessment, is $lO5,9l8,415.
The state debt amounts to $40, O,O94, 900,
appropriated as follows: ...
Wabash and Erie canal, S1,279 900
Lawrenceburg and Indiana
polls, R. r. Co. $4,000
Bank stock, 994,O0O
System of Internal Improvements, 5,952, 900
For State Bank, l,89O,OOO
100000
In 1884, there will be 1898, ,649 acres of
land subject to taxation, in the state.
There is now due to contractors on the
public works $7O6, $50, and to the banks
for loans to pay contractors sc. 641, 200.
To discharge these debts, the state has ow-
ing to her, from New York banks $1,559,-
1858.
The tolls collected on the public works
for the past year, amount to $13,338, as fol-
lows:
Madison and Indianapolis R. R. So ,47O
| White Water Canal 600
Wabash and Erie Canal 4,248
The following are the remarks of Govern
or Wallace, upon the completion of the Wa
bash and Erie canal, by the state of OHIO:
"Witb regard to the latte. work, it is
greatly to be regretted that Ohio has been
so tnrdy in pushing forward that portion of
1t lying within her territory. The yearly
loss to Indiana, in consequence, is very con-
siderable. We shall have, by expending
some one hundred and sixty eight thousand
dollars more, one hundred and forty four
miles of this work completed, every foot of
which however, must remain in manner
idle--almost valueess-untl we shall be
nablcd to communicate with Lake Ere.
A knowledge of these facts it seems to me,
would tend much to stimulate Ohio to.
| greater exertions in our behalf; and, more
especially, when by doing so, she would, at
once, render the whole of central Indiana
tributary to her,"
A more temperate appeal for long delayed
justice, could not have been written.
Since 1884, and up to Sept. l, 1888,
there have been purchased in Indiana,
6,961,573 acres of land, for which have
been paid $S,7O1,966. During the same
period, the amount expended on the public
works of the state, is little rising of five
millions. 1t is to the surplus of these pay
ments, over the amount brought into the
state, that Governor Wallace mainly attri-
butes the exceeding scarcity Of money, and
he recommends that the senators in Congress
be instructed, and the representatives be
recommended to procure the passage of a
bill dividing the proceeds of the public lands
among the states.
"The condition of the State Bank" he
says, "appears to be healthy. On the 31st
of October last, her assets amounted to &c.
240,328, and her liabilities to $5,493 .042; ;
showing an excess of assets, over and above
all ultimate liabilities, except to the state'
and the other stock holders of S2,747,GS5.
AT the same date she had 81 ,O91, ,49o in spe-
Gle and $3, 1914, ,497, in circulation.
The message urges the Importance of
prosecuting the work of improving the ma
vigation of the Wabash river, and of the
necessity of a harbor at Michigan city. In
relation to the latter, that there have been
474arrivals and departures of vessels with
in the year, and there have been shipped, as
follows:
From Michigan City,
Grain, 72,400 bushels.
Flour, 1O,563 barrels.
To Michigan City,
Merchandise 1850 tons,
| Salt, 1900 barrels.
The Governor argues against suspen-
sion of the public works of the state; but
his remarks upon that snbject, we re-
serve for future number.
John Brough, pronounced Bruff,) is said,
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