St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-13

1880 devoted 10 crops:
Wheat 49, y, Ri, 5iS Oats i, 33 rs
Coril..... 794, 500 Barley - COS
Flax...... " %, 90. HAY ...- Al, 6jS
Rye. 5l,7ss Potatoes 49,. 1896
Buckwheat. I1.234 Beans ........ 3,65S
Sugar cane.. 2,Dge
ASIDE from these field crops, the dairy
ing and stock interests are of large aud
Increasing Importance. The returns of
The assessors of the state, stated below
the actual usually. by the general de-
sire 10 escape taxation, give the number
of cows as 440.2l4, producing 30 l65, l37
pounds of butter and / ,274, 076 pounds of
cheese in 1859. Horses number $50, 600;
sheep, Notwithstanding the unremuner
alive price OF wool, 223, 25S; and hogs,
S64,379.
OUR SCHOOLS.
Closely associated with the home is
tine school. No man who senses his re-
sponSibility as a parent would take his
children where an opportunity for the
education of his children does not exist.
Minnesota has provided magniticently
for her schools. Sections 10 al Sc in
each township in the state have
been set aside for the support
of the schools. The sales of
these lands form permanent
school fund invested in bonds whose
Interest is apportioned Semi-annualIy
among the counties on the basis of their
school population. The fund amounts
state IevieS annually one-mill tax for
school purposes. The school sys-
tenn of the state progresses
from the common school, which
embraces also the independent
and special districts. mostly in the
towns, 10 The high school which pre-
pareS students for the state university
Something of an idea Of the i'm
portance III which the school system of
lie state is held may be derived
from tie following statistics. In
1892 there were 49, 24 scholars
enrolled i'll the public schools.
There were employed in the
common schools 1.576 male and 1881
female teachers, whose monthly wages
averaged S40.19 and S51. 40 respectively.
The graded schools of the independent
and special districts employed 223 male
ana 2,G60 female teachers, whose annual
salaries averaged SOL and 1881 re-
spectivelY. here are HI of these i'll
dependent districts, ST special and
5,9C5 common districts. There are 50
high schools. enrolling 1920 pupils.
The estimated value of our school
houses and sites is SO, 100000 There
was paid as wages to the teach
ers OF the independent and
special districts of 1899 81. 4S2, $50,
and to the teachers of The common
schools 81, 294,2 For the preparation
OF teachers the state supports four nor
NAL schoolS. The state university forms
the apex of the system, with full fac
ultf, covering all departments OF in
strHctiOn, and having 1874 students en-
rolled.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
When we reflect that the carriage of
lead of wheat by wagon a hundred
miles consumes its value in cost of
transport, the question of communica-
ton between points of pro-
uuctlon and the markets be-
comes one of supreme Importance
To those contemplating settlement in
q new country. 1t is this fact that ex-
plains the apparent paradox that the
value of railway lies in the opportuni-
ties ii affords to get away from a place.
The Increase of railroad mileage in
eacn of the decades since ac-
curing statehood has outrun the
percentage of increase of population.
Beginning i'll 1862 with 10 miles
OF railway there were in 1870 1,O92
miles, all increase of over | 200 Der cent.
by 1880 there had been built 3,O99 miles,
an increase of 200 per cent. This mile
age was increased by 1880 to 5,4O9. an
an increase of 70 per cent. The result
OF this growth of the railways of
the state is that it is so crossed by
the various lines of road that even in
the new and more thinly settled portions
OF the state no farm Is over twenty-five
miles from railroad, while in the
greater portion of the state half that dis
tance will bring any farmer to his mar
k6+. A very notable feature of railway
traffic is the gradual decrease in freight
charges accomplished with out the aid
OF state Legislation and owing to causes
partly result finding origin in compe-
titon and partly in causes be-
yond railway influence. The two
roads least subject to exterior
influences. the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern. have reduced
the average receipts from freight
charges from 2.40 and 2.SS ceets per ton
per mile in 1880 to l.31 and l25 respect
lyely i'll 1880, while the average OF all
the roads in the state has fallen from
1.49 i'll 1850 TO LOG cents per ton per mile
in 1890.
TIE STATES CHIEF EXECUTIVES.
Since the organization OF the territory
and State, the following gentlemen have
occupied the executive chair.
TERRITORY.
Alexander Ramsey, June l, lS49, to
Willis A German, May Is, 1858, to
April %, 1857.
Samuel Medary, Apri! %. 1857. to May
p, 1858.
Henry II. Sibley, Mag "a, 1858. to Jan.
2, 1850
Alexander Ramsey, Jan. 2, 1850. to
july 10, 1868.
Henry a. Swift, July 10. 1868, to Jan.
II. 1864.
stephen Miller, Jan. IL, 1864, to Jan.
&, 1866.
William r. Marshall. Jan. s, 1866, to
Jan. 9. 1870.
Horace Austin, Jan. 9, 1870, to Jan. z,
18Th
Cushman K. Davis, January Z, 1874,
to january Z. 1876.
john S. Pillsbury, January Z, 1876, to
January 10, 1882.
Lncius F. Hubbard, January 10, 1882,
to January ), 1887.
a. Il. McGill, January 5. 1887, to Janu-
airy o, 1889.
William r. Merriam, January 9, 1883
t. January ), 1898.
Knuie Nelson, January 5. 1893, tc
January, 1895.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
James Shields, Democrat, May 10
1S59, 10 March 3, 1859.
Henry ii. Rice, Democrat, May IL