The Charlotte Democrat., 1893-12-01

the paper in question would be located.
Thus far it is unanswered.
The state auditor has completed the
annual statement showing the aggregate
value of real and personal property in this
State for 1892 and the aggregate value of
railways, canals, sleeping cars and tele-
graph lines, as per returns from the Rail.
way Commission for 1893. The figures
are rs follows:
Valuation of land $114, 1928, ,255
Town property 4O,755, ,459
Total real $155, ,O83,7
Personal property . s2,4lO,049
Total personal and real, $237 ,493,76
Railway property . 23,654 ,345
Pullman cars S2,56S
Telegraph property 193, 1859
Steamboats, and canals. 293, 3,698
Grand total s261,717,727
The value OF land in the country shows
q little falling off, having been Sll5, $780,.
429 in 1891. The town property shows
gain. The number of acres of land re-
ported is 27,287 ,466, against %, ,236, ,453
the previous year. The number of horses
is l46, l57, value $7,49e 1873 mules 108,.
093, value $6, ,45O, ,972 cattle 634 ,754, value
81 ,9O4, ,339 hogs Ills, ,943, value 81 ,49s,
437; sheep 363, ,5O8, value 1868, 1856. The
amount of money ON hand or on deposit is
given in as "a, 600, ,O3O, against $5, 1863, ,525;
the solvent credits, $40. .2lO,853; stock in
incorporated companies, 90, ,446, ,278. The
statements of real estate and personal pro
perty always are year behind. The
| total valuation falls o little behind that
shown at the last statement.
The revenue officers have not recently
| bothered tho moonshiners much, but
many of them have applied themselves to
seizing contrabrand whiskey, mainly on
| trains and at stations.
Collector Simmons has taken charge
of this district, having been sworn in last
Saturday. He has appointed his division
| deputies, and has made good selections,
it is said. There were over 1900 appli
cants for about 120 positions. 1t will be
some days before clerks are appointed.
Many changes have been made in the
divisions to which the 13 division depu
ties are assigned.
Dissatisfaction with the administration
for allowing Republicans to remain in Of
fee has risen to high pitch here. 1t
will continue to cause trouble. Many. if
not the great majority of Democrats,
have no manner of use for civil service.
| It is not yet known here when work on
the State Confederate monument will
begin. 1t is denied that the contract for
stone has been awarded to the Moores.
vile quarries, and it is also SAID that the
contract awarded TO Col. Muldoon. of
Louisville, KY, has not been signed as
yet by the president of the association.
1t will require IL months to get out the
stone and build the monument.
| Geo. Lobdell & Co., of Wilmington,
| Delaware, have made all the arrange
ments for starting q charcoal iron furnace
near Egypt, Chatham county, which ia to
be of rs tons capacity. They will make
car wheels here from this iron. This is
good news, as is that also to the effect
that in q few days the coal mine at
| Egypt will resume operations. A tele.
gram from the New York correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun says it was stated
in Wall street last Saturday that John
| M. Patterson and A. French, of Pittsburg,
Pa, are prospecting with a view of estab-
fishing large iron works at Raleigh, N.
G. They have decided to purchase the
iron mine at Blacksburg, s. c., and are
now visiting the old iron fields in
Lincoln county and this week will open
negotiations looking to the purchase of
iron property near Bessemer City, N. G..
They have large experience in the iron
business. For several years they manu-
featured all the car springs for the Pull.
man Car Company. They express them
selves as highly pleased with their ex
aminations 80 far and say there is big
future for North Carolina in the iron
mining and manufacturing business. The
plant which they will locate will be @
large one.
Governor Carr has appointed Henry
l.. Cook, of Fayetteville, to be q member
of the joint legislative committee to
make the annual inspection of the books
and vouchers of the State Tre asurer and
Auditor. That committee meets De
cember 18th, and it will require q week
for it to complete its work.
Col. J. M. Heck, for years prominent
citizen here, is now in hospital at
Philadelphia. He has cancer and is not
expected to live long.
| Sixty six convicts have been sent from
the penitentiary to the caledonia" farm
on the Roanoke river. During the past
seven days over twenty convicts have ar
rived at the penitentiary from various
| counties.
The State directors of the North Caro-.
lima railroad have positively surrendered
that roads exemption from taxation.
There are so far no intimations of con-
test by the private stockholders.
| The published statement that Collector
Kope Elias would be "dropped" never
gained any credence here. In fact much
depends upon his standing up in the fight
and not giving way an inch.
The penitentiary report shows 12S
convicts in the prison, 936 on the
Roanoke farms and 86 at the phosphate
mine and farm at Castle Hayne; total
1,150.
The exhibits which this State made at
the Worlds Fair are being returned here
and are being placed in their permanent
quarters in the greatly enlarged museum.
There will be seven car loads of exhibits.
Well informed people believe that next
year there will be sharp advance along
the line of industrial progress in this