Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-07-27

rock, red and gray granite and
several varieties of marble, SUI
perior in quality and convenient
to railroads. The coal belt of
Missouri covers 26,SS7 square
miles, or nearly half of the state,
and some of the beds are fifteen
feet thick. The lead districts
of the state include more than
$500 square miles, and show
over 500 ''points" where it is
known that lead can be profita-
bly, mined. In fifteen counties
there is copper. There are large
deposits of zinc, tin, platina,
nickel, emery, cobalt, pipe and
fire clay, the latter of which
Audrain county produces the
finest in the west.
AS a grand whole, there is no
state in the Republic that has
within itself such varied and in
eXhaustible resources. 1t EN-
braces $4,000, 900 acres of land.
Eight millions of these acres
have the rich soil that is pecu-
liarly suited to the raising of
hemp. There are 10000 o of
acres among the best in the
world for grape culture 10000
900 acres are good farming
lands adapted to the ordinary
crops of the northern farmer.
The church and the school
have always stood together in
Missouri, and have greatly
strengthened the attraction for
drawing hither the people of all
the civilized countries of the
world. A good feeling has al
ways prevailed among these diff
Eferent schools. Each attends to
its own work, in its own way, in
caring for its own people and
the community at large, as a
good neighbor of every other
worker. A most liberal and
impartial legislative policy is
pursued by dealing with all
alike before the law, whether in
the maintenance of vested rights
or in the matter of taxation. No
state in the American Union
has ever manifested more zeal
in the cause of popular educa-
ton than has Missouri; nor is
its present attitude the nantes
tation of a new impulse. When
it began its existence as a state,
it inaugurated an earnest effort
in behalf of education, and
there has been no abatement Of
that effort from then until now,
and throughout its entire histo.
ry Missouri has eXemplitied the
argus-eyed care with which the
genius of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
has ever guarded the work of
education in all it's phases.
According to returns complied
at the lenses Office the number
of pupils enrolled in public
schools in 1890 was 62O ,314. in
1880 the number was stated to
be 4S6, OO2. This shows an in
crease of 134,312, or 1854 per
cent. The gain in population
during the same period was %.
IS per cent; The aggregate of
teachers in the public schools,
June 80, 1890, is shown as 49,
795, including 5,S16 male and
7,216 female white, and 301
male and Ais female colored.
The aggregate Of pupils OF the
same date is shown as 62O,314,
including 100000 males and
l2S7,450 females white, and 49,
1853 males and 1866 females,
colored.
For the year 1889, the estima-
ted total Of salaries of superin-
tendents and teachers was 49,
22O,264. The total expend-
iture for schools in 1889 is Civ
en- as 81, 552, 463. From the same
source it is also learned that,
according to the most recent
available data, there are in Mis-
souri, Four theological schools,
with - teachers and $50 pupils;
2 law schools, with II teachers
and 141 pupils 9 regular med
ical schools, with Is teachers
and 6s pupils; two homeopathic
medical schools with 25 teach
ers and So pupils; 20 colleges of
liberal arts, with 26 teachers
and 1888 pupils in the prepar-
atory departments, and So
teachers, with 1000 pupils in the
collegiate departments; also 13
female colleges, with 139 teach
ers and 1920 pupils.
The constitution of Missouri
places it beyond the power Of
RECKLESS or dishonest public
agents to burden the people
with excessive taxation. Taxes
for state purposes, exclusive of
taxes necessary to pay the bond
ed debt of the state, cannot eX-
coed 90 cents on the 800 valua-
ton ; and whenever the taxable
property of the state shall
lamount to 5000, 600, 900, the rate
shall not exceed Is cents. The
rate Of taxation for county, city,
town and school purposes is
likewise strictly limited. Coun-
ties, cities, towns, townships
and school districts cannot be-
come indebted beyond the rev.
enue provided for each year,
without a two-thirds vote of all
tie voters therein, nor, in any
event, to an amount exceeding
5 per cent. On the value of the
taxable property. The average
tax levy for all purposes in Mis-
souri, is about 81 80 on the 800;
adding to this 10 cents on the
xtOO for tho pavment of bonded