The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-11-13
lG9,449,25l DOLLARS.
The Total Amount of Taxable Property
In the State.
INcWS and Courier.

NCNS ana courier.
COLUMBIA, November 2.-Thc fund
has been provided wherewth to pay
the expenses of the Constitutional
Convention, that is, if the expenses
do not exceed $50 900, for that amount
was covered into the State treasury
this morning as profits from the
diSpcnsarics. Commissioner Mixson
gave State Treasurer Bates 4 check
for that amount, and in return rccciy-
cd the proper receipt. " hen asked
what would be done with that money
Commissioner Nilsson replied that it
probably would be used to pay the cx-
pcnscs of the Constitutional Conycn-
ton. The money was taken from the
profits made from the dispcnsarics,
and was turned over to the State
Treasurer, as the Commissioner has
no use for it, having sufficient funds
besides on which to run the business.
All of the State officers arc busy
preparing their annual reports to the
Legislature. The clerks in each de-
partmcnt are kept busy, and all Of the
reports will soon be in shipshapc.
The report of the Secretary of State
will show a wonderful advance in the
State industrially. Complete extracts
cannot now be given, but enough is
given to make most agreeable show
ing to the people of the State. The
report will show that charters were
issued this year to corporations with
an aggregate capital stock of s., 5,2G1,-
100, as against s2,910,70O for 1891
In other words, the capital invested
in industrial enterprises in the State
for the year ending October 81, 1875,
was more than twice as much as was
so invested for the year ending Octo-
bcr 81, 1894. There has been won
dcrful increase in cotton manufacture
ing enterprises, and the figures given
will surprise even those who have been
watching the development of this in
dustry.
In 1S946vc cotton manufacturing cn-
tcrprises were chartered in the State,
with capital stock amounting to
s465, 600. In 1895 twenty cotton
manufacturing enterprises were char
tered, with a total capitalization of
$2,765, 900. Six times as much money
was invested in cotton manufacturing
in 1895 as was so invested in 1891.
This does not include the capitaliza
ton of those mills now under process
of organization, or rather those to
which commissions only have been
issued. The figures given apply only
to those which have been regularly
chartered, nearly every one of which
is now in operation or is in process of
building. While no comparative data
are at hand it is safe to say that South
Carolina will again be the banner State
in the matter of increasing her cotton
manufacturing facilities.
The Comptroller General is hard at
work upon his report, which is requir-
ed to be in the hands of the printer
on November 10. lie calls attention
to the following extract Of an Act of
1888 Each department. of State or
any person having printing done at the
expense Of the State is required to
report to the Comptroller General the
cost of printing SO done for such de-
partmcnt or person, and such amounts
arc to be included in table which
shall be included into the annual re-
port of the Comptroller General. "
Under this Act Comptroller General
Norton construcs all printing done for
Clemson College, the Citadel, the
South Carolina College, Winthrop
Normal College, the institution for
the Deaf and Dumb, the State Pcni
tcntiary, and such other like State
institutions should report all printing
done for them, and as none of these
institutions have yet made a report he
will not be able to include in his re-
port such table as is contemplated
by the Acts. He would like these
institutions, and all others, and all
persons who have had any printing
done at the expense of the State to
report the same to him at once, as
within eight days more he will be re-
quircd to have his report in the hands
of the printer.
The following table, which will ap-
pear in the report Of Comptroller Gen
cral, shows the total amount of all
taxable property in the State given by