Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-12
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| inha bitants and a larger per cent. o.
native population It's school 'atten'
dance exceeds any state in this Union
| in proportion to its number of scholars
| 1t has engaged IN gainful occupations
600 out of its population. 1t has en-
gagged in agriculture more than one
| third of all engaged in ganful occupa-
tons. namely, $1,000 persons Manufac-
| lures and mechanical industries come
| next, $4,000. In trade and transportation
| 81 900. In domestic and personal service
| II 900. In professional service l3, OO0
| 1t has 1876. 600 dwellings, within its linn
| its, and has $50, 600 families 1t has 60 -
600 farms, covering 6,1S0000 acres: the
lands and buildings upon these farms
are valued at ninety eight millions of
dollars, its livestock at over eighteen
millions, its farm products at over
twenty-five millions 1t has 100000
horses, $4,000 oxen, 157 goo mich cows.
10S0o0 other cattle, loco swine. and
over 10000 sheep. 1t produces in a
single year fiftyeight million gallons
of milk, sixteen million pounds of but
ter. 696, 0G0 pounds of cheese. and it sells
oven nine million dozens of eggs 1t
produces nearly four million bushels of
oats, and over an additional million
bushels of other kinds of grain II
raises |. 1873, coo tons of hay: il raises
more than 100000 barrels of apples It's
canned corn is confessedly superior To
any corn canned, and sells in every
market Of the world and its canned
beans are sold in every town in the
land. 1t produces $3.50. 600 bushels of
potatoes, and has over 5000 manufac-
turing establishments, With a capital
of more than eighty millions of dollars,
giving employment TO over $4,000 peo-
pie. with annual wages amounting to
tWenty-seVen millions of dollars. Ii
has over 1900 persons employed in it's
fisheries
Its steam and street railways are per
meatinge Verysection of the State. striV-
ns to develop the State in every line
and way, employing thousands of men.
transporting the products of the Stateal
less thar one cent per mile for the freight
cairied,and carrying its passengers at q
rate aVera gins about tWoeents per mile
The value of our real and personal
property is nearly five hundred millions
Of dollars. making $500 for every
man. woman and child in the State and
the total debt. state. county. municipal
and school district is 15600, 900 of dol
lars. The total debt per capita is $3.50.
SC that every man. woman and child
in Maine, if the property We're dis
tributed per capita. would be worth
1854
We have in savings banks sixty mil
lions Of dollars. and the average sum
for each depostor Will not exceed four
hundred dollars. showing that this vast
wealth is the property of the plain
people.
We c:lpend in this State for school
purposes every year nearly seven mill
lions OF dollars. out Of II 900 families
occupying farms, it should be the proud
boast of our people that 44.7l2 OF these
farm are free from encumbrance, and
only 473l ara hired farms. We have
1905 churches in our midst with a seat
ing capacity for i0S 0oo people and tn
}alue of the church property of Maine
is Sc 1872 o00. We have 159 SAC church
members.
The death rate of the United State
is II to one thousand population TIL
death, rate in Maine is seven t. on.
tliPuSdiA! tbHNid llptt- L ne iiullbrf r. at
insane in the United States is cacn. me
hundred thousand population is 3S1
The number of insane in Maine in each
one hundred thousand is lS0. In uris-
oners and paupers Names number is
far below the average of other states
of the Union.
The value of our granite. of our lee.
Of our forests of our lime. cannot he
accurately estimated. We know that
upon the banks of our rivers ana
streams are manufactured lumber for
every section of the world; that our ice
Is transported beyond the limits OF our
country; that our ships (and we can
boast of having constructed the largest
wooden ships afloat and the first ste,l
sailing ships ever constructed in
America) Whiten every sea and visit
every port of the world; that we pro-
duce more than twenty million casks
of lime annually, and that its slate.
quarried from it's hillsides stands first
for strength. durability and perma-
nence of color
We have the largest paper mills in
The world, whose daily output is over
40 tons. Its cotton mills on the Saco.
Androscoggin and Kennehec are I'M
fiValed in their product. It's wooden
mills lead the markets, and produce as
fine fabrics as can be manufactured
More than 40 years ago at the Worlds
far in London. broadcloth made at
North Nassaiboro took the premium in
competition With the German and Eng
lish manufactures.
our SeacoaSt, stretching three thou
sand miles from York to Passama-
quoddy every inch Of which is historic.
covered now by hotels. private dwell
lngs ard cabins; its unbroken forest.
SO vast and great that many states
might be lost in it. larger by MANY
times than the great black forest of
Germany with its innumerable lakes.
its numberless streams. abounding in
game and fish Of every kind its great
fiNerS With their marvellous power. its
pure water, its curative springs. it's
great summer resort, rivaiing and sur
passing Newport, its Poland spring.
whose fame has reached the uttermost
parts Of the earth. its Moosehead lis
Rangeley, its Casco bay. its old o.
ehard, its Boothbay harbor it's PeHal.-
scot bay its Frenchmans bay. lbs
PaSsamaquoddy bay furnish amusement
and pleasure and health to thousands