The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-09-11

O4o; cash TENANTS 9,131; share tenants,
22,4S2; in number of farms Michigan's
rank is 18th. Percentage of owners
o41 percentage of cash tenants, A. per-
centage of share tenants, IL. In actual
number of farm owners, rank 9th; in
actual amount of improved lands 10th
in total acreage, 2lst; in grand total
area, 9TH value of farm lands and i'm
provements, $500, 1876, 734; rank 14th.
Value of farm machinery, $2s, 795, $50;
rank 9th
LIVE stock, SIS, 042, GA; rank, 18th.
Farm products, SAG, 547, 6s1.
Hogs, 1915, 200, rank, 18th.
Cattle, 1000, 926; rank, 18th.
Cows, 563, 9O5; rank, 18th.
Horses, 900, 541; rank 18th.
Mules, 1857 rank 3Sth.
Calves, 375, 4S2; rank 18th.
Milk, gallons 309 617, DAG rank, eth;
average per COW, $40; rank 4th. Mote
-Excelled only by District of Columbia,
$50; Maine, 574, Massachusetts, 572.)
Pounds of butter, 60,051 1893; rank,
5th (Note-Ohio, 10000, 900; Pennsyl-
vania 100000 900; New York, "a, 900. 600;
Iowa, 81, 0O0,OO0.)
Cheese, pounds, 1871, 176; rank, 9th.
Copper, (1900,) SO, 461 long tons Michi-
gan's percentage of total United States
supply, "a; Michigan's gain in output
over 1890, As per cent; Michigan's cop
per in pounds, (19O1,) 10000, 600; rank,
I'd. (Note-Montana leads as 27O is to
40. Until 1882 Michigan produced so
per cent of all American copper; in 1891
Montana began leading, and now pro-
duces 40 per cent of the United States
supply; Michigan. "a per cent; Arizona
20 per cent; scattering, II per cent?
Area Lake Superior, $4,000 square
miles; area Lake Michigan, $4,000;
square miles; area Lake Huron, 49, 800
square miles; area Lake Erie, 5000
square miles; area Lake st. Clair, 800
square miles: area Lake Ontario, $500.
U. S., pensioners, 1888; value of
pcuslOus, pO,oOl,oSO.
Patents issued to every 3,19S inhab-
itants of Michigan, 1.
Woman's suffrage for school officers,
yes.
Legal rate of interest, per cent; con-
tract rate, per cent.
Statute of limitation, years.
Masonic membership, 43,742.
Odd Fellows, 32,S32.
G. A R. Posts, 361; members, ID, 052.
Civil War soldiers, 80, 747; sailors, 49s.
Colored troops, 1887
Students at Ann Arbor, 5000; in
structors, 247; volumes in library, 1885,
900, value of realty, (college,) 1885,
900.
Students at Agricultural College, 700.
Internal revenue collected (19O2,
81. $50, sos.
Indians, 1851.
Money orders (19O2,) $13, 473, 324.3s.
Public lands vacant Q9O2) 1856, ITO
acres.
Land Office, Marquette, Mich.
Railway mileage, (19O1) S,244.13.
Deaths, (1902,) 33,572.
Newspapers 5000 500.
School money (190D, STA, 1873.
State school libraries, 251, 765
volumes.
State school apparatus, $S72,5S
State school buildings, So, 1877, 657.
Michigan National Guard, S,00S;
total liable for service, 2S5, 900; National
Guard fund, 100000.
Chinese, 240; japanese, 8.
Dwellings, 521,64S.
Families, 54S, 094
Coal, tons, 1,241, 241 value, S1,753,-
064
Nurseries, 49, value, $500, 296.65.
Apple trees, $3.50, 1856.
Cherry trees, 447, 334.
Peach trees, 1919, 104.
Pear trees, 270, 1882
Plum trees, l6S, 31S.
Apples (bushels,) ID, 154, sec; rank in
apples, fourth.
Cherries, (bushels,) $50, 526.
Peaches, (bushels,) 216,311.
Pears bushels 194,099.
Plums bushels 37,06S.
Iron ore, TONS Q900,) 1854, 087; rank,
second. (Note-Minnesota mined in
1900 II, 100, 537 tons.)
William Barnes, the BRANDED brothers
and another Owosso boy were brutally
pounded by drunken Corunna roughs at
McCurdy Park, Monday evening.
HXa4Lar III