The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-01-13

uerIul prosperity. From every stand
point the good year 1918 has been
the best year in the history cf the
State. Material progress has been
ready and rapid, and always sure.
and educational advancement and
moral uplift have not Jagged behind.
The total enrolment In the schools
is greater than ever before, there
being 1924 white children in at
tendance upon public schools as COM
pared with 156,2S0 white children
during the session OF l9ll-i2. Then
years ago the total enrolment of
white children was 134,33O. There
are 4.5Si white teachers in the pub
lie schools, an increase of 22I over
the preceding year, which, says the
report OF tIe State Super intsnti1nt 1S
Education, was one of the greatest
improvements made during the year"
Ten years ago there were 3,492 white
teachers in the State-an increase Of
about 100 during the. past decade. A
good many of the school districts
have levied special taxes as high as
eight mills in order to take advan-
take of State aid.
During the campaign of 1912 1t was
heralded around the State by my op-
ponents that II Blease was elected
even the insurance companies would
withdraw their investments from
South Carolina. and that they would
leave the State, In 1910. the total
Investments in State, county and mu-
nicipal bonds, first mortgage bonds
/. OF real estate. and first mortgage
bonds of domestic corporations whose
property is situate entirely within
The State, not including investments
made by South Carolina companies,
10aEeg .uon.s-f tIrzl sIIIaa i tsI1a =
4 preceding the FIRST year OF my adj
ministrhtion In, 1911, the first year
l. was Governor, the total Invest
mentS or this character on Dsceni-
her 81 were $4,630,669, an increase
of more than two million dollars, and
almost one hundred per cent. On
December 81, 1912. these Investments
amounted to SSs095,561, and on June
80. 1918. to $9,945,a63. A conserya-
tive estimate of increase In invest
ments of this character between
June 80 ana December 81 would be
100000 to $l,000.000, increasing the
total to nearly eleven million dollars,
an increase of more than eight mil
lion dollars during the three years Of
my administration, the increase dur
ing the three years being more than
three times the entire amount invest
ed in 1910. The premium Income of
life, fre end miscellaneGus compan-
les, exclusive OF the premium re-
ceipts of South Carolina companies.
in 1910, was $6.55S.265; in 1911, 81
1854; and in 1912, $7,591,144. AZ
the time this message is written the
figures for 1913 are not available.
The corporation license fees in
1913 were $l3S,Si6. as compared with
$122.613 the preceding year.
The assessment nf railroad property
for taxation was Increased by the
State Board OF Assessors, In 1918,
by S799.823, and the increase In as
sessment OF express, Pullman palace
car, telegraph and telephone COM
panies, amounted to S533,332, total
increase OF $l,333,155.
Figures complied complied By &c STATE STATE Dc
-partment OF Agriculture, and furnish
ed me at nay request, show that no
State in the Union, perhaps, has even
approached South CYroiina in devel-
opment during the rasr year along
agricultural and industrial lines. The
value of all agricultural products of
the State Jumped IL. tic last census
decade from $5l,324,000 to $l41, $685.
600. During the year 1913 the value
of the corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat,
oats, hay and potato crops alone
Just seven, without considering rice,
truck, fruits, or having anything else
embraced in the above decade totala,
aggregates $l54,518,I19, as, against
$123 3,219.042 for the same crops DUR
Ing 1912, and $I1l.137, ,8S9 (census) in
1900. The increase In 1913 over 1912
IN these seven crops alone. measured
in dollars, was S31. .299,076-a sum
only $20,000,000 less than the total
ya'uation of all farm products in
1900. The corn crop for 1913 was
i.,f6.000 bushels greater thar In 1912,
the average yield per,aaere. at last
having reached twenty bushels, or
within two bushels Of the average for
the United States. representing an
increase in dollars of S10aS4, ,8S0.
During 1913 8,962, 900 more POUNDS of
tobacco were produced than In 1912,
for which the growers received S6.-
5s4 ,339 - I .930, ,S96 more than In 1912.
The growing tendency to raise food
supplies at home is shown by the fact
that in 1913 254,000 more bushels or
wheat we've produced than in 1919.
representing an increase os, $10f .40e
eyer sI.e 1879 wheat crop. The cot
ton crop OF 1918 was perhaps the
second largest the State has ever
raised, and was the hest ever market
sed IN quality, bringing to the farmers
about s9s. 100000. The gross income