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 made showing the total expenditures for various State institutions, from the beginning of each, up to the 30th of June, 1893, as follows:

This included the cost of buildings, improvements, repairs and support. There had also been appropriated for the State Agricultural Society, including the purchase of the Fair Grounds at Des Moines, $96,309.25. The total amount paid for the aid of County Agricultural Societies was $504,269.72 up to June 30th, 1893. The total expense of the State Railroad Commission was $211,399.31. The assessed value of the railroads of Iowa in 1893, was $44,869,784. The number of miles of railroad in the State at this time was 8,478, the gross earnings of which were, for the previous year, $44,284,053. Up to this date the Iowa railroads had received from grants of public lands 3,724,801 acres. They paid in taxes in 1893, $1,343,305.