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 PllODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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Finance, Defence- — For the years 1912 and 1911 the revenue and expenditure were : —

Balance, January 1, 1912 and 1911 Receipts, 1912 and 1911

Totals Disbursements, 1912 and 1911

1912

1911

Dollars

Dollars

2,038,712

1,829,546

1,013,126

9,164,661

Balance, Jan. 1, 1913 and 1912

13,051,838 10,070,007

2,981,831

10,994,207 8,955,495

2,038,712

On January 1, 1911 the bonded debt of the State amounted to 4,398,829 dollars (interest being payable to State funds). The assessed value of real lu'operty (1911) Avas 1,357,245 dollars; of personal pi^operty, 4,868,585 dollars ; of railway bridge, telephone and telegraph i)roperty, assessed by State board, 1,817,151 dollars.

The militia, or National Guaid, consists of infantry and artillery Avith a total strength of 223 officers and 3,217 men in 1909 ; the naval militia had 10 officers and 96 men.

Production and Industry- — Agrictilture is the chief occupation in the State. In 1910 the farm area was 34,591,248 acres, of which 24,581,000 acres was improved land. The chief crops are cei'eals. In 1912 the maize crop amounted to 243,042,000 bushels; Avheat to 21,546,720 bushels, and oats 29,488,500 bushels. Potatoes and sorghum are groAvn throughout the State. In the south-eastern lowlands the important product is cotton, the area under Avhich was 59,800 acres, and the yield 25,357,000 pounds. In 1912, 10,150 acres were under flax, yielding 71,071 Wshels of flax-seed. The acreage under tobacco A\'as 5,174, from AA'hich the crop Avas 4,894,600 pounds, valued at 587,352 dollars. There are many orchards, and small fruit is groAvn. Stock-raising is important, especially the raising of hogs, of Avhich in 1910 there Avere 2,714,000 in the State. In that year there AA^ere also 925,000 milk cows, 2,165,000 other cattle, 957,000 sheep, and 1,005,000 horses. The avooI clip in 1911 yielded 8,050,000 pounds of avooI, A^alued at 1,663,935 dollars.

The productive coal-fields of Missouri have an area of about 14,000 square miles, and employ 11,104 miners. The output in 1911 amounted to 3,760,607 short tons, valued at 6,431,066 dollars. Petroleum and natiu-al gas are also produced. The output of red and broAvn hematite iron ore Avas 72,788 long tons, valued at 153,676 dollars. The output of zinc AA'as 127,540 short tons (14,539,560 dollars). The output of lead in 1911 was 182,207 short tons, valued at 16,398,630 dollars. The lead ores at Mine Lamotte, Mis- souri, contain cobalt and nickel. Barytes in 1911 Avas jjroduced to the amount of 21,500 short tons, valued at 81,380 dollars. The output of limestone, sandstone, and granite Avas valued at 2,338,585 dollars; of bricks, tiles, and pottery, at 6,274,353 dollars. Other jjroducts are Portland cement (output in 1911, 4,114,859 barrels, valued at 3,349,312 dollars), grindstones, pig-iron, copper, blue and Avhite lead. The mineral products of the State in 1911, including iron ore but not pig-iron, Avere valued at 52,636,348 dollars.

Missouri has prosperous manufacturing industries, the more in^portant of which depend on agriculture and forestry. In 1910 there Avere 8,375 indus- trial establishments ; the canital invested' in all the industries of the State amounted to 443,343,000 dollars ; the number of persons employed in them (including proprietors, clerks, and wage-earners) was 185,705, and the years

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