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 FINANCE— PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY 533

5,421, being 96*1 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in ]>enal institutions 5,111. being 90"6 p«r 100,000 of the population.

Finance. — For the year ending September 30, 1920, the receipt* and disbursements were : —

Dollars Balance on hand, Oct. 1, 1919. 26,861.321 Receipts, 1919-20

Total 66,608,619

Disbursements, 1919-20 .... 40,04 1

Balance, Oct 1, 1920 26,564,374

The principal of the bonded debt of the State outstanding on July 1, 1920, was 17,500 dollars. For 1919 the assessed value of real property was 2,836,736,909 dollars, and of personal property, 917,800,741 dollars, railroad, 310,608,972 dollars, and capital stock, 35,028,285 dollars, making a total of 4,100,174,907 dollars.

Production, Industry. — Illinois is largely agricultural. In 1910 there were 251,872 farms, with an area of 32,522,937 acres, of which 28,048,323 acres were improved land. Total value of all farm property in 1910, 3,905,321,075 dollars. The chief cereal crops are maize, 294,168,000 bushels in 1920; wheat 40,670,000 bushels ; oats, 161,950,000 bushels ; barley and buckwheat being also grown. The potato crop in 1920 amounted to 8,775,000 imshels : and hay to 4,080,000 tons. Tobacco, grown u acres, yielded 525,000 pounds, valued at 163,000 dollars in 1920. The State has an active live-stock industry. On January 1, 1921, there were 1,324,000 horses (farm animals), 146,000 mules, 1,028,000 milch cows, 1,244,000 other cattle, 889,000 sheep, and 4,585,000 swine in the State. The wool clip in 1919 yielded 4,129,000 pounds of wool.

In 1917 it was estimated that Illinois had 19,250 manufacturing establish- ments with an aggregate capital of 2,500,000,000 dollars, employing 800,000 persons (salaried and wage-earning), using material costing 2,100,000,000 dollars, and giving an output worth 3,250,000,000 dollars. The chief industries with the capital number of wage-earners, cost of materials, and value of output, are given in The Statesman's YEAR-BooKfor 1916, p. 516.

Illinois ranks third among the Federal States for mineral output. The chief mineral product of Illinois is coal, the productive coal-fields having an area of about 42,900 square miles. In 1916 the output was 66,195,336 short tons, valued at 82.457,954 dollars. There are petroleum wells, and in 1916 the yield was 17,714,235 barrels, valued at 29,237,168 dollars. The natural gas sold in 1916 was of the value of 396,357 dollars. Zinc is worked, and in 1916 the output was 3,404 short tons (valurd at 912,272 dollars). The output of limestone was 80,012 short tons, of the value of 369,038 dollars; of Portland cement in 1916 3,562,659 barrels, valued at 3,386,431 dollars) ; of clay products (bricks, tiles, pottery) in 1916, 17,633,351 dollars. Total mineral output in 1916 was estimated at 146,780,236 dollars.

On the Great Lakes there is a large fleet of steamers engaged in carrying iron ore, cereals, and other products between the lake ports. Within the State there are (1917) 12.133 miles of railway, besides 3,724 miles (1919) of electric railway track.

British Consul- General at Chicago. — H. D. Nugent.

There is also a Vice-consul in Chicago.