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 612 UNITED STATES : — SOUTH DAKOTA

at Pierre with 21 instructors and 220 enrollment. Total expenditure ou education (1920) 11,620,117 dollars.

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 145, being 24*8 per 100.000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions 279, being 47*8 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance. — For the year ended June 30, 1920, the receipt and dis- bursements were : —

Balance on June 30, 1919 Receipts for 1919-20.

Total .... Disbursements for 1919-20.

Balance on June 30, 1920

Dollars

3,144,924

12,029,445

15,174,369 9,711,964

5,462,405

The Constitution limits the bonded debt of the State to 100,000 dollars over and above the debt of the Territory of Dakota assumed by the State at its foundation. The State at present has no bonded debt.

The assessed value of real and personal property in 1919 was 1,846,456,090 dollars, of moneys and credits, 110,876,049 dollars, of corporate property, 137,802,039 dollars, making a total of 2,095,154,178 dollars.

Production and Industry. — With the exception of scattered fringes of timber along the water-courses and the planted groves in the eastern part of the State, the only forest area is in the Black Hills, and in 1916 it ex- tended to 1,115,846 acres. In 1910 there were 77,644 farms, with an acreage of 26,016,892, of which 15,827,208 acres were improved. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 1,166,096,980 dollars. The yield of wheat in 1920 amounted to 26,282,000 bushels ; corn, 105,600,000 bushels ; oats, 75,445,000 bushels ; barley, 26,825,000 bushels. Rye and flax are also grown in considerable quantities, the latter yielding 2,200,000 bushels of seed in 1920. Hay, fruit and vegetables (particularly potatoes), dairy and creamery produce, eggs and poultry, are important. The live-stock within the State on January 1, 1921, consisted of 539,000 milch cows and 1,297,000 other cattle, 1,525,000 hogs, 680,000 sheep, 786,000 horses, and 14,000 mules. From 641,000 sheep in 1919 the wool clip amounted to 5,222,00 pounds of wool.

The mineral products are chiefly gold, silver, copper, lead, stone of various sorts, and clay products.

The chief manufacturing industries of the State are the making of butter, cheese, and flour and grist milling. In 1910 there were 1,020 industrial establishments, employing 8,602 wage-earners, and having a capital of 13,018,000 dollars; the cost of materials being 11,476,000 dollars and the value of the output 17,870,000 dollars. The statistics of the chief groups of industries in 1910 are given in Thr Statesman's Year-Book for 1916, p. 610.

In 1915 there were in the State 4,205 miles of telegraph line and 14,586 miles of telephone line (20,723 miles of wire). In 1917 the steam railways of the State were 4,278 miles in length, besides 26 miles of electric railway.

In 1919 the deposits in the State Bank totalled 186,254,276 dollars, those in the National Bank 99,963,000 dollars, making a total of 285,617,276 dollars.