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 750 KANSAS rials, $6,112,163; of products, $11,775,833. The chief industries were: 195 carpentering and building establishments, capital $146,678, products $1,725,433 ; 106 flouring and grist mills, capital $1,056,800, products $2,938,215 ; 123 founderies, capital $135,986, products $326,420; 195 lumber mills, capital $642,955, products $1,736,381 ; 76 saddlery and harness establishments, capital $217,205, products $425,928; 6 woollen mills, capital $92,000, products $141,750. Assessors are required to collect every year statistics of agriculture, man- ufactures, minerals, &c., and the state board of agriculture to publish annually a detailed state- ment of the various industries. Transporta- tion facilities are afforded by the Missouri river and the numerous railroads. In 1865 there were but 40 m. of railroad in Kansas. In 1873 the entire mileage had increased to 2,131, and was being rapidly extended. The railroad as- sessors in the latter year returned 2,062 m., assessed at $11,704,154. The railroads lying wholly or partly within the state in 1873, to- gether with their termini and their assessed value in Kansas, are represented in the follow- ing statement : NAMES OF CORPORATIONS. TERMINI. Miles In the state comple- ted in 1873. Total length of line when different from preceding. As- scil value in kiiusjs. 88 147 $182 C19 Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Atchison and state line 469 1 .... 2,430,600 27 f Atchison and Waterville 100 400000 18 40 500 83 99000 66 500 165810 Kansas Pacific Branches < Kansas City, Mo., and Denver, Col Lawrence to Leavenworth 476 84 689 8,7S4,745 83 80 107100 21 158873 Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston 144 1 . 991,630 Olathe to Ottawa 82 [ .... Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Cberryvale to Independence 10 ) .... I .... 1 189 OOli 156 Sedalia ** 00 Y 159 Holden, Mo., to Paola 19 54 28 116 28 177952 Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf . 159 1 147 474 188 227 647143 Pleasant Hill, Mo. and Carbondale 89 SI3 157 001) 2,128 $11,704,162 In 1873 there were in the state 26 national hanks, with a paid-in capital of $1,975,000, and an outstanding circulation of $1,537,496. The entire bank circulation was $1,825,496, being $5'01 per capita; ratio of circulation to wealth, one per cent. ; ratio of circulation to bank capital, 77'8 per cent. In 1874 there were 34 fire and marine and 20 life insurance companies doing business in the state. The executive department of the government con- sists of a governor, whose annual salary is $3.000 ; lieutenant governor ; secretary of state, $2,000 ; auditor, $2,000 ; treasurer, $2,- 000; attorney general, $1,500; and superin- tendent of public instruction, $2,000. All of these are elected by the people for a term of two years. The legislature at present (1874) comprises 33 senators, who are elected for two years, and 105 representatives, elected for one year. Their compensation is fixed by the constitution at $3 a day for actual ser- vice, and 15 cents a mile for travel to and from the capital ; the entire per diem compen- sation for each member being limited to $150 for a regular and $90 for a special session. The sessions are annual, beginning on the second Tuesday of January. A two-thirds vote of all the members elected in each branch of the legis- lature is required to pass a measure over the governor's veto. The judicial power is vested in a supreme court, consisting of a chief jus- tice and two associate justices, elected by the people for a term of six years ; 15 district courts, of one judge each, elected by the people of the district for four years ; a probate court in each county consisting of one judge elected for two years ; and justices of the peace elect- ed in each township for two years. General elections are held annually on the Tuesday suc- ceeding the first Monday in November. The right of suffrage is limited by the constitution to white males 21 years old and over, who are either citizens of the United States or have declared their intention to become such, and who have resided in Kansas six months next preceding the election and in the township or ward in which the vote is offered at least 30 days. Persons who have engaged in a duel are made ineligible to any office of trust or profit. The property owned by a married woman at the time of marriage, and any which may come to her afterward except from her husband, remains her separate property, not subject to the disposal of her husband, or liable
 * Leased by the Atlantic and Pacific railroad company.