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 TEXAS 6T3 and machinery, $3,396,793 ; amount of wages paid during year, including value of board, $4,777,638; estimated value of all farm pro- ductions, including betterments and additions to stock, $49,185,170 ; value of orchard pro- ducts, $69,172 ; of produce of market gardens, $74,924; of forest products, $66,841 ; of home manufactures, $293,308 ; of animals slaugh- tered or sold for slaughter, $4,835,284 ; of all live stock, $37,425,194. The productions were 66,173 bushels of spring wheat, 348,939 of win- ter wheat, 20,554,538 of Indian corn, 762,663 of oats, 44,351 of barley, 28,521 of rye, 44 of buckwheat, 42,654 of peas and beans, 208,383 of Irish potatoes, 2,188,041 of sweet potatoes, 7 of clover seed, 497 of grass seed, 2 of flax seed, 63,844 Ibs. of rice, 59,706 of tobacco, 1,251,328 of wool, 3,712,747 of butter, 34,342 of cheese, 51 of hops, 25 of flax, 13,255 of wax, 275,169 of honey, 6,216 gallons of wine, 5,032 of maple molasses, 174,509 of sorghum mo- lasses, 246,062 of cane molasses, 2,020 hogs- heads of cane sugar, 5 tons of hemp, 18,982 of hay, and 350,628 bales of cotton. There were on farms 424,504 horses, 61,322 mules and asses, 428,048 milch cows, 132,407 working oxen, 2,933,588 other cattle, 714,351 sheep, and 1,202,445 swine ; besides which there were 150,137 horses and 496,115 neat cattle not on farms. The number of cattle was gueater than in any other state. In 1873 718,247 horses and mules, 3,175,682 cattle, and 1,476,844 sheep were returned by the assessors. There were 2,399 manufacturing establishments in 1870, having 540 steam engines of 11, 214 horse power, and 116 water wheels of 1,830 horse power; hands employed, 7,927; capital in- vested, $5,284,110; wages paid, $1,787,835; value of materials used, $6,273,193; of pro- ducts, $11,517,302. The particulars of the principal branches are as follows : INDUSTRIES. Eitab- lish- ments. Handf em- ployed. Capital. Value of producti. Agricultural implements. . . . Blacksmithing 12 880 98 14 24 7 147 115 1 83 4 538 2 54 2 6 6 84 22 27 324 11 15 3 2 25 188 10 71 86 18 2 44 761 186 88 268 117 899 825 16 78 291 U 3 140 18 112 80 62 28 76 1,750 123 275 155 28 158 292 118 237 140 41 59 $12,559 177,288 56,710 85,800 82.175 79,150 154,065 130,585 12,000 18,800 496,000 1,066,898 2,545 97,400 855,500 65,000 54,000 87,476 17,867 117,800 870,491 187,550 200,500 50,220 46,000 108,675 153.590 140,000 154,186 83,645 28,250 69.000 $42,420 534,550 166,761 98,685 172,670 484.775 652,067 2S9,124 45,905 85,467 874,598 2,421,047 48,000 209,536 91,210 272,740 77,000 60,524 67,887 145,640 1,960.851 170,210 1,052,106 75,137 89,400 194,430 848,807 266,400 884,665 102,020 74,872 78.596 Boots and shoes Bread and other bakery products. . . Brick ":::.::::::: Butchering Carpentering and building . . Carriages and wagons Cars, freight and passenger Clothing, men's...... Cotton goods.. Flouring and grist-mill prod ucte Food preparations, animal. Furniture Gas Hides and tallow Iron castings Leather, tanned " curried Liquors, malt Lumber, sawed Machinery Meat packed, beef. Molasses and sugar, refined. Oil, cotton-seed Printing and publishing, Saddlery -and harness Sash, doors, and blinds Tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware. Wheelwrighting Wool-carding and cloth- dressing Woollen eroods Texas is divided into five customs districts : Brazos de Santiago (port of entry, Brownsville), Corpus Ohristi (the same), Paso del Norte (El Paso), Saluria (Indianola), and Texas (Galves- ton).' The chief item of export is cotton. The trade with Mexico is important. There are no returns of the trade with other portions of the Union. The following table contains details of the foreign commerce for the year ending June 30, 1875 : DISTRICTS. Imports. Exports of domestic products. Exports of foreign products. ENTRANCES. CLEARANCES. No. Tons. No. Tom. Brazos de Santiago $2,002,748 822,803 808,991 97,668 1,218,034 $838,312 205,557 40,823 237,294 15,876,682 $997,658 243,966 49 8 18 18 163 80,984 5,142 4,080 16,785 91,913 41 9 18 28 206 20,956 6,980 4,079 24,359 127,579 Corpus Christi Paso del Norte Saluria 40,165 849,275 Texas Total $3,950,239 $17,193,118 $1,681,064 256 148,904 802 182,908 The entrances and clearances in the coastwise trade during the same period, with the number and tonnage of vessels registered, enrolled, and licensed on the above date, are as follows : DISTRICTS. ENTRANCES. CLEARANCES. REGIS- TERED, &C. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. Brazos de Santiago. . Corpus Christi Paso del Norte 46 82 79 86,504 52,023 14,888 18 43 71 11,019 9,310 13.567 14 35 1,546 774 Saluria <>14 197584 52 11 519 46 1 612 Texas 453 418645 835 290 ? 426 ORTl 18116 Total 874 22,048 719,594 519 335,841 ;345 On" Oct. 1, 1875, there were 10 national banks in the state, of which the resources were as follows : loans and discounts, $1,366,805 99 ; bonds for circulation, $789,000 ; bonds for de- posits, $175,000 ; total, including other items, $3,617,757 88. The following were the chief liabilities: capital stock, $1,200,000; surplus and undivided profits, $344,287 28; circula- tion, $673,102; individual deposits, $1,081,- 196 02. There are 15 or 20 state banks. There were 32 m. of railroad in operation in 1854, 451 in 1862, and 711 in 1870. The fol- lowing table contains the particulars of the different lines for 1875 :