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 WEST VIRGINIA 575 The number and value of farm animals in 1874 were as follows : ANIMALS. Number. Value. Horses 104600 $6 860 254 Mules 2390 191 584 Oxen and other cattle v 242,500 5 588 700 Milch cows 124800 Sheep 555900 1 400 86S Hogs 834000 1 229 120 Total 1 868 690 $18 628 726 The amount of wool produced in 1870 was 1,593,541 Ibs. ; flax, 82,276 Ibs. ; butter, 5,044,- 475 Ibs. ; maple sugar, 490,606 Ibs. ; maple mo- lasses, 20,209 gallons; sorghum molasses, 780,- 829 gallons ; honey, 376,997 Ibs. The produce of orchards was valued at $848,773 ; of mar- ket gardens at $69,974; of forests at $363,668; value of home manufactures, $615,412 ; of ani- mals slaughtered or sold for slaughter, $4,914,- 792. The abundance of water power, of min- erals, and of timber gives to West Virginia marked advantages for manufacturing. The total number of establishments in 1870 was 2,- 444, having 509 steam engines of 17,136 horse power, and 683 water wheels of 10,195 horse power, and employing 11,672 hands; capital invested, $11,084,520 ; wages paid during the year, $4,322,164 ; value of materials used, $14,503,701; of products, $24,102,201. The most important were as follows: INDUSTRIES. Boots and shoes Clothing, men's Coal oil, rectified Cooperage Flouring and grist-mill prod- ucts Iron, forged and rolled " nails and spikes " pig " castings Leather, tanned " curried Liquors, distilled " malt Lumber, planed " sawed " staves, snooks, &c. . . Machinery Salt Tobacco, cigars Wool-carding and cloth-dress- ing Woollen goods 429 291 82 649 770 1,498 1,156 817 286 2-JO 108 79 48 98 1,452 68 855 661 177 66 250 $66,195 $849,018 111,848 899,049 125,050 482,660 - 4t*,476 1,589,257 8,988.902 1,1 86,600 4.0-25, 620 9S8.000 4,665,000 434,000 42,100 40,876 62,200 188,900 577.200 666.072 627,016 Hlli.i'J'J 218,441 145,100 167,680 198,140 981,950 1,879,899 60,000 1,631,000 1,507,605 268,843 106,572 870,191 Besides the above, there were 184 mining es- tablishments, employing 1,504 hands, with an invested capital of $2,040,213. The total val- ue of products was $2,088,531, including bitu- minous coal valued at $1,035,862, petroleum, $1,029,119, and stone, $23,550. In 1876 West Virginia had 600 m. of railroad. The lines, with their termini, total length, and mileage in the state, were as follows : NAMES OF CORPORATIONS. TERMINI. LENGTH. FKOM TO ToUl. InW. Virginia. Baltimore and Ohio Baltimore, Md Wheeling 879 108 421 6 9 198 82 82 841 108 190 5 9 7 14 29 Branch Grafton Parkersburg Chesapeake and Ohio Richmond, Va Hunting-ton Laurel Fork and Sand Hill Pennsboro and Harrisville Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St Louis Laurel Fork Junction Pennsboro Pittsburgh Pa Sand Hill Harrisville Columbus, O Wheeling, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore * Winchester and Potomac. . . Wheeling Harper's Ferry Washington, Pa Winchester, Va The Weston and West Fork, a narrow gauge railroad from Weston to Clarksburg, 23 m., is in process of construction. The Northern and Southern West Virginia railroad company has been organized to construct a line from Charles- ton to the Pennsylvania border ; a survey and location of the road have been made under an appropriation from the state. Another pro- jected railroad is the Washington and Ohio, from Alexandria, Va., to the Ohio river at Ravenswood in Jackson co., which has been surveyed and located, but for want of means has been completed only from Alexandria to the Blue Ridge near Hillsboro, Va. The line of this road is through some of the best coal and timber lands of West Virginia. Although the state is lacking in railroad facilities for the development and transportation to market of its rich mineral and timber resources, it is traversed by a system of good turnpike roads, affording communication through every county 833 VOL. xvi. 37 of the state. Wheeling and Parkersburg are interior ports of delivery belonging to the United States customs district of Louisiana, to which foreign imports may be transported in bond after appraisement at New Orleans. In 1875 there were registered, enrolled, and licensed at Wheeling 201 vessels of 21,844 tons, and at Parkersburg 44 vessels of 4,505 tons. Boat building is carried on at Wheeling. The total number of national banks in No- vember, 1875, was 15, having a paid-in capi- tal of $1,846,000 and an outstanding circu- lation of $2,065,769. The constitution, as amended in 1872, gives the right of suffrage to all adult male citizens who have resided in the state one year and in the county 60 days next preceding the election, excepting persons of unsound mind, paupers, and those who are under conviction of treason, felony, or bri- bery in any election. Only qualified voters are entitled to hold any state, county, or mu- nicipal office. The governor, judges, attorney
 * Operated by the Baltimore and Ohio company.