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Total Income. The total income of all the people in the State,
(including farm productions, $ 22,473,547 ; mechanical labor,
$ 19,995,500 ; professional services, etc., $ 16,227,600; interest on
I"    deposits    in savings banks, $ 1,328,000; on deposits in savings banks

out of the State, $ 60 ),000 ; interest on stocks, bonds, and money at
interest, $ 1,200,000; ) i3 $ 61,824,644, or $ 200 to each person in
the State, and over $ 748 to eyery ratable poll.

No State west of the Alleghany Mountains has as large a re-
source, in proportion to its population, as New-Hampshire, by over
$ 15 to each inhabitant, and the great commercial State of New-
York is no better. The resources of New-Jersey, between the two
cities of New-York and Philadelphia, fall short more than ten dol-
lars to each person in the State.

RAILROADS.

Thirty-five years ago there was not a length of railway track in
New-Hampshire. At that date no iron horse had ever wound its
way beside her river banks or through her mountain passes, and his
shrill whistle had never echoed through her deep, dark forests; but
to day nearly every hamlet in the State can hear the clarion sound
of the locomotive and see the white, curling smoke as it hovers o’er
the track of the swift passing train. New-Hampshire has now,
1874, over 890 miles of railroad, owned by thirty-two corporate
companies, and built at an expense of over $ 30,000,000.

As a general thing, the railroads of this State have been undei
the management of respectable and business men, who have not
pocketed the stock nor profits of the roads, at the expense of the
stock-holders. It may be true that some roads have been built at
ir    a    greater    expense    than what the business on them will pay, and the

stocks may have depreciated in value, but the only parties that have
made any money by it are the public, and the people in the towns
through which such roads pass. There have never been any such
bare-faced swindles in this State, in rail-road speculations, as those
perpetrated on the noted, staid, and industrious people of Vermont,
where the whole expense of the first construction of their roads,

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