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46    NEW-HAMPSHIRE    GAZETTEER.

at our command, and have obtained the necessary information at
that date.

There has never been a time when New-Hampshire was making    ^

more rapid progress in every department of business, than it has
been making for the three years past, and our only fear is, that
the march of improvement is more rapid than our most assiduous
industry can keep pace with, but we shall attempt to rely on the
candor and intelligence of a generous public.

We have endeavored to give the estimated number of summer
tourists stopping from one week to three months in the different
towns ,in the State, and the value of receipts obtained from this
source, which it is thought will average thirty dollars to each per-
son, and if anything, it is more than that amount. The names of
nearly all the clergymen up to 1800, have been given from the first
settlement; and also the pastors of churches in 1872-3. The pro-
fessional business, trade and transportation, are the class of people    ^

employed as clergymen, teachers, lawyers, physicians, merchants,
clerks, railroad employees, day-laborers, telegraph operators, book-
keepers, &c. The number of this class, in 1870, was over 27,000,
or about eight and one-half per cent, of the population of the
State. We have given all the valuable information relative to the
kinds of employment and resources of each town in the State*
which will be of any benefit for future reference.

The value of agricultural products, is taken from the Census of
1870. The manufactories are generally taken from the present
time; the schools, savings hanks deposits and money at interest,
are from statements given in 1872, under the law.