386    BELKNAP.

91,000 bushels corn, 270,000 bushels potatoes,; 438,000 lbs. but-
ter, 81,000 lbs. of cheese, 40,000 lbs. maple sugar, 39,000 tons of
hay, and $ 391,000 worth of cattle fit for slaughter. The total value
of farm productions, is $ 1,637,000. (See tables.)    *

Manufactories. The manufactures of the county are considera-
ble, and rapidly increasing, the most important of which are cotton
goods, $ 923,000; cotton and woolen hose, $ 750,000 ; woolen goods,

$183,000; lumber, $274,000 ; flour and meal, $ 168,000; passen-
ger and freight cars, and repairs, $ 700,000 ; besides other impor-
tant mechanical works. The total capital invested in manufacto-
ries, is $ 1,424,500, employing 1,212 males, and 892 females, with
annual pay roll of $743,200, and producing $3,499,400. (See
tables.)

Valuation and Taxes. Total assessed value of the county, in
1872, was $ 6,107.000; true value, $9,081,500, The total amount
of State, county, town and school tax collected was $ 131,058.34,
or twenty-one and one half mills to the dollar, true per cent, four-
teen and a half mills.

Churches. Whole number of church edifices, 47; seating capac-    ^

ity, 12,135; (or 68 per cent, of the population;) church value,

$ 158,500. (See tables.)

Schools. Total number of schools, 154, of which seventeen are
graded ; number of male scholars attending school, 1,892; females,

1,654; average length of schools for the year, seventeen weeks;
total amount of money annually appropriated for school purposes,

$ 18,159.45, or $ 5.30 to each scholar ; value of school lots and
school houses, $87,545.

Railroads. Railroads pass through seven of the eleven towns in
the county. The Boston and Montreal Railroad extends from Til-
ton to Ashland; and the Cocheco, from New-Durham to Alton
Bay. The total length of railroads, in the county, is about thirty-
two miles.

Miscellaneous. Total population of the county, 17,681—males,

8,508, females, 9,093. Foreign, 687; colored, 41. Paupers —    *£,

white natives, 52, colored, 8, foreign, 18; annual expense, 5,000.

Crime—number convicted, for the year; white, 3. Whole number
of deaths in the county, for the year, 223—males, 101, females,

122 ; number died over eighty years of age, 31, or nearly 15 per
cent; died with lung disease, 52, or over 23 per cent.