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'    |    394    CHESHIRE.

;    :    number acres of    improved    land is 260,517    ;    annual    value of    agri-

cultural productions, $1,887,856. (See tables.)
i    |    Manufactories. This county is noted for its variety of goods

!    manufactured.    Woolen    goods, consisting of    beaver    cloths,    tricots,

diagonals, flanuels, horse blankets &c., are annually produced to
i    the value of $ 2,369,000, exceeding that of any county in the State

•    cotton goods, $ 250,500; 24,028,000 feet lumber, $ 441,000 ; leath-

;    er tanned, $ 1,297,000 ; flour and meal ground, $ 251,000 ; boots

i    and shoes, $ 190,000 ; besides their are chairs, tubs, pails, toys of

i    all kinds, paper, machine work, granite dressing &c., &c. The

■_p    number of manufactories of every description, is 371; capital in-

^;    vested, $ 3,325,000; males employed, 3,241, females, 702; annual

i    amount paid for labor, $1,737,000; value of productions,

I    |    $7,911 000.

'    I    Valuation and Taxes. The assessed valuation of the county, in

1872, was $ 14,956,599; true valuation, $ 22,434,898. The State
county, town and school tax, was $ 239,367.48, or 16 mills on the
dollar—true per cent. 10 mills,
j    Churches.    Number churches, and church edifices, 62, capable of

ft,    seating 25,083 persons, or 92 per cent, of the population of the coun-

I    ty. Value of church property, $425,680, far exceeding that of any

I    county in the State, in proportion to wealth and population.

I    Schools.    There    are    259    schools, of which 49 are graded; num-

ber of scholars; boys, 3,236; girls, 2,964; average attendance,
through the year, 4,711, or 76 per cent; average length of schools,
for the year, 19 weeks; value of school houses and lots, $ 161,120 ;

,    annual amonnt appropriated for school purposes, $ 43,823, or $ 7.

05 to each scholar in the county.

;    Railroads.    There are twelve towns in the county, in tvhich a

,    ;    railroad passes through some part of it. The Cheshire Railroad,

from Bellows Falls in Vermont to Massachusetts line, 42! miles ;
the Ashuelot, from Keene to Vermont line, 23! miles ; Monadnock,
from Massachusetts line to Peterborough line, about 11 miles.

,    Miscellaneous. Population in 1870, 27,265—males,13,653; females,

,    -13,612 ; foreign, 1,802, colored, 15 ; in 1870, 22 persons convicted of

crime—natives, 7, foreign, 15; paupers—natives, 24; annual ex-
penses, $ 6,700. Whole number of deaths for the year, 338—males,

*    172, females, 166 ; number died over eighty years of age, 52, or

^:    14 per cent.; number died with disease of the lungs, 81, or 24 per

cent.

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