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a capital of $ 2,771,000, employing 2,635 males and 417 females,
with an annual pay roll of $ 1,232,000, and producing goods to the
value of $ 5,775,900.

Railroads. There are twenty towns in the county through some
portion of which a railroad passes. There are also five
towns on the Connecticut River, which are well accommodated with
railroad facilities by the Passumpsic Railroad, passing along on
the opposite side of the river, in Vermont. Length of railroads,
about 128 miles.

Churches. There are 72 churches, and 77 church edifices ; num-
ber of sittings, 24,631, or 63 per cent, of the whole population of
the county; value of church property, $ 248,700.

Schools. Number of schools in the county, 415, of which 33 are
graded; number of scholars—boys, 4,977, girls, 4,391j average
attendance, for the year, 5,786, or 66 per cent; average length of
schools, for the year, 18 weeks; value of school houses and lots,
$189,925; amount of money annually appropriated for school
purposes, $ 51,684.22, or $ 5.52 to each scholar.

Valuation and Taxes. The valuation, as assessed in 1872, was
$ 15,037,880—true valuation, $ 22,556,820. The State, county
town, and school tax, was $288,238.62, or 19 mills on the dollar—
true per cent. 12f mills.

Miscellaneous. Population, in 1870, 39,103—males, 19,816, fe-
males, 19,287 ; foreign, 2,256 ; colored, 41; paupers—natives, 319,
foreign, 17; expenses, $ 30,208 ; persons convicted of crime—na-
tives, 11, foreign, 3. Whole number of deaths, through the year—
males, 237, females, 244; number died over eighty years of age, 60,
or about 121 per cent; number died with lung disease, 153, or 32
per cent.

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This county lies in the extreme northern part of New-Hampshire,
and is the largest county in the State, extending north and south
76 miles, and averaging, east and west, 20 miles, and having an
area of nearly 1,000,000 acres. Much of its territory is broken
by lofty mountains, and unfit for cultivation. In the southern part
lies the larger portion of the White Mountain range, covering an area
of nearly 200 square miles, or 128,000 acres; on the west side are
the Stratford Peaks, while near the centre of the county is the cel-
ebrated Dixville Notch. There are many other mountains, which,

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