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persons, with five lines of railway diverging from her depot to all
sections of the State and country.

In 1840, there were but six miles of finished railroad in the State.
There are now over 890 miles of railway track stretching through
two thirds of the towns in the State, and up the towering summit of
Mount Washington amid the clouds. There is now one mile of
railroad track to every 400 persons in the State, while in Europe
there is only one mile to every 7,500. These railroads have been
built at an expense of not less than $ 32,000,000. Thirty years ago
the electric fluid flashed its deadly shaft through the air, unguid-
ed by man, like the dreaded missiles hurled from the cannon’s mouth
over the field of battle. To day it harmlessly flashes over 2,000
miles of wire, conveying messages of peace instead of destruction and
death. In 1840, our cotton manufactories annually produced goods
to the value of $ 4,142,000; now they produce over $ 30,000,000.
In 1840, the value of woolen goods produced was $ 795,000 ; to day
it is over $ 9,000,000; in 1840, less than 500,000 pairs of sale boots
and shoes were made; to-day, over 8,000,000 pairs are manufactur-
ed. In 1840, there were less than 12,000 persons employed in all
the manufactories in the State, and annually producing goods to the
value of about $ 13,000,000; to-day over 46,000 persons are employ-
- ed, and producing goods to the value of over $ 95,000,000. In 1840,
the 78,000 persons engaged iu farming respectively received for ag-
ricultural productions $ 320; in 1870, the 46,573 inhabitants en-
gaged in the same business receive $ 483 each for the same labor.
Twenty-four years ago, there was deposited in the ten savings
banks in the State, $ 1,564,000, owned by 12,082 depositors, now
(1873) there are deposited in the sixty-one savings banks, $29,671,
000, and owned by 94,967 depositors. In 1850, there were twenty
newspapers, with an annual issue of 1,024,424 copies; in 1873,
there were 62 papers, with an issue of 7,237,588 copies. In 1850,
there were no regular daily papers in the State; in 1870, there were
seven, with a daily circulation of 6,100, or an annual issue of 1,

900,000 copies. In 1850, the value of church property in the
State was $ 1,561,610—in 1870, $3,303,780. In 1850, there were
$221,146, annually appropriated for public schools; in 1870, $ 574_>
898. Iu 1850, the true valuation of personal property and real
estate was $103,652,835; in 1870 it was valued at nearly
$ 250,000,000.

Like the railway speed of travel, all branches of industry for the