Page:The American Cyclopædia (1879) Volume IX.djvu/247

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

INDIANA 235 500; 1,004, 500 and under 1,000; and 76, 1,000 and over. The cash value of farms was $634,804,189 ; of fanning implements and ma- chinery, $17,676,591 ; wages paid during the year, including value of board, $9,675,348 ; to- tal estimated value of all farm productions, in- cluding betterments and additions to stock, $122,914,302 ; value of orchard products, $2,- 858,086 ; of produce of market gardens, $486,- 477; of forest products, $2,645,679; of home manufactures, $605,639; of animals slaughtered and sold for slaughter, $30,246,962; of all live stock, $83,776,762. In 1873 there were 6,162,- '157 acres in cultivation, of which 1,902,599 were devoted to wheat, 2,627,980 to Indian corn, 624,795 to oats, 985,529 to meadow, and 4,511,775 to pasture and woodland. The value of slaughtered animals was $3,938,754. There were 570,382 tons of coal mined, and 1,167,- C61 bushels of lime made. Indiana has no direct foreign commerce, but it has a vast domestic and inter-state trade by means of its navigable waters and magnificent systems of railroads and canals. Its geographical posi- tion is such that the whole land commerce be- tween the manufacturing states of the east and the country west of the Mississippi must pass through its territory. Evansville is a United States port of delivery. In 1873 there were enrolled here 75 vessels with an aggregate ton- nage of 11,474. In 1845 there were 30 m. of railroad in Indiana; in 1855, 1,406; in 1865, 2,217; in 1870, 3,177; and in 1873, 3,544. Of the 92 counties of the state, all but five were in the last mentioned year traversed by rail- roads. The following table exhibits the rail- roads of the state in 1873, with their termini; also the assessed value, including main and side track and rolling stock, as reported by the state board of equalization : CORPORATIONS. TERMINI. Mllei completed In the slati- in 1873. Miles be- tween ter- diffemit from preceding. Total assessment. Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Indianapolis 77 21 89 5 92 26 61 84* 62 109 65 68 108 61 13 9 78 168 161 78 118 110 46 65 86 17 167 115 288 18 42 15 225 99 75 '43 ISO 132 203 92 iiio 289 190 162 202 178 26i ii5 300 639 150 285 44 840 $551,226 160,665 147,975 82,875 429,607 (S3 m.) 107.713 262,886 (57 m.) 1,525.680 428,960 852.540 292,847 (43 m.) 428,740 698,6111 (104 m.) 618,060 77.250 48,787 971,786 1,681.200 1,077.618 (144m.) 1,051,282 592,854 1,441,728 884,812 445.098 816,768 Cincinnati. O., and Terre Haute Anderson to Michigan state line Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapo- Detrolt, Eel River, and Illinois Evansville and Crawfordsville Evansville, Terre Haute, and Chicago Butler and Logansport Evansville and Terre Haute Jackson, Mich., and Fort Wayne Fort Wayne and Traverse City, Mich. Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Western Indianapolis and Pekin, 111 Cincinnati O and Lafayette Indianapolis and Michigan City Indianapolis and St. Louis, Mo Jeffersonville, Madison, and Indianapolis Louisville, Kv., and Indianapolis. . . . Columbus to Madison Columbus to Cambridge City Lake Krie, Evansville, and Southwestern Evansville and Bellefontaine, O Buffalo, N. Y., and Chicago, 111 4,112,664 618,500 (110m.) 1,045,162 67.641 1,090,816 Lojr.insport, Crawfordsville, and Southwestern . Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago New Albany and Michigan City New Albany and Mt. Vernon, 111 Detroit, Mich., and Chicago, 111 Lake Station to Joliet, III Louisville, New Albany, and St. Louis Air l.inr. Michigan Central Joliet and Northern Indiana Cincinnati, O., and St. Louis, Mo 8.806.0SO 4,909,155 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Divisions ._, J 73 196 91 69 156 28 79 166 68 188 814 468 816 464 Columbus, O., to Chicago, 111 Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne, and Chicago Union to Logansport Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chicago, HI St. Louis, Mo., and Nashville, Tenn . 204,496 1,586.665 8,046.828 868,466 Terre Haute and Indianapolis '. . Toledo, Wabash. and Western Toledo, O., and Camp Point, 111 Harrison, O., and Hagerstown White Water Valley . . The Wabash and Erie canal, the longest in the United States, connecting the Maumee river at Toledo with Evansville on the Ohio, 467 m., has 374 m. of its course in Indiana, and passes through Fort Wayne, Huntington, Wabash, Pe- ru, Logansport, Delphi, Lafayette, Attica, Cov- ington, Montezuma, Terre Haute, Bloomfleld, and Petersburg. The Whitewater canal ex- tends from Lawrenceburg on the Ohio to Ha- gerstown, 75 m., and takes in its course Brooks- ville, Connersville, and Cambridge. These canals are little used now. In 1873 the state contained 6,943 miles of telegraph, the as- sessed value of which was $807,874. There