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in the State public elementary schools -with 422,399 enrolled pupils and 9,473 teachers ; 40 secondary public schools with 4,547 enrolled pupils and 204 teachers. There were in 1910 3 normal schools Avith 51 teachers and 2,306 students. The University (founded in 1892) had, in 1909, 53 professors and 646 students ; the Agricultural and Mechanical College (founded in 1891) had 38 professors and 651 students ; while the coloured Agricultural and Normal University, with 13 instructors, has 360 students.
Oklahoma has 3 hospitals, 6 orphanages, and 2 homes for adults and children, a school for the deaf and one for the blind.
Finance* Defence. — There is no bonded debt. Income (1910-12), 8,343,064 dollars. Expenditure (1910-12), 7,228,756 dollars.
The militia, called the Oklahoma National Guard, with its headquarters at Guthrie, consists of infantry, cavalry, hospital corps, signal corps, and engineer corps : total strength 56 officers and 938 enlisted men.
Production. — Oklahoma is mainly agricultural. In 1910 it had 190,192 farms with a total area of 28,859,358 acres, of which 17,551,337 acres were improved land. The yield of maize in 1912 was 101,878,000 bushels ; of w^heat, 20,096,000 bushels ; of oats, 23,494,000 bushels. Other products are potatoes, hay, sorghum, fruits, and cotton. The cotton crop for 1909 on 1,767,000 acres amounted to 573,786 bales, in 1911 it yielded 955,951 bales ; estimated yield for 1912, 1,039,000 bales. Flax is also widely grown. The western part is devoted to stock-raising ; in 1910 the stock comjirised 355,000 milk cows, and 1,637,000 other cattle; 1,302,000 hogs, 108,000 sheep, 804,000 horses, and 191,000 mules.
The mineral products consist of gypsum, gi'anite, sandstone and limestone, and petroleum. The yield of petroleum in 1911, was 56,069,637 barrels, valued at 26,451,767 dollars. Some natural gas is obtained. Coal was obtained (1911) to the amount of 3,074,242 short tons, value 6,291,494 dollars. Lead and zinc are also worked. The value of the mineral output in 1911 was 42,678,446 dollars.
There are few manufacturing industries, flour and grist-milling, cotton ginning, the manufacture of cotton- seed oil and oil cake being the more important. In 1910 the State had a total of 2, 310 industrial establishments, employing 13, 143 w\age-earners, with a total capital of 38,873,000 dollars, the cost of material being 34,153,000 dollars, and the value of the output 53,682,000 dollars. Statistics of leading industries are : —
Industries
Capital
Flour mills .
Oil and cotton-seed
Lumber and timber
Printing
Dollars
7,691,000 5,071,000 ,3,603,000 3,743,000
Wage- earners
Number
842
5S1 3,175 1,698
Cost of material
Dollars
16,493,000 4,245,000 1,487,000 1,004,000
Output
Dollars 19,144,000 5,187,000 4,439.000 3,989,000
In 1908 Oklahoma had 5,980 miles of railway. The principal lines are the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific ; the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf; and the St. Louis and San Francisco; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ; the St. Louis and San Francisco ; and the Santa Fe Pacific Railways. It has also 215 miles of electric railway track.
Books of Reference.
Reports of the various administrative autliorities of Oklahoua.
Statistics and Information concerning the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Strip, &c. St. Louis, 1893.
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