The statistics of manufactures in the state in 1870 are as follows: Number of estab lishments, 11,871; persons employed, 65,354, of whom 55,904 were males above 16 3,834 females above 16, and 5,536 were below that age; capital invested, $80,257,244; wages paid, $31,055,445; products, $200,213,429. The principal branches of manufac ture, with the value of their products respectively, were: Blacksmithing, $2,257,211; agricultural implements, $1,588,108; bags other than paper, $5,037,250; boots and shoes, $4,099,552; bakery products, $3,100,053; brick, $3,148,884; bridge-building, $2,072,620; carpentering and building, $15,561,086 ; railroad cars, $2,200,150 ; carriages, etc., $3,253,734; men's clothing, $7,271,962; women's clothing, $1,080,170; confectionery, $1,274,855; cooperage, $2,234,581; flooring and grist-mill products, $31,837,352; furni ture, $3,303,024; iron, forged and rolled, $1,435,000; pig-iron, $2,991,618; iron castings, $1,182,255; stoves, heaters, and hollow ware, $2,981,350; distilled liquors, $6,519,548; lumber, planed and sawed, $7,220,452; sugar refined, $4,135,250; animal oil, $4,100,000; patent medicines and compounds, $2,073,875; printing and publishing, $3,837,230; sad dlery and harness, $5,424,635; sash, doors, and blinds, $2,563,416; soap and candles, $1,794,100; tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware, $2,945,460; tobacco in all forms, $10.415,604.
The mining industries of Missouri, with their products respectively, in 1870 were: Coal, $2,011,820; iron ore, $491,496; lead, $201,885; stone, $767,312—total, $3,472,513; capital invested, $3,489,250; persons employed, 3,423. The lead product of 1873 was 27,076,320, valued at $1,902,747. The lead industry of St. Louis amounts to nearly $5,000,000. The iron are mined in the state in 1872 was 509,200 tons; pig-iron produced in the same year, 87,176 tons; zinc ores raised, 11,582,440 lbs. The wine products Of the state are believed to have been nearly or quite quadrupled in the last few years.
The number of miles of railroad within the state in 1875 was 3,521; the main lines being the St. Louis. Kansas City and Northern, the Pacific of Missouri, and branches, the St. Louis and Iron Mountain, and branches, the Atlantic and Pacific, the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs, the Hannibal and St. Joseph, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. The cost of roads and equipments was $141,791,312. The railroad assess ment of the state for taxes in 1879 amounted to $21,270,096. The total earnings of the roads in 1878 amounted to $22,415,500. There is a total of about 1000 m. of steel-rail track in the state.
The bonded debt of the state in 1877 was $17,248,000. The amount of property in the state subject to taxation was $614,716,333, of which about $30,000,000 was railroad property.
The commerce of Missouri is extensive. Under the act allowing foreign merchandise to be taken in bond direct to interior ports, a large trade has sprung up in St. Louis, amounting in 1873 to $1,167,690. St. Joseph and Kansas City are also ports of delivery, belonging to the department of Louisiana. A great portion of the produce not only of this state, but of other portions of the northwest, passes through St. Louis on its way to Market, making that city the center of a vast domestic trade.
In 1875 there were in the state 35 national banks, with a capital of $9,195.300, and a circulation of $5,908,379. There were at the same time 45 state banks, with a capital of $9,300,000, and 56 savings banks, with capital and deposits amounting to $9,118,306; also 92 private banking-houses. The number of fire and marine insurance companies itt 1874 was 35, of which 18 were mutual. The number of life insurance companies was 5, of which 2 were mutual; the 3 joint-stock companies had an aggregate capital of $616,300, and the assets of all the companies amounted to $12,589,884.
The school system of Missouri ranks among the best. In St. Louis, and some of the other cities, the schools are carefully managed, and of an excellent character. The report of the state superintendent for Jan. 1, 1875, gives the following statistics: Num ber of school districts, 7,483; school-houses, 7,224, valued (aside from those of St. Louis) at $4,188,337; school property in the whole state, $6,774,506; number of schools, 7,461 primary, 86 high, and 282 colored—total, 7,829; number of teachers, males, 6,281; females, 3,395—total, 9,076; average monthly wages of male teachers, $39.87; of female teachers, $30.36. The school funds of the state amount to $3,037,440. The district school-tax in 1874 produced the of $1,514,387. The whole amount expended for school purposes in the state in that year, outside of St. Louis, was $2,189.800. The number of persons of school age in the state (5 to 21) was 708,354, of whom 38,447 were colored. There were three normal schools for white teachers, one at Kirksville in the n. part of the state, one at Warrensburg, in the s., and one at Cape Girardeau, in the s.e. Colored teachers are trained at the Lincoln institute. The institutions for higher edu cation are the university of Missouri at Columbia. with collegiate, normal, agricultural, and mechanical,.mining .and metallurgical, legal, medical, and chemical departments; Washington university-(non.sentarian) at St. Louis, with tui endowment of $200.000, and buildings and grounds valued at $500,000; college of Christian brothers, at St. Louis, Roman Catholic; St. Lout; university, Roman Catholic; McGee college, at College Mound. Cumberland, Presbyterian; Christian university at Canton, under the patronage of the Disciples; Central college at Fayette, Southern Methodist; Hannibal college at Hannibal ; Drury college at Springfield, Congregational; St. Joseph's college at St. Joseph, Roman Catholic; St. Paul's college at Palmyra, Protestant Episcopal; St. Vin cent's college at Cape .Girardeau, Roman Catholic; Lewis college, Glasgow, Methodist; Wilburn Jewell college at Liberty, Baptist; Woodland college at Independence, Disci ples; Westminster college at Fulton, Presbyterian. There are 4 theological schools, belonging respectively to the Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and Baptists, 2 schools of law; 5 of medicine, 1 one of which is homeopathic; 1 school of pharmacy, and 1 of dentistry. There are numerous academies, seminaries for girls, and other pri• vote schools of a high character, most of them under the control of some religious sect.