NAMES Or RAILROADS, AND CORPORATIONS. tions,Valna 1879.
Ashtabola. Youngstown and Pittsburg . $608,697 Atlantic and Great Western a 3,180,296 CC " Agent U. S. Rolling Stock Co.... . 76,096 CC 44 4C " Cleveland and Mt. Vernon Division.... 1,707,674 44 " C. and M. V. Div'n, Agt. U. S. Rolling Stock Co 183,021 Baltimore and Ohio, Central Ohio Division 1,&53,056 " " Straitsville Division 434,016 " " Lake Erie Division 1,421,925 " " Washington County Division 15,516 " " and Chicago 1,335,573 Bellaire and St. Clairsville, Narrow Gauge 11,920 " " Southwestern, " 22,275 Bowling Green, 12,000 Bridgeport, Canton and Painesville 11,750 Brown. Bonnell & Co 3,000 Brooks's Switch 4,832 Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton 1,636.083 " Indiana. . ... 364.308 44Richmond and Chicago ........ 350,583 C4Hamilton and Indianapolis.... • 202.205 44 Sandusky and Cleveland 1,484,555 44 and Springfield - 1,232,663 " Eastern, Narrow Gauge..... 139,131 " College Hill " . ... . .. 15,708 " Westwood " 16,295 Inclined Plane (fixed power) 49,235 • Total valuation of all railways in 1.'.te state for .taxation in $75,513,859. Prop erty in the state has usually been assessed at about one-third its cash value. It is pre sumed that the real value. of railroad property in the state is about $225,000,000.
• Education total expenditures for, school purposes in Ohio.are,abou t $10,000,000. Two mills on the .ciolfar-coustitutes the state tax for the elliMatiOnal fund. The number of mbool-houses in 1875 was about 12,000; enrolled pupils, 712,129; teachers employed, 22,492; average monthly wages of men teachers, $59.20; women, $45; average cost of instruction per head of enrolled pupils per a unum, $17.29. Total value of public school houses and grounds, $19,876,501. Private schools, 220; teachers, 265; pupils, 13,066. There arc 10 normal schools, of which the state sustains only those of Cincinnati and Fostoria, the latter having the largest number of students. The others are sustained by the payment of tuition by students. There are 35 collegiate institutions. The state university and agricultural and mechanical. college at Columbus was founded, in 18/10, with a state endowment of $700,000; has buildings that cost $300,000; an income of $30,000 from its endowment; and is in these respects the strongest based institution in the state. Dennison university at Granville, and Oberlin college at Ober lin, both have scientific departments. Besides the colleges already mentioned by num ber, many of which are supported by denominational sympathy, there are 12 theolo gical seminaries, 3 law schools, and 11 schools of medicine, pharmacy, surgery, and dentistry.
Libraries.—In 1853 a general school law was passed to raise a fund by a tax of one tenth of a mill on the dollar "for the purpose of furnishing school libraries and apparatus to all the common schools of the state." 'Within three years thereafter 332,579
volumes were placed in the school libraries. -The law was suspended in 1857-58, and the libraries were suffered to go down by negligence. In 1860 the law was re-enacted, and in 1865 350,000 volumes were in the common selthol libraries. But the system was too attenuated. The small and poor districts had not sufficient funds to maintain continuous care of a library, so that books became scattered and lost almost as fast as fresh pur chases were made. The small local school libraries have since been turned over to town library associations under a general law passed in 1867. A law of Feb., 1868, authorized the city councils of any city of the second class to levy a tax, not exceeding one-half of a mill on the dollar, for a free public library and reading-room, providing suitable accommodations are furnished without. expense to the city." Under the action of this benign law noble public libraries are maintained in every large city, and smaller ones of great value in all small towns; and a local pride and public spirit is stimulated to promote their growth by private donations of every kind,. to render them more creditable to the town which supports them. The free public library of Cincinnati is probably the largest library ever created from a public fund derived from annual taxation. The library building was begun ill 1868, partially occupied with about 31,000 volumes in 1870, and finished and dedicated Feb., 1674. It was at that time the finest library building in America, having a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes. It opened with 70,000 volumes, and by June 30, 1875, by purchase and donations, the number had swelled to about 100,000 volumes. The number of readers in attendance on Sundays then averaged 1000. The annual income at the same time was $20,000, and increasing with the growth of the city. The &cation of this public library at Cincinnati is a sample of the ambitious and successful development of smaller public libraries all over the state. This is exclusive of college and corporate society libraries of every kind. • Publications.—In 1875 the newspapers and periodicals of the state numbered 537, of which 35 were dailies, 10 tri-weeklies, 5 semi-weeklies, 407 weeklies, 1 hi-weekly, 12 semi-monthlies, 63 monthlies, 1 bimonthly, and 3 quarterlies. The dailies have a eireu lation in and out of the state of about 200,000 copies daily; the weeklies of 1,500,000 per week. In Cincinnati there are great publishing houses, not of periodicals only, but of standard and light literature and of school-books. Cleveland, Tolsdo, and Colum bus also have considerable publishing houses.