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The State has no debt. Outstanding bonds which have ceased to draw interest amount to 17,500 dollars. For 1909 the assessed value of propertv was 1,126,663,157 dollars.

The State Militia, or National Guard, consisting of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, had a total strength of 520 officers and 6,615 enlisted men in 1909. The naval militia had 51 officers and 587 enlisted men.

Production, Industry.— Illinois is largely agricultural. In 1910 the farm area comprised 32,522,937 acres, of which 28,048,323 acres were im- proved land. The chief cereal crops are maize, 426,320,000 bushels in 1912 ; wheat, 9,819,000 bushels; oats, 182,726,000 bushels; barley, rye, and buckwheat being also grown. The potato crop in 1912 amounted to 13,837,000 bushels; and hay to 3,266,000 tons. Tobacco, grown on 1,000 acres, yielded 750,000 pounds, valued at 58,500 dollars in (1911). The State has an active live-stock industry. In 1910 there were 1,655,000 horses (farm animals), 152,000 mules, 1,232,000 milk cows, 1,974,000 other cattle, 817,000 sheep, and 3,772,000 swine in the State, The wool clip in 1911 yielded 4,900,000 pounds of wool, valued at 1,095,640 dollars. In 1910 Illinois had 18,026 manufacturing establishments with an aggregate capital of 1,548,171,000 dollars, employing 561,044 persons (salaried and wage- earning), using material costing 1,160,927 dollars, and giving an output worth 1,919,277,000 dollars.

The chief industries with the capital number of wage-earners, cost of materials, and value of output, were ; —

Products

Capital

Wage earners

Slaughtering and meat packing Iron and steel

Foundry and machine shop . Clothing ....

Liquors

Flour and grist Agricultural implements Steam railway cars Printing and publishing

Bakery

Furniture .... Lumber, <fec. Electrical machinery .

Dollars

131,02fi,000

52,390,000

143,277,000

44,330,000

63,641,000

18,464,000

110,605,000

37,935,000

60,084,000

24,224,000

22,383,000

29,778,000

24,202,000

Dollars

26,705

2,493

56,26G

42,308

5,148

2,464

19,240

10,945

28,644

8,611

13,575

16,567

9,641

Cost

of materials

used

Dollars 343,976,000 30,908,000 63,810,000 54,442,000 16,242,000 45,590,000 24,824,000 15,336,000 24,680,000 21,606,000 12,501,000 27,264,000 13,628,000

Value

of output

Dollars

389,595,000

38,300,000

138,579,000

106,108,000

83,649,000

51,111,000

57,268,000

27,001,000

87,247,000

36,118,000

27,900,000

44.952,000

26,826,000

The chief mineral product of Illinois is coal, the productive coal- fields having an area of about 42,900 square miles. In 1911, 68,305 persons were employed in the mines ; the output was 53,679,118 short tons, valued at 59,519,478 dollars. There are petroleum wells, and in 1911 the yield was 31,317,038 barrels, valued at 19,734,339 dollars. The natural gas sold was of the value of 687,726 dollars. Zinc is worked, and in 1911 the output was 2,884 short tons (328,776 dollars). Fluor-spar to the amount of 68,817 short tons was produced, valued at 481,635 dollars. The output of sandstone and limestone was of the value of 3, 467, 930 dollars ; of Portland cement 4,582,341 barrels (3,583,301 dollars) ; of natural rock cement 188,859 barrels (68,772 dollars); of clay products (bricks, tiles, pottery), 14,333,011 dollars. The totat mineral output in 1911, excluding 2,036,081 long tons of pig iron valued at 31,152,927 dollars, was estimated

at the value of 106,231,455 dollars.