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Decrease 5,357,419
Decrease 877,988
BARLEY.
Receipts for 1877, centals 775,739
Receipts for 1876, centals. 1,626,066
Decrease
5,018,361
FLOUR.
Receipts for 1877, barrels.
404,025
Exports for 1877, centals 86,250
Receipts for 1876, barrels.
519,114
Exports for 1876, centals 350,022
Decrease
115,089
Exports for 1877, barrels
435,736
Exports for 1876, barrels
506,974
Receipts for 1876, gallons 1,686,990
Decrease. 71,238
Increase 650,668
WOOL.
Receipts for 1877, bales
Exports for 1877, gallons 914,201
Receipts for 1876, bales
167,601
Exports for 1876, gallons 529,380
Decrease
20,942
Increase 384,821
Exports for 1877, centals Exports for 1876, centals 9,920,117
4,901,756
Decrease 850,327
Decrease 263,772
WINE.
Receipts for 1877, gallons 2,337,658
146,659
$56,337.426
TABLE SHOWING THE SALES OF REAL ESTATE IN EACH SECTION OF THE CITY FOR FIVE YEARS.
50 Varas.
100 Varas.
City Slips and Water Lots.
Mission Addition.
Western Addition.
Outside Lands.
All other Lands.
Total.
YEARS.
No. Sales.
Amount ..
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
No. Sales.
Amount ...
Totals for 1873 . .
531
$4,774,124 272
$1,302,143
57
$1,082,701
488
$1,450,874
533
$2,333,430 230
$301,229 230
3134 12,383,752
Totals for 1874. . 834
9,010,707 358
3,167,081
74
2,210,940
816
3,064,775 815
4,037,302 194
568,035 194
3854 23,893,903
Totals for 1875 . . 730
10,451,519 427
7,343,670
74 2,268,620 1308
5,969,929 1125
7,840,488 247
630,763 247
4508 35,889,374
Totals for 1876. . 528
7,516,060 281
2,212,107
71
2,692,323 1305
4,093,354 976
5,457,278 247
1,099,881 433
804,977 3840 24,058,666
Totals for 1877 . . 417|
5,354,097 226
2,132,154
48|
1,468,053 1127
3,294,611 727
4,970,829|211
628,563 329
700,584 3085| 18,549,991
The above table shows a decrease in sales in all sections of the city. The decrease from 1876 in the 50-varas, was $2,161,963, or 29 per cent .; in the 100-varas, $79,953-only a fraction of 1 per cent .; in the city slips and water lots, $1,224,269, or 45 per cent .; in the Mission Addition, $798,743, or 19 per cent .; in the Western Addition, $486,349-about 9 per cent .; and in outside lands, $471,318, or 43 per cent. The decrease in the aggregate of sales, is $5,508,675, or about 23 per cent. It is noticeable that the Mission and Western Additions-portions of the city especially adapted for homes, and improving more rapidly than any other-maintain a showing, both in number and amount of sales, that compares very favorably with those of the preceding year. The number of sales in these two sections was 1,854, as against 2,281 in 1876, the consideration amounting to eight millions of dollars, against nine and a half millions of dollars during the more prosperous season of 1876. Transfers of real estate in those sections are, as a rule, indicative of improvements, and the large volume of sales, during an exceptionally dull year, shows a substantial growth of the resident population.
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REAL ESTATE.
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REAL ESTATE .- The year 1877 opened with a good degree of activity in Real Estate, sales for January amounting to $2,596,000. Had this activity been maintained, sales for the year would have exceeded thirty-one millions. But in February, when it became evident that we were to have a dry season, with a consequent short crop of the cereals, a marked decline in the volume of sales and depression in prices was experienced. The succeeding months of March, April and May make a good showing, sales amounting to nearly seven millions. In the meantime business failures were alarmingly frequent and disastrous, and their effect became apparent in a falling off of sales in June to $1,245,000. The aggregate of sales for the first half of the year was $12,095,027. The transactions in July were less in amount than for any previous month for many years, aggregating ouly $788,000. The whole latter half of the year was marked by extreme quietude, the sales for the entire period reaching $6,454,964. No general break in prices has occurred, but a gradual toning down of demands, especially for high priced residence property, was observable. Choice business property -- that is, improved property, paying a good rental at the present time-is as firm as ever. In this connection, it is noticeable that the great majority of property owners, whom urgent demands for money would lead either to sell or mortgage their realty, have preferred the latter course, as the following table showing the mortgages and releases of the year, and for which we are indebted, as for other valuable statistics, to Magee's "Real Estate Circular," will show:
BY WHOM TAKEN OR RELEASED.
MORTGAGES.
RELEASES.
NO.
AMOUNT.
NO.
AMOUNT.
Private Individuals.
1560
9,091,593
865
4,205,672
Hibernia Savings and Loan Society
779
5.351,033
323
3,528,920
Savings and Loan Society, ..
636
1,767,545
415
1,635,876
French Savings and Loan Society
43
691,150
. 39
511,500
German Savings and Loan Society
153
3.554,000
203
1,314,455
Odd Fellows' Savings and Loan Society
161
601,000
176
1,013,910
Masonic Savings and Loan Bank
99
317,347
42
256,219
Humboldt Bank
110
414,150
47
185,450
San Francisco Savings Union
197
1,945,400
100
155,535
Security Savings Bank.
35
387,365
18
278.600
California Savings and Loan Society
16
44,100
15
35,350
Grand Totals
4089
24,367,773
2243
13,514,517
Totals for 1876
3741
17,413,620
2273
11,804,966
Totals for 1875
2055
16,892,268
1894
9,740,277
Totals for 1874
2616
16,872,704
2029
11,201,251
While the sales of the year aggregate eighteen and a half millions, the mortgages reach the large sum of nearly twenty-four and a half millions, an excess over the amount released of nearly eleven millions. Much of the money obtained by mortgage of real estate has, under the stimulating effects of lower rates of interest, been invested in improvements, though it is probable that the largest portion was required to meet the exigencies of the times. This heavy mortgaging process is an indirect illustration of the supreme confidence in real estate which is felt by all classes, throughout all the vicissi- tudes of this somewhat peculiarly constituted commercial and financial metropolis.
Of the outlook for 1878, Magee's "Circular " says : "No one would have believed a year ago that real estate sales would have held out so well or prices remained so firm, had they known that a dry season and the fearful crash in stocks, which subsequently occured, were coming. It is not matter for surprise at all that the sales were smaller last year and that prices did not advance, but the wonder is that larger reductions did not occur. The events of the year 1877 clearly show that San Francisco real estate is in a most healthy condition, and that a fall in it, in any general sense, is a thing not to be apprehended even in the event of 1878 being another dry year." To which we may add that all appre- hensions that 1878 may prove a droughty season on the Pacific Slope is at the present writing happily dispelled by most plenteous rains throughout the length and breadth of the land.
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS .- During the year 1877 new water connections were formed by the Spring Valley Water Company to the number of 1,473, representing, according to Magee's "Real Estate Circular " 1,593 buildings. We append a list of a considerable number, accurate details of which have been secured. The list, owing to the impractica- bility of finding owners or builders, is incomplete, but is representative in its character. A perusal of it will correct a somewhat general impression that the city is not progressing
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BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
with the rapidity of former years. The list enumerates one hundred and fifty-three build- ings, costing
The average cost each of the remaining 1,455 buildings may be estimated at $4,047,500 $2,000 2,880,000
Total cost of new buildings $6,927,500 P. R. Schmidt, architect, 103 Post, has constructed the following : For I. N. Walter, dwelling, two stories 50x70, with brick basement, Van Ness avenue, between Clay and Sacramento, $22,000; Mrs. Thomas Breeze, dwelling, two stories 60x100, with brick base- ment, northeast corner Sutter and Franklin, $35,000; B. Nathan, dwelling, two stories 40x87, with brick basement, 1357 Post street, $15,000 ; Joseph Young, business block 25x75, three stories brick and iron, with basement, Dupont bet Post and Sutter, $25,000; Henry Luchsinger, building 25 feet on Market by 40 feet on Stevenson, 170 feet deep, four stories and basement, brick and iron, $30,000; Spreckles & Mangles, block of thirteen stores, with dwellings above, each 20x64, frame, $36,000.
Charles L. Bugbee, architect, 78 Nevada Block, has constructed the following: For James Denman, block 60x80, three stories containing four stores and dwellings above, southeast corner Polk and Clay, $13,500; James Denman, block 60x80, three stories containing four stores with dwellings above, northeast corner Polk and Sacramento, $13,500; James Denman, block of three stores, two stories with dwellings above, north- west corner Washington and Polk, $10,000; John Ipswitch, dwelling, two stories and basement, 2107 Howard street, $10,000; Charles Crocker, dwelling (completed) 70x180, four stories with basement, corner California and Taylor, estimated at $750,000; H. I. Thornton, dwelling, two stories and basement, northwest corner Van Ness avenue and Eddy, $18,000; W. L. Higgins, dwelling, 30x60, south ides Eddy near Van Ness avenue, $9,000; James Freeborn, dwelling, four stories 165x17512, northeast corner Jackson and Gough, $45,000; Robert Barton, dwelling 46x60, two stories with basement, northwest corner Jackson and Gough, $40,000; John White, dwelling 40x55, southwest corner Pacific av and Gough, $25,000; Barton & Bonynge, block, three stories, 3712x153, brick, northeast corner California and Drumm, $60,000; Robert Barton, block, three stories, 55x1371/2, brick, California between Drumm and Davis, $30,000; David T. Bagley, dwelling, two stories and basement, 45x60, Liberty near Twenty-fourth, $14,000.
P. J. O'Conner, architect, 5 Post, has constructed for: C. F. Fargo, block, four stories, 45x52, brick, Dupont, between Sutter and Bush, $40,000.
J. P. Gaynor, architect, 315 California, has constructed for: Major Wm. B. Hooper, block of nine houses, three stories, 50x16712, on Ninth street from Howard to Natoma, $40,000; General R. W. Kirkham, block, three stories 47x80, of brick, south side Pine near Front, $20,000 ; S. Lipmann, three dwellings, two stories and basement, 80x84 corner Cedar and Van Ness avenue, $28,000; M. Loewenthal, two dwellings, two stories and basement 50x84, north side Sutter near Octavia, $18,500; Oliver Merrill, two dwell- ings, two stories and basemeut 40x60, north side Harrison near Seeond, $10,000.
Vitruvius Frozee, architect, 137 Montgomery, has constructed for: E. Bienfield and A. Blockman, two stores, three stories 50x75, west side Larkin between Post and Sutter, $12,000; James Baumberger, two stores, three stories, east side Steiner between Tyler and Turk, $5,000; Mrs. Foy, two dwellings on south side Fulton between Buchanan, and Webster, $4,000; N. Goldtree, dwelling, two stories and basement, northeast corner Gough and Eddy, $9,000; A. Blockman, dwelling, two stories and basement, near the corner of Gough and Eddy, $9,000.
B. McDougall, architect, 320 Pine, has constructed for: H. S. Tibbey, dwelling, three stores and basement, west side Hyde between Ellis and O'Farrell, $20,000 ; Wm. Chalmers, block of five stores and hotel, 50x88, southeast corner Bush and Larkin, $17,000 ; Pope & Talbot, block of six dwellings, 52x95, south side Jessie west of Seventh, $18,000; H. S. Crocker, dwelling 46x46, wing 23x46, two stories besides attic and basement, south side California between Octavia and Gough, $25,000; Christian Reis, building three stories and basement, 40x90, No. 833 California street, $30,000; James W. Burling, dwelling, four stories, including mansard roof and basement, 54x56, southeast corner Polk and O'Farrell, $30,000; Maurice Schmitt, dwelling 44x90, two stories and attic, northwest corner Sutter and Gough, $25,000; George C. Boardman, dwelling, two stories besides basement and attic, 46x64, southeast corner Franklin and Sacramento, $20,000; Patrick Burns, block, four stories and basement, lodging house with stores beneath, 40x80, south side Mission east of Third, $20,000.
The Real Estate Associates have built the following sixty-nine houses at a cost of $374,- 000 : One house north side California, between Broderick and Devisadero, 9 rooms, value $10,500; three houses south side California, between Steiner and Pierce, 6 rooms, aggre- gate value $12,000; six houses south side Clinton Park, between Guerrero and Dolores,
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6 rooms, $23,000; seven houses north side Geary, between Webster and Fillmore, 11 rooms, $51,000; one house west side Jones, between Sacramento and Clay, 11 rooms, $10,000; two houses south side Liberty, between Valencia and Guerrero, 8 rooms, $11,000; two houses south side O'Farrell, between Pierce and Scott, 6 rooms, $8,000; one house north side Pacific avenue, between Octavia and Laguna, 14 rooms, $21,000; three houses west -
side Pierce between Ellis and O'Farrell, 6 rooms, $12,000; four houses, east side Pierce, between California and Pine, 6 rooms, $16,000; three houses north side Pine, between Steiner and Pierce, 6 rooms, $24,000; two houses south side Post, between Webster and Fillmore, 8 rooms, $11,000; five houses east side Stevenson, between Twentieth and Twenty-first, 6 rooms, $17,500; six houses north side Sutter, between Baker and Lyon, 6 rooms, $17,500; six houses south side Twenty-first, between Valencia and Bartlett, 6 rooms, $25,000; three houses, south side Twenty-first, between Bartlett and Mission, 6 rooms, $13,000; two houses north side Twenty-first, between Valencia and Guerrero, 8 rooms, $12,000; three houses, south side Tyler, between Scott and Devisadero, 8 and 6 rooms, $17,000; three houses, west side Valencia, between Twentieth and Twenty-first, 10 and 12 rooms, $35,000; six houses, west side Webster, between Geary and Post, 6 rooms, $27,000.
- Newsom Bros., architects, 321 California, have constructed for: Joseph Figel, dwell- ing, two stories, with basement and tower, on north side McAllister, between Pierce and Scott, $20.000; E. M. Miles, dwelling, three stories with tower, Italian villa, on south side Clay, between Gough and Franklin, $15,000; John F. Kennedy, dwelling, three stories with tower, Italian villa, on south side Pine near Gough, $15,000; Ben. Holliday, jr .. dwelling, Italian villa, north side Washington, between Franklin and Gough, $14,000; James Fitzgerald, block of four stores, three stories, northeast corner Broadway and Leavenworth, $10,000; James McDevitt, three story building, south side Broadway near Montgomery avenue, $8,000; W. James, block of five tenements, two stories and basement, on Linden near Van Ness avenue, $6,000; Grand Western Market, northeast corner Polk and Bush, $6,000; Cambrian Hall, south side Mission between Seventh and Eighth, $9,000; Charles Coney, four one-story stores, on Laguna near Hayes, $6:000; Winslow Hall, hotel, four stories, on north side Bush near Dupont, $30,000; Hermann Blum, four-story build- ing, north side Bush near Dupont, $14,000; - Bancroft, three-story building, south side Bush near Dupont, $7,000; Mrs. Ann Baily, three-story building on Howard ueur Tenth, $8,000.
George Bordwell, architect, 515 California, has constructed for: Mrs. Ada Hall, five- story building 48x60, with brick basement, on south side California, near Stockton, $25,- 000; Theodore H. Hittel, three-story double dwelling 40x40, north side Turk between Frank- lin and Gough, $12,000; Andrew Nelson, dwelling, north side O'Farrell, between Hyde and Larkin, $7,000.
Townsend & Wyneken, architects, 515 Pine, have constructed for: D. W. Balch, double dwelling 51x75, two stories besides atic, brick basement and elevator, on south-east cor Van Ness avenue and Ellis, $30,000; Leopold Kahn, three-story building of brick, | besides mansard roof and basement, on south side Pine, between Kearny and Dupont, $12,000
Fred. R. Lueders, architect, 434 California, has constructed for: Robert Watt, a four- story brick and iron building 361/2x51, on the north-west corner of ()'Farrell and Dupont, $25,000; Matthew Schwamm, a four-story brick and iron building 20x51, on Dupont near O'Farrell, $12,500; John Morgan, a four-story brick and iron building 20x51, on Dupont near O'Farrell, $12,500; H. H. Weatherford, a four-story brick and iron building 40x70, on southwest corner Dupont and Morton, $37,000.
Edward R. Swain, architect, 73 Nevada Block, has constructed for: W. S. Hobart, a four-story brick and iron building, 281/2x80, on west side Dupont, between Geary and O'Farrell, $30,000; Cook & O'Connor, a four-story brick and iron building 55x80, on west side Dupont, between Geary and O'Farrell, $60,000; Henry Fisher. a four-story brick and iron building 261/2x80, on west side Dupont, between Geary and O'Farrell, $20,000.
J. W. Bones, architect, 603 Washington, has constructed for: Benj. F. Barton, a brick building of two stories and basement, 40x120, on north side Sacramento, near Front, $20,000.
The German Hospital, A. Schroepfer architect. This building is situated on the block bounded by Castro, Noe, Ridley and Fourteenth streets. It will be 280 feet square when completed. The portion already built will accommodate 120 patients. Cost, $100,000.
David Farquharson, a five-story brick block, with basement and tower, about 60x150, on north-west corner Eddy and Powell, $130,000.
Kittle & Co., a two-story and basement brick building, 56x120, 811-813 Sansome, $40,000.
Charles Geddes, architect, 534 California, has constructed for: G. M. Blake, dwelling 50x76, two stories with brick basement, on northwest corner Van Ness avenue and California,
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$45,000; W. S. Lyle, dwelling 30x80, two stories and basement, on Van Ness avenue near California, $35,000; James Carolan, dwelling 30x80, north side California near Van Ness avenue, $25,000; Fairmount School-house, 60x75, eight class-rooms, $13,500; Lombard street School-house, 65x75, four class-rooms, $7,500.
T. J. Welsh, architect, 302 Montgomery, has constructed for: Fleet F, Strother, a fire-proof brick building, four stories and basement 40x50, on west side Dupont, between Post and Sutter, $24,000; Thomas Adam, a three-story fire-proof brick building 20x40, on the northwest corner Dupont and Post, $15,000.
Andrew B. McCreery has erected a four-story brick building, stone front, granite pillars, on Pine between Montgomery and Sansome, estimated cost, $100,000.
John Benson has erected a four-story brick building on northeast corner Pine and Leidesdorff; estimated cost, $75,000.
John C. Morrison has erected a four-story brick building on northwest corner Pine and Leidesdorff; estimated cost, $60,000.
The New City Hall-in process of erection-expenditures during 1877, $816,000. Total estimated cost of building, $4,250,000. This building is 800 feet front on City Hall avenue and 550 feet front on Larkin street.
MUNICIPAL STATISTICS .- The present assessed valuation of the City of San Francisco is $254,740,200, of which $191,845,560 is classed as real estate and improvements, and $62,894,640 as personal property. The real estate roll shows a small increase over that of 1876, while the personal property roll shows a considerable decrease, which the Assessor attributes to the prevailing business depression, the great decline in mining stocks and the partial failure of the crops. The bonded indebtedness of the city at the close of the fiscal year was $4,322,500, about equally divided between six and seven per cents. Against this debt there is a sinking fund on hand of $735,386 46. The floating debt is of a trifling amount. The rate of taxation for the current year was considerably less than that for the previous year, having been reduced from 2.1212 to 1.83. The debt of the city, less the amount on hand in the sinking fund, is not quite $11 per capita. The debt of New York is $140 per capita, and that of most Eastern cities is far larger than that of San Francisco.
TABLE SHOWING ASSESSED VALUE OF PROPERTY AND RATE OF TAXATION FROM 1861-2 TO 1877-8.
YEAR.
REAL.
PERSONAL.
TOTAL.
TAX RATE.
TOTAL TAX LEVIED.
1861-2
$41,870,811
with Real
41,870,811
2.87
$ 1,201,692
1862-3.
37,016,101
29,540,553
66,556,655
2.7412
1,826,980
1863-4.
43,153,212
35,556,125
78,709,337
2.10
1,652,896
1864-5.
47,345,973
35.851,652
83,197,625
2.98
2,479,289
1865-6.
49,159,047
39,775,496
88,934,543
3.12
2,774,757
1866-7.
53,531,183
43,214,976
96,746,159
3.10
2,999,130
1867-8.
58,207,861
51,152,963
109,360,825
3.00
3,280,824
1868-9.
63,631,721
42,782,307
106,414,028
3.05
3,245,627
1869-70
69,776,603
44,982,907
114,759,510
3.08
3,534,592
1870-1
75,145,717
31,246,159
106,391,876
2.84%
3,026,848
1871-2.
76,124,551
28,900,988
105,025,539
2.97
3,119,258
1872-3.
180,571,640
108,011,616
288,583,256
1.50
4,328,748
1873-
212,407,505
with Real
212,407,505
1.60
3,398,620
1874-5.
162,466,177
101,763,267
264,229,444
2.09 9-10
5,546,176
1875-6.
169,957,310
98,575,549
268,532,859
1.60%
4,309,952
1876-7
190,223,123
70,354,715
260,576,978
2.1212
5,537,260
1877-8
191,845,560
62,894,640
254,740,200
1.83
The total tax levy for the year ending June 30, 1877. was.
$5,537,277 86 5,177,913 19 The total tax collected was
STREET IMPROVEMENTS .- A larger amount was expended for work upon the streets during 1877 than in any previous year. The length of sewers constructed was 103,136 feet, or nearly 20 miles. The number of miles of sewers in the city is 110. There has been 1,078,114 square feet of pavement laid, mostly of granite and basalt blocks. The entire cost to owners of property for street work done during the year was $1,862,194 81, of which $1,315,255 78 was for permanent improvements. Sixteen and two-fifths miles of plank side-walks were laid besides 64,643 square feet of macadamized and 45,509 square feet of asphaltum side-walks.
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MUNICIPAL LICENSES .- The number of licenses issued for the years 1876 and 1877 compare as follows:
NO.
AMOUNT 1876.
NO.
AMOUNT 1877.
Merchandise
19,260
$127,830 00
20,152
$130,269 00
Banks and Brokers
1,030
48,692 00
1,265
50,881 00
Billiard Tables
509
4,230 00
425
3,710 00
Auctioneers
114
6,072 00
113
5,477 50
Bowling Alleys
40
440 00
26
305 00
Pawn Brokers.
105
3,150 00
107
3,210 00
Intelligence Offices
70
1,050 00
52
780 00
Inkeepers and Bars
7,776
116,640 00
8,119
121,785 00
Circuses
22
220 00
37
370 00
Theaters
306
8,935 00
197
6,985 00
Miscellaneous
63,459 00
89,339 25
Fee of $1 on each License for General Fund $380,718 00
30,507 00
Total $443,828 75
As the licenses in the above lists are taken out for quarterly periods, it follows that each of the above numbers represent four times the average number of persons engaged in each occupation.
This report shows a very handsome increase over the previous year, an unexpected result considering the dullness of the times.
The number of certificates of citizenship issued during the year was 3,447; number for the previous year, 1,566; increase, 1,881.
The number of marriage licenses issued during the year was 2,488; an increase of 24 over the previous year.
The number of names upon the Great Register on July 1st, 1877, was 41,800.
The number of deeds recorded during the fiscal year was 6,353; of mortgages, 3,411; and of releases of mortgages, 2,037.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS .- The school census, taken on the 30th of June, 1877, showed an unprecedented increase in the number of youths under seventeen years of age. A very gratifying increase in the attendance at the schools is also reported.
The number of children under the age of 17, as returned by the school census was, on June 30th, 1874 60,552
June 30, 1875.
64,909
June 30, 1876
71,436
June 30, 1877.
80,245
Increase during the last year
8,809
Per cent. of increase .
12.3
Number of children between the ages of 5 and 17 entitled by law to draw public money . 53,210
Increase during the year. 6,972
Number of children between 6 and 17 entitled to attend the public schools 49.404
Increase during the year 7,117
Number of children between the ages of 5 and 6.
3,806
The total number enrolled during the year in all the public schools is, boys. . . 19,941 Girls 17,347
37,286
Increase during the year 3,257
Number of children attending private and church schools during the year, exclusive of Chinese . 6,984
Increase during the year 329
Number of children between 5 and 17 years of age who have not attended school at any time during the year
14,557
Number of teachers is, male . 69
Female. . 563
632
Increase during the year
58
Total salaries of teachers for the year $599,388 76
Increase during the year. 41,951 54
Total expenditures of the Department for the year 732,324 17
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