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Waterville College was incorporated in 1820, and was established by the Baptist denomination, but is open to all sects and classes. It received donations from the State as well as individuals. The number of students for the year 1860-61 was one hundred and twenty-two; its library contains ten thousand volumes. The President is James T. Champlin, D. D., who is assisted by four professors and one tutor.
The Theological Seminary at Bangor is devoted to the preparation for the ministry of persons who have been regularly educated at some College. Its catalogue for 1861 gives the number of students as follows : senior class thirteen, middle twenty-five, junior twenty-six. Rev. Enoch Pond is President, assisted by Professors Rev. George Shepard, Rev. Daniel Talcott Smith, and Rev. Samuel[Harris. It was incorporated in 1814, and has a library of over ten thousand volumes.
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Besides these institutions are several lesser lights, whose condition and labors demand a distinct notice. These are
The Maine Wesleyan Seminary, incorporated in -
1823
Westbrook 66
66
1831
" East Me. Conference " 66 66
-
- 1849
" Maine State
1855
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These are in successful operation under able instructors, and pursuing a career of extensive usefulness.
The Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill in Readfield is under the guidance of the Methodist denomination, and has a corps of nine instructors, male and female, at the head of whom is the Rev. Henry P. Torsey. The number of scholars by their catalogue of 1861 was,-males, three hundred and twenty, females, two hundred and twenty-nine. The course of instruction comprises nearly all the English branches taught in colleges, and classical studies sufficient to qualify students for college. Their seminary building is beautiful and convenient, containing a chapel, parlors, recitation rooms, and boarding accommodations for one hundred and forty students.
The East Maine Conference Seminary is established at Bucksport, and is under the charge of seven instructors, who teach the various branches of classical and English studies. The number of pupils is three hundred and fourteen, one hundred and eighty- seven males, one hundred and twenty-seven females.
The Maine State Seminary, established at Lewiston, under the patronage of the Freewill Baptist denomination, has two hundred and thirty pupils in the classical department, and one hundred and five in English studies ; of these one hundred and twenty-nine are young women. Rev. Oren B. Cheney is principal, assisted by nine teachers, male and female, in various branches.
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CHARTERED LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
Names of Institutions.
Where Located.
Incorporated.
Original cost of
Buildings.
Present worth.
Bowdoin College,
Brunswick.
June 27, 1792,.
81,000
55,000
Waterville College,.
Waterville,.
June 19, 1820, .
23,000
18,000
Hallowell Academy
Hallowell, ..
March 5, 1791, ....
3,700
3,000
Berwick Academy,.
South Berwick, . .
March 11, 1791,.
10,000
10,000
Fryeburg Academy,
Fryeburg, .
Feb. 19, 1792, ..
5,000
5,000
Washington Academy
East Machias,
March 7, 1794,
6,500
3,000
Lincoln Academy,.
Newcastle,.
Feb. 23, 1801, ..
3,500
2,500
Monmouth Academy
Monmouth,
Feb. 22, 1803, ...
3,400
3,400
Hampden Academy,
Hampden,
March 7, 1803,. .. ..
2,800
2,000
Bluehill Academy,
Bluehill,
March 8, 1803, .
2,000
1,000
Hebron Academy,
Hebron, .
Feb. 10, 1804,
1,500
1,200
Bath Academy, ..
Bath, ..
March 16, 1805,
Farmington Academy,
Farmington,
Feb. 13, 1807,.
3,000
1,500
Bloomfield Academy,
Bloomfield,
Feb. 13, 1807.
2,000
2,500
Warren Academy,.
Warren,.
Feb. 25, 1808,
....
...
Bridgton Academy,
North Bridgton, ..
May 8, 1808,.
3,000
2,500
Limerick Academy, .
Limerick,
Nov. 17, 1808,
3,500
3,500
North Yarmouth Academy, ..
Yarmouth,
Feb. 4, 1814,.
8,000
8,000
Cony Female Academy, . ..
.
Augusta,.
Feb. 10, 1818
1,600
1,200
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, ..
Kent's Hill,
July 28, 1823,
33,000
33,000
Foxcroft Academy,.
Foxcroft,.
Jan. 31, 1823,
2,300
2,300
Anson Academy, .
North Anson, .
Feb. 28, 1823,
1,000
1,000
Cherryfield Academy,
Cherryfield,
Feb 18, 1829
5,000
4,300
Alfred Academy, ...
Alfred,
March 3, 1829, ..
. .
1,000
600
Westbrook Seminary,
Westbrook,.
March 4, 1831, ...
24,050
18,000
Titcomb Academy, ..
North Belgrade, ..
March 30, 1831,. ..
1,700
1,300
St. Albans Academy,
Hartland, ..
Feb. 11, 1832,. ..
3,500
2,500
Parsonsfield Seminary,.
N. Parsonsfield, ..
Feb. 6, 1833,.
7,000
6,000
Lewiston Falls Academy, .
Danville,.
Feb. 25, 1834,
2,500
2,500
Gould's Academy, ..
Bethel,
Jan. 27, 1836,
2,000
2,000
Freedom Academy,.
Freedom,
Feb. 18, 1836, ..
1,200
800
Charleston Academy,.
Charleston,.
Feb. 13, 1837,.
2,500
1,300
Waterville Academy,.
Waterville,
Feb. 12, 1842,
3,000
2,000
Monroe Academy, .
Monroe,
Feb. 21, 1845
...
....
. .
..
...
Lee, .
March 17, 1845,.
1,000
800
Somerset Academy, ..
Athens,
June 20, 1846,. . ..
2,043
1,800
East Corinth Academy,.
East Corinth
July 30, 1846,
1,500
1,500
Houlton Academy,.
Houlton,.
June 14, 1847, ..
2,000
1,000
Patten Academy,
Patten, .
June 18, 1847,
....
...
......
Monson Academy,.
Monson,.
July 26, 1847 ....
1,200
......
Litchfield Liberal Institute, .. Limington Academy,.
Limington,.
Aug. 8, 1848,.
2,500
2,500
East Me.Conference Seminary
Bucksport,
June 8, 1849,.
28,000
25,000
Union Academy,.
Oldtown,
Aug. 8, 1848,. ..
.. ..
..
..
..
..
.
Exeter High School,
Exeter, ..
Elliot Academy, ...
Elliot, .
Feb. 26, 1840,. . .
2,700 1,400
2,700
Litchfield Academy,
Litchfield,
Feb. 5, 1844,
2,100
2,000
Newport Academy,
Newport,
March 17, 1845,
Lee Normal School, Thomaston Academy,
Thomaston,
April 7, 1845,
3,000
2,800
Mattanawcook Academy,
Lincoln, ..
July 29, 1846,.
1,300
1,000
.
Litchfield,
July 26, 1847 ...
......
Norridgewock Female Acad.,
Norridgewock,.
March 20, 1836,. ..
March 15, 1838,. ..
1,200
China Academy,.
China ..
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CHARTERED LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
Names of Institutions.
Where Located.
Incorporated.
Original cost of
Present Worth.
East Pittston Academy, ..
East Pittston, .
Feb. 1849,
1,000
800
Maine Female Seminary,
..
Gorham,.
..
Aug. 24, 1850,.
Calais Academy,.
Calais,
Aug. 28, 1850,
3,000
2,500
Corinna Union Academy, .
Corinna,.
June 3, 1851,
1,700
1,200
Towle's Academy, .
Winthrop,
Feb. 14, 1852,
...
..
Oak Grove School,.
Vassalborough, ...
April 5, 1854, .
11,000
10,500
Maine State Seminary,
Lewiston,.
March 16, 1855,. ..
36,000
36,000
Oak Grove Seminary,.
Falmouth,
April 14, 1857,
2,300
2,000
Presque Isle Academy,
Presque Isle,.
...
Feb. 17, 1858,
2,300
2,300
West Gardiner Academy
West Gardiner,. ...
March 11, 1859,.
1,200
1,200
Harpswell Academy,
Harpswell, ..
April 2, 1859,
....
.....
Richmond Academy,.
Richmond,
..
Dec. 1861,
...
.....
Paris Hill Academy, .
Paris Hill,
Dec. 1861,
......
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
This society was incorporated Feb. 5, 1822. The number of corporate members was forty-nine, residing in different parts of the State, of whom eleven are now living; the youngest of them is Judge Peleg Sprague of Boston, who then resided in Hallowell ; the eldest, John Merrick of Hallowell, about ninety-three years of age. The first President was the late Gov. Parris, the other officers were Edward Russell, Corresponding Secretary ; Benjamin Hasey, Recording Secretary ; Prentiss Mellen, Treasurer ; and Rev. Edward Payson, Librarian. These are all dead. The present number of resident members is seventy-seven. The officers are, William Willis, President; Rev. Bishop Burgess, Vice President ; James W. Bradbury, Corresponding Secretary ; Rev. Edward Ballard, Recording Secretary ; Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, Librarian ; and Augustus C. Robbins, Treasurer.
The Society is in a flourishing condition ; it has a permanent fund of about $7000; has published six octavo volumes of its collections, which are highly creditable to its efforts and historical research, and have made valuable addititions to the history of the State.
Its library and cabinet, both respectable, are kept at Brunswick.
STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
This excellent institution was established in 1850; in which year three commissioners were appointed by the State, to obtain, by gift or purchase, a suitable site for a reform school for the employment of juvenile offenders ; $10,000 was appropriated for the purpose. In 1851, a further appropriation was made of $20,000 for the erection of suitable buildings. In 1852, a further appropriation of $25,000 was made for completing and putting the school in operation. The City of Portland presented to the State a
23,000
15,000
Lebanon Academy,
West Lebanon,
..
..
Buildings.
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large farm situated in Cape Elizabeth, three and a half miles from the city, in a very eligible location, at an expense of $8000, on which a spacious and elegant building was erected, forming a beautiful object in the landscape, as seen from many points in Portland.
By the report of the trustees for the year 1860, it appears that, " five hundred and seventy-eight boys have been received into the institution, and instructed in all the branches of a good school education," together with the moral instruction imparted by a well conducted Sabbath School. "They have been all clothed and fed, and four hundred have been sent out again to battle with the temptations and evil influences " of the world. The trustees add that not less than seventy per cent of those discharged " have entered upon a new probation, resolved to lead useful and honorable lives."
The number received into the school during the year, coming from all parts of the State, was two hundred and thirty-four, of whom one hundred and seventy remained at the close of the year.
The trustees further say, " A very commodious room has been fitted up for a library, and it constitutes one of the most valuable and attractive features of the institution, the boys finding there a constant source of instruction and 'pleasure." A large farm is carried on mainly by the labor of the boys, 13 acres in grass, 15 acres under cultivation, and 10 acres pasture. Among the products of the farm were 50 tons of English hay, 300 bushels of potatoes, 200 bushels of turnips, 500 cabbage heads, 175 boxes of straw- berries, 360 bushels of oats, 1591 lbs. of pork, 3551 lbs. of beef, 2782 gallons of milk, 80 doz. of eggs. The trustees remark, that, "in addition to the farm, we have in successful operation a brick-yard, where, during the year, 512,000 bricks have been manufactured, and employing during summer 15 boys, a shoe shop employing 20 boys , a shop for cane seating chairs employing 33 boys, and a shop for the manufacture of clothing, employing 46 boys. These are all valuable auxiliaries in supporting the institution, and in training the boys to habits of industry." The ages of the boys when admitted range from 7 to 19, there having been but one of 19, and 3 of 18 years ; the largest number, 103, were of the age of 14.
The whole expense of the institution for the year ending March 31, 1861, was $20,356.87, which included repairs, improvements, and expenses on the farm. Over $3000 of this amount was re-imbursed by sales of the products of the labor of the inmates.
Seth Scamman is the present superintendent.
THE INSANE ASYLUM
Was opened for the reception of patients in October, 1839. It is established in a beautiful location on the easterly bank of the Kennebec river at Augusta. Its original cost was about $105,000. The wants of the State have required its enlargement; and its unfortunate destruction by fire in the winter of 1853-4 demanded safeguards and improvements which have been wisely provided by the State at a large expenditure. The first movement for the founding the hospital was commenced by the Legislature in 1832, which appropriated $20,000 for the purpose, on condition that a like sum should be subscribed by individuals. This met with a favorable response, and Benjamin Brown of Vassalboro, and Ruel Williams of Augusta, subscribed $10,000 each, whereupon the work was commenced, and carried to a successful conclusion, but at a much larger
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expense than was contemplated. During the twenty years which it has been open for the unhappy objects of its care, there have been received into it two thousand two hundred and sixty-three patients. Of these, nine hundred and thirty-two have been restored to reason, three hundred and ninety improved, and two hundred and ninety- eight have died, and there remained under treatment at the close of 1860 two hundred and forty inmates.
The expense of the Institution for the year ending Nov. 30, 1860, was $34,785, of which $3,579 was for new buildings and repairs. The receipts from patients was $34,758, and from products of the farm $3506.
There is a good library belonging to the Institution, the gift of benevolent gentlemen, which is a valuable auxiliary in the treatment of the patients.
The following Table gives the operations of the Hospital from its commencement to the present time.
Year.
Admittance.
Discharged.
Whole No. under
treatment.
Recovered.
Improved.
Unimproved.
Died.
Greatest No. in
Hospital on any
Least No. in Hosa
pital on any day.
Remaining at end
of the year.
Daily alerage No. for the
1840-41
129
80
129
36
14
24
5
70
1
52
48
1841-42
89
72
141
32
16
19
5
73
50
65
59
1842-43
86
84
151
32
16
31
5
72
58
68
65
1843-44
83
75
151
30
16
26
3
79
55
76
70
1844-45
99
90
175
39
21
23
7
89
71
85
80
1845-46
102
87
187
46
22
14
5
107
80
101
93
1846-47
124
100
225
53
17
20
10
125
98
124
108
1847-48
128
125
252
60
31
14
20
135
117
127
112
1848-49
123
110
250
55
22
19
14
139
121
139
126
1849-50
110
126
249
66
25
21
14
155
123
124
137
1850-51
75
122
199
22
28
40
32
125
30
76
75
1851-52
48
42
124
23
4
8
7
34
76
84
79
1852-53
126
189
210
45
14
15
15
120
84
119
109
1853-54
109
114
228
49
15
18
32
140
114
115
129
1854-55
128
88
243
41
14
14
19
155
114
155
134
1855-56
149
114
304
54
22
19
19
194
151
190
167
1856-57
144
126
334
69
24
19
14
215
190
208
204
1857-58
126
126
334
59
25
18
24
225
205
208
213
1858-59
149
120
357
58
22
23
17
240
205
237
222
1859-60
136
133
373
63
22
17
31
246
227
240
236
Dr. Henry M. Harlow is the present superintendent.
STATE PRISON AND CRIME.
The Penitentiary of the State was erected at Thomaston, in the year 1823, and opened for the reception of criminals in 1824. Its original cost was about $28,000. It is situated in a lime quarry, and for many years the convicts were employed in quarrying limestone. The whole number of convicts received into the prison from its commence _ ment to Dec. 1, 1860, was 1346. The report of the Warden for 1860, says : "The number of convicts received at the prison during the last five years is as follows : in 1856, thirty-six; in 1857, fifty-one ; in 1858, sixty-nine; in 1859, forty-eight; in:1860,
ear.
day.
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forty-one." There remains in prison Nov. 30, 1860, one hundred and twelve, who were employed as follows ; viz.,
Shoemaking, 34,
Washers, 2,
Blacksmithing, 10,
In solitary, 1,
Carriage-making, 43,
Waiters, 2,
Tailoring,
6,
Lumpers, 9,
Cooks,
2,
Sick in Hospital,
2,
112
The amount received per day for their labor varies from seventeen to thirty cents. The crimes for which they were committed were as follows :
Larceny,
48,
Robbery,
2,
Burglary,
9,
Uttering forged order, 2,
Adultery,
3,
Robbing the mail, 2,
Murder,
Rape,
2,
Arson,
10,
Bestiality,
1,
Assault to ravish,
3,
Shop-breaking,
7,
Assault to kill,
5,
Enticing to burn,
1,
Perjury,
1,
Manslaughter,
2,
Felonious assault,
1,
Conspiracy to cheat,
1,
Forgery,
2,
Incest,
1,
112
The expense to the State of maintaining the prison for the year was $7230.34 over the amount earned by the labor of the convicts. The whole cost to the State of the prison for thirty-five years, including 1858, was $321,740, which embraces the cost of the building.
Mr. Blaine, appointed on a commission to examine the prison in 1858, made a report in 1859, in which for economical and other purposes he urges the erection of a new prison in a more favorable location. He says : "In Maine the average annual cost per convict, including salaries of officers, is $200," which is much more than in any other State." The cost of subsistence in 1857, he says was $71.92 for each prisoner. He was of opinion that the Institution ought to be self-supporting. The legislature did not adopt his recommendation, and the old prison, unimproved, remains at Thom- aston.
FINANCES.
The public debt of the State including trust funds, on the first day of Jan., 1861, was $942.446. The permanent trust funds are $342,946, the remainder matures from year to year until 1881. To this must be added the war debt contracted in 1861, amounting to $800,000, all, or most of which, will be re-imbursed by the National Government. A loan of $1,300,000 was authorised by the legislature for this purpose.
The receipts into the treasury in 1860, were $452,276, which included a loan and the premium $54,466.
One-half of the receipts was derived from taxes.
The expenditures were $411,000, of which $50,500 were on the State debt, and $40,925 for interest.
The public lands are an annual source of income to the State. They were valued in 1860, at $2,284,986, and embraced 8,473,861 acres.
The State tax assessed in 1861 was $258,654.88.
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BANKS.
The number of Banks in Maine, in June, 1861, was seventy-one, whose condition appears in the following table :
Capital, $7,783,000
Real Estate,
$235,696.89
Bills in circulation, 4,061,692 Bills of other Banks, 271,498.60
Deposits, 3,023,202.45
Balances due from other
Net profits on hand, 585,275.49 Banks, 1,491,560.70
Gold and Silver, 667,433.11 Loan, 12,776,971.64
The average dividend of these banks is about seven per cent., per annum. They pay a tax to the State of one per cent on their capital.
There are fourteen Savings Institutions in the State, having funds amounting in the aggregate to $1,525,946, deposited by 9245 persons. Nearly half a million of this amount is in the two banks in Portland.
In Massachusetts the total amount of deposits is forty-seven millions. In the two cities of Brooklyn and New York the amount is thirty-five millions. The total amount on deposit in the State of New York, Jan. 1st, 1861, was $67,440,397. One person in thirteen of the entire population is a depositor.
COMMERCE.
The high commercial character of Maine has been gained by the peculiar features of its territory. Its whole line of coast for two hundred and fifty miles on a direct line 1 from Piscataqua River to Eastport, and following its indentations about three thousand miles, is interspersed with numerous safe and commodious harbors, estuaries, and islands. The forests of the State have furnished for over two hundred years, not only the wood for the construction of ships, but materials for the pursuits of commerce ; her various manufactures of lumber, lime, and slate have found ready markets, while with the ample products of the sea, and the tillage of her soil, have established a source of foreign and domestic trade which has greatly enriched her people. Before a colony was founded on the coast, a very large and profitable [trade was carried on in the fish and fur business ; and the earliest settlements were distinguished by considerable shipments of lumber, fish, and furs to Europe and the West Indies.
These operations have never ceased from the planting of the first colony to the present day, and Maine now stands the first in the Union for her contribution to the annual tonnage of the country, and the fifth in the employment of it.
In 1856 the number of vessels built was 316, having a tonnage of 149,908 tons. In 1857, the number was 240, with a tonnage of 110,933 tons. The next year there was a great falling off in consequence of the panic, and revulsion in business, and the number of vessels that year built in Maine was but 167, with a tonnage of 55,959 tons ; these consisted of 56 ships and barques, 28 brigs, 77 schooners, 6 sloops and steamers. The same year in New York, the second in tonnage of new vessels, the amount was 37,186 tons ; and in Massachusetts 32,599 tons. In 1860, the number of vessels built was 172, having an aggregate tonnage of 57,868 tons. The tonnage owned in Maine in 1860, was 803,071, or about 17 per cent of the whole tonnage of the United States, which in that year was 5,353,868 tons.
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The exports and imports for four years will be seen by the following table :
1856,
Exports,
$2,963,041,
Imports,
$1,940,773,
1857,
3,716,586,
2,664,332,
1858,
2,862,059,
1,858,392,
1860,
3,669,555,
1,716,075,
The transportation of this merchandise employed from ten hundred to fourteen hun- dred vessels annually, with an average tonnage of 214,000 ; giving Maine a high rank among the States for commercial importance.
The annexed table shows the part which each collection district bore in the commerce of 1860.
COMMERCE OF MAINE FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1860.
No. vessels built in '60
Total Tonnage in each
No. vessels.
Crews.
No. vessels.
Crews.
Coasting
Trade.
Cod Fish'y
Mackerel
Fishery.
Domestic.
Foreign.
Passamaquoddy,
13
25,270 428 3230 299 2632
5444
1590 1440 $906,720
$105,556
$365,061
Machias, - -
22
34,921
63
461
4
13
19020
183
103,608
975
Frenchman's Bay
7
35,794
19
123
16
87
17888
10563
726
13,225
2,508
Penobscot, - -13
49,414
24
137
9
68
12520
18960
1550
18,756
7,058
Belfast,
16
80,785
37
251
11
73
40039
8523
84
50,462
384
1 19,197
Bangor,
12
36,302
97
742
38
229
19099
1534
197,579
40,125
Waldoboro, 1
23 187215
21
130
18
97
99079
5456
875
11,758
Wiscasset, -
15
28,167
20
152
3
29
8812
6886
56,923
3,784
Bath,
22 165318
45
218
48
268
23341
2457
262
27,093
12,748
Portland,
17
131825
671 6996 520 5531
17620
2126 3304
1,950,030
239,189
1,252,819
Saco,
2
5,956
1
4
1
1
2423
383
30
Kennebunk,
8
20,421
1
24
1275
781
287
York,
2
1,547
1296
149
101
Tonnage employed in steam navigation,-Portland 3969, Passamaquoddy, 1351. No. of tons of shipping built in the United States in 1860, 212,892.
Maine same time, over one-fourth
of the whole, 57,868
IMPORTS
COLLECTION
For For. F'mFor. ports. ports.
DISTRICTS.
Val. of.
District.
CLEA'D
ENTE'D
TONNAGE EMPLOYED IN
VALUE OF EXPORTS
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RAILROADS.
The length of railroads in the State is 492 miles, single track, of which 230 miles is on a guage of five feet eight inches, the remainder four feet ten inches. The Grand Trunk Railway crosses Maine from Portland, a distance of eighty miles, then passing across New Hampshire and Vermont, extends on through Canada to Lake Huron and Detroit, a distance of nearly one thousand miles, where it connects by steamers on Lake Huron, and by railways at Detroit with the great railways which intersect the valley of the Mississippi.
The whole cost of the railways in Maine has been $20,000,000.
These roads extend 175 miles from the western border at Portsmouth, easterly to Milford, and in the interior across the State northwesterly by the Grand Trunk, and northerly to Farmington and Skowhegan by the Androscoggin, and the Kennebec and Somerset roads - thus furnishing ample facilities for internal communication and traffic to the principal portions of the territory. They have greatly enhanced the value of property through which they pass, and to which they extend. The following table presents the statistics of these roads for 1860 :
Names of Roads.
Length
in Miles.
No. of
Stations.
No. of Pas- Tons of sen. carr'd. Freight.
For Pas- sengers.
For Freight.
For Mails &c.
Androscoggin,
37
12
14,281
8,273
$ 15,073
$22,566
$2,586
66 Extension,
36
Androscoggin & Kennebec,
55
13
111,219
73,169
145,784
140,987
15,458
Penobscot & Kennebec,
55
12
*Atlan. & St. Law., (to Isl. P'd) 149
31
154,489
254,804
156,197 15,088
19,710
203
Great Falls & South Berwick,
3
2
8,146
9,633
Total
Receipts.
9,625
Kennebec & Portland,
63
17
Bath Branch,
91/2
3
113,649
30,674
86,994
57,626
24,548
Somerset & Kennebec,
37
10
Portland, Saco & Portsmouth,
51
15
225,722
55,000
160,380
59,970
14,235
Boston & Maine,
3
York & Cumberland,
18
7
67,010
16,000
14,634
11,254
480
+ Machiasport,
712
Total
Earnings.
11,300
#Calais & Baring, & Lewey's Isl.
23
21,000
2,150
32,120
* In Maine, eighty miles.
Feet of lumber carried, 7,833,648.
Number of laths “ 9,715,000.
# Feet of lumber = 42,021,000.
Number of laths “ 31,561,000.
1
493,771
16,260
Bangor, Oldtown, & Milford,
13
4
53,992
BUSINESS.
RECEIPTS.
.
196
SUBSCRIBERS' BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 1861.
ISRAEL WASHBURN, JR.,
Governor,
Orono.
JARED FULLER,
Councillor,
East Corinth.
JOSEPH M. DENNIS,
E. New Portl'd. Gorham.
FREDERIC ROBIE,
Damariscotta.
WASHINGTON WILCOX
Monmouth.
EORGE A. FROST,
Spring Vale.
LEWIS L. WADSWORTH, JR.,
Messenger,
Paris.
JOSEPH B. HALL,
Secretary of State,
Presque Isle.
LEWIS D. MOORE,
Deputy Secretary of State,
Augusta.
JAMES H. COCHRAN,
Commission Clerk,
Monmouth.
GEORGE G. STACY,
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