The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ies anda total output of $7,319,199- The products in-cluded granite, slate, limestone, sandstone, blue-stone, millstones, graphite, soapstone, ocher andmetallic paint. The value of the fisheries of Pennsylvania in1889 was $903,095; 2,631 persons were employed,as against 552 ten years previous, and 154 vesselsand 1,046 boats were used in prosecuting the in-dustry. The main branch of business was thatof the oyster fishery, which produced about onehalf of the entire receipts. From 1890 a greatinterest came to
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ies anda total output of $7,319,199- The products in-cluded granite, slate, limestone, sandstone, blue-stone, millstones, graphite, soapstone, ocher andmetallic paint. The value of the fisheries of Pennsylvania in1889 was $903,095; 2,631 persons were employed,as against 552 ten years previous, and 154 vesselsand 1,046 boats were used in prosecuting the in-dustry. The main branch of business was thatof the oyster fishery, which produced about onehalf of the entire receipts. From 1890 a greatinterest came to be taken in the matter of inlandfisheries, and large amounts of money were ex-pended in stocking the waters of the state withthe kinds of fish best adapted to the legal protection was thrown around themillions of young fish placed in the streams andlakes, and the benefits to the people became very apparent by 1895, when almost every portion ofthe state had fish in abundance. The real estate of Pennsylvania was assessedfor taxation in 1894 at $2,389,252,278. In 1895. THE CAPITOL BUILDING, HARRISBURG. the revenue commissioners fixed the value of thepersonal property of the state at $620,048, would make the total assessable real andpersonal property amount to the sum of $3,009,301,247. The state receipts for the year endingNov. 30, 1895, were $12,030,030, the balance onhand at the beginning of the fiscal year $5,081,-325, making the total amount in the treasuryduring the year $17,111,355- Among the chiefsources of revenue were tax on capital stock, amount-ing to $3,537,840; tax on personal property, $2,307-,936; tax on collateral inheritances, $1,091,993; taxon corporation loans, $822,381; tax on gross re-ceipts of corporations, $598,548; tax on bank stocks,$514,074; tax on foreign insurance companies, $513,-6x6; mercantile licenses, $532,294; wholesale liquorlicenses, $446,136; bonus on charters, $241,789; feesof public officers, $172,642. The payments f
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