634 UNITED STATES : — WISCONSIN
Finance. — For the year ended June 30,1920, the receipts and disburse- ments of the State Government were to the following amounts: —
Dollars
Balance June 30, 1919 7,558,647
Receipts for year, 1919-20 52,083,559
Total ... ... 59,642,206
Disbursements for year 1919-20 . . . 48,047,486
Balance June 30, 1920 .... 11,594,720
On June 30, 1920, the bonded debt of the State amounted to 2,160,291 dollars.
On September 30, 1920, the assessed valuation of all property in the State was 4,570,698,530 dollars, of which 3,565,811,448 was on real estate and 1,004,887,082 on personal property.
Production, Industry, Communications.— Wisconsin is very largely
an agricultural State. In 1920 the farms numbered 189, 167, with a total area of 22,745,000 acres, of which 13,248,000 acres were improved land. There are over 2,000 new settlers annually. The chief crops are wheat, maize and other cereals, potatoes, sugar-beets, grasses, fruit and tobacco. The yield of maize in 1920 was 85,979,000 bushels ; of wheat, 5,534,000 bushels ; of oats, 107,911,000 bushels ; of barley, 15,921,000 bushels, rye and buckwheat being also grown. The yield of potatoes was 33,259,000 bushels ; of hay, 5,532,000 tons. The area under tobacco (1920) was 50,000 acres ; the yield was 64,500,000 pounds. Fruits (large and small) are extensively cultivated. On January 1, 1921, the live-stock consisted of 674,000 horses, 3,000 mules, 1,828,000 milch cows, 1,478,000 other cattle, 632,000 sheep, and 2,236,000 swine. The wool clip in 1919 amounted to 3,310,000 pounds of wool.
Zinc is the chief mineral product. Others are iron ore, pig iron, granits, limestone and sandstone, natural rock cement, graphite, and mineral waters.
In 1914, when the last industrial census was taken, Wisconsin was the tenth state in the value of manufactured products. . At that time there were 9,104 manufacturing establishments, with 194,310 wage earners, 754,287,000 dollars capital employed, 112,193,000 dollars paid in wages and 417,415,000 for materials. The value of the manufactured product was 695,172,000.
On Jan. 1, 1921, there were 23,000 employers under the Workmen's Com- pensation Act, with 400,000 employees, while the value of the manufactured product in 1920 exceeded 1,700,000,000 dollars.
The statistics of the leading industries of the State during 1910 are given in The Statesman's Yeau-Book for 1916, p. 635.
At the lake ports the shipments consist of grain and flour, coal, lumber, ore and (at Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Racine andShetoygan) manufactured articles. There is, besides, at Milwaukee, a heavy passenger traffic.
In 1918 there were 7,775 miles of railroads operated in the State besides 847 miles of electric railway track. The leading railway lines are the Chicago and North-western, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha and Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie. In 1919 thore were 494 telephone companies with 144,097 miles of wire and 338,110 subscribers.
There are in the State 77,280 miles of road of all classes, of which 20,000 miles are improved by gravel, macadam, or other surface. There are 7,500 miles on the State trunk highway system on which from 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 dollars is spent annually for permanent construction.
