230 ALABAMA laborers during the year, including value of board, $11,791,191. The productions were 423,312 bales of cotton, 16,660,488 bushels of Indian corn, 1,049,960 of wheat, 18,594 of rye, 767,732 of oats, 152,456 of peas and beans, 157,446 of Irish and 1,806,264 of sweet pota- toes, 222,943 Ibs. of rice, 151,557 of tobacco, 870,773 of wool, 3,178,638 of butter, 21,068 of wax, 307,706 of honey, 10,553 tons of hay, and 166,009 gallons of cane and 261,986 of sorghum molasses. There were 78,962 horses, 75,644 mules and asses, 165,663 milch cows, 67,237 working oxen, 248,943 other cattle, 234,607 sheep, and 701,346 swine. The num- ber of manufacturing establishments in the state was 2,231, employing $5,713,607 capital, 291 steam engines with 7,640 horse power, 736 water wheels with 11,098 horse power, and 8,349 hands, receiving $2,211,638 wages annu- ally. The value of materials used in 1870 was $7,643,784, and of products, $13,220,655. Of the manufactories, the most important are 33 for ginning cotton, 10 for the manufacture of cotton goods, 3 for cotton thread and yarn, 20 for the manufacture and working of iron in various forms, 143 for leather, 13 for machine- ry, 284 lumber mills, and 613 flour and grist mills. The foreign commerce of Alabama all centres at Mobile, where cotton is the chief article of export, though considerable quanti- ties of sawed lumber and staves are shipped to Cuba, and cedar railroad ties to the northern states. The exports to foreign countries from Mobile for 1870 were $22,422,631, of which $11,829,786 was taken in American, and $10,592,845 in foreign bottoms. The imports for the same period were $1,349,488, of which $161j499 came in American, and $1,187,994 in foreign vessels. The exports of cotton were 188,761 bales (94,462,212 Ibs.), valued at $22,376,498. The shipping entering Mobile from foreign ports for 1870 was 40 American vessels, 17,472 tons and 419 men, and 65 foreign vessels, 52,777 tons and 1,320 men. The clearances for foreign ports in the same time were 77 American vessels, 42,663 tons and 889 men, and 51 foreign vessels, 37,075 tons and 976 men. The number of merchant ves- sels belonging at Mobile in 1870 was 216, with a tonnage of 19,748. During the year 11 ves- sels, with a total tonnage of 548, were built. In 1871 there were 1,502} miles of railroad main and side track completed in Ala- bama, with an aggregate assessed value of $25,943,052 59, as shown in the adjoined table. The Alabama and Chattanooga rail- road connects the latter city with Meridian, Miss., by way of Tuscaloosa, and when com- pleted will afford the most direct communica- tion between New York and New Orleans, through East Tennessee. The Memphis and Charleston road extends through the northern part of the state, and connects the Mississippi river with the Atlantic ocean. The Mobile and Montgomery road extends from Mobile to Mont- gomery, a distance of 178 miles, connecting NAME OF ROAD. Mllei. ValuB. Alabama and Chattanooga 260 164 84 84 178 87 29 26 21 81 48 83 177 102 167* $6,120,995 00 2,719,800 00 1,076,760 00 1,474.552 00 2,862,580 00 824,289 50 886,485 00 480,434 00 268,900 00 425,275 00 771,000 00 1,848,981 72 2,464,812 69 1,625,200 00 14,387 68 2,588,700 00 Memphis and Charleston. . . Mobile and Girard Mobile and Ohio Mobile and Montgomery Montgomery and Eufaula Nashville and Decatur. . . Nashville and Chattanooga. Savannah and Memphis Sclma and Gulf Srlma. Marion, and Memphis Selma and Meridian Si'lma, Rome, and Dalton . South and North Southwestern of Georgia. Western Total 1,60SX $2B,948,OW f.'J at Pollard with the Mobile and Girard road, which is intended to secure direct communica- tion between Columbus, Ga., and Mobile. Run- ning easterly from Montgomery is the Mont- gomery and Eufaula, which will ultimately form a part of a line to Brunswick on the Georgia seaboard. The Western road, a con- necting link of the Mobile, Atlanta, and Au- gusta line, is completed from West Point via Montgomery to Selma, where by its junction with the Selma and Meridian a continuous line of railroads is formed from Savannah, Ga., to Monroe in Louisiana, from which point con- nection can be made with the projected South- ern Pacific railway. Sixty miles of the Mobile and Ohio road lie in the S. W. part of Alaba- ma ; a branch of this road, the Mississippi, Gainesville, and Tuscaloosa, is completed to Gainesville. The Selma, Rome, and Dalton is completed from Dalton, Ga., to Selma, 236 m., and affords a direct outlet to Charleston for the cotton and minerals of central Alabama. The Selma and Gulf line is in process of con- struction from Selma to Pollard, a distance of 100 m., where connection by railway to Pen- sacola is made. The Selma, Marion, and Mem- phis, and the South and North railroads are under construction. The latter connects Mont- gomery with Decatur, where a junction is made with the Nashville and Decatur road ; it will afford an air-line communication between Nashville and the gulf, and serve as an outlet for the mineral stores of central Alabama. An important road is projected from Eufaula to Guntersville, which in the absence of a canal will afford communication between the Coosa and Tennessee rivers. Other projected lines are the Selma and New Orleans, the Mobile and Alabama, Grand Trunk (from Mobile via Marion to Elyton, 240 m.), the Savannah and Memphis, and the Vicksburg and Brunswick. The legislature has empowered the governor, when any railway company incorporated by the state shall have completed and equipped 20 mitts of road, to indorse on behalf of the state the nrst mortgage bonds of the company to the extent of $16,000 per mile for the portion completed, and $16,000 for each section of five miles subsequently completed. These liabili ties on Sept. 30, 1871, were as follows:
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