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672 LOUISIANA 142 horse power ; number of hands employed, 30,071, of whom 23,637 were males above 16, 4,210 females above 15, and 2,224 youth ; cap- ital'invested, $18,313,974; wages paid, $4,- 593,470 ; value of materials, $12,412,023 ; of products, $24,161,905. The most important establishments, with the value of products, were: 204 of boots and shoes, $459,721; 98 of bread and bakery products, $875,261 ; 22 of bricks, $264,300; 45 of carriages and wagons, $200,280; 5 of cars, $368,730; 114 of cloth- ing, $424,173; 89 of cooperage, $255,395; 4 of cotton goods, $251,550; 9 of drugs and chemicals, $248,125 ; 1 of fertilizers, $140,400 ; 248 of flouring and grist mill products, $726,- 287; 3 of gas, $862,172; 2 of ice, $250,000; 15 of iron castings, $552,470; 2 of distilled liquors, $100,960; 12 of malt liquors, $250,- 920; 8 of planed lumber, $431,000; 152 of sawed lumber, $1,212,037; 20 of machinery, $806,518; 686 of molasses and sugar, $10,- 341,858; 3 of refined molasses and sugar, $643,085 ; 6 of cotton-seed oil, $324,700 ; 48 of tobacco and cigars, $578,890 ; and 14 ship building and repairing establishment^ $326,- 230. Louisiana contains two customs dis- tricts, New Orleans and Teche (port of entry, Brashear City, formerly Franklin), and its com- merce, carried on chiefly through New Orleans, is extensive and important. The value of im- ports from foreign countries for the year end- ing June 30, 1873, was $19,933,344; of exports to foreign ports, $104,926,000, of which $104,- 357,233 ($27,268 from Teche) represented do- mestic produce, and $568,767 foreign produce. The chief items of export were 1,147,376 bales of cotton, valued at $98,151,682; 24,065,296 Ibs. of tobacco, $2,569,558 ; 960,324 bushels of Indian corn, $563,323 ; 36,327,583 Ibs. of oil cake, $438,667; 55,738 barrels of flour, $407,453; hides and skins to the value of $353,438; 3,110,766 Ibs. of lard, $257,337; 343,687 gallons of cotton-seed oil, $175,231. The entrances were 234 American vessels of 142,835 tons (Teche, 2 of 1,166 tons), and 507 foreign vessels of 381,122 tons ; clearances, 267 American vessels of 192,599 tons (Teche, 1 of 1,187 tons), and 512 foreign vessels of 383,465 tons. The entrances and clearances in the coastwise trade, with the number, &c., of ves- sels belonging to each district, are shown in the following table : DISTRICTS. Entrances. Clearances. Registered, enrolled, and licensed. Ves- sels. Tons. Ves- sels. Tons. Ves- sels. Tons. New Orleans. Teche 472 41 800,879 43,124 533 41 800,104 87,907 594 67 97,122 4,965 State 513 344,003 574 338,011 661 1 02.087 Of the entrances, 305, of 271,766 tons, were steamers, and of the clearances, 348, of 288,- 787 tons; 213 of those registered, &c., with an aggregate tonnage of 63,974, were steam- ers, 437, of 36,934 tons, sailing vessels, and 11, of 1,179 tons, barges; 158 steamers, of 40,841 tons, and 7 barges, of 841 tons, were engaged in the river trade, the rest in ocean or coast navigation. There were 19 sailing vessels, of 246 tons, and 5 steamers, of 560 tons, built during the year. The number of miles of railroad in the state in 1841 was 40 ; in 1851, 80 ; in 1861, 335. The mileage in op- eration in 1874, the names of the lines, and the termini of the completed portions are shown in the following table : LINES. Termini. Miles in operation in the state. Baton Rouge, Grossej Tete, and Opelousas. ) West Baton Kouge to Lombard, Pointe Coupee parish 28 Clinton and Port Hudson Morgan's Louisiana and j Texas j Port Hudson to Clinton. . . New Orleans to Brashear City 21* 80 Branches of above New Orleans. Jackson, j and Great Northern | Main line to Eaceland Terrebonne to 11 ouma New Orleans to Canton, Miss. (206m.) n 15 88 New Orleans, Mobile, j and Texas ( North Louisiana and j Texas ) Mobile via New Orleans to Donaldsonville(200m.). Delta (opposite Vicksburg, Miss ) to Monroe 93 72 Pontchartrain ... . -| New Orleans to Lakeport, Texas and Pacific < on Lake Pontchartrain . . Shreveport to Dallas, Texas (186 nr) 6 20 West Feliciana Bayou Sara to Woodville, Mi;s C27 m 1 101 Total 445J The entire route of the New Orleans, Mobile, and Texas railroad, as contemplated in the charter, extends to Houston, Texas, with branches from Vermilionville to Brashear City and Shreveport; the ultimate terminus of the North Louisiana and Texas line is Shreveport, making the entire length 170 m. ; while the Texas and Pacific railroad is intend- ed to extend to San Diego, Oal. There are several short canals in the vicinity of New Or- leans, connecting the navigable waters of the rivers and lakes. On Nov. 1, 1873, there were 8 national banks, with an aggregate capital of $4,150,000 ; and on Jan. 1, 1874, 2 chartered and 4 free banks working under state law, with an aggregate capital of $4,092, 300. These were all situated in New Orleans, in which city there are also a number of savings banks and insurance companies. The government is administered under the constitution of 1868, which declares that all persons born or natu- ralized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, who have resided in the state one year, are citizens of the state, and shall enjoy the same civil, political, and public rights and privileges, and be subject to the same pains and penalties; that citizens owe paramount allegiance to the United States; that the ordinance of secession is null and void ; and that neither slavery nor involuntary