668 MISSOURI City are United States ports of delivery, be- longing to the district of Louisiana. In 1873, 314 vessels, of 131,087 tons, were registered, enrolled, and licensed at St. Louis, and 9, of 1,447 tons, at St. Joseph; 185, of 81,842 tons, were steamers. At St. Louis 24 vessels, of 7,756 tons, were built in 1873. Missouri had 38 m. of railroad in 1853, and 817 in 1860. The increase of mileage was small up to 1866, when the whole number of miles was 925. In 1870 there were 2,000 m.; in 1871, 2,580; in 1872, 2,673; in 1873, 2,858; and in 1874, 2,985 m. of main track and branches. The total cap- ital stock in 1873 was stated at $74,440,242, and the average cost of the railroads per mile at $60,953. The total receipts amounted to $12,188,908, of which about 68 per cent, was from freight and 32 per cent, from passengers. The operating expenses were $7,864,214, and the net earnings $4,322,694; dividends paid, $250,000. The railroads were valued for tax- ation at $24,231,330. The aid granted by the state for building them amounts to $16,762,- 904, and by counties and cities to $28,576,000, making a total of $45,338,904. The railroads in operation in 1874, with their termini and lengths, are indicated in the following state- ment: CORPORATIONS. Mile* completed in the slate in 1874. Total length be- tween termini when different from preceding. Atlantic and Pacific Burlington and Southwestern Branches in progress < Cape Girardeau and State Line
- Chicago and Southwestern
Hannibal and St. Joseph Branches. Kansas City, St. Joseph, and Council Bluffs Branch Keokuk and Kansas City tLexington and St. Louis ^Louisiana and Missouri Eiver Branch Memphis, Carthage, and Northwestern Mississippi Valley and Western Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Osage division tOsage Valley and Southern Kansas tPaciflc of Missouri Branch Quincy, Missouri, and Pacific 8t. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Branches -j Cairo, Arkansas, and Texas division St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Branch {(Boone County and Jefferson City). . (Chillicothe and Brunswick) (St. Louis, Council Bluffs, and Omaha) (St. Joseph and St. Louis) tSt. Louis, Lawrence, and Denver St. Louis, Salem, and Little Rock Pacific to Vinita, Ind. ter Burlington, la., to St. Joseph Union ville to Kansas City Lexington to Neosho Cape Girardeau to state line, Ark Washington, la., to Leavenworth, Kan Junction to Atchison, Kan Hannibal to St. Joseph Palmyra to Quincy, 111 Cameron to Kansas City St. Joseph to Atchison. Kan Kansas City to Council Bluffs, la St. Joseph to Hopkins Keokuk, la., to Kansas City Sedalia to Lexington Louisiana to Mexico Mexico to Cedar City Pierce City to Independence, Kan Keokuk, la., to St. Louis Alexandria to Nebraska City, Neb Hannibal to Denison, Texas Holden to Paola, Kan Booneville to Tipton St. Louis to Kansas City Carondelet to Kirkwood Quincy. 111., to Brownsville, Neb St. Louis to Columbus, Ky Mineral Point to Potosi Bismark to Arkansas state line .' Cairo, 111., to Poplar Bluff St. Louis to Junction (H. and St. J. railr'd). Moberly to lowd state line Centralia to Columbia Brunswick to Chillicothe Chillicothe to Pattonsburg Nortli Lexington to St. Joseph Pleasant Hill to Lawrence, Kan Cuba to Salem... Total. 5 143 80 206 15 53 22 149 00 15 55 50 50 46 40 74 250 85 25 284 15 70 196 4 110 70 265 88 4(1 158 185 85 271 200 235 111 158 576 54 2,985 The number of national banks in operation Nov. 1, 1873, was 35, having a paid-in capital of $9,135,300 and an outstanding circulation of $5,908,379; circulation per capita, $3 43; ratio of circulation to wealth, 0*4 per cent. ; to bank capital, 64'3 per cent. There were in St. Louis 7 banks with a circulation of $1,763,150. The constitution grants the elec- tive franchise to every male citizen of the United States, and to every foreigner who has declared his intention to become a citizen, who has attained the age of 21 years, and re- sided in the stato one year next preceding his registration as a voter, and during the last
- Leased to Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific.
t Leased to Atlantic and Pacific. J Leased to Chicago and Alton. 60 days of that period in the place of voting. After Jan. 1, 1876, every person who was not a qualified voter prior to that time must also be able to read and write as a qualification for voting. The general elections are held bien- nially (even years) on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November. The legislature is limited by the constitution to 34 senators, elected for four years (one half every two years), and 200 representatives, chosen for two years. The present number (1875) is 34 sena- tors and 131 representatives. New apportion- ments are to be made immediately after every national census, and also after every state cen- sus, which the constitution provides for being taken in 1876 and every ten years thereafter. The sessions of the legislature are biennial, be-
