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Main pursuit of inhabitants is agriculture. Manufactures few. Of total area, 41 per cent. is productive, and 6 per cent. is under cultivation. Land largely owned by a few propri...
2. Part 2Agriculture chief industry. Only about one-eighth of territory uncultivated. In 1882, population, 5,655,197; average density, 497 per square mile; 1,160,149 freeholders held 88...
5. Part 5The government is administered by a Governor, an Executive and a Legislative Council and House of Assembly. Colonists are employed in agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Ostrich...
4. Part 4Politically, Malay consists of the Straits Settlements of Great Britain, 6 Provinces of Siam, and a number of small Malay States, either tributary to or in treaty with the above...
15. Part 15The products are mahogany, fruit, cotton, cattle, coffee, tobacco, indigo, India rubber and rosewood. Exports from Truxillo, 1883, $804,550; 26,000 head of cattle; mahogany valu...
6. Part 6There is an excellent system of free schools under the control of a Minister of Education and a Chief Superintendent. School pop., 405,857. Number of high schools, public and pr...
13. Part 13Boulder $1,900 Canon City 1,600 Central City 1,700 Colorado Spgs. 2,400 Denver 3,400 Durango 1,700 Fort Collins 1,700 Georgetown 1,700 Golden 1,600 Greeley 1,800 Gunnison 1,900...
11. Part 11Bowling Green $1,800 Covington 2,600 Danville 1,800 Frankfort 2,300 Georgetown 1,600 Henderson 1,800 Hopkinsville 1,800 Lexington 2,700 Louisville 3,700 Maysville 2,000 Mt. Ster...
14. Part 14Area, 110,700 square miles; extreme length, 485 miles; length western boundary, 210 miles; extreme breadth, 310 miles. Humboldt the longest river; its valley, extending east and...
8. Part 8Albany $3,500 Auburn 2,900 Binghamton 3,000 Brooklyn 3,800 Buffalo 3,800 Elmira 3,000 Lockport 2,700 Newburgh 2,700 New York 8,000 Oswego 2,700 Poughkeepsie 2,900 Rochester 3,60...
10. Part 10Aberdeen $1,500 Brookhaven 1,300 Canton 1,500 Columbus 1,800 Corinth 1,500 Greenville 1,600 Grenada 1,400 Holly Springs 1,500 Jackson 2,300 Kosciusko 1,200 Meridian 2,100 Natche...
9. Part 9Charleston $2,100 Charlestown 1,500 Clarksburg 1,600 Fairmont 1,200 Grafton 1,400 Huntington 1,700 Lewisburgh 1,000 Martinsburgh 1,800 Morgantown 1,000 Moundsville 1,200 Parkers...
12. Part 12Burlington $3,000 Cedar Rapids 2,900 Clinton 2,400 Council Bluffs 2,800 Creston 2,300 Davenport 2,900 Des Moines 3,300 Dubuque 3,000 Iowa City 2,400 Keokuk 2,600 Le Mars 2,100 M...
7. Part 7Auburn $2,200 Augusta 3,100 Bangor 2,700 Bath 2,200 Belfast 1,800 Biddeford 2,200 Brunswick 1,700 Calais 1,600 Eastport 1,500 Ellsworth 1,500 Gardiner 1,800 Hallowell 1,600 Lewi...
1. Part 1PAGE | PAGE Abyssinia 51 | Maryland 101 Afghanistan 45 | Massachusetts 87 Africa 47 | Mexico 77 Alabama 115 | Michigan 137 Alaska 75 | Minnesota 143 Algeria 49 | Mississippi 117...
16. Part 16The chief occupations are sheep raising, agriculture and mining; manufactures unimportant. Mountain valleys are very fertile; mountains are rich in minerals. Between 1853 and 18...