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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t Bellingham Bay and Seattle; area coal-bearingstrata^ 20,000 square miles. Gold-bearing quartz and silver lodesexist m Cascade and Coast ranges; copper, cinnabar, lead and otherminerals are found. Lumber resources almost inexhaustible; amount lumber cutannually, 250,000,000 to 800,000.000 feet, 150,000,000 being exported. Population, 75,116: male, 45,973; female, 29,143; native, 59,813;foreign, 15,803; white, 67,199; colored, 325; Chinese, 3,186;Indians, 4,405. Territorial and congressional elections, Tuesday after first Mon-day in November; number Senators, 12; Representatives, 24;sessions of legislature biennial, in odd-numbered years, meetingfirst Mondny in October; terms of Senators and Representative!, 2years each; limit of session, 60 days. Voting population, 27,670;native white, 15,858; foreign white, 8,393; colored, 8,419. Number colleges, 2; school population, 23,890; school age, 4-21. Legal interest rate, 10; by contract, any rat*. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 173 MAP OF WASHINGTON.
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174 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. CENTRAL AMERICA AND WEST INDIES. Central America ia an irregular mass of land in sonthem part ofNorth America, and lies about midway between the two great con-tinental masses of the New World. It includes the republics ofGuatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica,together with British Honduras. The West Indies, an extensive system of islands lying southeastof North America, contain the large islands of Cuba, Hayti,Jamaica and Porto Rico, and are arranged mostly in three groupt;viz., Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and the Bahamas. Area,Sq. Sliles Pop. Capital. Pop. British Honduras Costa Rica 7,56226,04041,83039,60049,500 7.22543,22010 20418,045 4,362 3,550 27,452190,000 1,278,311458,000400,000554,786 1,521,684672,000400,000585.536754,313 Belize 5,78720,00065,72812,000 la.ooo 18,60026,00035,00010.00038,56887,000 Guatemala New Guatemala Tegucigalpa Honduras Nicaragua San Salvador San Salvador Cuba IT ti (Haytl Port-au Prince...... San Domingo

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