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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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d horses; sixth in miles railway; seventh in milch cows; eightllin rice and hogs. Value flouring and grist mill products, $7,617,177; sawed lumber,f3,673,449; total number industries, 2,996; capital invested, $9,245,-561; value products, $20,719,928. Pop., 1,591.749: male, 837.840 ; female, 768,909 ; native, 1,477,133;foreign, 114,616 ; white, 1,197,237 ; colored, 393,384 ; Chinese, 138;Indians, C9i. State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday afterfirst Monday in November; number Senators, 31; Representativei,106; sessions of legislature biennial, In odd-numbered years,meeting second Tuesday in January; limit of session, 60 daya;term of Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years. Number electoral votes, 13 : number voters, 880,376. U. S. army,lunatics, idiots, paupers and convicts excluded from roting. Number colleges, 10 ; school pop., 285,344; school age, 8-11, Legal interest, 8; by contract, 12; usury forfeits entire interest. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 131 MAP OF TEXAS.
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id^ ATLAS OF TBB WORLD. ARKANSAS. Arkan-gaw.Bear State. Name of Indian origin, signifying Smolcy Water, with prefixfrom French meaning Bow. Settled at Arkansas Post by French, 1685; became a Territory,1819; admitted as a State, 1836 ; seceded March 4, 1861 ; re-admitted 1868. Area, 53,850 square miles; length, north and south, 240 miles;breadth, from 170 to 250 miles; Mississippi river frontage, about400 miles. Number counties, 75. Temperature at Little Rock: winter, 42° to 51° ; summer, 79° to82°. Rainfall, at Fort Smith, 40 in.: and at Washington, 55 In. Hot Springs, in Garland county, famous for valuable medicinalsprings; temperature of water, over 140°, Little Rock, the capitaland metropolis; population, 13,138. Number farms, 94,433. Average value per acre, clearfed land,$11.78; woodland, $3.48. Com crop, 1884, 32,465,000 bushels; wheat, 1,885,000 bushels;cotton, 513,000 bales. Latest reported tobacco crop, 1,952,878pounds; oats, 3,542,000 bushels; sweet potatoes, 881,260 bus

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