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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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ons; zinc, 10,448 tons ; lead, 11,200 tons. Ranks first in peanuts, second in tobacco, eighth in salt andiron ore. Population, 1,512,565; male, 745,589; female, 766,976; natire,1,497,869; foreign, 14,696; white, 880,858; colored, 631,616; Chinese,6; Indians, 85; slaves, 1860, 490,865. State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday afterfirst Monday in November; number Senators, 40; Kepresentatives,100; sessions of legislature biennial, In odd-numbered years,meeting first Wednesday in December; limit of session, 90 days;term of Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years. Number electoral votes, 12 ; number voters, 334,505 ; colored,128,257; native white, 198,277 : foreign white, 7,971. Lunatics,Idiots, convicts, duelists. United States army, and non-taxpayeraof capitation tax excluded from voting. Number colleges, 7; school population, 555,807; school age, B-11. Legal interest, 6; by contract, 8; usury forfeits excess over 6 per c. ATLAS OF TEE WORLD. 103 MAP OF VIRGINIA.
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104 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. WEST VIRGINIA. Ver-jine-ah. ** Pan-Handle State. Composed of northern and western counties of the originalState of Virginia; denounced passage of secession ordinance,April 22d, 1861; became a State, 1863. Area, 24,780 square miles; greatest length north and south, about240 miles; greatest breadth, 160 miles. Big Sandy, Great and LittleKanawha, Guyaudotte and MonongaheU are navigable rivern.Number counties, 64. Temperature at Morgantown: winter, 34° to42°; summer, 70° to 75°. Rainfall at Romuey, 45 inches, Charleston, capital; pop. 4,192. Wheeling metropolis, principalseat of manufactures, and port of delivery; pop. 30,737. Parkers-burg, port of delivery ; pop. 6,-582. Pop. of Martinsburg, 6,335. Number farms, 1870, 39,778; 1880, 62,674. Average value per acre,cleared land, $21.05; woodland, $9.39. A rich agricultural tract;61 per cent, of laborers engaged in agriculture; staples are tobacco,wheat aud com, the last being the most valuable crop; number bu.gro

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