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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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,000, of which %was gold and y^ f-ilver: product, 1880, was $3,822,379, of which %was silver and X gold; production, 1882, $6,920,000, of which %was silver and % gold. Manufacturing^inteiests mainly smelting works, and flour andlumber mills. Ranks fifth in silver and in gold. Popalation, 89,139; male, 28,177; female, 10,982; native, 27,638;foreign, 11,521; white, 35,385; colored, 346 ; Chinese, 1,765; In-dians, 1,663. Territorial and congressional elections, Tuesday after first Mon-day in November: number Senators, 12; Representatives, 24; ses-sions of legislature, biennial, in odd-numbered years, meetii^ sec-ond Monday in January; limit of session, 60 days; terms of bena-tors and Representatives, 2 years each. Voting population, 21,544;native white, 18,162; foreign white, 7,474; colored, 1,908. School population, 10,482; school age, 4-21; graded schools inDeer Lodge City, Virginia City and Helena. Legal interest rate, 10; by contract, any rate. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 163 MAP OF MONTANA.
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1<I4 ATLAS OF THE WOBLD. IDAHO. Idah-ho. White population previous to 1850, mainly trappers, prospectorsand missionaries ; permanent settlement began with diBCOvery ofgold, 1860 ; organized as Territory, 1863. Area, 84.800 square miles; length in west, 485 miles, and onWyoming boundary, 140 miles; width, 45 miles in north, and nearly800 miles in south. Drainage mainly by Salmon and Snake riversand their tributaries. Number counties, 15. Temperature at Boise City: winter, 30° to 40°; summer, 68° to 75°. Boise City, the capital, and contains national bank and peniten-tiary. Florence and Silver Ciiy are flourishing mining towns. Rail-road mileage, 777; Northern Pacific crosses northern part. Extreme north well timbered and much fertile land; extremesoutheast populated almost entirely by Mormons, chiefly farmers;4,480,000 acres suitable for agriculture, and 5,000,000 for grazing,most of the ranges being as yet unoccupied. Latest reports give,cattle, 220,612 ; sheep, 187,500; swine,

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