Alden's Handy Atlas of the World Including One Hundred and Thirty-eight Colored Maps, Diagrams, Tables, Etc. by John B. Alden

Author:John B. Alden
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Atlases
Published: 2011-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

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NORTH CAROLINA."Old North State," "Tar State."

One of the thirteen original States; discovered by Lord Raleigh, 1584; settled by English at Albemarle, 1650; seceded May, 1861, re-admitted June, 1868.

Area, 52,250 square miles; length, 450 miles; breadth, 185 miles; coast line, over 400 miles; area dismal swamp, 150,000 acres; number counties, 96.

Temperature at Wilmington: winter, 46° to 51°; summer, 76° to 80°. Frost seldom occurs before November. Rainfall at Gaston, 43 inches. Deaths by consumption, 1.5 per 1,000 of population.

Wilmington, principal seaport and chief city; pop., 13,446; Raleigh, capital, and contains the State institutions; pop., 7,790 Charlotte contains assay office; pop., 4,473; pop. New Bern, 5,849.

Farms in 1860, 75,203, increased to 157,609 in 1880; average value per acre, cleared land, $9.77; woodland, $5.53.

Agriculture the leading industry; corn the most valuable crop; tobacco the leading product; value orchard products over $900,000. Latest reports give 4,576,148 bu. sweet potatoes; 5,609,191 lbs. rice; value tar and turpentine products, $1,758,488; tobacco crop, 1883, 29,048,213 lbs.; wheat crop, 1884, 4,650,000 bu.; oats, 4,632,000 bu.; corn, 31,499,000 bu.

Salaries of State Officers.

Governor $3,000

Sec'y of State 2,000

Treasurer 3,000

Auditor 1,500

Attorney Gen. 2,000

Supt. Pub. Inst. 1,500

Adjutant Gen. 600

Com'r of Agr. 1,200

State Librarian 750

Chief Justice 2,500

2 Asso. Justices 2,500

Senators,

Representatives

$4 a day

mileage 10 c.

4 Collectors Int. Rev. 2,500 to 3,750

64 Deputy Collectors 300 to 1,700

2 Dist. Judges 3,500

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