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 426 UNITED STATES: — ALABAMA

The militia (or State Troops) consists of cavalry, artillery, and infimtry; total strength (1909) 221 officers and 3,093 enlisted men.

Production and Industry.— Alabama is largely an agricnltnral State; the farm area in 1910 was 20,732,312 acres, of which 9,693,581 acres Avas improved land; the value of all farm property was 370,138,429 dollars. The chief crops are maize, 54,000,000 bushels in 1911; wheat, 345,000 bushels; oats, 3,251,146 bushels; rice, 5,170 bushels. Other crops are potatoes, hay and vegetables. Tobacco, 360,000 pounds. Sugar is largely grown and manufactured. In 1910 the live-stock comprised 171,000 horses, 253,000 mules, 289,000 milk cows, 528,000 other cattle, 178,000 sheep, and 1,176,000 swine. In 1910 the area under cotton was 3,730,482 acres; the yield was 1,221,225 bales of cotton, valued at 883,880,000 dollars. In 1910 there were 3,398 manufacturing establish- ments with capital amounting to 173,180,000 dollars, employing 72,148 wage-earners who earned 27,284,000 dollars, used raw material worth 83,"^443, 000 dollars, and turned out products valued at 145,962,000 dollars. The iron and steel output was worth 21,236,000 dollars; cotton goods, 22,212,000 dollars; lumber and timber products, 26,058,000 dollars; other large industries being foundry work, railway-car construction, the manu- facture of fertilisers, of cotton-seed oil and cake, and of turpentine and resin.

In 1911 the output of coal was 15,021,421 sliort tons, A^alued at 19,079,949 dollars. Of sandstone, marble, and limestone the output in 1911 was valued at 923,998 dollars; clay products of the State were valued at 1,947,102 dollars. Alabama yielded in 1910 pig iron to the amount of 1,617,150 long tons (17,379,171 dollars). The total value in 1911 of the mineral output of the State (including pig iron, but not iron ore) was 28,005,278 dollars.

The chief port of Alabama is Mobile, through which there is a large trade, The exports comprise raw cotton (over 12,062,000 dollars annually), timber, lumber, &c. (6,800,000), cereals and flour (2,950,000), and lard (1,800,000), besides cattle, sheep and other animals, nuts, hops, fruit, flax- seed and oil, sugar, tobacco, &c. The port is the outlet not only for products of Alabama, but for those of neighbouring States. The imports at INIobile are mostly from Mexico and consist largely of bananas and sisal grass. The harbour channel is deepened to 22J ft.

The larger rivers in the State are navigable (except at Ioav water) for several hundred miles; the Alabama river for 400 miles. In 1910 the i-ail- ways within the State had a length of 5,226 miles, exclusive of 302 miles of electric railway.

At Mobile in 1910 there were 8 banks, Avhose deposits amounted to 6,000,000 dollars.

British Vice-Consul at Mobile. — E. J. Seiders.

Books of Reference.

Reports of the varion.s Executive Departments of the State. State Official and Statistical Register, Biennial.

The British Consular Reports'for the consular district of New Orleans. London, annual. Breioer (N.), Alabama, her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, Montgomery, Ala., 1872.

Fleminq(\Y. L.). Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. NewYork and London, 1905.

Owen (T. M.), Bibliography of Alabama. Wa.shington, 1807.

Pickett (A. J.), History of Alabama (Owen's Edition). Birmingham, Ala., 1900.