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UNITED STATES: — KENTUCKY

Kansas city is an important centre of the live stock trade, The receipts of live stock in 1911 were valued at 31,600,000^. sterling, and the total vaUie of dairy produce at 56,585,437^.

Kansas, traversed by numerous rivers and six important trunk railways, has abundant transport facilities. There are 9,006 miles of railway line in 1910 and 295 miles of electric railway track within the State.

Book of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments.

KENTUCKY.

Government. — The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 38 members elected for four years, one-half retiring every two years, and a House of Representatives of 100 members elected for two years. Sessions are biennial. Qualified as electors are (with necessary exceptions) all citizens who have resided in the State one year, and in the county six months.

The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and 11 Represen- tatives.

Goverjior.—JsimesB. McCreary, 1911-15 (6,000 dollars V

Secretary of State. — C. F. Crecilius.

The State is divided into 119 counties. The State Capital is Frankfort (pop. in 1910, 10,447).

Area, Population, Instruction.

400 square miles are water.

-Area, 40,400 square miles, of which

Years

Population

Per sq. mile

Years

Population

2,147,174 2,289,905

Per sq. mile

1860 1880

1,155,684 1,648,690

28-9 41-2

1900 1910

i 537

! 57-0

In 1910 there Avere 261,656 negroes; the foreign-born population in 1910 numbered 40,023, of whom 27,555 were German, and 9,874 Irish, other nationalities represented being English, Swiss, Canadian, and Russian.

The population of the principal cities was, according to the 1910 census, as follows: —

Cities

1 Popula- tion

Pities Popula- > ^1^1^^ tion i

Cities

Popula- tion

Louisville. Covington. Newport.

223,928 53,270 30,309

Lexington. i 35,099 Paducah. • 22,760 Henderson. 11,452

Owensboro' Frankfort Bowling Green

16,011

10,465

9,173

The predominant religious denominations of the State are Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist, less numerous bodies being Disciples of Christ and Presbyterians.