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 MISSOURI

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The State in 1910 had 4,506 miles of railway, besides 96 miles of electric railway. The railroads with greatest length of line in the State are the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, the Illinois Central, the Sonthern, the Mobile and Jackson and Kansas City, the Mobile and Ohio, and the Gulf and Shi}) Island railways. The Mississippi river and the Gulf Coast provide natural facilities for transport.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State,

Census Bulletin. No. 48. Census of Manufactures, 1905. Washington, 1906.

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The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 34 members elected for four years (half their number retiring every two years), and House of Ke- presentatives of 142 members elected for two years.

The right of suffrage extends (Avith the usual exceptions) to all male citizens and to aliens who, five years before the election, have declared their intention of becoming citizens ; but all Avho vote must have been resident in the State one year, and in the county or city 60 days next before the election.

Missouri is represented in Congress by two Senators and 16 Represen- tatives.

Governor.— Elliott W. Major, 1913-17 (5,000 dollars). Secretary of State. — Cornelius Roach.

The State is divided into 114 counties. Jefferson City is the State Capital.

Area, Population, Instruction-— Area 69,415 square miles (680

square miles water).

Years

White 1

Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1820 1900 1910

56,017 2,945,431 3,135,883

10.569 161,234 157,452

66,586 3,106,665 3,293,335

1-0

45-2 47-9

1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1900 the population by sex and birth was : —

—

White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

73

57

Total

Male. Female

1,513,977 1,430,866

81,206 80,028

454

4

1,595,710 1,510,955

Total

2,944,843

161,234'

458

130

3,106,665

In 1910 thisre were 1,687,838 males and 1,605,497 females.