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UNITED STATES : — NORTH DAKOTA

value 71,900 dollars in 1911), silver (1,000 ozs., 500 dollars in 1911). The quarries, in 1911, yielded granite, limestone, and sandstone to the value of 826,928 dollars. Monazite and zincon, used in the manufacture of incan- descent light mantles, are also found. The clay products of the State (bricks, pottery, &c.) in 1911 were of the value of 1,280,126 dollars. The total value of the mineral products in 1911 was put at 2,797,155 dollars.

The prosperity of North Carolina is associated chiefly with cotton, tobacco, and lumber, but within the State a variety of other industries are pursued. The value of the output of all manufactures in the State in 1910 was put at 216,656,000 dollars. Statistics of six manufacturing industries are given as follows (census 1910) : —

Industries

Capital

Dollars

Cotton goods.

96,993,000

Tobacco

23,162,000

Lumber and timber

29,675,000

Flour and grist

2,643,000

Furnitiire

7,606,000

"Wage- earners

Material used

Number 47,231

8,203

34,001

496

5,533

Dollars

48,688,000

13,816,000

12,534,000

7,287,000

4,398,000

Cotton-seed oil and cake 4,432,000 1,165 | 7,090,000

Output

Dollars

72,680,000

35,987,000

33,525,000

8,501,000

7,885,000

8,504,000

The chief sea-port is Wilmington, the exports from which, in 1911, amounted to the value of 28,705,448 dollars, nearly all for cotton grown in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, and shipped mostly to Bremen, Liverpool, and Ghent. Harbour improvements are in progress.

The State has several navigable rivers ; in 1911 it contained 4,701 miles of steam railway, and 98 miles" of electric railway track. The chief railway lines are the Atlantic coast line, the Seaboard Air line, the Southern railway, and the Norfolk and Southern railway, the latter being formed by the union of about half-a-dozen independent lines.

There is a British Vioe-Consul at Wilmington.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the Various Executive Departments of the State.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Goveriimeilt.--The Legislative Assembly consists of a Senate of 50 members elected for four years, and a House of Representatives of 112 members elected for two years. Qualified electors are (with necessary excep- tions) all male citizens and civilised Indians, Residence required : in the State one year, in the county six months, in the precinct ninety days next before the election. The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and three Representatives.

Governor.—L. B. Hanna, 1913-15 (5,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — Thomas Hall.

The State is divided into 50 organised counties, (population 5,433 in 1910).

The capital is Bismarck