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 562 UNITED STATES : — WASHINGTON

Dollars

Realproperty 2,181,427,337

Persona] property. . . . 112,097,545

Steam railways .... 257,405,646

Electric railways .... 37,656,306

Telegraph lines .... 767,770

Total 2,589,354,604

The organised militia consists of 100 officers and 1,211 enlisted men, con- sisting of infantry, cavalry, signal corps, and hospital corps and u aval militia. The men enlist for 3 years, taking oath to volunteer immediately on call from the Federal Government.

The Federal Government has a large dry dock and naval depot at Bremer- ton, on Puget Sound. Garrisons of the regular army are maintained at Spokane, Seattle, Walla Walla, Vancouver, and three coast defence points at the entrance to Puget Sound.

Production and Industry- — Agriculture is successfully jnirsued in the State, not least in the arid region east of the Cascade Mountains, where there are extensive systems of irrigation.

In 1904 the area irrigated was estimated by the irrigation expert of tlie United States Department of agriculture at 178,000 acres. Under the Federal "Eeclamation Act," which provides for the irrigation and sale of lands, the proceeds to be continually applied to further irrigation, an area of 740,000 acres has been taken in hand. In 1910 there were 56,192 farms with an acreae-e of 11,712,235, of which 6,373,311 acres was improved land. The wheat yield in 1912 was 53,728,000 bushels ; barley, 7,869,000 bushels ; oats, 13,689,000 bushels. In Pacific coast region, as well as in the eastern counties, fruit of various sorts is produced in vast quantities. In 1910 the farm animals were 330,000 horses, 5,000 mules, 205,000 milk cows, 358,000 other cattle, 783,000 sheep, 183,000 swine. The wool clip in 1911 amounted to 3,700,000 pounds of wool. The fruit-growing area has doubled within the last two years, and fruit-canning lias become an industry in the State. The value of the 1910 fruit crop was from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 dollars. The timber wealth of the State is immense, having an area of 34,000 square miles, representing about 390,000,000 board feet. The trees are mostly fir, cedar and spruce, with hard-Avood trees. The lakes, livers, and coast waters provide lucrative fisheries. Salmon is abundant, and the waters are stocked from State hatcheries, which supplied about 80,000,000 salmon fry in 1908. Marine fish, halibut, herring, cod, shad, and many other species are taken in increasing quantities. Shell-fish, not- ably oysters, are improving in quality and quantity. The total A^alue of the fish output for the year 1909 was 13,534,010 dollars.

Coal is mined in large quantities, the output in 1911 having been 3,572,815 tons, valued at 8,174,170 dollars. In the same year there was an output of gold valued at 840,000 dollars ; of silver, valued at 124,000 dollars; of copper, 195,503 pounds (24,438 dollarsl The quarries yielded granite, sandstone, marble, and limestone to the value of 1,679,872 dollars. Clay products in 1910 amounted to the value of 2,840,372 dollars. Iron ore is mined, but not in great quantity. Lead (601 short tons) and zinc are worked ; antimony, arsenic, molybdenum, tungsten, and platinum are found. The value of the mineral output in 1910 was 15,853,556 dollars.

In 1910 the manufacturing industries had 3,674 establishments with an aggregate capital of 222,261,000 dollars; they employed 7,734 salaried officials