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 590 UNITED STATES :— NORTH CAROLINA

ure peanuts, potatoes, oats, and rye. The rice crop in 1920 amounted to 10,000 bushels. Stock-raising is not important, but there is a growing dairy industry. On January 1, 1921, the farm animals were 179,000 horses, 231,000 mules, 331,000 milch cows, 386,000 other cattle, 138,000 sheep, and 1,528,000 swine. The wool clip in 1919 yielded 587,000 lbs.

In the eastern portion of the State there are shad and oyster fisheries, both valuable.

Minerals in great variety, but not in large quantities, are found in the State, the chief being mica, iron, talc, andsoapstone barytes, feldspar, coal, phosphate rock, gold, silver, sand and gravel. The quarries yield granite, limestone, and sandstone. Monazite and zircon, used in the manufacture of incandescent light mantles, are also found.

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 1918 was put at 658,547,476 dollars.

The chief seaport is Wilmington, the exports from which, in 1919, amounted to 33,941,084 dollars, nearly all for cotton grown in North Carolina, 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 1919 it contained 4,954 miles of steam railway, and 285 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.

In 1919, deposits in savings banks amounted to 32,352,948 dollars.

There is a British Vice-Consul at Wilmington.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the Various Executive Departments of the State.

Arthur (J. P.), Western North Carolina. A History from 1730 to 1913. Raleigh, N.C. 1914.

Ashe (8. A.), History of North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C. — Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. 8 vols. Greensboro, N.C.

Battle (K. P.), History of the University of North Carolina. 2 vols. Raleigh, N. C, 1912.

Connor (H. G.) and Cheshire (J. B., jr.), The Constitution of North Carolina. Annotated. Raleigh, 1911.

Connor (R. D. W.), Boyd W. K.), and Hamilton (J. G. de R.), History of North Carolina, 1584-1912. 3 vols. Chicago, 1919.

Connor (R. D. W.), North Carolina Manual, 1921. Issued by the North Carolina His- torical Commission. Raleigh, ». C.

J I ami it on (.1 . G. de R.), Reconstruction in North Carolina. New York and London, 1914.

Kephart (Horace), Our Southern Highlanders. New York, 1913.

Saunders (W. L.), Colonial Records of North Carolina. Vol. i-x. Raleigh, K. C, 1886-1890. Continued as : Clark (Walter). State Records of North Carolina. Vol. xi-xxvi. Published by the State, Raleigh, N. C, 1895-1905.

Sprunt (James), Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1860-191H. Raleigh, N. C, 1917.

Wilson (W. 8.), North Carolina Blue Book. Raleigh, N. C, 1918.