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 AREA, POPULATION, INSTRUCTION 599

Governor.— Ben. W. Olcott, 1919-1923. (5,000 dollars.) Secretary of State. — Sam A. Kozer.

The State Capital is Salem. There are 36 counties in the State.

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 96,699 square miles, 1,092

square miles being water.

The population at the date of each of the Federal censuses was : —

Tears

Population

Per sq. mile

Tear.

Population

Per»q. mil*

1880 1900

174,768 413,536

180 4 40

1910 \ 1920

672,765 783,285

7 00 8'10

In 1910 the population by sex and race was : —

Whit*

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Male. Female

$70,345 284,745

907 585

13,013 3,170

384,916

388,600

Total.

655,090

1,495

11,093 5,090

671,766

The foreign-born in 1910 numbered 113,136, of whom 17,958 were German, 12,409 Canadian, 7,998 English, 10,999 Swedish, 4,995 Irish, 5,538 Italian, 3,555 Greeks, and 6,843 Norwegian. The Indian reservations in 1919 comprised 1,889 square miles with a population of 3,912 Indians, while in addition thert are approximately 3,000 Indians on the public domain.

Of the total population in 1910, 45 - 6 per cent was urban. The largest towns, according to the 1920 census, are Portland, with a population of 258,288; Salem, 17,679 ; Medford, 5,756 ; Eugene, 14,027 ; Astoria, 10,595.

The chief religious bodies in the State are (in order of strength) Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, and Congregational denominations.

School attendance is compulsory for the full school term for children 9 to 15 years of age. For school year ending June 30, 1920, the 2,673 public schools had 7,695 teachers and 148,412 enrolled pupils, 220 standard 4 year high schools had 1,163 teachers and 24,641 pupils ; and the public normal school had, in 1920, 30 teachers and 230 pupils. Total expenditure on public school education (1919) 11,217,385 dollars. The State supports an Agricultural College at Corvallis, founded in 1870, which has an instruct- ional staff of 265 (1920-21) and 3,623 students, and a University, known as the University of Oregon, organised at Eugene in 1876. In 1920 it had 123 professors, and 1,686 students. There are also Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Congregational, and Baptist Colleges.

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 48, being 2 - 9 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions 1,668, being 1007 per 100,000 of the population.