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 628 UNITED STATES: — WASHINGTON

Finance, Defence. — For the two years ending September 30, 1920, the revenue and expenditure were as follows : —

«?««••-■ Dollars. Balance in hand, Oct. 1, 1918 5,370,696

Receipts, 1918-20

Total .... Disbursements, 1918-20

Balance, September 30, 1920

43,240,706

48,611,402 42,953,824

u 5,657,578

The assessed valuation of real property in 1919 amounted to 722,761,254 dollars, and of personal property to 179,764,087 dollars. In 1918 the valuation was of railway roads, 339,557,287 dollars ; electric railways, 37,607,325 dollars ; telegraph, 776,219 dollars. The outstanding bonded debt was paid off in 1911.

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

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

In 1910 there were 56,192 farms with an acreage of 11,712,235, of which 6,373,311 acres was improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 637,543,411 dollars. The wheat yield in 1920 was 37,982,000 bushels; barley, 3,883,000 bushels; oats, 15,052,000 bushels; corn, 2,808,000 bushels. In Pacific coast region, as well as in the eastern counties, fruit of various sorts is produced in vast quantities. On January 1st, 1921, the domestic animals were 284,000 horses, 20,000 mules, 216,000 milch cows, 290,000 other cattle, 645,000 sheep, 267,000 swine. The wool clip in 1919 amounted to 5,779,000 pounds of wool. The fruit-growing area has doubled within the last two years, and fruit-canning has become an in- dustry in the State. The timber wealth of the State has an area (1917) of 9,942,544 acres.

Coal is mined in large quantities. Other mineral products are gold, silver, and copper. The quarries yielded granite, sandstone, marble, and limestone. Cement is produced. Lead and zinc are worked ; antimony, arsenic, molyb- denum, tungsten, and platinum are found.

In 1914 the manufacturing industries had 3,829 establishments with an aggregate capital of 277,715,262 dollars; they employed 7,734 salaried officials and 67,205 wage-earners ; they used raw material costing 131,352,710 dollars. and gaye an output valued at 245,326,45f> dollars. They are connected chiefly with the products of the : fricqlture, grazing, fisheries, and

mining. The most important industries are given m Tiik Statesman's Year- Book for 1916, p. 628.

The railways within the State had, in 1917, 7,412 miles (main track), besides electric railway (1,069 miles in 1918). The principal railways opera- ting in the State are the Northern Pacific Railway Company and subsidiary companies, Great Northern Bail way Company, Oregon- Washington Railroad and Navigation Company, the Bellingham and Northern Railway, the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Company, the Tacoma Eastern Railroad