IMPORTS. EXPORTS.
Europe $5,156,311 $31,225,433
Asia, Australasia and Oceanica 18,766,855 4,166,516
Hawaiian Islands 7,925,925 3,109,697
Mexico, Central and South America 2,738,444 3,321,938
British Columbia 1,283,931 2,502,954
All other 1,308,064 2,059,746
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Totals $37,179,530 $46,386,284
Total value of products of industry $10,000,000,000
Average annual coal production 77,908,874 tons.
Average annual value exports domestic merchandise $794,060,103
Average annual value imports domestic merchandise 635,227,511
Average annual value exports of cotton 12,322,428
Average annual value imports cotton manufactures 32,285,660
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MAINE. M[=a]n.
"PINE TREE STATE."
Settled by the English at Bristol, 1624; admitted 1820.
Area, 33,040 square miles; extreme length, 300 miles; extreme breadth, 210
miles; shore line over 2,400 miles, including islands; the Penobscot,
Androscoggin, Saco, St. Croix, Aroostook and St. John are the most
important streams. Number counties, 16.
Temperature of Portland: winter, 23deg to 38deg; summer, 63deg to 69deg.
Rainfall at Brunswick, 45 inches.
Portland, the metropolis and principal seaport; pop., 31,413. Augusta, the
capital; pop., 8,665. Bangor, a port of entry and lumber centre; pop.,
16,856. Biddeford, an important manufacturing town; pop, 12,651. Lewiston,
principal seat cotton manufactures; pop., 19,083.
Number farms, 64,309; average value per acre, cleared land, $12.87;
woodland, $12.66. Hay the most valuable crop, yielding l,214,033 tons in
1883; corn crop, 1884, 1,062,000 bu.: wheat, 629,400 bu.; oats, 2,428,000
bu.; latest reported dairy products, 3,720,783 gallons milk, 14,109,966
lbs. butter and 1,945,095 lbs. cheese.
Lumbering one of chief industries, forests covering over 10,000,000 acres;
number saw-mills, 848; total products, $7,933,868.
Fisheries give employment to 11,071 persons, and produce an income of
$3,614,178, including oyster fisheries, valued at $37,500.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $2,000
Sec'y of State 1,200
Treasurer 1,600
Attorney Gen. 1,000
Adjutant Gen. 900
Sup. Com. Schls 1,000
Sec. Bd. of Agr. 600
State Librarian 600
Chief Justice 3,000
7 Asso. Justices 3,000
Senators, } $150;
Representatives } mileage, 20 cents.
District Judge 3,500
Col. Int. Rev. 2,500
Col. Customs 6,000
Surveyor Cus. 4,500
Pension Agt. 4,000
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Auburn $2,200
Augusta 3,100
Bangor 2,700
Bath 2,200
Belfast 1,800
Biddeford 2,200
Brunswick 1,700
Calais 1,600
Eastport 1,500
Ellsworth 1,500
Gardiner 1,800
Hallowell 1,600
Lewiston 2,500
Portland 3,300
Rockland 2,100
Saco 1,700
Skowhegan 1,700
Waterville 2,000
19 P.O. 1,500 to 1,000
Valuable slate quarries from the Kennebec to the Penobscot; granite is
obtained in blocks of immense size; latest reported product, 2,203,670
cubic feet; value, $1,175,286. Ranks fifth in buckwheat and copper; eighth
in hops and potatoes.
The State has 379 shipbuilding establishments; number new vessels built,
88; boats, 970; total value, $2,909,846.
Pop., 648,936: male, 324,058; female, 324,878; native, 590,053; foreign,
58,883; white, 646,852; colored, 1,451; Chinese, 8; Indians, 625.
State elections, second Monday in September; congressional and
presidential, Tuesday after first Monday in November; number Senators, 31;
Representatives, 151; sessions biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting
first Wednesday in January; limit of session, none; terms of Senators and
Representatives, 2 years each.
Number electoral votes, 6; number voters, 187,323; paupers and Indians not
taxed excluded from voting.
Number colleges, 3; system of common, high and normal schools excellent; of
519,669 persons 10 years old and upward, 3.5 per cent. are unable to read;
school age, 4-21.