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NEW HAMPSHIRE. N[=u] Hamp'shir.
"GRANITE STATE."
One of the thirteen original States; settled by English Puritans at Dover
and Portsmouth, 1623.
Area, 9,335 square miles; length, 180 miles; average breadth, 45 miles;
seacoast, 18 miles; best harbor at Portsmouth. Number counties, 10.
Average temperature at Concord, 46deg; Hanover,43deg; Manchester, 49deg;
Portsmouth, 46deg. Rainfall at Hanover, 40 inches.
Manchester, chief city and manufacturing town, pop., 32,630. Pop. Nashua,
13,397; Concord, 13,843; Dover, 11,687; Portsmouth, 9690
Number farms, 32,181; average value per acre, cleared land, $15; woodland,
$32. Hay the most valuable crop, yielding nearly 600,000 tons by last
report; corn crop, 1884, 1,286,000 bu., 33 bu. to the acre; wheat, 170,700
bu., 14.6 bu. to the acre; oats, 993,000 bu., 32.4 bu. to the acre.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $1,000
Sec. State $800 & fees
Treasurer 1,800
Attorney Gen. 2,200
Supt. Pub. Ins. 2,000
3 R. R. Commission'rs 2,000 to 2,500
Adjutant Gen. 1,000
Sec. Bd. Agr. 1,000
Librarian 800
Chief Justice 2,900
6 Asso. Justices 2,700
Senators, } $3 a day
Representatives } and mileage.
District Judge 3,500
Pension Agent 4,000
Col. Int. Rev. 1,125
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Claremont $1,800
Concord 2,700
Dover 2,300
Exeter 1,600
Franklin Falls 1,400
Great Falls 1,700
Hanover 1,500
Keene 2,300
Laconia 1,700
Lancaster 1,500
Lebanon 1,700
Littleton 1,600
Manchester 2,300
Milford 1,400
Nashua 2,500
Plymouth 1,500
Portsmouth 2,400
Rochester 1,600
14 P.O. $1,300 to 1,000
Ranks third in manufacture of cotton goods, value, $18,228,573; value
woolen goods, $8,113,839; worsted goods, $2,694,232; sawed lumber,
$3,842,012; leather, $4,477,350; paper, $1,731,170; boots and shoes,
$7,230,804; flouring and grist mill products, $2,542,784; hosiery and knit
goods, $2,362,779.
Mica is quarried at Grafton, and is very valuable; soapstone is found at
Haverhill, Keene and Francestown; granite of fine quality is quarried at
Plymouth, Troy, Roxbury, Concord and elsewhere.
Population, 346,991: male, 170,526; female, 176,465; native, 300,697;
foreign, 46,294; white, 346,229; colored, 685; Chinese, 14; Indians, 63.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday
in November; number Senators, 24; Representatives, 321; sessions of
legislature biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting first Wednesday in
June; limit of session, none; terms of Senators and Representatives, 2
years each.
Number electoral votes, 4; number voters, 105,138. Paupers are excluded
from voting.
Dartmouth College, at Hanover, founded 1769; compulsory education law;
common schools excellent; school age, 5-15.
Mount Washington, highest point east of the Mississippi excepting two or
three peaks in North Carolina; a three-mile railroad extends to the summit.
No asylum for deaf, dumb or blind.