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NEW JERSEY. Jer'zee.
"JERSEY BLUE."
Named in honor of a grantee, Sir George Carteret, at one time Governor of
the Island of Jersey. One of the thirteen original States, settled by
Dutch, at Bergen, 1620. Area, 7,815 square miles; extreme length, 157 mls.;
breadth, 37 to 70 mls.; frontage on Atlantic and Delaware Bay, about 120
miles each. Number counties, 21.
Temperature at Atlantic City: winter, 32deg to 42deg; summer, 66deg to
73deg. Rainfall at Newark, 45 inches.
Newark, Perth Amboy, Great Egg Harbor, Tuckerton, Bridgeton and Lumberton
are ports of entry. Newark, metropolis; population, 152,988. Jersey City, a
suburb of New York; population, 153,513. Trenton, capital; pop. 34,386.
Paterson, manufacturing city; pop., 63,273. Extensive zinc works at Newark
and Jersey City. Pop. Elizabeth, 32,119; Hoboken, 37,721; Camden, 52,884.
Number farms, 34,307. Average value per acre, cleared land, $82.52;
woodland, $56.82. Number engaged in agriculture, 59,214.
Hay the most valuable crop; potato yield, 1883, 4,275,857 bu.; wheat, 1884,
2,022,000 bu.; corn 10,992,032 bu.; cranberry growing a specialty,
Burlington, Ocean and Atlantic counties being especially adapted to this
industry. Central region a vast market garden.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $5,000
Sec'y of State 6,000
Treasurer 4,000
Comptroller 4,000
Attorney Gen. 7,000
Supt. Pub. Inst. 3,000
Adjutant Gen. 1,200
Librarian 1,500
Chief Justice 7,500
8 Asso. Justic's 7,000
Chancellor 10,000
Senators, Representatives 500 a year
District Judge 3,500
Supt. Life Saving Service 1,800
39 Keepers 700
3 Collectors Int. Rev. $2,375 to 4,500
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Asbury Park $2,300
Atlantic City 2,400
Bridgeton 2,100
Camden 2,800
Elizabeth 2,700
Hoboken 2,400
Jersey City 3,200
Morristown 2,400
Newark 3,400
New Brunswick 2,500
Orange 2,300
Paterson 2,800
Plainfield 2,500
Rahway 2,200
Trenton 3,100
Washington 3,100
46 P.O., 2,000 to 1,100
Latest reports give, for cotton used, 20,569 bales; 108 factories for silk
and silk goods, and number hands employed, 12,549; 2,234 hands employed in
jewelry factories; number of flour and grist mills, 481; brick and tile
factories, 107.
Latest figures received for iron ore, 757,372; value sea fisheries,
$1,115,154; oysters sold, $2,080,625; marl dug in 1882, 1,080,000 tons.
Ranks first in fertilizing marl, zinc and silk goods; fourth in iron ore;
fifth in iron and steel; sixth in buckwheat and soap; seventh in rye.
Population, 1,131,116: male, 559,922; female, 571,194; native, 909,416;
foreign, 221,700: white, 1,092,017; colored, 38,853; Chinese, 172; Indians,
74.
State elections annual; same date as congressional and presidential; number
of Senators 21, of Representatives, 60; meeting of legislature, 2d Tuesday
in January; limit of session, none; term of Senators, 3 years; of
Representatives, 1 year. Number electoral votes, 9; number voters, 300,635.
Paupers, idiots, insane and convicts excluded from voting.
Number colleges, 4; number enrolled in public schools, 209,526; school age,
5-18.