One of the thirteen original States; discovered by Lord Raleigh, 1584;
settled by English at Albemarle, 1650; seceded May, 1861, re-admitted June,
1868.
Area, 52,250 square miles; length, 450 miles; breadth, 185 miles; coast
line, over 400 miles; area dismal swamp, 150,000 acres; number counties,
96.
Temperature at Wilmington: winter, 46deg to 51deg; summer, 76deg to 80deg.
Frost seldom occurs before November. Rainfall at Gaston, 43 inches. Deaths
by consumption, 1.5 per 1,000 of population.
Wilmington, principal seaport and chief city; pop., 13,446; Raleigh,
capital, and contains the State institutions; pop., 7,790 Charlotte
contains assay office; pop., 4,473; pop. New Bern, 5,849.
Farms in 1860, 75,203, increased to 157,609 in 1880; average value per
acre, cleared land, $9.77; woodland, $5.53.
Agriculture the leading industry; corn the most valuable crop; tobacco the
leading product; value orchard products over $900,000. Latest reports give
4,576,148 bu. sweet potatoes; 5,609,191 lbs. rice; value tar and turpentine
products, $1,758,488; tobacco crop, 1883, 29,048,213 lbs.; wheat crop,
1884, 4,650,000 bu.; oats, 4,632,000 bu.; corn, 31,499,000 bu.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $3,000
Sec'y of State 2,000
Treasurer 3,000
Auditor 1,500
Attorney Gen. 2,000
Supt. Pub. Inst. 1,500
Adjutant Gen. 600
Com'r of Agr. 1,200
State Librarian 750
Chief Justice 2,500
2 Asso. Justices 2,500
Senators, } $4 a day,
Representatives } mileage 10 c.
4 Collectors Int. Rev. 2,500 to 3,750
64 Deputy Collectors 300 to 1,700
2 Dist. Judges 3,500
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Presidential P. O.
Asheville $1,900
Charlotte 2,400
Durham 1,600
Elizabeth City 1,200
Fayetteville 1,600
Goldsborough 1,800
Greensborough 1,800
New Berne 1,900
Oxford 1,200
Raleigh 2,600
Reidsville 1,200
Salisbury 1,500
Statesville 1,400
Tarborough 1,500
Wilmington 2,600
Wilson 1,400
Winston 1,800
10 P.O. 1,200 to 1,000
Ranks first in tar and turpentine, second in copper, third in peanuts and
tobacco, fourth in rice, ninth in cotton.
Number of different industries, 3,802; flour and grist mills, 1,313; saw
mills, 776; latest reported value oyster fisheries, $60,000; number boats
engaged in general fisheries, about 3,000; copper mined, 1,640,000 lbs.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday
in November; number Senators, 50; Representatives, 120; sessions biennial,
in odd-numbered years, meeting Wednesday after first Monday in January;
limit of session, 60 days; terms of Senator and Representatives, two years
each. Number electoral votes, 11; number voters, 294,750; native white,
187,637; foreign white, 2,095; colored, 105,018. Convicts are excluded from
voting.
Population, 1,399,750: male, 687,908; female, 711,842; natives, 1,396,008;
foreign, 3,742; white, 867,242: colored, 531,278; Indians, 1,230. Slaves,
1860, 331,059.
Public school system adopted 1840; at present over 2,000 public schools in
operation; school age, 6-21.