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GEORGIA. Jor'je-a.
"EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH."
Farthest south and latest settled of the thirteen original States; named in
honor of George II., King of England; settled by English at Savannah, 1753;
seceded Jan., 1861; re-admitted Dec. 1870.
Area 59,475 square miles; extreme length, 320 miles; extreme breadth, 254
miles; coast line, 480 miles; number harbors, 3. Savannah, Ogeechee,
Altamaha, Satilla, St. Mary's, Flint, Chattahoochee and Upper Coosa are
navigable rivers. Number counties, 137.
Temperature at Augusta: winter, 46deg to 52deg; summer, 79deg to 83deg.
Rainfall at Savannah, 48 inches.
Savannah, Brunswick and St. Mary's are ports of entry. Savannah, chief
seaport; pop., 27,891. Columbus contains largest cotton mill in the South;
pop., 10,123. Atlanta is capital; pop., 37,409. Andersonville, seat of
largest rebel prison during the Rebellion.
Number farms, 1860, 62,003; 1880, 138,626. Average value per acre, cleared
land, $6.93; woodland, $5.45. 72 per cent. of laborers engaged in
agriculture; rural income, $155 per individual.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $3,000
Sec'y of State 2,000
Treasurer 2,000
Compt'ller Gen. 2,000
Attorney Gen. 2,000
Com'r Agricult. 2,500
Chief Justice 2,500
Asso. Justices 2,500
Senators, } $4 pr. day
Representatives } and mileage.
3 Dist. Judges 3,500
D. Supt. R'y Ser. 2,500
Collectors Inter. Rev. 2,500 to 3,125
24 Deputy Collectors 300 to 1,700
Customs Surveyor 1,000 & fees.
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Albany $1,600
Americus 1,600
Athens 1,900
Atlanta 3,300
Augusta 2,800
Brunswick 1,700
Columbus 2,500
Cuthbert 1,500
Dalton 1,400
Gainesville 1,500
Griffin 1,600
Macon 2,700
Madison 1,500
Marietta 1,500
Rome 2,300
Savannah 3,200
Thomasville 1,600
13 Offices 1,400 to 1,000
Sheep on farms, Jan., 1884, 543,415. Corn crop, 1884, 30,925,000 bu.;
wheat, 3,130,000; oats, 6,270.000 bu.; cotton, 760,000 bales. Latest
reported rice crop, 25,369,687 lbs.; sweet potatoes, 4,397,778 bu.;
tobacco, 228,590 lbs; wool, 1,289,560 pounds. Ranks second in rice and
sweet potatoes, third in cotton and molasses, fourth in sugar, seventh in
mules, tenth in hogs.
Gold production, 1793-1883, $8,043,250. Latest mining reports give 100,000
tons coal and 91,416 tons iron ore.
Population, 1,542,180: male, 762,981; female, 779,199; native, 1,531,616;
foreign, 10,564; white, 816,906; colored, 725,133; Chinese, 17; Indians,
124. State elections, first Wednesday in October; congressional and
presidential, Tuesday after first Monday in November; number Senators, 44;
Representatives, 175; sessions biennial, in even-numbered years, meeting
first Wednesday in November; limit of session, 40 days, unless extended by
special vote; terms of Senators and Representatives, 2 years each.
Number electoral votes, 12; number voters, 321,438; colored, 143,471;
native white, 172,044; foreign white, 5,923. Idiots, insane, criminals and
non-taxpayers excluded from voting.
Number colleges, 7; State University at Athens, organized 1801; public
schools excellent; school age, 6-18.
No State license law governing commercial travelers; but Atlanta, Athens,
Augusta and Savannah exact a tax.