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FLORIDA. Flor'e-dah
"PENINSULA STATE."
Discoverer landed on Easter Sunday, or "Flowery Easter;" hence the name.
Settled by Spaniards at St. Augustine, 1565; organized as a Territory,
1822; admitted as a State, 1845; seceded 1861; re-admitted 1868
Area, 58,680 square miles; coastline, 1,146 miles, 472 being on the
Atlantic; length, north and south, 350 miles; length, east and west, 340
miles; mean width of peninsula, 100 miles; greatest elevation, 250 feet.
Number counties, 39.
Temperature at Jacksonville: winter, 55deg to 61deg; summer, 80deg to
83deg. Rainfall at Fort Myers, 57 inches.
Key West, the metropolis, and has good harbor and naval station pop.,
9,890. Jacksonville, an important commercial point; pop., 7,650. St.
Augustine, oldest town in United States. Tallahassee, the capital. Pop.
Pensacola, 6,845.
Number farms, 23,438; owned by State, 15,000,000 acres; value per acre,
cleared land, $9.48; woodland, $3.03; swamp, $1; school lands, $1.25.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $3,500
Lieut. Gov. 500
Sec'y of State 2,000
Treasurer 2,000
Comptroller 2,000
Attorney Gen. 2,000
Supt. Pub. Ins. 2,000
Adjutant Gen. 2,000
Land Com'r. 1,200
Chief Justice 3,500
2 Asso. Justices 3,000
Senators, } $6 a day
Representatives } and 10c a mile.
2 Dist. Judges 3,500
Col. Int. Rev. 3,000
Surveyor Gen. 1,800
Chief Clerk 1,600
Draftsman 1,200
38 Lighthouse Keepers 370 to 820
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Cedar Keys $1,300
De Land 1,300
Eustis 1,000
Fernandina 1,600
Gainesville 1,600
Jacksonville 2,800
Key West 1,600
Ocala 1,500
Orlando 1,500
Palatka 1,800
Pensacola 2,200
St. Augustine 1,700
Sanford 1,600
Tallahassee 1,700
Tampa 1,400
Corn most valuable crop, returns of 1884, 3,837,200 bushels; oats, 494,000
bu.; cotton, 60,000 bales; latest reported tobacco, 24,239 pounds; rice,
1,294,677 pounds; peaches, 89,028 bushels; sugar, 1,273 hogsheads; honey,
210,357 pounds; molasses, 1,029,868 gallons. Over 3,000,000 orange trees
planted since 1870, and millions of oranges exported yearly.
Latest reported fisheries, $78,408; lumber products, $3,060,291; oysters,
20,000 bushels.
Ranks third in sugar and molasses, sixth in rice, tenth in cotton.
Population, 269,493: male, 136,444; female, 133,049; native, 259,584;
foreign, 9,909; white, 142,605; colored, 126,690; Indians, 180; slaves,
1860, 61,745.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday
in November; number Senators, 32; Representatives, 76; sessions of
legislature biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting Tuesday after first
Monday in January; limit of session, 60 days; term of Senators, 4 years; of
Representatives, 2 years.
Number electoral votes, 4; number voters, 61,699; colored, 27,489; native
white, 30,351; foreign white, 3,859. Idiots, insane, criminals, betters on
elections and duelists excluded from voting.
School population, 88,677; enrolled in public schools, 39,315 school age,
4-21.--Legal interest rate, 8; by contract, any rate. {113}
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ALABAMA. Al-a-bah'mah.