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LOUISIANA. Loo-ee-ze-ah'na.
"CREOLE STATE."
Named in honor of Louis XIV., King of France, when Louisiana was first
colonized; first permanent settlement made by French at New Orleans, 1718:
admitted 1812; seceded January, 1861; re-admitted June, 1868.
Area, 48,720 square miles; greatest length, east and west, 300 miles;
breadth, 240 miles; coast line, 1,256 miles; internal water communication,
2,500 miles; number counties, 58.
Temperature at New Orleans: winter, 53deg to 61deg; summer, 81deg to 83deg;
rainfall, 51 inches.
New Orleans, metropolis, port of entry and largest cotton market in the
world; pop., 216,090; capital until 1847, and again from 1868 to 1881.
Baton Rouge, capital; pop., 7,197. Pop. Shreveport, 8,009. Morgan City,
port of entry. State institution for insane at Jackson; for deaf mutes and
blind, Baton Rouge.
Number farms, 1860, 17,328; 1870, 28,481; 1880, 48,292. Average value per
acre, cleared land, $14.36; woodland, $3.53; 57 per cent. of laborers are
engaged in agriculture; rural income, per capita, $209. Latest statistics
give 312,000 bu. salt; 1,318,110 bu. sweet potatoes; 175,000 acres sugar
cane; 122,982 hhds. sugar; 11,696,248 gals. molasses; 23,188,311 lbs. rice;
corn crop, 1884, 11,007,000 bu.; acreage of oats, 35,119, producing 404,000
bu.; cotton, 995,000 bales.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $4,000
Lieut. Gov. $8 pr day
Treasurer 2,000
Sec'y of State 1,800
Auditor 2,500
Attorney Gen. 3,000
Adjutant Gen. 2,000
Supt. Pub. Inst. 2,000
Com'r of Agr. and Immig. 2,000
Chief Justice 5,000
4 Asso. Justices 5,000
Senators, } $4 pr day
Representatives } and mileage
2 District Judges 3,500 to 4,500
Col. of Customs, N. O. 7,000
Col. Inter. Rev. 3,875
Surveyor Gen. 1,800
Chf. Draftsman 1,500
Supt. of Mint 3,500
Chief Clerk 2,000
Cashier 2,000
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Alexandria $1,300
Baton Rouge 1,700
Donaldsonville 1,400
Franklin 1,100
Lake Charles 1,300
Monroe 1,400
New Iberia 1,500
New Orleans 3,700
Opelousas 1,100
Plaquemine 1,200
Shreveport 2,200
Thibodeaux 1,300
Ranks first in sugar and molasses, third in rice, seventh in cotton, ninth
in salt. Total number industries, 1,553; capital invested, $11,462,468;
value products, $24,205,183.
Population, 939,946: male, 468,754; female, 471,192; native, 885,800;
foreign, 54,146; white, 454,954; colored, 483,655; Chinese, 489; Indians,
848; slaves, 1860, 331,726. Legislature and State officers elected
quadrennially; members Congress, biennially. State elections, Tuesday after
third Monday in April; number Senators, 36; Representatives, 98; sessions
biennial, in even-numbered years, meeting second Monday in May; limit of
session, 60 days; terms of Senators and Representatives, 4 years each.
Number electoral votes, 8; number voters, 216,787; colored, 107,977; native
white, 81,777; foreign white, 27,033. Idiots, insane and criminals excluded
from voting.
Sugar cane first cultivated in the United States, near New Orleans, 1751,
and first sugar mill used 1758.
Exports, 1882, $90,238,503; imports, $10,611,353; duties collected,
$2,046,804; railroad mileage, Jan. 1, 1886, 1,397.