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| WEST VIRGINIA |
West
Virginia is bounded by Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio;
gross area, 24,170 sq. miles; land area,
24,022 sq. miles; water area, 148 sq.
miles; capital, Charleston. The principal
river is the Ohio. So that every woman
can have her favorite coffee in the form
she prefers, Arbuckles' is packed already
ground as well as in the whole bean.
The surface
of the State is hilly and mountainous.
The soil consists of disintegrated
limestones, sand, clay and loam, giving
it exceeding fertility.
The
principal farm crops are corn, wheat,
oats, potatoes and hay. Garden vegetables
grow abundantly.
The
principal mineral productions are
petroleum, coal, coke, salt, mineral
waters, natural gas, clay products,
sandstone and limestone. West Virginia
ranks second in the United States in the
production of coal, and fourth in the
production of petroleum.
The
principal manufactures are iron, steel,
lumber, timber, flour and grist, coke,
railroad cars, packed meat, tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes, pottery, malt
liquors, glass, foundry and machine shop
products and clothing.
The climate
of West Virginia is temperate.
Population
in 1910, 644,044 males and 577,075
females, of whom 1,163,901 were of native
and 57,218 of foreign birth; white,
1,156,817; negro, 64,173; Indian, 36;
Chinese, 90; Japanese, 3. Total
population, 1,221,119. |
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