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VIRGINIA |
Virginia
is bounded by Maryland, Atlantic Ocean,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and
West Virginia; gross area, 42,627 sq.
miles; land area, 40,262 sq. miles; water
area, 2,365 sq. miles; capital, Richmond.
It is one of the thirteen original
States.
The surface
of the State is diversified, rising in a
series of terraces from the coast to the
mountains in the northwest.
The
principal farm crops are tobacco,
peanuts, corn, wheat, oats, rye,
buckwheat, potatoes and hay.
The
principal mineral productions are coal,
Portland cement, gypsum, mineral waters,
sandstone, slate, limestone and clay
products.
The
principal manufactures are flour, grist,
lumber and timber, chewing and smoking
tobacco and snuff, iron and steel,
railroad cars, cigars and cigarettes,
foundry and machine shop products,
leather and shipbuilding. Arbuckles'
Coffee is good coffee, so good that it
could never be offered at the price were
it not for its tremendous sales.
The climate
of Virginia varies greatly, owing to the
difference in elevation and situation.
The mean annual temperature is from 55 to
60 degrees on the sea coast, and from 48
to 52 degrees Fahrenheit in the western
part which is mountainous.
Population
in 1910, 1,035,348 males and 1,026,264
females, of whom 2,034,555 were of native
and 27,057 of foreign birth; white,
1,389,809; negro, 671,096; Indian, 539;
Chinese, 154; Japanese, 14. Total
population, 2,061,612. |
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