UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



14.5 per cent, were illiterate; of native whites 

 born of foreign parents, 3.7 per cent. ; of foreign 

 whites, 7.7 per cent.; of colored males of voting 

 age, 47.6 per cent. Of the foreign-born males of 

 voting age 59.8 per cent, were naturalized, 2.!) 

 per cent, had filed their first naturalization papers, 

 13.1 per cent, were reported as aliens, and of 24.2 

 per cent, no information was given. The number 

 of deaths reported in Tennessee for 1900 was 30,- 

 572 15,334 among males and 15,218 among fe- 

 males, 21,029 among whites and 9,543 among 

 colored, 20,257 among native and 511 among for- 

 eign whites. 



Education. The number of pupils enrolled in 

 the public schools in 1901 was 488,055, of whom 

 385,006, or 79 per cent., were white, and 103,649, 

 or 21 per cent., w r ere colored. The average school 

 term was a little less than five months. The num- 

 ber of teachers employed was 9,484, giving more 

 than 50 pupils Jo each teacher, although 279 

 teachers had been added during the year. The 

 average salary paid to teachers was $28.60 a 

 month, making the average cost per pupil 74 

 cents. The number of new schoolhouses erected 

 during the year was 205. The money received for 

 public schools was $2,600,000, and the expendi- 

 tures were $1,800,000. 



Forests. There is a Forest Association for the 

 purpose of preserving the forest wealth of the 

 State. The present rate of depletion threatens to 

 use up the most valuable timber in twenty years. 

 The walnut has disappeared, and the cedar forests, 

 once the finest in the world, can scarcely supply 

 the local demand for fence-posts. There are about 

 500 sawmills, consuming 400,000,000 feet of tim- 

 ber per annum; 60,000,000 feet are needed for 

 cross-ties on 3,000 miles of railroad., and 180,000 

 farms require 100,000,000 feet for fuel, fencing, 

 and building. Including the area destroyed by 

 fires in the mountainous districts, the forest area 

 of 9,300 square miles is diminishing at the rate 

 of 480 square miles a year. The United States 

 Government, by the action of the State Legisla- 

 ture, is authorized to acquire land in Tennessee 

 to be utilized in connection with a forest reserve. 



Production. The output of bituminous coal 

 in 1900 was 3,904,048 tons. The production of 

 pig iron was 362,190 tons; of charcoal iron, 3,119 

 tons. There were 114 coal-mines in 1901, an in- 

 crease of 14 over the previous year; number of 

 persons employed, 8,691. The value of coal pro- 

 duced was $4,294,928 at the mines ; coke produced, 

 494,438 tons, value $1,186,655; iron ore, 378,376 

 tons of brown and 321,376 tons of red; copper ore, 

 116,000 tons; zinc blende, 3,968 tons; barytes, 16,- 

 605 tons ; phosphate rock, 450,856 tons. The num- 

 ber of ovens was 1,923, of which 1,662 were in 

 blast, 188 new ovens having been built in 1900. 

 The corn acreage for 1900 was 2,849,894, produ- 

 cing 56,997,880 bushels, of the value of $27,928,- 

 961; wheat acreage, 1,181,123, crop 11,696,088 

 bushels, value $9,239,910; acreage under oats, 

 350,010, producing 5,810,166 bushels, value $2,033,- 

 558. The cotton-crop in the season of 1901 was 

 estimated at 275,000 bales. 



Legislative Session. The record of the Legis- 

 lature, which closed its sessions on May 2, was 

 marred by charges of corruption, especially in 

 connection with two liquor bills which failed 

 to pass, and which led to an investigation that 

 proved that a fund had been raised among whole- 

 sale dealers, the purpose of which was explained 

 to be the presentation of their case before the 

 Legislature and the testing of the constitution- 

 ality of the measure in case of its enactment. 

 After the failure of the first bill, the second one, 

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 women was raised from sixteen to eight,-,.,. \,.,,. 

 An act penalizes insurance companies thiit i> in-.- 

 to pay claims by making them pay 2."> pei , ,.,,t 

 additional in case their refusal is not upheld judi- 

 cially. If a taxpayer fails to report notes or other 

 evidences of debt to the assessor in order to 

 escape taxation, he can not recover the debt 

 through the courts until he has paid the tax arid 

 a penalty of 25 per cent, per annum additional. 



Good Roads. A Good-Roads Convention held 

 at Jackson in June formed a permanent associa- 

 tion and recommended State legislation to secure 

 intelligent supervision by a Highway Commis- 

 sioner, to provide adequate revenue, and to secure 

 a permanent system of road construction and 

 maintenance. The first annual meeting of the 

 Tennessee Good-Roads Association was held at 

 Nashville on Oct. 8. The value of good roads to 

 Tennessee farmers for the transportation of prod- 

 uce to market is estimated at $1.50 a year per 

 acre, and they are furthermore a condition for the 

 successful introduction of free rural postal de- 

 livery. 



Confederate Reunion. The annual conven- 

 tion of Confederate veterans was held in Memphis 

 at the end of May. The commander was Gen. 

 John B. Gordon, and 4,000 survivors of the Con- 

 federate army marched in the parade. The num- 

 ber of delegates present was 2,309, representing 

 1,359 camps. Gen. Gordon was reelected, and the 

 annual convention for 1902 was appointed to be 

 held in Dallas, Texas. Resolutions were adopted 

 petitioning Congress to provide means for the 

 care of Confederate dead in Northern cemeteries, 

 asking that such dead be restored to their native 

 States at the desire of memorial associations, and 

 thanking Congress for providing for the reinter- 

 ment of Confederate dead in the National Ceme- 

 tery at Washington. It was resolved to erect 

 monuments to the women of the South and to 

 Jefferson Davis. The Memorial Committee, after 

 the convention, proceeded to Richmond, Va., to 

 make arrangements for laying the corner-stone of 

 Battle Abbey, which is to be the great Confederate 

 memorial. The Tennessee Legislature, before the 

 meeting, passed acts increasing the State pension 

 to disabled Confederate veterans from $15 to $25 

 a month, and granting an annual pension of $100 

 to ex-Confederate soldiers over seventy years of 

 age. 



TEXAS, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 29, 1845; area, 265,780 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 212,592 in 1850: 604.2 1~> 

 in 1860; 818,759 in 1870: 1,591,749 in 1880: 2.23-V 

 523 in 1890: and 3,048,710 in 1900. Capital. Aus- 

 tin. 



Government. The following were the officers 

 of the State for the year: Governor. .Joseph D. 

 Savers: Lieutenant-Governor, J. N. Browning; 

 Secretary of State, John G. Tod. appointed by the 

 Governor: Treasurer, J. W. Bobbins: Comptroller, 

 R. M. Love; Superintendent of Public Insti 

 Arthur Lefevre; Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 Jefferson Johnson; Railroad Commissioner, L. J. 



