MISSISSIPPI. 



599 



The area of Mississippi is 47,156 square 

 miles, or 30,179,840 acres, divided into farms 

 as follows : 



600 bales, or a little more than one third of the 

 total crop. 



MANUFACTURES IN MISSISSIPPI. 



It will be seen from the above table that, in 

 1860, 5,065,000 acres of land were under cul- 

 tivation, and, in 1880, 4,895,000 acres, or nearly 

 as much as in 1860, which shows that the farm- 

 ers of the State are gradually recovering from 

 the disasters of the war. 



AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF MISSISSIPPI. 



Mississippi still keeps the first place in cotton 

 production, having made in 1879-'80 955,808 

 bales, while the second place is given to Texas 

 with her 808,000 bales, or a difference in favor 

 of Mississippi of 147,800 bales. Of this im- 

 mense cotton crop the white people made 323,- 



The principal articles manufactured are lum- 

 ber, cotton and woolen goods, cotton yarns, 

 cotton-seed oil, agricultural implements, wag- 

 ons, bricks, and machinery. The facilities for 

 water and steam power in the various parts of 

 the State are great, and are advantageously 

 distributed. 



The census taken in 1880 by the State au- 

 thorities, as a basis for the legislative appor- 

 tionment, makes the total population of the 

 State 1,143,713, of whom 481,728 are whites, 

 and 655,554 blacks; and 110,113 are white 

 voters, and 130,607 black voters. The number 

 of children of school age is 185,026 white, and 

 259,105 black; and the number of public 

 schools is 5,024. 



The population of the State by counties, as 

 returned by the census of 1880, and as com- 

 pared with 1870, is as follows : 



A State Prohibition Convention was held in 

 Jackson, on the 20th of July, forty-two coun- 



* Organized, In 1870, from parts of Marshall and Tippah. 



t Organized as Colfax in 1872 (name changed in 1876) from 

 parts of Chickasaw, Lowndes, Monroe, and Oktibbeha. 



1 In 1871, from parts of Carroll and Sunflower. 



Formed and organized, in 1S71, from parts of Carroll and 

 Choctaw ; in 1874. part to Sumner. 



1 In 1877, from parts of Coahoma, Panola, Tallahatchie, and 

 Tunica. 



^ In 1376. from parts of Issaquena, Warren, and Wash- 

 ington. 



** Organized, In 1874, from parts of Chickasaw, Choctaw, 

 Montgomery, and Oktibbeha. 



tt Organized, in 1873, from parts of De Soto, Marshall, and 

 Tunica. 



it Formed and organized, In 1870. from parts of Tippah 

 and Pontotoc, and, in 1874, part from Lee. 



ties being represented by 282 delegates. No 

 candidates were nominated, but an address was 

 adopted, and the following resolutions: 



Resolved, That the president of this convention 

 appoint an Executive Committee of fifteen, two from 

 each congressional district and three from the State 

 at large, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, and 

 whose duty it shall bo 



1. To prepare and submit to the Legislature at 

 its next session a memorial setting forth the evils of 

 the liquor-traffic in this State, and, in the nnmo of 

 this convention, praying and demanding that an 

 amendment to the Constitution prohibiting said traffic 

 in this State shall bo passed and submitted to the 

 people for ratification or rejection at the next succeed- 

 ing general election. 



