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remains for Mr. Bond to negotiate with Mr. 

 Reid as to the modifications of the contract that 

 will satisfy public sentiment. As a contractor 

 Mr. Reid sustains a very high character, and it 

 is not anticipated that any difficulty will be ex- 

 perienced in coming to terms. The leading fea- 

 ture of the contract is that the contractor under- 

 takes to maintain and operate the railways for 

 fifty years for the land concessions, amounting 

 to 4,000,000 acres; and by the payment of $1,000,- 

 000 in hand he becomes entitled, at the end of 

 fifty years, to a fee simple of the railway. For 

 a long period to come the operation of the rail- 

 way in a new country must entail considerable 

 losses, and this contract frees the colony from 

 any responsibility in the matter, and $1,000,000 in 

 hand is equivalent to nearly $8,000,000 at the end 

 of fifty years. 



Business. The year 1900 was one of consid- 

 erable prosperity in the colony. The best proof 

 of this is the condition of the revenue. On the 

 termination of the fiscal year, June 30, 1900, the 

 surplus, after all expenses were met, amounted 

 to $260,000. It is likely that there will be a still 

 larger surplus on June 30, 1901. As the revenue 

 is derived from duties on imports, this indicates 

 an increase of purchasing power on the part of 

 the population. 



The fisheries, which are the staple industry of 

 the people, have been on the whole successful, 

 and the prices of the various products have been 

 well sustained. The value of the imports for the 

 year has been, according to the customs returns, 

 $7,497,147; of the exports, $8,627.576. The total 

 revenue amounted to $2,111,638. The funded pub- 

 lic debt is $17,377,101. This was mainly incurred 

 by the construction of nearly 700 miles of rail- 

 way. The interest on the debt is more than $600,- 

 000 a year, but the strain is not felt seriously. 



The total value of the fishery products was 

 $7,072,537. The seal fishery was successful, 203,- 

 850 seals having been taken, and the oil was 

 valued at $433,605, and the skins at $162,330. 

 The quantity of dry codfish exported was 1,300,- 

 622 quintals; value, $5,453,538. The value of 

 herring exported was $176,965. The export of 

 lobsters was in value $441,202; the export of 

 salmon, $94,784. 



The export of lumber was in value $100,208. 

 A great expansion in the lumber industry has 

 begun. Mr. Miller, a Scotch lumberer, who had 

 been operating for many years in Sweden, has 

 leased 800 square miles of forest lands in the in- 

 terior of Newfoundland, built several miles of 

 railway, and has now 600 men employed in cut- 

 ting down timber. His export will be very large. 

 He will also manufacture pulp for paper making. 

 The quantity of pulp wood in the island is prac- 

 tically inexhaustible. 



Mining. The mining industries were well sus- 

 tained during the year. The following is a list 

 of mineral exports: Copper ore, ingots, regulus, 

 value, $617,013: iron pyrites, $107,265; iron" ores, 

 $319,087; total, $1,043,355. The great iron mine 

 in Belle Isle, Conception Bay, is one of the most 

 valuable in the world. A part of it was purchased 

 by the Whitney syndicate for $1.000,000. The 

 whole is now probably worth $4.000,000. Ore 

 from it will be shipped next summer at the i - ate 

 <>f -'5.000 tons daily. It is conveyed to Sydney, 

 Cape Breton, for the use of the great iron works 

 there. As a mining country Newfoundland is 

 rising rapidly. Roofing slate of the finest quality 

 and in immense quantities has lately been dis- 

 covered. 



A valuable report on the minerals of Newfound: 

 land was lately presented to the Minister of Agri- 



culture and Mines by G. P. Howley, F. G. S., 

 Director of the Geological Survey. He shows that 

 in the ten years from 1888 to 1898 the value of 

 the ores exported from the colony was $7,829,148, 

 and that the value of such exports in 1898 was 

 $608,087. He also shows that the total value of 

 copper ore exported since its discovery was $10,- 

 500,000. Thus the island stands sixth in the list 

 of the copper-producing countries of the world. 



Sport. Since the completion of the railway to 

 Poi t-au-Basque, and the establishment of a steam 

 ferry thence to Sydney, C. B., the influx of tour- 

 ists, travelers, and sportsmen has been steadily 

 increasing. Last year 110 licenses for caribou 

 shooting were taken out, chiefly by American 

 sportsmen, the fees for which amounted to $5,600. 

 The American sporting papers generally speak 

 highly of the facilities for sport. The salmon 

 fishing is reported to be excellent. The rivers are 

 now carefully protected. 



For caribou the close season is from Feb. 1 

 to July 15, and from Oct. 1 to Oct. 20, inclusive. 

 Penalty for violation, $500, or imprisonment. No 

 person not usually resident in the colony shall 

 kill or take caribou without having first pro- 

 cured a license therefor. No venison is allowed to 

 be exported as an article of commerce. Dogs, 

 pitfalls, snares and traps, or weapons other than 

 firearms, are prohibited. Willow grouse, par- 

 tridge or ptarmigan, curlew, plover, snipe, or 

 other wild or migratory bird (except wild geese), 

 can not be shot between Jan. 12 and Sept. 15; the 

 penalty is $100. Wild rabbit or hare may not be 

 killed between March 1 and Sept. 15; otter be- 

 tween April 1 and Oct. 1 ; foxes between March 

 15 and Oct. 15; beaver, close time to Oct. 1, 1903. 

 No trout, char, whitefish, landlocked salmon, or 

 grilse, or any fresh-water or migratory fish, can 

 be caught, taken, or killed in any lake, river, or 

 stream in the colony from Sept. 15 to Jan. 15. 



Sir Henry McCallum, the present Governor, has 

 received an appointment to the governorship of 

 Natal, in South Africa. He is to be succeeded by 

 Sir Cavendish Boyle. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE, a New England State, 

 one of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitu- 

 tion June 21, 1788; area, 9,305 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 141,885 in 1790; 183,858 in 1800; 214,460 in 

 1810; 244,022 in 1820; 269,328 in 1830; 284,574 in 

 1840; 317,976 in 1850; 326,073 in 1860; 318,300 in 

 1870; 346,991 in 1880; 376,530 in 1890; and 411.588 

 in 1900. Capital, Concord. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Frank W. 

 Rollins; Secretary of State, Edward N. Pearson: 

 Treasurer, Solon A. Carter; Adjutant General, 

 Augustus D. Ayling; Insurance Commissioner, 

 John C. Linehan; Labor Commissioner, Lysander 

 H. Carroll; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Channing Folsorn; Bank Commissioners, Alpheus 

 W. Baker, John Hatch, George W. Cummings; 

 Railroad Commissioners, Henry M. Putney, Josiah 

 G. Bellows, E. B. S. Sanborn; State Librarian, 

 Arthur H. Chase; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Isaac N. Blodgett; Associate Justices, Wil- 

 liam M. Chase, Robert M. Wallace, Frank N. 

 Parsons, Robert G. Pike, Robert J. Peaslee, John E. 

 Young; Attorney- General, Edwin G. Eastman. 



The State elections are held biennially in No- 

 vember of even-numbered years. The Legislature 

 meets in January of odd-numbered years. 



Population. The population of the State in 

 1900 was 411,588, an increase since 1890 of 35,058, 

 or 9.3 per cent. This rate of increase has been sub- 

 stantially constant for three successive decades. 

 The total land surface of New Hampshire is, ap- 





