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UNITED STATES OP AMEKICA. (IDAHO.) 



The increase in population since 1896 was 

 44,981, or 41.2 per cent. The number of Ha- 

 waiians in 1900 was 29,834, a decrease of 1,1 ^ in 

 four years; part-Hawaiians, 7,835, a decrease of 

 650; whites, 28,533, an increase of 6,105; Japa- 

 nese, 62,122, an increase of 39,793; Chinese, 

 25,742, an increase of 6,360. Honolulu, the cap- 

 ital and chief port, situated on the island of 

 Oahu, had 39,305 inhabitants in 1900. 



There were 189 schools in 1899, having 15,490 

 pupils, of whom 5,043 were Hawaiian, 2,721 part- 

 Ihiwaiian, 3,822 Portuguese, 2/~~> Asiatics, 601 

 American, 213 British, and 337 German, and hav- 

 ing 544 teachers, of whom 282 were American, 

 130 Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian, and 66 British. 



Commerce and Production. From Jan. 1 to 

 June 14, 1900, the value of the imports was $11,- 

 988,000, compared with $19,059,000 for the entire 

 year 1899. The value of exports of Hawaiian 

 products for the year 1900 was $25,461,000, com- 

 pared with $22,628,000 for the previous year. 

 Sugar was exported in 1900 of the value of $23,- 

 77-1,344; coffee, $176,749; hides and tallow, $82,- 

 192; bananas and pineapples, $48,039; rice, $24,- 

 077. Of the imports for the part of the year 1900 

 reported $1,159,554 came from Great Britain, 

 $453,727 from Australia and New Zealand, $136,- 

 585 from Canada, and the rest almost exclusively 

 from the United States. The chief imports were 

 provisions, groceries, cereals, clothing, lumber, 

 machinery, hardware, and cotton cloth. Of the 

 exports of 1900 the United States received 99.6 

 per cent. In the year ending June 30, 1902, the 

 exports were $3,000,000 less in value than in the 

 previous year, owing mainly to lower prices for 

 sugar, though most of the exports fell off. 



Navigation. Steamship lines run between 

 Honolulu and San Francisco and the ports of 

 Australasia, Japan, and China. The number of 

 vessels entered during 1900 was 665, of 867,905 

 tons, having increased from 386, of 447,997 tons, 

 in 1896. 



Railroads and Telegraphs. There are rail- 

 roads in Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu islands having 

 a total length of 100 miles. 



Telegraph-lines connect different points in 

 Oahu, Hawaii, and Maui, and a cable is laid be- 

 tween the two former islands. The Marconi 

 wireless telegraph was installed in the spring of 

 1901 for communication with the other islands. 

 The total length of telegraph-lines is 250 miles. 

 The telephone was introduced early into Hono- 

 lulu and is used by all. 



IDAHO, a Northwestern State, admitted to the 

 Union July 3, 1890; area, 84,000 square miles; 

 population in 1890, 84,385; in 1900, 161,772. Cap- 

 ital, Boise City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Frank W. 

 Hunt; Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas F. Terrell; 

 Secretary of State, Charles J. Bassett; Auditor, 

 Egbert W. Jones; Treasurer, John J. Plumer; 

 Attorney-General, Frank Martin; Adjutant-Gen- 

 eral, J. L. Weaver; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Permeal French ; Mine Inspector, Martin 

 H. Jacobs; State Engineer, D. W. Ross; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Ralph P. Quarles; 

 Associate Justices, I. N. Sullivan and Charles O. 

 Stockslager; Clerk, Solomon Hasbrouck. 



The State officers are elected in even-numbered 

 years, the term beginning in January of odd- 

 numbered years. The Legislature holds biennial 

 sessions, beginning in January of odd-numbered 

 years. Sessions are not limited, bilt members 

 draw pay for only sixty days. 



Valuation. The State Auditor completed in 

 September the computations of the assessed valua- 



tion of the State as finally fixed after the changes 

 made by the State board. The grand total of the 

 State was $61,291,896.36, an increase of $9,851,- 

 138.17 over the preceding year. The greatest in- 

 crease was in Shoshone County $4,247,470.99. 

 Cassia and Elmore both showed decrease. In 



1900 Cassia was ahead of the other counties in 

 percentage of increase, but it has been sliding 

 back ever since. Fremont County, which has de- 

 veloped very rapidly, did not show the gain in 

 its assessment, having made an increase of only 

 $92,566.45. The total of the assessments by coun- 

 ties reported to the State Board of Equalization 

 was $50,283,704.60. The assessment as equalized 

 by the State board was $51,648,827.76. The fig- 

 ures for railroads were $9,392,184.85; for tele- 

 phones, $148,132.50; for telegraphs, $102,751.30; 

 total as equalized, $61.291.896.36; assessment in 

 1901, $51,440,758.19; increase, $9,851,138.17. 



The value of merchandise in the State, as equal- 

 ized by the State board, was $3,041,980.25. The 

 valuation of patented lands was given by the State 

 board as $14,142,787.15; by the assessors as $14,- 

 443,086.96. The acreage was 2,981,268. The num- 

 ber of acres taken up under the homestead act in 

 the first five months of the year was 34,699, the 

 fees paid being $2,240. The entries for timber and 

 stone land for the same period were about the 

 same. 



The Pacific and Northern Railroad was assessed 

 at $3,500 a mile, a reduction of $250 a mile from 

 last year's valuation. The Clearwater branch 

 was assessed at $4,000 a mile, the same as last 

 year. The Western Union Company's telegraph- 

 lines were valued and assessed at $60 a mile for 

 pole and first wire, and $15 for each additional 

 wire, the valuation last year being $55 and $12 a 

 mile respectively. The telephone-lines of the 

 Rocky Mountain Bell Company and of the Inde- 

 pendent Company, except the branch lines al- 

 ready assessed, were valued and assessed at $65 

 a mile for pole and first wire, and $15 a mile for 

 each additional wire. The valuation of the Sal- 

 mon river branch of the Oregon Short Line was 

 fixed at $2,500 a mile. The Boise, Nampa and 

 Owyhee and Idaho Northern roads were valued 

 at $2,250 a mile, a reduction in the case of the 

 first line of $500 a mile. The assessments on all 

 main lines of railroad and branches not heretofore 

 fixed were fixed at the same rate as in 1901, except 

 the main lines of the Northern companies, which 

 were assessed at $8,500 a mile, an increase of $250 

 a mile on the Great Northern for a distance of 80 

 miles, and of $235 on the Northern Pacific for 84 

 miles. 



The tax levy was fixed at 46 mills. The rate in 



1901 was 52 mills. The amount to be raised to 

 run the State government was $245,000. 



Education. The semiannual apportionment of 

 the public-school fund was made by the State Su- 

 perintendent in July. The apportionment was 

 made by counties, the total amount being $36,- 

 576.97. This sum exceeded the apportionment for 

 the same period in 1901 by $4,996. 



Penitentiary. According to the report of the 

 warden of the State Penitentiary, the number of 

 convicts on Nov. 1 was 120. Four convicts were 

 received and 3 were discharged in October, during 

 which month the bills presented and allowed on 

 the maintenance fund amounted to $2,013.88, and 

 on the improvement fund $50. 



Mining. A great mining revival set in this 

 year, largely owing to the discoveries in Thunder 

 mountain, which is expected to make the State 

 one of the chief gold-producing regions of the 

 world. Idaho has a greater area of gold-bearing 

 territory than any other State in the Union, one 





