KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND 

 BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. 



KENTUCKY. 



loDgitude 5° oo' and 12° 38' west 



State is nn elevated plateau, : 



an, 55" Fahrenheit,] 



titude 36" 20" and 39° 6' north, and 

 a Washington. The surface of the 

 ng from the CumherlancI Mountains 

 i Ohio rivers on the north and west. 



ion (II, Lower Silurian, on the accompanying map) has an ar 

 ),ooo square miles; elevation of from Soo to [.150 feet above st 

 ar Silurian and Devonian (in, IV, on map) have an ar 

 :,500 square miles; elevation of from 450 on Ihe northwest ei 



e SubcarboniferoUB {V, VI, on map) has an area of 10,0 

 les; elevation from 350 to 600 feet on ihe southwest to 950 ft 

 tral region. The Western Coal-field has an area of abo 

 re miles; elevation of 400 feet along the Ohio river to S50 ft 

 iiheastern portion. The Quaternary (VIII. on map) has 



Stale is over 1.000 ft-L-i above the sea. The nun 



erous rivers pcnctraiin] 

 deep enough to secur 



ample drainage to the lands, with very few exce 





river boundary of S13 miles: by the Chattai 





northeast, no miles; by the Ohio on the noril 



643 miles; and by th 



Mississippi on the west, 50 miles. The principal 











sippi river system. Nc 



State has a frontage on navigable rivers equal to 









and large deposits of coal and iron ores contiguo 





In healthftUneSS the State ranks high, tty 



he United States ccnsu 



of 1S70 there were twenty-seven States shown to 



ave a greater death rat 



than Kentucky. The deaths to total populalioi 





cent.; in i860, 1.42 per cent.; and in 1870, 1.09 p. 



gc.sulubrity of climate 



improvement. The high elevation, perfect drain 



and purity of waters combine favorably, and ins 



ure health and vigor t. 









roduction of a vteorou 











Kentucky and Tennessee exceeded all others in 



height, weight, circum 



ference around the head, circumference of ch 





slature> and proportional number of tall men i 



n each 100,000 of sara 



vily. The speed and endurance of the Kentucky horse, 

 :rior development of all kinds of domestic animals of the, S 



of December and Jai 

 minimum reported froi 

 — 55"; in Iowa,— 40° 



ich higher. The lowes 

 I Kentucky during the 



ive slock of all 1 



;!1 shown by the following table, 





.840, 



1850. 



1S60. 



■870. 



Wheat 



First. 



Ninth. 



First. 



First. 

 Eighth. 



Ninth. 



Third. ' 



Ninth. 

 Second! 



Eighth. 











Thirtl. 





%■-■ 



Eighth. 



Wool 





Scv'th. 



Twelfth. 

 Eighth. 

 Third. 



Value of d„m.„ic »a„afactur«. 



Third. 



=iS 



r the entire 



dition to the numerous beds 



in the Eastem Coal-field t 



a slight notice of the Mineral Re- 

 entucky is the only State having within 

 ;reai coal.fields. The Area Of Goal is 

 ;cding the area of the Pennsylvania coal- 



E beds of Iron Ore. 



situated favorably i 

 extensive area, and 

 Pottery CXays arc 



: Iron Ores, all above 



vilh the lower 



,11 abo* 

 of good qualil 



n many parts of the S 



)al of workable 



There was but slight d 



velopment of Coal Mining in Kentucky 

 d to 500,000 tons in 1875 and to 1,050,095 in 





vigation of the rivers of the Stale recently 

 ernraenl, together with the large increase of 



the near future. There 



Timbers.— About 50 pe 

 rests, abounding in a grea 



n here be given. The f 

 rious pans of the Slate, 



vill also be a large increase in the amount o^f 

 manufacture of iron. 

 cent, of the area of Kentucky is in primitive 



n abundance would occupy more space than 



nd owing to the scarcity of trees in the great 

 laustion of the supply in the Northern Lake 



Oak, Qumus alba, Q. m 



acroearpa, Q. ruin, Q. paluitrif, Q. JaUnl^, 



Red I 



, T^miptT 



and 1 



icky = 



:ellei: 



iety by 



ith the pies 



e .streams combine in producing landscapes of great beauty. 



blc location of Kentucky has not been hitherto appreciated, 



railway lines connecting the East and the West passed north 



The completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway will 



ntly completed lines passing through the State from notih to 



itiien of Kentucky has the 

 ng all parts of the State. 

 ;cs, and rafts of limber into 



le boats, to New Orleans. 



lie Center of Population 



g the industries of this Slate. 

 : of Navigable Bivers pi 



river, and also by the river c 



The I 



Kentucky, eight 



adjoining t 



ink hold! _ 

 iff the same. The Stat. 

 1 to this sum. The Slate Taxation 



by s 

 and manufac 

 \ agriculturist 



least £750,000 available assets ii 



- -- ■-. but45j4 "nts on eacl 



ed very low for taxation 



for the Stale Agricultura 



NOTICE. 



The Kentucky Geological Survey and Bureau 

 of Immigration, Frankfort, Kentucky, U. S. A., 

 will furnish information to all who may apply. 

 "Information for Emigrants" sent free of cost 

 to any address. 



