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UNITED STATES: — KENTUCKY
Kansas city is an important centre of the live stock trade, The receipts of live stock in 1911 were valued at 31,600,000^. sterling, and the total vaUie of dairy produce at 56,585,437^.
Kansas, traversed by numerous rivers and six important trunk railways, has abundant transport facilities. There are 9,006 miles of railway line in 1910 and 295 miles of electric railway track within the State.
Book of Reference.
The Reports of the various Executive Departments.
KENTUCKY.
Government. — The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 38 members elected for four years, one-half retiring every two years, and a House of Representatives of 100 members elected for two years. Sessions are biennial. Qualified as electors are (with necessary exceptions) all citizens who have resided in the State one year, and in the county six months.
The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and 11 Represen- tatives.
Goverjior.—JsimesB. McCreary, 1911-15 (6,000 dollars V
Secretary of State. — C. F. Crecilius.
The State is divided into 119 counties. The State Capital is Frankfort (pop. in 1910, 10,447).
Area, Population, Instruction.
400 square miles are water.
-Area, 40,400 square miles, of which
Years
Population
Per sq. mile
Years
Population
2,147,174 2,289,905
Per sq. mile
1860 1880
1,155,684 1,648,690
28-9 41-2
1900 1910
i 537
! 57-0
In 1910 there Avere 261,656 negroes; the foreign-born population in 1910 numbered 40,023, of whom 27,555 were German, and 9,874 Irish, other nationalities represented being English, Swiss, Canadian, and Russian.
The population of the principal cities was, according to the 1910 census, as follows: —
Cities
1 Popula- tion
Pities Popula- > ^1^1^^ tion i
Cities
Popula- tion
Louisville . Covington . Newport .
223,928 53,270 30,309
Lexington . i 35,099 Paducah . • 22,760 Henderson. 11,452
Owensboro' Frankfort Bowling Green
16,011
10,465
9,173
The predominant religious denominations of the State are Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist, less numerous bodies being Disciples of Christ and Presbyterians.
