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WYOMING

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On Jan. 1, 1921, there were 147 national banks with 22,495,000 dollars capital and 9,894,000 surplus, with 355,627,000 dollars in resources. On November 15, 1920, there were 836 State banks with 32,070,700 dollars capital, 11,251,654 dollars s-urplus, and 520,502,972 dollars in resources.

Books of Reference.

Reports of the various Administrative Departments.

Winconsin Blue Book. Published bi-annualh.

Fittjiatrick, Budget-Making in a Democracy. New York, 191'.'.

Howr, Wisconsin : an Experiment in Democracy. New Tork, 1912.

La Follrtte, Autobiography: a Personal Narrative of Political Experience. Madison, 1913.

McCarthy, Wisconsin Idta. New York, 1912.

Phelan, Financial History of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin, 1906.

Thwaite$, Wisconsin in Three Centuries. New York, 1905.

Whitbeek, Geography and Industries of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 1913.

WYOMING.

Government. — Wyoming was admitted into the Union on July 10, 1890. The Legislature consists of a Senate of 27 members, elected for four years (about one-half retiring every two years), and a House of Representatives of 57 members elected for two years.

The suffrage extends to all citizens, male and female, who can read, and who are registered as voters and have resided in the State one year and in the county 60 days next preceding the election.

Governor.— Robert D. Carey, 1921-1925 (4,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — William E. Chaplin.

The capital is Cheyenne.

Area, Population, Instruction. — Area, 97,914 square miles, of which 320 s<|uare miles is water. Of the total, about 3,300 square miles are com- prised within the Yellowstone National Park, which since 1872 has been reserved for public uses.

Census population on January 1, 1920, 194,402.

The Federal census results since 1880 show the population to have been as follows : —

Years I Population 1 Per sq. mile Years

Population

Per sq. mile

1880 1890

20,789 0*2 1900 62,555 06 1910

92,531 145,965

9 15

In 1915 t

he population according to sex and rac

e was : —

— Whit*

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male . . . . ; 79,968 Female. . . 58,363

380 229

^31 105

949

no

82,128 59,577

Total . . . 138,331

609

936

1,829

1*1,705