A hand book of Virginia . s anddevastating storms and cyclones of the North and West. Theaverage annual temperature of the State is 56 degrees. The num-ber of murky, foggy days is very small and conversely the numberof sunny days is very large. The United States Weather Bureaugives as the number of fair and clear days for Hampton , while for Boston 237. Along the Blue Ridge Mountainsthere is a belt of country from 1,000 to 2,500 feet above the sealevel in which the humidity is exceedingly small, less than in anysection East of the Rocky Mountains in which the number of brightsunny da
A hand book of Virginia . s anddevastating storms and cyclones of the North and West. Theaverage annual temperature of the State is 56 degrees. The num-ber of murky, foggy days is very small and conversely the numberof sunny days is very large. The United States Weather Bureaugives as the number of fair and clear days for Hampton , while for Boston 237. Along the Blue Ridge Mountainsthere is a belt of country from 1,000 to 2,500 feet above the sealevel in which the humidity is exceedingly small, less than in anysection East of the Rocky Mountains in which the number of brightsunny days is very large. This region has but little dew at nightowing to its low humidity and is very beneficial to the people ofweak lungs. Virginia is today the richest State in the South except Texas,and is growing each year more rapidly in wealth and skies of Virginia are illumined with hope, and her people, con-servatively and courageously, are each year building a broader, aricher and a greater W C5 s 9 Progressive Virginia Virginias progress between 1880 and 1910, spanning one gen-eration of human life, is epitomized in the following table: Virginia. Land Area, 40,262 Square Miles. 1880 1900 1910 Population 1,512,565 1,854,184 2,061,612 Density 46 Cotton Mills: Spindles 44,340 126,827 358,536 Looms 1,322 4,608 10,770 Cotton used, pounds 5,087,519 17,832,465 34,698,567 Pig-iron made, tons 29,934 490,617 444,976 Coke made, tons 685,156 1,435,000 Lumber cut, feet 315,939,000 956,169,000 *2,102,000,000 Grain Products, bushels: Corn 45,230,000 28,183,760 54,621,000 Wheat 8,737,302 9,421,932 10,176,000 Oats 5,774,780 5,167,568 4,268,000 Live-Stock: Cattle 631,000 826,000 875,000 Sheep 497,000 693,000 522,000 Swine 956,000 946,000 774,000 Mineral products, value $1,348,195 $5,658,801 $16,000,000 Coal mined, tons 43,079 2,393,754 5^000,000 Iron ore mined, tons f243,542 |921,821 800,000 Railroad mileage 1,893 3,795 4,609 National Banks: Resources
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