the "Main Wing," and 23 in the "Senate Wing." Many of the rooms are designated severally for the use of the various committees.

The principal story of the Capitol contains 48 rooms. Of these 17 are in the "House Wing," and include the hall of the House of Representatives; the "Main Wing" has 12 chief rooms, including the "Old Hall of Representatives," now used as a "Statuary Hall" (to which each State has been invited to contribute 2 statues of its most distinguished citizens); the "Congressional Library" (subdivided into various departments); the "Supreme Court-room," and the "Rotunda."

The "Senate Wing" contains 19 chief rooms, including the "Senate Chamber," the "President's Room," "Vice-President's Room," etc., etc.

The attic story embraces 42 rooms, designated chiefly for committees, documents, and "lobbies."

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The cash in Treasury consisted of gold, $263,774,741.81; silver, $410,116,967.91; paper currency and certificates, $45,763,786.76; other deposits, $20,874,762.12; total, $740,530,258.68.

The Demand Liabilities was for gold, silver, and currency certificates, treasury notes, fund for redemption of National Bank notes, outstanding checks, balance of disbursing offices and agencies, etc. Deducting the net balance in Treasury, $139,671,920.04, from the total debt ($980,309,976.11) leaves the net debt Nov. 1, 1891, at $840,638,056.07.

ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.

The assessed valuation of real and personal property in the several States and Territories for 1880 and 1890, together with the increase of the assessed valuation during the last decade, is shown in the following table:

1889-90.

$444,459,009

$186,488,966

86,409,364

+172,408,497

85,999,133

California

Colorado

Delaware

59,951,643

9,336,482

Spain

12,736,273

5,288,537

Georgia

239,472,599

Idaho

Indiana

727,815,131

782,872,126

55,056,995

79,646,997

UNITED STATES CENSUS.

The act of Congress providing for taking the eleventh (1890) and subsequent censuses was approved by President Cleveland March 1, 1888. It provided that the census should be taken June Î, 1890, and on successive days, and create the office of Superintendent of the Census with an annual salary of $6,000. Subsequently Robert P. Porter, of New York, was appointed Superintendent by President Harrison, and later a list of professional experts was selected and charged with supervising severally the various departments of the work. Their names appear in their reports embraced in the several volumes included in the General Census Report.

The work of enumerating and tabulating the people and preparing the numerous reports for the press requires many months, and at this writing (October, 1891,) has been reported to the public only in part. The first volume, it is expected, will give all the data as to population by States, counties and towns, nativity, color, etc.; volume two, health and physical condition, vital and mortality statistics; volume three, public schools, illiteracy, pauperism and crime, and churches and religious denominations; volume four, trades and professions; volume five, survivors of the late war; volume six, wealth, taxation, public indebtedness, and estimated values of property; volume seven, indebtedness of business corporations and individuals, including mortgage indebtedness; volume eight, agricultural statistics; volume nine, manufactures; volume ten, mines and mining; volume eleven, fish and fisheries; volume twelve, transportation, railways, navigation, telegraphs and telephones; volume thirteen, insurance. PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN UNITED STATES. The total production of gold and silver in the country was as follows during each of the years from 1885 to 1889 :

Missouri

North Dakota.

South Dakota.

Nebraska Kansas.

3,666,719 3,198,062 468,657 14.65 2,189,030 1,978,301 210,729 10.65 740,665 24.06

282,114

3,818,536 3,077,871 2,089,792 1,636,937 1,683,697 1,315,497

452,855

27.66 368,200 27.99

1,300,017 780,773 1,906,729 1,624,615

519,244 66.50 17.36

2,677,080

2,168,380

508,700 23.46

Year.

1885

1886

1887

1888

1889

The precious metals are raised mainly in California for gold; and Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Montana for silver. The total value of gold deposited at the mints and assay offices from 1793 to 1887 is estimated at $1,334,609,150, and the silver at $423,655,811.

In 1889-90 gold (domestic product) to the value of $49,228,823, and weighing 32,430,151 standard ounces, were deposited.

For other mining and mineral statistics see the several topics in these Revisions and Additions.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE. The following table shows the total values of imports and exports of merchandise for the years named severally ending June 30:

452,402 604,391 133.60 996,096 427,389 42.91

84,229

Idaho.
Alaska

Washington..

Oregon..
California..

* Decrease.

864,694 339,308 39.24

The number of white persons in the Indian Territory is not included in this table, as the census of Indians and other persons on Indian reservations, which was made a subject of special investigation by law, has not yet been completed. I Including 5,337 persons in Greer county (in Indian Territory) claimed by Texas.

The number of white persons in Alaska is not included in this table, as the census of Alaska, which was made a subject of special investigation by law, has not yet been completed

RELATIVE RANK OF STATES AND TERRITORIES IN RESPECT OF POPULATION.

The subjoined lists show the relative order of rank of the forty-four states and of four territories in 1890; also the order and rank of the states and territories in 1880. Indian Territory and Alaska are not included. The District of Columbia is included in both lists:

1890.

1 New York.

2 Pennsylvania.

3 Illinois.

4 Ohio.

5 Missouri.

6 Massachusetts.

1880.

36 District of Columbia. 37 Oregon.

38 Delaware.

39 Utah (Ter.).

40 Dakota (Ter.).
41 New Mexico (Ter.).
42 Washington (Ter.).

43 New Mexico (Ter.). 43 Nevada.

44 Montana.

45 Idaho.

46 Oklahoma (Ter.).

47 Wyoming.

48 Arizona (Ter.). 49 Nevada.

44 Arizona (Ter.). 45 Montana (Ter.). 46 Idaho (Ter.). 47 Wyoming (Ter.).

It will be seen that, as in 1880, New York still led the list in 1890, and was followed by Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois had exchanged places. Of the other changes in the list the most marked were those of Texas, which had risen from No. 11 to No. 7; Kentucky, which dropped from 8 to 11; Minnesota, which had risen from 26 to 20; Nebraska, which had risen from 30 to 26; Maryland, which dropped from 23 to 27; Colorado, which had risen from 35 to 31; Vermont, which had dropped from 32 to 36; Washington, which had risen from 42 to 34; Delaware, which had dropped from 38 to 42; Nevada, which had dropped from 43 to 49, and Arizona, which had dropped from 44 to 48.

CENTER OF POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

The center of population is the center of gravity of the population of the country, each individual being assumed to have the same weight. The method of determination used, in order that the result might be comparable with that obtained in 1880, was in brief as follows:

The population of the country was first distributed by "square degrees," as the area included between consecutive parallels and meridians has been designated. A point was then assumed tentatively as the center, and corrections in latitude and longitude to this tentavive position were computed. In this case the center was assumed to be at the intersection of the parallel of 39° with the meridian of 86 west of Greenwich. The population of each square degree was assumed to be located at the center of that square degree, except in cases where it was manifest that this assumption would be untrue, as, for instance, where a part of the square degree was occupied by the sea or other large body of water, or where it contained a city of considerable magnitude which was situated "off center." In these cases the position of the population of the square degree was estimated as nearly as possible. The distance of each such center of population of a square degree, whether assumed to be at the center of the square degree or at a distance from the center, from the assumed parallel, and from the assumed meridian, were then computed. The population of each square degree was then multiplied by its distance from the assumed parallel of latitude, and the sum of the products, or moments, north and south of that parallel made up. Their difference, divided by the total population of the country, gave a correction to the latitude. In a similar manner the east and west moments were made up, and from them a correction in longitude was obtained.

In 1790 the center of population was at 39° 16.5' north latitude and 76° 11.2 west longitude, which a comparison of the best maps available would seem to place about twenty-three miles east of Baltimore. During the decade of 1790 to 1800 it appears to have moved almost due west to a point about eighteen miles west of the same city, being in latitude 39° 16.1' and longitude 76° 56.5'.

From 1800 to 1810 it moved westward and slightly southward to a point about forty miles northwest by west from Washington,being in latitude 39° 11.5' and longitude 770 37.2'. The southward movement during this decade appears to have been due to the annexation of the territory of Louisiana, which contained quite extensive settlements.

From 1810 to 1820 it moved westward and again slightly southward to a point about sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Virginia, being in latitude 39° 5.7' and longitude 78° 33'. This second southward movement appears to have been due to the extension of settlement in Mississippi, Alabama and eastern Georgia.

From 1820 to 1830 it moved still westward and southward to a point about nineteen miles southwest of Moorefield, in the present State of West Virginia, being in latitude 38° 57.9' and longitude 790 16.9'. This is the most decided southward movement that it has made during any decade. It appears to have been due in part to the addition of Florida to our territory and in part to the great extension of settlements in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, or generally, it may be said, in the southwest.

* Furnished by Henry Gannett to the Census Department, Washington, D. C., Feb. 18, 1891.