Number farms, 6,658, of which 5,041 are occupied by owners. Average value per acre, cleared land, $19; woodland, $15.
Corn crop of 1884, 3,975,000 bushels; wheat, 1,007,000 bushels; peaches, berries and garden products find ready market. Value peach crop, over $1,500,000 annually. The growing of sweet potatoes a valuable industry.
Governor $2,000 Secy' of State 1,000 Treasurer 1,450 Auditor 700 Adjutant Gen. 200 Attorney Gen. 2,000 Supt. Pub. Ins. 1,500 State Librarian 450 Chief Justice 2,500 Chancellor 2,500 3 Asso. Justices 2,200 Senators, } $3 pr. day Representatives } and mileage. District Judge 3,500 Dist. Att. $200 & fees Col. Inter. Rev. 2,875 6 Deputy Collectors $900 to 1,600 Clerk 1,000 Collector of Customs 500 & fees 2 Deputy Collectors 500 to 1600 5 Boatmen 300
Dover $1,700 Middletown 1,300 Milford 1,400 Newark 1,200 Newcastle 1,100 Smyrna 1,400 Wilmington 3,100
Number different industries, 746; flour and grist mills, 81; canning and preserving, 33; shipbuilding, 18; lumber sawing, 86.
Canning and preserving fruits and vegetables an important industry; capital invested, $396,379; value of products, $634,940.
Capital invested in fisheries, $268,231; persons employed, 1,979. Value products general fisheries, $309,029: menhaden, $941; oysters, $687,725: total, $997,695.
Value manufactured cotton goods, $1,057,257; iron and steel, $2,347,177; iron pipe, wrought, $2,000,000; leather, dressed skins, $1,886,597; shipbuilding, $2,162,503. Products of all manufacturing and mechanical industries, $20,514,438.
Pop., 146,608: male, 74,108; female, 72,500; native, 137,140; foreign, 9,468; white, 120,166; colored, 26,442; slaves, 1860, 1,798.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday in November; number Senators, 9; Representatives, 21; sessions of legislature biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting first Tuesday in January; limit of session, 21 days; term of Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years. Number electoral votes, 3; number voters, 38,298. Idiots, insane, paupers and criminals excluded from voting.
Colleges at Newark and Wilmington; school age: 6-21.
Legal interest rate, 6; usury forfeits the principal. { 99}
One of the thirteen original States; named in honor of Maria, wife of Charles II., King of England; first permanent settlement made by English Roman Catholics at St. Mary's, 1634.