Montana. Helena New Hampshire. Portsmouth. 1st New Jersey. Camden 1st Pennsylvania. Philadelphia 2d Texas. Dallas... Utah, Salt Lake City. Vermont. Burlington Virginia. Richmond Washington. Tacoma West Virginia. Parkersburg. 6.710.485.47 2.065.304.49 17.995 959.32 18.183.804.93 16.450.277.00 3 925.667.94 3.162.921.00 40.205,124.46 14 634 454.60 18,365,501.75 37 466.336 57 2.016.703.86 959.624.59 1.725.84 .2,621,745,227.57 Less than one-half of 1 per cent. 24.976.851.34 1.580.212.30 14,386.962 07 27.215.717.70 1,595.540.08 8 1 9 Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Total 1,547.897.02 . 2,086,918,464.85 1.691,089.534.56 1,841,759,316.80 ments of the 1923 income tax. Less than one-half of 1 per cent. Includes $20.329.08 income tax on Alaska railroads (act of July 18, 1914). ††Includes over $3,000,000 from payments of income tax for prior years. *Includes payments of the third and fourth installments of the 1920 and the first and second installments of the 1921 income and profits tax. tIncludes payments of the third and fourth installments of the 1921 income and profits tax and the first and second installments of the 1922 income tax. Includes payments of the third and fourth installments of the 1922 and the first and second install Includes over $9.000.000 back taxes on alien property held in trust by the United States. §Decrease. Tobacco manufacturers Importers, manufacturers and compounders of nd dealers and practitioners in opium. coca leaves, their salt derivatives, etc.. cluding tax on the product Total in 1.057.066.33 97,480,320.13 The expenditures for administering the internal revenue laws for the fiscal year 1924 were approximately $42.365.000, not including expenditures from the appropriations for internal revenue collections and refunding taxes illegally collected, which is in no sense an administrative expense. The cost of operation for the year on this basis was $1.52 for each $100 collected, compared with $1.73 12.418.180.28 for the preceding year. Expenditures include. however, approximately $7.510.000 for the enforcement of the prohibition law and $723.000 for the enforcement of the narcotic law. Deducting these amounts from the total leaves $34.132.000 as the expenditure for collecting the internal revenue taxes for the fiscal year 1924, which is equivalent to a cost of $1.22 for each $100 collected. The cost on a similar basis for the fiscal year 1923 was $1.39. 30.613.428.19 7.936.831.85 7.557.576.74 3.731.536.90 62,257,553.96 STATE LAWS RELATIVE TO CHILD LABOR. Following is the minimum age at which children are allowed to work in factories under the laws of the various states: Alabama-Prohibited under 14. Arizona-Prohibited under 14. Exception, boy 10 to 12 may, upon license, work outside Arkansas-Prohibited under 14. child 12 during school vacation. Colorado-Prohibited under 14. child 12 during summer vacation. Connecticut-Prohibited under 14. Delaware-Prohibited under 15. Exception, under 14. Exception, 12 outside school term on special child permit. Florida-Prohibited under 14. Georgia-Prohibited under 14. Exception, child Idaho-Prohibited under 14. Kentucky-Prohibited under 14. Excep Exception, child Exception, child North Carolina-Prohibited under 14. Washington-Prohibited under 14. Exception. West Virginia-Prohibited under 14. Wyoming-Prohibited under 14. Exception, LYNCHINGS IN THE UNITED STATES. Indiana-Prohibited under 14. Iowa-Prohibited under 14. Kansas-Prohibited under 14. Louisiana-Prohibited under 14. Maine-Prohibited under 15. Maryland-Prohibited under 14. 1896. .131 1911. 71 Massachusetts-Prohibited under 14. 1897. ..106 1912. 64 Michigan-Prohibited under 15. 1898. ..127 1913. 48 Minnesota-Prohibited under 14. 1899. .107 1914. 59 Mississippi-Girl prohibited under 14. boy 1900.. .115 1915. 69 under 12. 1901. 55 Missouri-Prohibited under 14. 1902. 96 1917. 38 Montana-Prohibited under 16. 1903. 67 87 1919. 84 Nevada-Prohibited under 14. 1905. 66 1920. 61 New Hampshire-Prohibited under 14. 1906. 60 1921. 64 1907. 63 1922. 52 26 DIMENSIONS AND AREA OF THE UNITED STATES. State. North Dakota...16 The gross area of the United States is The land miles. 3,026,789 square amounts to 2,973,776 square miles, and the water area-exclusive of the area in the Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico within the three-mile limit-amounts These and other to 53,015 square miles. data determined or compiled by the United Florida States geological survey, department of the interior, to show the limits of the continental United States. contain some interesting facts. The southernmost point of the mainland is Cape Sable, Fla., which is in latitude 25° 7' The extreme southern and longitude 81° 5'. point of Texas is in latitude 25° 50′, and longitude 97° 24'. Cape Sable is therefore 49 miles farther south than the most southern point in Texas. A small detached land area of northern Minnesota at longitude 95° 9' extends northward to latitude 49° 23'. The easternmost point of the United States is West Quoddy head, near Eastport, Maine, in longitude 66° 57′ and latitude 44° 49'; the westernmost point is Cape Alva, Wash., in latitude 48° 10', which extends into the Pacific ocean to longitude 124° 45'. From the southernmost point in Texas due north to the forty-ninth parallel, the boundary between the United States and Canada, the From West Quoddy distance is 1,598 miles. head due west to the Pacific ocean the disThe shortest distance tance is 2,807 miles. from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the United States is between points near Charleston, S. C., and San Diego, Cal., and is 2,152 miles The length of the Canadian boundary line from the Atlantic to the Pacific is 3,898 miles. The length of the Mexican boundary from the gulf to the Pacific is 1,744 miles. The Gulf of Mexico borders the United States for 3.640 miles. Nearly all maps of the United States show the parallels of latitude as curved lines and are likely to lead the ordinary observer to believe that certain eastern or western states are farther north than some of the central states that are actually in the same latitude. For this reason, one who is asked which extends farther south, Florida or Texas, is very as stated, the likely to say "Texas," but, mainland of Florida is nearly 50 miles farther south than the southernmost point in Texas. For the same reason, when we consider the geographic positions of countries south of the United States we find that errors likely to be made in estimating position or the Few realize that extent in longitude. island of Cuba, for example, if transposed directly north would extend from New York city to Indiana, or that Havana is farther west than Cleveland, O., or that the Panama canal is due south of Pittsburgh, Pa., or that Nome, Alaska, is farther west than Hawaii. Michigan Rank. Gross. .15 77,520 17 643 ..18 ...19 .20 .21 57,480 500 56,665 56,043 622 561 55,586 56,066 55.256 810 52,525 810 North Carolina..27 52,426 48,740 3,686 Alabama 28 51,998 51.279 719 47,654 1,550 Louisiana 30 48,506 45,409 3,097 Mississippi 31 46,865 Pennsylvania 32 46.362 503 45,126 44.832 294 40,262 2,365 41.687 335 35 41,040 40.181 417 36.045 309 .38 33,040 29.895 3,145 South Carolina..39 30,989 30.495 494 Virginia..40 148 Maryland .41 12,327 9.941 2.386 Vermont .42 9.564 New Hampshire..43 310 Massachusetts 44 8,266 8,039 227 .45 8.224 7,514 710 46 4,965 4,820 145 1.965 405 ..48 1,248 70 60 10 Virginia New Jersey |