TENNESSEE

8. E. central stat. Virginia, Kentucky, W. by Mi ouri, Georgia, E. by N. Carolina. Surface is mountainous in E., where the Great Smoky and other ranges of the Appal a chi ans separate the state from N. Carolina, and reach an extreme height of 6,636 ft. in Mt. Guyot; in center is valley of EK. Tenne ee, and in W. is the great plateau of the Cumber land Mts. Drained by Mi i ippi, which forms W. boundary; and the Ohio receives waters of Cumber land and Tenne ee Rivers and their tributaries, and unites with Mi i ippi, Climate is healthy, with long, fine summer. Flora includes pine, oak, beeca, and other valuabie timber trees, persimmons, crab-apples, and other fruits. Fauna includes bears, deer, rattlesnakes. Agriculture is important industry, large crops of corn and wheat being grown as well as oats and vegetables; fruit is extensively grown; topacco and cotton are cultivated. Live. stock raising is le important than formerly. Minerals include coal, petroleum, iron, copper, zinc, limestone. Principal industries are lumbering, flour milling, manufacture of iron and steel goods, cotton-seed oil and cake, furniture, leather, textiles. See Mar U. 8. Tenne ee was first visited by Span. explorers c. 1541; settled by English in middie of 18th cent. Organized as a terr. in 1790, it was admitted as a state to Union (1796); seceded from Union on outbreak of Civil War, although a large party in the state was in favor of Federal Government; readmitted to Union (1866). Executive power is in hands of a governor and four other officers of state; legislature consists of a senate of 33 members and a house of representatives of 99 members, all of whom are elected for two years by popular vote. State sends two senators and ten representatives to Federal Congre . Tenne ee js divided into 96 counties for purposes of local administration. Chief towns are Nashville (cap.), Memphis, Knoxville, Education is compulsory, and there are separate schools for white and_ colored; several universities. Area, 42,022 sq.m., including 335 sq. m. of water; pop. 1920, 2,337,885.