Voting population, 14,795; native white, 7,331; foreign white, 4,385; colored, 3,126.
School population, 9,650; school age, 521.
Legal interest rate, 10; by contract, 18; usury forfeits three times excess of interest.
| NEVADA. | Ne-vah´dah. "Sage Hen State." |
Name of Spanish derivation, signifying "Snow-covered."
First white settlements in Washoe and Carson valleys, 1848; organized as a Territory from Utah, 1861; admitted, 1864.