Nevada is the most sparsely settled state of the Union.
Sanitary institutes are held by the state board at various towns each year for the instruction of the public. Boards of appraisers and equalization oversee the administration of the tax system; the cost of collection, owing to the fee system for payment of collectors, was higher than in any other state of the Union until 1907, when the fees were greatly reduced.
The female population is greater (and has been since 1765, at least) than the male, the percentage being in 1900 greater than in any other state of the Union (51.3%; District of Columbia, owing to clerks in government service 52.6%).
The number of the foreign-born population in 'goo was 113,091, or 35.4%, the highest proportion to be found in any state of the Union.
This part of the state, strongly Unionist, had striven to prevent secession, and soon became itself a state of the Union (1863).
