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PART II.
OFFICIALS
COUNTY OF BUTE.
THE COUNTY OF BUTE comprises the seven islands in the Firth of Clyde, viz.:
— Bute, the most populous; Arran, the largest ; the Great and Little
Cumbraes, off the Ayrshire Coast; Holy Isle and Pladda, off Arran; and Inch-
MARNOCK, off Bute.
The total Area of the County (land and water, exclusive of tidal water) is
139,658 acres, of which 53,510 are mountain and heath lands used for grazing. 3,806
acres are under plantations, and 794 are covered with water There are 25,981 acres
under all kinds of crops, bare fallow and grass, which is a gradual inroad on the
mountain heath and hitherto uncultivated land.
The principal Industries are agriculture, horticulture, and fishing The islands
possess great and varied natural attractions, and are in the forefront as holiday resorts.
The Population of the County (including its Burghs of Rothksay and
Millport) in 1801 was 11,791 ; 1831, 14,151; 1861, 16,331; 1881, 17,657. In
1891 it was 18,248 (8,057 males and 10,197 females) ; and in 1901, 18,786 (8,412
males and 10,374 females) — being an increase of 255 in the ten years — 2*1 per cent.
There were 4,270 inhabited houses in the islands.
The 1901 Census showed that in Buteshire there were 86 persons to the square
mile, 7*4 acres to each person, and 204 yards approximate or distance in linear yards
between person and person. The proportion of females to every 100 males is 123*32 ;
the number of families is 4,422 ; inhabited houses, 4,263; rooms, 19,433 ; 4 '25 persons
to each family; 1*04 families to each house ; 4'41 persons to each house; 4*56 rooms
to each house ; 4*40 rooms to each family ; 1;97 persons to each room, and 20 persons
gpeak Gaelic only.
VALUATION. — The Rental, as ascertained at the recent Valuation Courts, is as
follows : —
Islk of Bute — North Bute Parish
Kingarth „
The Cumbraes— C umbrae ,,
Ism. of Arran — Kilbride „
Kilmory ,,
County of Bute
Burgh of Rothesay
Tramways, Rothesay
„ ' North Bute -
17
1908-9.
1908-9.
£16,453 10
6
£16,324
4

10,581 6

10,444
8
6
22,258 13
6
22,312
8
6
16,456 1
5
16,243
3
6
13,111 13
5
12,510

2
£78,811 4
10
£77,834
4
8
80,763

82,315

10
211

9


1,428

1,185


£161,467 11
4
£161,343
5
6