Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-05-24
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An article IN late number of the New FORK Post
presents the following very interesting statistics COM
piled from an appendix to report of the Secretary
of the Treasury to the United States Senate ON the
Colonial and Lake trade of the United States sios
Our average imports from 1897 to 1926. spe1
Gle included, were $50, ,S7S,S4s e from 1S4S tS
1852 they were $1S1, ,96e, ,5F9, showing that
they have more than doubled in thirty years.
Our average imports from 1921 to 1925 were
500, 9,7S5, and from 1S4S to 1852, Sl75,-
943, $50. In 1921 the tonnage of the United
States was only 1898 95s tons in 1852 it was
4,13s,44I tons. showing that it has more than
trebled in thirty years. Next to Great Britain,
We have a larger tonnage than any nation in
the nc world and in i've years at the present rate
Of increase, we shall surpass Great Britain.
The value of our annual products exceeds
three thousand millions of dollars, Of which on
ly, about 81 10000, 900 are sent abroad, leaving
$2,eS0,o00,000 10 be consumed at home and
ihterchahged among the States At least
S6oo, 100000 is thus interchangeds between the
States of the Union. % L. : : Llgs.L 81 81 lr
The total debt of the several States in 1851
was S201 ,541 1924, which was less by some mil
lions than it had been during the previous ten
years. The value of property assessed in the
same States was SIS, ,9s3, ,149, ,4O7, the real value
being, however, 81, ,O6s, Isl, 779-aP pretty good
security, we think, for their debts, whether
owing at home or abroad. ta - 2. 9ei a9t7
The total population of the villages. towns.
and cities of the United States is only 900 ooO
while the rural population, the honest pea
santry, their countrys PRIDE" is 8, 9,263, 900. III
The four cities of New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, and Baltimore contain population of
1,2l4,00o, the amount of whose real and per-
sonal property is $7o2, 1000, 900 or S57s each.
The property of the rural population is 50, ,SI2,-
100000, or about S12O each. ~" d 'al ai
From returns from the agricultural crops it
appears that we raise annually $4,000, 600 in
wheat, 1891 100000 in Indian corn, $780,
275,0O0 in hay, 7o,s4O, 900 in oats, S73, 1885,
900 in Irish potatoes, and 1929, 9,OOO, 900 in
cotton-the whole crop being 81, ,752, ,5s3, ,o42.
The animals slaughtered are worth quite as
much as the cotton, bringing some $l630O0,-
600 per annum! One of the most useful of
our creps-wine-is yet in its infancy, the
West having made only little over 100000
of gallons in a5l, worth about 100000; but
the cultivation is increasing, and in few years
will be immense, especially when New Mexico
and California, which are admirably adapted to
it, shall 60 into the business. a't
No portion of the trade of the Union has
grown more rapidly within a few years than
that connected with the steam marine The 4
total number of stcam-vcssels now employed on
our coast is CPS, with tonnage of PIP, 500,
and employing 11,77o men as officers and
crew. In the interior the number of steam
vessels is 765, with a tonnage of 2O4 ,725, and
employing 1907 men.
Our whole steam marine, therefore, amounts
to 1890 vessels, with tonnage of 417,226,
manned by 29,377 men, and carrying, besides
freight, about 4o,OOO,oOo of passengers every
year: In this vast travel, only $50 lives were
lost in 1852 far too many, but not so many
as some people, who fancy every steamboat
powder-house, are prepared to expect s.s-.-.-
The amount of money paid into the treasury
of the United States, as duties on foreign goods.
in the year 1852, was at New York, $2s,772,-
558 !; at Philadelphia, $3,715, 1926; at Boston,
Sc, ,25O,59s; and at Baltimore, l,O63, $50. 1t
will be seen that New York more than trebles
all the other cities.
There are 12,8O8 miles of railroad in opera
ton in the United States, and 1852 in pro-
grcss-more than in all the rest of the world.