Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-09
interesting Statistics.

The following very interesting statistics COM
piled from an appendix to report of the, Secre
tary of the Treasury to the Uuited States Senate,
onthe colonial and lake trade ofthe United States
presents at glance, picture of our great re-
sources.
Our average imports from 1891 10 1896, specie
included, were SS0,S7s, 348; from 1913 to 1882,
they were S1S1, 966,579, showing they have more
than doubled in thirty years. Our average i'm
ports from 1891 To 1926 were 500, 439, 7S5, and
from 1s4s TO 1852, SI75, sl3,S90. In4s21 the ton
mage of the United States was only; 1898, 958
tons; in 1852 it was ,l3s, AL tons, showing that
it has more than trebled in thirty years. Next TO
Great Britain we have larsers tonnage than any
nation in the world, and IN FIVE years, at the pres
emf rate of increase, we shall surpass Great Bri-
tain.
The value of our annual products exceeds three
thousand millions of dollars, of which one hun
bred and sixty-nine millions are sent abroad,
aeving 50, $4,000, 10 be consumed at home and
ineichanged among the States. AT least $4,000,
100000 is thus interchanged between the States OF
the Union.
The total debt of the several States in 1851 was
S20l 1924 which was less by millions than
it had been during the previous ten years. The
value of property assessed in the same States was
So, 1888, Las, 4U7, the real value being, however,
$40, 06s LAT, 179-a pretty good security, we think
for their debts, whether owing at home or abroad.
The total population of the villages, towns and
cities Of the United States is only 100000 while
ILe IuEal pOpulullOn, HOneSl
countrys pride,' is 19,263,C00. The -four cities
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Balti-
more, contain a population of 1,2l4, ZOO, the
amount fwhose real and personal property is 702,
100000, or S5IS each. The property ofthe rural
population is S2,312,000,000 or about $500 each.
rom the returns from the agricultural crops, it
appears that we RAISE annually 143,000,000 in
wheat, 1891 200, 000 in Indian corn, $3.50, 2I5,-
600 IN hay, SO, S40,O00 i'll oats, S13, l25, 900 in
Ir Sh 'PotatoeS and SI29,000,000 i'll cotton; the
whole crop being 81, 752, 5S3,oi2.
The Annually slaughtered are worth quite as
much us the cotton, bringing some 1S3,o0o,000 per
annum. One of the most useful Of crops-wIne
| is yet in its infancy, the West having made on
ly little million of gallons in 1851,
worth about S500,00n. but Tie cultivation is in
cTeaSng, and in few years Will be immense, es-
pecially when New Mexico aud California, which
are admirably adapted TO it, shall go into the bu-
SineSS.
No portion of the trnde oil the Union has grown
more rapidly within few years than that conmec-
ted with the steam marine. The total number of
steam vessels employ ed OH our coasts 625, with
tonnage of $500, aud employing 1l,770 men as
officers and crew. In the interior the number of
steam vessels is 765, with tonnage of 2O4, I25,
and employing II, GOT men.
Our whole steam marine, therefore, amounts TO
1, $3.50 vessels with tonnage of 4l7,229, manned
by ,371 men, and carrying, besides freight, about
40,o00,Ooo of passengers every year. ln this vast
travel, only $50 lives were lost IN 1S52-far too
many, but not so many as some people, who fancy
| every steamboat powder-house, are prepared TO
expect.
The amount OF money paid into the treasury of
the United States, as duties on foreign goods, in
the year 1882 was at New York, s2S, 712, 65S; at
Philadelphia. SO, 159; at Boston, Sc, 25o, 5S3
and Baltimore 81 ,U6l $50. 1t will be seen that
New York more than trebles all the o. her cities.
| There II, S08 miles of railroad IN operation
in the United States, and 1852 i'll progress
more than in all the rest of the world.