The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-06-09
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Interesting Statistics.
The following interesting statistics.
compiled from an appendixlo Report OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury to The Z.
States Senate on the Colonial and Lake
Trade of the United States, present at "a
glance picture OF our great resources:
Our average imports from 1921 10 1926
specie included, were $50 875 348; from
1910 to 1852 they were S8l 9G6 $40
showing gthatlhey have more lhan douolpd
IN thirty years. Cur average Imports
from 1852 10 1926 were 500 43 ,785 and
from I048 to 1859 $l75 043 800. In
! SO the tonnage OF The Untd states was
only | 29G 95S tons; in 1852 it was A.
1873 AL tons, showing that 1t has more
than treblcd III thirty yesrs. Next to
Great Britain, we have larger tonnage
Than any nation 10 the world, and in five
years. al the present rates Of increase
We shall surppss Great Britain
The value Of cur annual products cx
ceeds three thousand millions OF dollars
Of which ONLY about Sl70 0UO 900 are
Sent abroad, leaving $2,83O 600 900 to be
consumed at home and lnterchanged be.
tween the States Of the Union.
The total debt of The several States in
1851 was S20l 81 625. which was less
by some millions Than it bad been during
the previous ten wears The value Vi
property assessed ~ the same States was
IS 083 I49 407 The real value being how
ever. $40 068 l57 719--a pretty good
security. we think. for their debts, wheth,
er owing al home or abroad. sr
fhe total population of the villages.
towns and cities oil the Uunited States is
only 4000,000, whilc The rural popula-
| ii N, "lhe honest peasntry their country s
pride, = is 8 263 COO The four cities of
New York Boston, Philadelphia, aud
Baltimore contain apopuIalion Of l,2l4,
900 the amount Of whose real and per-
sonal property is $702 600 900, or about
$l20 each.
From returns from the agricultural
crops. il appears that we raise annually
$l43, 900 600 in wheat, 1891 200 900 in
Indian corn $100 275 600 in hay $40,
$40, 900 in oats, S73 1876 600 in Irish po.
taloes, and 1929 900 900 in co ton; the
whole crop being $l,75g, 583042.
The animals slaughtered are worth
quite as much rs the comIon, bringing
some $l830O0 per annum. One the
most useful OF our erops--wine-is yet
in its infancy, the Wes, having made only
little over 600 900 OF g,Ilops in 1851
worth about $500 900; butlhe cultivation
IS increasing and IN few years will be
immense. especially when New Mexico
and California, which are admirably
adapted to it, shall go into the business.
No portion Of the trade of the Union
has grown more rapidly within few
years than That connected with the steam
marine. The total number nt steam YES
sels now employed on eur coast is 625
with Tonnage of 2l2 500, and employing
ll770 mcn as so0icers and crew, Ia the
interior the number OF steam vessels is
7G5, with tonnage of 20472 and em
poying I76O7 men,
Our whole steam marine, therefore,
amounts TO 800 vessels, with Tonnage
OF All 226 manned by 90 81 men, ard
carrying besides freight, about 10000.
600 OF passengers every year IN this
vast travel only $50 lives We're lost in 1852
far too many. but not SO many as some
people, who fancy every steamboat a.
powder.houSc. are prepared to expect
The amount OF money pid into the
Treasury ol the United Stiles, as duties
on foreign goods in the year 1859 was ct
New York S2t779 $50; At PhiIadelphis.
$3,7i5I26; at Boston s6 ESQ 588; and at
Baltimore 81 ,063 $50 1t will be seen
that New York more than irebles all the
other cities.
There are l2 COS miles Of railroad il
operation in the United States. and l2
Ole in progress-more than all the rest
OF the world.
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