Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-06-15
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The following very interesting statistics
complied from az appendix 70 report Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury tothe United States
Senate Oh the coliuial aud lake trade Of the
United States, presents at glance, picture
Of cur great resources
Our average imports from 1921 to ls26.
specie included, were Ss0 SIC ,34S; from ls4S
Il, 1852. they were SlSl, 966.j79, showing
that they have more than doubled 10 thirty
years. Our average imports from ISL 70
1896 were S59. 43g, 1S5. aud from 1915 70
1852, S175, 943,390 In 1921 the tonnage Of
the United States was only l,29s, 95s tons !;
in 1852 it WIS 4.13s.4il tons. showing that
il has more than trebied in Thirty years -
Next 10 Great Britain we have a larger ton
mage than any nation 10 the world and ID i've
years, Ut the present rate Of increase, We shall
surpass Great Britain
| The value Of our annual products exceeds
three thousand millions Of dollars, OF which
only about Sl69,000,000 are sent abroad,
leaving 81, $50, 900 to be consumed at home
aud interchanged among the States At
least $1,000, 600 900 is thus interchanged be
tween the States Of the Union
The total debt Of the several States IN 1851
was S201 Sal ga which was less by some
millions, than it had been during the previous
ten years. The value Of property assessed
in the same States was 50 9S3 149 407. the
real value being however, l006S, l5I7I9--
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 A.
100000 while the rural population, 'the bon
est peasantry their country's pride is 49,
263,000 The four cities Of n. York, Phila
Boston and Baltimore, contain population
1 Of 214 600 the amount Of whose real and
personal property is S702, 600 600, or S5Is
each. The property Of the rural population
is $2,312,O00, 900 or about $3.50 each
From returns from the agricultural crops,
it appears that we raise annually 3l43, Co.,
600 il wheat. 1891 100000, in Indian corn,
| 800 275,o00 in hay, S70,S40,00O, in oats,
| S73125, 000in Irish potatoes, and $l29.O 0o,-
| 600 10 cotton; the whole crop being 81, 49,
| $50, 042.
| The animals slaughtered are worth quite
az much as the cotton, bringing some 1888,
600 900 per annum. One of the most useful
/ Of our crops -wine-is yet in its infancy, the
West having made only little over 1000
| 600 Of gallons in 1851, worth about 5000
900; but the cultivation is Increasing. and IN
a few years will be immense. especially when
/ New Mexico ana California, which are admi-
raby adapted to it, shall 60 into the business
No portion Of the trade Of the Union has
grown more rapidly within few years thar
that connected with the steam marine The
total number Of steam vessels now employed
on our coast is 625, with tonnage Of 2l2,-
500, and employing 11,T70 men as officers
and crew. In the interior the number o
steam vessels is 1865. with tonnage Of 204,-
725, aud employing II ,6o7 men.
Our whole steam marine therefore amounts
to 1890 vessels with tonnage Of All ,229
manned by 29,371 men, and carrying, besides
freight, about 40, 600, 600 of passengers every
! year. In this vast amount Of travel, only
! $50 lives wore lost in 1852 far too many
bat not so many as some people. who fancy
every steamboat.a powder house, are prepar
ed to expect
The amount Of morey paid into the treas
| nry Of the United States are duties on for
een goods. in the year 1852 was at New
York. 2s,772 sos; at Philadelphia $S.7l5,-
! 159; at Boston. So 250, 5ss, and at Baltimore
S1,0G1 $780, 1t win be seen that New York
more than trebles all the other cities
| There are II, sos miles Of railroad inopera-
ton in the United States, and 1852 in pro-
gress IN ore than in all the rest of the world
!