Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In Texas there are whole counties
belonging to few. greatcattle raisers.
THERE is enc estate in California half
the size of the State OF Rhode Island.
ACRES under farming in 1860 l63, no.
72O; in 1870, lSS,9l1, 099; an Increase OF
25 per cent. ...s. g.H.
THERE is a single farm in, Kansas
which is reported to have a river 'front.'
age of over thirty miles.
The farm lands Of France are mort
gagged to but per cent. OF oithelr value;
in England TO SO per cent.
In 1880 there were l,Sll,2l6 hands
engaged i'm manufacture; in 1870, 2,OoS,-
996; an increase of 10 per cent.
KANSAS had in 1860 405, 46S acres OF
improved lands; in 1873, 4,343, 433, In
1860, population OfSy5Ol; in 1870, o3l,-
l56. ..#
The whole of the United States have
but 100000 proprietary agriculturlsts;
one-half the number OF France, with ten
times the area.
IL the opening OF the present century
our cities numbered one twenty-tifth OF
our population: now they comprise one
fifth of our population:
SPEcULATISa middlemen are increas-
ingly absorbing into their hands the
control and the profits OF the peach
orchards of New Jersey and Delaware,
and Oi the truck farmers everywhere.
BETWEEN 1860 and 1870 in every one
hundred added to our population there
were Is farmers, % operatives and me-
chanics, - traders, 10 professional men
and miscellaneous bread winners.
IL 1877 We exported Sl360O0,0O0 OF
agricultural products, each article OF
which ranged from S2,000,0OO up. OF
manufactures not chiefly natural pro
ducts, petroleum, copper, etc, we eX-
ported S4l 100000 OF articles, each OF
which ran above 81 100000.
BETWEEN 1860 and 1870 our farmers
increased Is per cent. on the numbers
of 1860 In that decade artificial Hover
makers increased 100 per cent; billiard
and bowling saloon keepers increased
100 per cent; showmen increased 400
per cent. Manufacturing establish
ments increased in this same decade so
per cent.
SIX million people find their living in
France from agriculture, upon an area
less than the State OF Texas, of which
about One-tenth was specially fertile by
nature, another tenth is absolutely
sterile, the eight-tenths being land re-
claimed and cultivated up to the present
productiyeness. Ia.
LEss than One-fiith Of our added pop
ulation during the last decade turned To
the culture of the soil. One-fi(th To the
basic indurtry, and iour-tifths to the oc-
equations builded opOn it. One-tifth OF
our workers laying the foundation OF
wealth. and four-tiiths crowding on this
slight ground work an overlapping
SuperStructure. Is it any wonder our
wealth is insecure and Panicky?
From the sensus of 1870 it appears
that there were few industries then in
the country in which the employees
could support a family without some
additional earnings OF their wives and
children, or lay up savings and become
small capitalists. Most industries alb
sorbed into the hands Of capital rs prof
its more than One-half the proceeds OF
labor; some rs much as two-thlrds or
three-fOurthS.
Nix. HARRIS GASTELL's recent report
of labor gives the proportion OF agrlcul-
tural labor in Prussia So per cent. Italy,
II per cent. France, 81 per cent. D.; Prus-
STA, II per cent; England, II per cent.
That is over three-fOurths in italy, one
half in France, nearly One-half in Prus-
Sia, and little over One-tenth in Eng
land. Our proportion is about 20 per
cent. or One-fith.
ENGLAND has 10000 land-holders; -
per cent. OF it's people only engaged in
tilling the soil; about one million OF
paupers. France has 6,0OO,OO0 land
proprietors, 5,OOO,OOO OF whom are small
farmers, and we hear little of French
pauperism. The nation paid OfSl ,OOO,-
0OO, 0OO. 900 gold as a redemption price Of
its territory, the cost OF the war besides
being about -, 200 10000.