Connecticut western news., 1884-11-12
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.


 SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
 Miles of RaiIroad-TonnaEe of New York
 Exports and Imports, Etc.. Etc.
 The total number of miles of railroad in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota was 1,276 in 1850, 22,747 in 1870, and 55, 5,874 in 1883. From 92 to 95 per cent. of grain received at the ports of Port land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore during the year 1883 was the product of our Western and North western States and Territories. It is estimated also that about 95 per cent of our exports of beef, 93 per cent. of our exports of pork products, and 85 per cent. of our exports of live animals are the products of these States and Terri tories. The value of the exports of breadstuffs and provisions, chiefly the surplus product of our Western and Northwestern States, which, as before stated, amounted to sra, ,664, 431 in 1856, increased to $420, ,526, 48S in 1880, and the development of internal commerce was very much greater.
 The tonnage transported on the New York State canals fell from s, AZ, ,225 tons during the year 1868 to 6,664, ,056 tons in 1888, but the tonnage transport ed on the New York Central and Hud- son River Railroad increased from 1,846. 599 tons in 1868 to 10, s92, 40 tons in 1883; the tonnage transported on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Rail- road increased from 3,909, 243 tons in 1868 to 13, 610, 623 tons in 1883; and the tonnage transported on the Pennsylva> ma Railroad increased from 1, 722. .015 tons in 1868 to 21, STA, 160 tons in 1883. The total tonnage transported by rail on these three roads increased from 10, 476, ,857 tons in 1868 to 46,177, ,223 tons in 1883. From trustworthy data it appears that the total value of our in- dustrial products for the year ending June 30, 1888, amounted to at least $10, GOO. 900, 900; that the value of the products of industry in the United States is about 12.6 things the average annual value of our exports of merehan- disc and about 146 times the average annual value of our imports of merchan- disc during the last five years, and nearly seven times the average annual value of our entire foreign commerce. embracing both imports and exports. The real value of the internal commerce of the United States was nearly seven times the value of the exports of mer- chandise from Great Britain and Ire land, five times the value of the imports of merchandise into Great Britain and Ireland, and three times the value of the total foreign commerce of Great Britain and Ireland. It was elev en times the value of the exports of merchandise from France, e.6 times the value of the im- ports of merchandise into France, and five times the value of the total foreign commerce of France. Compare the total value of the products of the indus tries of the United States with the value of the exports of the countries named and the case stands as follows: Annual value of products of in-
 dustry in the United States. .$10, GOO, GOO 900 Total value of the exports of
 merchandise from Great
 Britain and Ireland, France,
 Germany, Russia in Europe,
 Holland, Austria-Hungary,
 and Belgium. um................. 4,463, 709, ,S28
 From this it appears that the total value of the products of all industries in the United States is more than twice the total value of the exports of merchandise of all kinds from the countries of Europe just mentioned.
 The total value of the foreign con- merce of Great Britain and Ireland with countries other than the United States was about one-tenth of the value of the industrial products of the United States.
 According to Mir. M. G. Mulhall, F. s. S., much quoted English authority, the United States is now the largest manufacturing country on the globe, the value of its manufactured products in 1880 being, as stated by him, about $650, 900, ,000 in excess of the value of the products of manufacture of Great Britain during that year. Our census valuation of products of manufacture in 1880 was S5, ,360, 579, 19l. Of this amount
 he value of products consumed in the
 
 United States and disposed of in our in- ternal commerce was $5,260, ,000, 900.
 But the total value of the exports of products of manufacture from Great Britain and Ireland to all foreign couu- tries during 1883 was only $l,047, 000,- 900, and the total value of the exports of products of manufacture from France was only S364, 100000 In other words, the census valuation of products of our own manufacture consumed in the United States during 1880 was five times the value of the exports of prod ucts of manufacture from Great Britain and Ireland during the year 1883, and more than fourteen times the value of the exports of products of manufacture from France during the same year.
 
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