The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-10
FACTS ABOUT OUR OWN STATE.
Encouraging Lessons from the Bureau of
Statistics In Was hington.

Encouraging Lossons from the Bureau OF
Statistics In Washington.
w ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-It is said
most Of our torists see foreign lands
before they are fully acquainted with
their own country, and in the same
way many students Of history and cur
rent events give their mind to foreign
Governments before fully alive to homo
matters. The bureau of statistics of
the treasury department has been get
ting together some interesting and use
tul information relating to the States,
their people, productions and industrial
pursuits, which convey in a compact
form much useful knowledge. Your
correspondent has collected such of
them as pertain to South Carolina.
TO start at the initial point 1t can be
said that South Carolina has an area of
$1,000 square miles, or 81, 10000 acres,
with population Of Isl, ,149. The de-
velOpment of the State has not been so
rapid as might be desirable, but tho ad-
vance has been steady from year to
year. beginning with the first census
in 1880 South Carolina ranked in popu-
lation as seventh among the "original
thirteen" the number of people then
being 2l9,O73; by 1900 it had reached
sixth place. Then, owing to the gigan-
tic strides made by the West, it COM
menced to fall back In rank while
steadily going ahead, until in 1890 it be-
came twenty-third on the list. Be
tween 1850 and 1870 thel increase of
population did not reach two thousand,
largely owing to the casualties of the
war, and no doubt also to imperfect
enumeration.
The public school system of the State
cost $lGO,399 annually. taking the last
figures for a basis, of which the teachers
and superintendent receive in salaries
SlO4 ,5Si. These teachers number 4, $50;
males, 2,21O; females, 2O4O. The num-
Der Of pupils enrolled in The public
schools is 19l,2 1854. For the higher edu-
cation Of the young of both sexes South
Carolina is as well provided for as the
average State. There are five theolog-
ical schools, with 275 pupils studying
for the ministry, two law schools, and
one medical college. The colleges of
having l,O6l students. There are five
female colleges, the attendance being
722.
AS a cotton producing region South
Carolina ranks rs sixth State, having
al acreage Of 1,fi6,5l8 acres.
The number Of farm animals in South
Carolina together with their value, is
given rs follows:
Number. Value.
Horses .............. G8,897 SO, ,165, ,754
Mules ............... 79,269 7,77O,2l6
Milch cows. ...........1 .156.575 3,324,O87
Oxen and other cattle .2O8,292 2,613,O23
Sheep. NATURALIZATION. $3.50 18O,125
Swine ...............6 .67O,652 2629,957
While the State debt has increased
during the past decade, that of the
counties shows a considerable reduc.
tion. Taken together slight decrease
is shown. The facts can be understood
from the following statement: The
State debt, less sinking fund, in 1880
amounted to So, 1886. while in 1896 1T
had grown to $6,566,849. The county
debt, exclusive Of municipal and town
Indebtedness, less sinking fund, was in
1880 81 ,573. .759; in 1890 81 ,OG2, ,75O. Total
debt, less sinking fund, in 1880 $7,72O,-
BOO; 1890 $7,629,599. Debt, less sinking
fund, per capita, in 1880 $s775; 1890
SGG3.
The business interest show up we'll
IN the comparisons relating to CONNER
cal failures in the South 'aSt wear. as
tle per cent of local fail les is but so
aS against an average of .26 per cent
for the entire section.
The number of failures in the State
last year was but i2 out of a total
number of business concerns of 1916,
The total liabilities only amounted to
$419,010.
One particular fact should be recorded,
as it exemplilies the tendency to econo
my OF the working people of the State.
south Carolina wage-earners have a
larger amount of money in the savings
banks than can be shown by any other
southern State, Again, with the eX-
ceptlon of Georgia, it has larger num-
Der OF depoHltors. The figures for
south Carolina are as follows: Mum
Der depOsitors 81 ,885; amount of depos-
It's S3,27l ,diO; average to each depositor
$l19S2. The deposits have increased d
during the last year in the sum of
$077, 1856.
1t Is the usual assumption in some
quarters, that Southerners are a liquor
drinking people. and that in the South
the trade particularly ilourishes. The
statistics. however, do not bear out any
such conclusions. II they prove any
thing they prove that the South Is not
good field for the Temperance adyo-
Gates. In the whole of South Carolina
there are but 1929 persons engaged in
the liquor traffic, and this includes
everybody, from the distillers and
brewers to the country grog shops;
while III little Rhode Island 2,O56 such
dealers Can be scored up. Little Rhody,
too, leans toward prohibition.
The number Of miles Of railroad in
operation in South Carolina Is 2 1923, as
against l,427 miles in 1880, showing an
Increase in mileage Of 90l miles in the
ten years.
that Somth Saro,;na matas o"nd
showing in this exhibit Of the States.--
News and Courier.
TIE eleventh census will show that