Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-05-18
AHEAD OF EUROPE.
The United States In the Lead as
a Manufacturing Country.
Our Industrial and Commercial Progress
as Compared with That OF Foreign
Nations "A Splendid
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r. III. Edmonds, a journalist of Balti.
moro, one of the most eminent author
tiles on the conditions of recent prog
rcss in the United States, contributes
to the Engineering Magazine an inter-
csting and valuable paper entitled: "a
Decade of Marvellous Progress" from
which q few conclusions are extracted:
The United States is now the leading
manufacturing country of the world.
We have far outstripped all other na-
tions in the magnitude of our indus
trial operations. 1t is almost incom-
prehcrSible that in ten years the in
crease in capital invested in mauufac-
lures should exceed the total invested
oniy twenty years ago. The value of
OF -2?nufactured products increased
a:rout . per cent; add 60 per cent. to
tbs u.!tput of 1890 and we would have
S13. zoe, coo, 900 in 1900-but that is too
much to expect.
The same rate of growth in mining
interests in this decade as in the last
would make our mineral output in
1900 nearly $1,000, 900, 600, while n
smaller percentage of grain, only
equaling in volume the total increase
il 1890 over 1880, would bring the
figures to over $3.50, 600, 900. If our coal
miners add to the output of 1890 as
many tons Is they added to that of
1890, ignoring in this the percentage Of
growth. eli, 600, 900 tons will be the
production of 1900. No other country
i'll the world v advanced in popula-
ton and wealth as the United States
is doing. The progress of the past
shows no signs of hating. In fact, the
development of IL foreign and domes-
tic trade and and of our in
duStrial interests is steadily broaden
inr out.
Contrast our position anu condition
with Europe, with surpaSs
ing those of all Europe, with wealth.
grating possibilities in soil, minerals,
timber and climate unequaled by
Europe and practically without limit
to their profitable utilization, with n
homogeneous population of ca, 900, 900
people unvcXed by the arbitrary rcgu-
lationS of half Il dozen different gov
ernments and free from the drain of
standing armies, the United States
justly commands the wonder and nd
miration of the world.
Great Britain is no longer the manu-
featuring center of the world, for we
have taken the foremost position in
that line. It's vast iron and steel bust
ness is yearly increasing in cost of pro-
duction, while ours is decreasing. 1t
cannot meet the worlds growing de-
mand for iron and steel because it can
not increase its production to any great
extent. 1t produces less pig iron low
thar it did ten years ago. Much Of it's
ore it imports from distant countries.
It's cotton is all imported. 1t spends
about $3.50, 10000 a year for foreign
food stuffs.
On the continent every nation is bur-
dencd with debt, and none of them
ever can hope to pay Off its obligations.
Measured by their natural
and advantages for continued growth
against their debts and the many dis
advantages under which they labor
they are practically bankrupt. In all
OF them the cost of production and liv-
ing must steadily increase. In the
United States we have scarcely laid
the foundation for our future great
ness. In natural we are
richer than all of Europe; VIC are pay
ing off Il debts faster than they arc
due; we have barely scratched the
ground in the development of our min
cral wealth, and our agricultural
growth can scarcely be limited.
1 Srirnftar S,o Ire.