The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-25
To be continued.)
A WEALTHY COUNTRY.
Census bulletins Snow Clearly Our
GOuM1rx-'S Prosueritx.

Two census bulletins were issued last
week, giving the statistics OF agrcu- tuIe AID
the wealth Of the United States. The to-
tai valuation of the real and personal prop
erty at the close of the census period Of
1890 amounted to sos 037, 091, 1877 OF ths
amount $50, 544, 5l4 1893 represents the value of
real estate and improvements. and SO, 492,-
SAC, S64 that OF personal property, including
railroads. mines and QuarrieS. AT the same
time the total assessed value of real estate
and personal property taxed was SO, Alb 49,
AS. Of this amount $3.50 $50 represented
real estate and improvements. and $6,516,-
GIG, 143 personal properly.
This valuation is classified as follows:
Real estate, with improvements thereon,
S3y, 544, 541 233; i've stock farms and ranges,
farm implements and machinery, $2,i03,Olo,-
0i0; mines and quarries, including product
on hand. $1,Z9l, 29l, SO; gold and silver coin
and bullion, 81. 15S, 77l94S; machinery of mills
and product on hand, raw and manufacture
ed, $3,056, 593 III; railroads and equipments,
Including 500, .S,5lJ street railroads, $obo5,-
40I, 80; tslegraphs, telephones, shipping and
canals, $701 155,7l2; miscellaneous, 1888, 7GS-
ST..
The bulletin on agriculture shows that the
total number of farms enumerated in 1890
was 4,564,64l, compared with 4,00S907 in
1850, increase of 5o3,ij4
The total area OF land in these farms waa
62%2lS,6l9 acres, of which 357,616,755 acres
were improved. In 1880 there were 536, 0S1, S35
acres Ia Farms, zN3,nI,J.l acres Oh when
were improved. Therefore. there was
increase - 81. ISL acres Of the total land
in farms. ana z, 8f5, 713 acres improved.
The percentage of the total land surface
in farms in 1880 was s.. lJ, as compared with
28.20 III 1851.
The value of these farm lands, including
fences and buildings, was, In 1890, $l3,27s,-
30, 6l9, and in 1880, $40, 1871, 096776
t,a F-7N . 60.
chinery in 1880 was $i9l,247.4o7 and in 1880.
$ivo, go, 055.
The value Of live stock on hand June /.
1890, Wd5 :-,2tS. 20. 5i3. in jane 1899, il was
$500, 3S4, 707, showing an increase Of AZ q
per cent since 1880.
The value of farm products in 1889 was
s., 80, 1911 i3i. The total number of horses
on farms ana ranges in 1890 was 10 25S, 1888;
SWINE, ST. 1881; neat cattle, 57,6iS, 1872 and
sheep 55,935,35i The total area devoted to
cotton production in 1889 was 20 175 270 acres.
The area devoted to the cultivation of ce-
reals in 1889 was 140,217, 545 acres, and the
total production 5,5lS, oI6,5V4 bushels.
A Song of Love.
L was as poor the poorest, dear, and the
world-it passed me by;
But not that day when you came my way.
with the love-ight in your eye.
All! not that day when the fragrant May
bent over the world her sky!
I was as lone loneliest, love, with
never a dream Of bliss:
But not that day when you passed my way
and leaned to my thankful kiss!
Nay! not that day. while my lips can say:
There was never a joy like this."
Dear it is something to know this love-let
the skies be black or blue:
1t is something to know that you love me
so-the tender, the sweat, the true!
And my heart will beat for that love- my
sweet, till l dream in the dust with you!
-FRt l.. STANTON
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