The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-11
YEARS STATISTICS.
A Government Report for
1896 Gives Interesting
State Figures.
POPULATION AND COMMERCE
Exports and Imports Since 1882
National Banks, Revenue Col
lections and Failures.

lections and Failures.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1Ss7.-The sta
~tistical abstract of 1896 which has Just
come from the printers hands is full of
interesting information. 1t is the nine
teenth number n deals with population,
finance, commerce. agriculture and other
leading products; mining, railroads and
telegraphs, immigration. education, public
lands, pensions. postal service, prices,
tonnage, etc, of this country. The work
is prepared by the Bureau of Statistics
under the direction of the Secretary of
the Treasury and contains 400 pages. In
teresting comparisons of the growths of
population, productions, commercial and
other operations abound, and New Jersey
mas IN the volume a prominent place.
Part of the matter published will not
prove new to everybody, but it is quite
likely that the majority of those who
have seen some of the features, have by
this time forgotten them. The books
references to New Jersey will. therefor,
not be out of place.
The total area of New Jersey is 8,175
AoSAS AAhSS IL la fAu 6QQdTG All16S are
water, and 7,455 square miles land. The
first census of New Jersey was taken in
1880. 1t showed the State to have a popu-
lation of l69, 954 whites and 14,1S5 colored.
At the beginning OF this century the
State had 10, 1926 whites, 1924 coIored.
Midway in the century New Jerseys
population was 465, sos whites and 24,046
colored. In 1880 the total population of
the State was LA 933. OF this number
1883 were colored, and of the 1885,. 295
whites, 1913, 500 were foreign born.
In the ten years ending with 1896, New
Jerseys internal revenue collections grew
from 1884 $751; to A,111.71 2.89. New Jer-
sey's increase in h production Of dis
titled spirits from 1891 to 1896, five years,
was from 49S,154 gallons to 6l4,S1S gallons.
The increase in the production of fer
mented liquors in the same time was from
], 640,S76 gallons in 1891, to 2,023, 926 in 1896.
The chapter devoted to the classifca-
ton OF loans and discounts OF the Nation
al banks on October 6, 1896, shows the
following for New Jersey: Number OF
banks. I02; on demand. paper with one or
more individual OF firm names, 81, 1857. OIL:
on demand. secured by stocks and bonds
and other personal securities, So, son. 716; on
time, paper with two or more Individual
or firm names, $751; ,204; on time, single
name paper Zone person or firm. without
other security, s4.094, 1872; on time, secured
by stocks, bonds and other personal Sc
curftfes. or on mortgages, or other real
estate. securities. IS ,o29, 542; total. $51, Az, AIS.
a chapter devoted TO the aggregate
savings deposits OF savings banks. with
the number of depositors and the average
due to each, covers the years 18s4-o5 and
1866, and shows for New Ierssv-ssaS-as
n,,rha. = ss-. sehScy .-1oS7-so,
sr y uepositors. H. 60; amount of
deposits. $50, 500; average due each de-
position. $3.50. 76. 1866. number Of aenosf-
tors IA aaa. aro,.4 assos-
sos. 1870 sAt OF ueposlts, $~SS,6so,-
''D, average que eacn deposftor, $256.82.
1hefe Is a chapter showing the value OF
exports and imports from 1882 "a 1895 bv
districts Naw Tersa,ss Aa.es y i'.0 W
- = Jerseys TOTAL 1s not given.
Out tne district of Newark shows the ex-
ports of that district in 1892 were.-Domas
tic. s1a. $40. foraigr nara. .s....
~ m $3.50, lo1sisn. none; imports, free,
slo,4o0; dut1abie, 1882; total, s59, 7S2. Duty
collected, So, 736. No foreign exnorts far
Newark ara ,ono~+aa "a, ZOO -
wera s5oa 49, : ,o0s' wnsn lnere
I'll ioSl' beginning with which year the
~ f ncs Exports Were as follows:-1891,
ss'o 10 % aos1, Sl,VoIzf4; 1873, $4,474,559: 1894,
~ sfza,zlo, ana a slight rise in 1886 to s744,-
~ me ooinesllc exports in that time
arnngeo from Sfz.b6l IN 1891 ito $lQ,805, In 1885.
Ing eota aao lanie Ior lSs6 is;-Domestdc ex-i
LOTS S1g,Sso; foreign exports, $744, 500;
total, $40, $50; free imports, S1,946; 'dutiable
IalpoIus, Ss4l9o; total, Sl46,14l; duty col
aegeeus Sioo,loz-
IN isso New Jersey produced 62,214 pounds
Of oieoanafgarine. paying a tax on it Of
@Lz44.zS. In pigiron New Jersey In 1884,
Wltn twenty FURNACES in blast, produced