The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-11-16


rHE GRAND RECORD OF THE UNITED
STATES AS SHOWN BY II CENSUS
FIGURES.
J WI in The Wool Record.
The increase in population of tn,
southern States has been 100 per CEN.
incc 1850. While IS per cent. of In,
olorcd population of the United States
) found in the Southern States The ne
no Is losing ground there. The urba,
population of The South has mere thai
ioubled since 1870, aud the rural has
Increased only 50 per cent, bul tn,
ural districts still have nire-tcnths OF
he total, as agriculture is the chief oc-
upation of the people. Is is Il rcmark-
Bile fact that the foreign population Is
My 2 per ccnt. Of the total, and is
ounI chiefly ia Texas and Florifa.
The cotton crop of The South cover>
IN area Of "a 600 900 acres, equal +,
he aggregate extent of the three Eu.
"pcan counuie of Holland. Belgium
md Dcnma k. Onc-half of the to
mvco crop of the c uutry is grown IL
kentucky. Onc-lifth Of the lun,
'rr Of the Union, about 5000,
90 cubic feet, with n value of SAT pc
Icad of population, is grown in tn,
,"utncrn States. In manufactures lib,
,vrragr product per operative has Use,
4 per cent and wages G6 per cnt
h"wing that the working classes a.,
.alu.rs in this section, too. Manuiac
ur"s here are Iii their infancy, The out
nut being equal I" but $50 per inhab:
mi, against 1888 in the Made States
Kentucky is considerably ahead of tir
'thcr States, will, a ratio of SOS PEI
read. Before the Californian cpUcl
North Carolina was regarded as II col,
Producing State, but the Suu,hcin
tatcs collectively have produced on.l
1000 ounccS ,f gold and $40, 00u
unccS of silver annually ion several
cals. Coal and iron have taken thril
lace as the chief mineral products.
The Southern States possess no less
han five Of the eleven scaports which
ave commercial relations of any not,
With foreign countries, but they are O
Iinor rank, the total cIcarHntcs no.
l'nIc reaching 1000 900 tom yearly, s.,
hat their aggregate trade is Il little .cS>
han that OF Boston. The Southern,
orls are New Orleans, Savannah.
ialvcstnn, Mobile and Charleston.
he official returns show that The New
orleans uadr is considerably more than
hal OF all the Others combined. The
veragc wealth per inhanliant IN Texas
nd Florida is much higher than in ;hc
Their Southern States.
The prairie States are twelve i'm mum
Ell, only seven of which had rXistcmc,
II 1880. The population is still sparse.
III has %quintuplcd since 1850. Illinois
: now Tive foremost State of the group,
whereas in 1880 lis population was less
han half that of Ohio. The increase
II American population in this section
II been 2S5 per cent. during this pc
lod, and in foreign population SOB PEI
cnt. OF the latter the German is 40
Der cent. of the total, the Scandinavian
- per cent. and the Irish II per cent.
This section produces molc thar
iwo-ihirds of the grain and nearly one
ha.f OF the i've stock of the Union.
he new farms cultivated between
800 and 1890 exceeded the total area
f the German empire, Holland, Bel
GUM and denmark. There has been
nothing Xix" this in the history Of man
Nlnd, and there is no part of the world
where farming is on so gigantic Il SC tic.
The census of 1890 shows n grain crop
Of three tons per inhabitant, or ten
ilmcs the European average. The
prairie States raise nearly as mu, h
gram as France, Germany and Austria
combined, almost twice us much meat
rs either France or Austria. Iowa is
he foremost State IN food production,
with an average Of five tons of grain
md 500 pounds of meat per inhabitani,
her grain crop being larger than that
Df Itol\ or Snoin Tho nr,;,;o S,