The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
America Making Great Strides In
All Lines.
THE INTERESTING FIGURES
GREAT BRITAIN rs NOT HOLD
ING HER OWN.
British Consular Officer Shows That
the American Gain In Nearly All
Lines Exceeds That Of England
Percentage of the Worlds Prod
ucts Supplies by the q. S.

New York, Aug ia special TO the
Tribune from Washington says: The
rapid gain of the United States in her
invasion of the commerce of the world
is intelligently discussed by the Brit
/ ish consul at Stockholm, Sweden, by
the aid of an important series of sta
tistical tables just issued by the SWeo-
| ish government, covering the commerce
and production of the world in serles
/ of five year periods. These tables,
which have attracted much attention
by reason of the extensive resources,
are discussed by Consul Constable in
special export to the British govern
ment, a copy of which has just reached
the treasury board of statistics.
In this report he compares the pro-
duction and commerce of the leading
nations and through his analysis of the
gain or loss which they have made
presents an interesting picture of the
growth of the chief producing and COM
mercial interests of the United States.
in comparison with that of other great
nations. This analysis, coming from
these unprecedented sources, is espec-
tally interesting, in view of the favor
able showing relative to the produc-
ton and commerce of the United states.
The principal pig iron producing
countries are given as France, Ger
many, Great Britain and the United
States. In the quinquennial period,
1915, the average annual production
of France was 1.265, 900 tons, and in the
period 1875, 100000; Germany in
creased from an average of 1,946.00O
tons in the 1S71-75 period, to 6.5OS.OOO
tons in the 1S9195 period. Great Brit
ain Increased from an annual average
of 1852. 900 tons in the 1S71-75 period to
7,371,000 per annum in the 1875 term;
while the United States increased from
an average annual production of 2,2S4,-
COO IN the 1S71-75 period to an average
OF 1888, 900 tons per annum in the 1S91-95
period.
Commenting upon this table. Consul
Constable says: During this period 1t
appears that Great Britain and Ire
lands proportional share in the worlds
production of pig iron had sunk from
40.3 per cent to 27.5 per cent, while on
the other hand the United States has
increased its proportion of outpus from
16.1 per cent to 500 per cent
IRON ORE PRODUCTION.
The production of iron ore is also
discussed in a table which shows that
the average annual production of iron
ore in the United States in the period
1875 was 14,2sS.OOO tons, against H.
249 900 tons in Great Britain and Ire
land; II, 679, 600 in Germany; 5,34S,O00 in
Spain, and 1851, 900 in France.
Commenting upon these figures, Con-
sui Constable says that the annual
production of iron ore in Great Britain
and Ireland has decreased from 1851
600 tons in 1S71-75, to 12,241,O0O tons In
1875, while the production OF the
United States, which, for 1S71-15, aver
aged 1882, 600 tons, averaged 14,2SS,OOO
per annum in the period of 1875.
TN-NDEkcI7 TNT Coal
The average annual output of coal
by Great Britain and Ireland during the
1918 period is given as 126,9S2,000 tons,
against 1S4,S19,00O tons per annum in
the 1875 period Germany. 44,6S0,000
tons in the 1S71-75 period. and 9!,008,O0O
per annum in the 1875 period, while
that of the United States is given at
IS, 2S3 900 tons per annum IN the lStl-i5
period, and 100 932, 900 tons per annum
in the 1S91-95 period.
Commenting upon this, Consul Con-
stable says: During the earlier period
it thus appears that Great Britain and
Ireland supplied Al per cent of the
worlds coal output, but at the present
only 81 per cent; Germany II per cent,
while the United States has advanced
from II to nearly so per cent"
The estimated consumption OF raw
cotton for the United States and Great
Britain is given by periods as far back
as 1880, showing that while Great Brit
aims consumption of cotton increa sed !
from $50, 900 ions per annUm from 1881 I
40 to 1901, 900 per annum in 1924, that
of the United States increased from an
average of 3!6 coo per annum in 1881
40 to $500, 900 per annum in 1924.
Since $780, says Consul Constable,
Great Britain'S consumption of cotton !
has increased by one-fourth, while that
of the rest of Europe and the United /
States has doubled
GROWTH OF RAILWAYS.
Commenting upon the table showing
the growth of railways in the leading
countries of the world, Consul Consta- /
BILE says: 1T is estimated that during /
the period of % years between 1870 and /
1895 the length Of railway lines in /
Great Britain has increased by about /
8, 900 kilometres; in Russia, by about ]
"a. 500 kilometres: in Germany, by ~ /
GA kilometres, and in France by 22.4SS /
kilometres. while in the United States /
the increase is more than 10000 kilo /
metres, that is. nearly eight times as /
great as that of Germany and % times /
as great as that of Great Britain and I
Ireland"
The estimated average yearly produc
ton of wheat in Germany, the United /
States, the British colonies and depend /
encies for all nations, shows, according /
to Consul Constable's analysis, the /
United States produces nearly one-ffth,
the British colonies somewhat more
than one-eighth, and Germany less
than one-twentieth Of the total produc-
ton of wheat throughout the world"
GOLD AND SILVER
The table showing the average yearly