The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
ONE-FIFTH THE WHEAT
Produced in the World Grows in the
United States.

in her invasion of the commerce of the
world is intelligently discussed by the
British consul at Stockholm, Sweden,
by the aid of an important series of sta
tistical tables just issued by the SWe-
dish government, covering the COM
merce and production of the world in
a series of five periods. These tables,
which have attracted much attention
by reason OF the extensive research
are discussed by Consul Constable in
special report to the British govern
ment, a copy OF which has just reached
the treasury bureau of statistics. In
this report he compares the production
and commerce of the leading nations
and through his analysis of the gains
or loss which they have made presents
an interesting picture of the growth of
the chief producing and commercial in
tereStS of the United States in cOmpar-
ison with other great nations. This
analysis is, coming from these unpreju-
diced sources, especially interesting in
view of the favorable showing relative
to the production and commerce of the
United States.
The principal pig iron producing coun-
tries are given as France, Germany,
Great Britain and the United States.
In the quinquennia1 period, 1S71-75, the
average annual production of France
was 1855, 600 tons and in the period
1891-95, 20O6,0 900; Germany increased
1811-75 to 5,508, coo tons in the 1895 pc
riod. Great Britain increased from an
annual average of 1852, 900 tons in the
1S71-75 period to 1851 900 per annum in
the 1895 term; while the United
States increased from an average an
nual production of 1884, 900 in the 1871
% period, to an average of 8,263.OOO
| tons per annum in the 1875 period.
Commenting upon this table Consul
Constable says:
During this period 1t appears that
/ lr-iA
al share in the worlds production of
pig iron had sunk from 403 per cent to
| 2I.5 per cent, while on the other hand
| the United States has increased it's pro-
portion of output from 16.1 per cent to
| 800 per cent
The production of iron ore is also dis
| cussed in the table which shows that
| the average annual production of iron
ore in the United States in the period
| 1891-95 was 14,28S, 900 tons against 12-
| 249,OOO tons in Great Britain and Ire
land; 11,679,0o0 in Germany; 5,346,OO0 in
spain and 1861, 600 in France.
Commenting upon these figures Con-
| SUI Constable says that the annual
| production of iron ore in Great Britain
and Ireland have decreased from 16-
| 0S7,000 tons in 1871-75 to 12 249, 900 tons
| in 1891-95, while the production of the
| United States which for 1871-75 av-
eraged 4,532. 900 tons, averaged 14,288, 900
| per annum in the period of 1S91-95.
| The average annual output of coal
| by Great Britain and Ireland during
| the 1S71-75 period is given as 126, 972, 900
| tons against 1874, 819, 900 tons per an
mum in the 1926 period: Germany A =
! $4,000 tons in the 1S71-75 period and
| S7,0OS 600 per annum in the 1891-95 peri
cd, while that of the United States is
| given as 45,283,000 tons per annum in
| the 1S71-75 period and 100, 932 900 tons
| per annum in the 1875 period.
Commenting upon this Consul Con-
During the earlier period it thus ap-
| pears that Great Britain and Ireland
| supplied AZ per cent of the worlds coal
| output, but at the present only "a per
| cent; Germany II per cent, while the
| United States has advanced from II to
| nearly 80 per cent.
1.-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 increased
| from 100000 tons per annUm from 1881
! 40 to 7,091,000 per annum in 1S91-94 that
| of the United States increased from an
| average of $4,000 per annum in 1S31-4O
| to 5,522, 900 per annum in 1S91-94. Since
| 1S70,' says Consul Constable, Great
Britain's consumption of cotton has in
| creased by One-fOurth, while that of the
rest of Europe and the United States
has doubled"
Commenting upon the table showing
the growth of railways in the leading
| countries of the world$ Consul Con-
stable says:
ut is estimated that during the period
of twenty five years between 1870 and
1885, the length of railway lines in Great
Britain has increased by about nine
thousand Kilometres; in Russia by
about "a 500 kilometres; in Germany by
! q. 674 kilometres and in France by p. 1855
kilometres, i. e., nearly eight times as
great as that of Germany and twenty
three times as great as that Of Great
Britain and Ireland
The estimated average yearly produc-
ton of wheat in Germany, the United
States, the British colonies and de-
| Tendencies for all nations, shows, &C
cOrding to Consul COnStable'S analysis
that the United States produces nearly
one-ffth, the British colonies somewhat
more than one-eiglth and Germany less
than one-twentieth of the total produc-
ton of wheat throughout the world.
The table showing the average yeaEly
output of gold and silver for Germany,
the United States and the British col
Onies and dependencies is analysed by
Consul Constable in a single sentence
in which he says:
Thus the United States and the
British colonies together produce some
what more than half of the total
annual output of gold and nearly one
half the annual output ofsIlVer through
out the world"
A further analysis of this table indi-
Gates that the United States alone pro-
duces about % per cent of the gold of
the world and of silver 35 pei. cent
The total commerce including i'm
ports and exports is given in pounds
sterling. Great Britain and 1reland'S
annual average for 1S81-95 was e573,-
S88, SsS; for 1895, e589, 166, 666; Ger
MANY. 1SS1-85. GSO6, GIL, III; for 1S91-95,
P252 IN 777: the United States, 1SS1-S5,
eS02' 1888, 1873; for 1875. 9347, S33, 1893.
Commenting upon these figures, Con-
sui Constable says:
'eThus during this period Great Brit
aims trade has increased by slightly
more than 21h per cent: that of Ger
many and the United States each by
Is per cent, while the trade of France
has steadily declined.
The percentage of increase of popula-
ton in the leading countries is shown