The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-13

nearly 20 per cent more than Germany
and over one-thiri the product OF tn,
world. At the same time we manufac
ture IL 600 coo tons OF Steel as much a!
Great Britain and Germany. and 40 pei
cent of the product of the world. While
the worlds production OF coal has doubled
in twenty years. that of the United States
has trebled in the same period. We pro-
duced in 1899 more coal than Great Bri-
tain. more than twice as much as Ger
many. and nearly double that of all coun-
tries except Great Britain and Germany
In the closing year of this century we
shall doubtless mine 2I5,000,0O0 tons OF
! coal more than one-tfIird OF the world
| output, worth $3.50 GOO. goo. Not only do We
| produce more coal but we also consume
more and then have more left than any
| other country on the map. We consume
more even than Great Britain and all her
possessions and more than twice as much
as Germany, the third great consumer.
| Great Mining Resources.
"In 1s45 we mined 100 tons of copper.
We now produce nearly 100000 tons.
worth more than 500. 100000. In ten years
the worlds product Of copper has in
, creased 65 per cent, while ours has in
creased twice &c per cent in the same pc
Rod
|
900 ounces of silver per annum, one-third
the output of the world. worth 1000 600.
and 340O, 900 ounces of gold, ne-quarter
of the worlds output. also worth $780,
000,0
1--WE produce. in round numbers. 49,
600, 600 barrels of salt per annum. prac-
tically third of the worlds output.
This is twice the amount produced ten
years ago and three times the product OF
4 ,fy Ton a
| Britain and Russia each produced moro
salt than we, and Germany quite as
much. Now We produce as much as Great
/ Britain and more than Germany and
| Russia combined
1.-THE petroleum industry Is fOrty-fiye
years old. In 1859 we produced 1000 bar
rels. Since then our wells have yielded
900, 0OO, 900 barrels. The yield in 1899 was
81, OOO. 900 barrels, worth. crude, $64, 0O0.-
600.
Equally favorable showing can be made
with respect to nearly all mineral prod
ucts Our mines and quarries and wells
and banks and pits yielded last year $685.
| 600 COO worth of metallic and non-metal-
lie minerals, an increase Of Is per cent
in ten years and of $50 per cent in twenty
years.
1.-The latest available statistics giving
actual values Of the tangible property OF
ports OF the Eleventh Census. Careful
estimates indicate that the Twelfth Cen
sus will reveal nearly or quite $10O 00O,-
600 900 accumulated wealth.
II regret that the latest available sta
tistics of manufactures are ten years old
and therefore va1ueless. But SO good an
authority as the senior Senator from
Rhode Island. after careful consideration,
recently predicted that the Twelfth Gen.
x,-tII 70 81 mad nf
worth more that 81, 900 .000. 900. exceed
ing In value the combined output of all
the factories and shops Of Great Britain
and Germany combined by more than ST.
900, 000. oc0.
Output of Fisheries.
when the act was passed making the
city Of Washington the Capital Of the ma
ton nc one had ever seen a steamboat.
railroad, an iron plow. or friction match.
or thought of an electric telegraph or tele-
phone or dreamed Of an automobile. Es-
tablished highways were few and poorly
constructed. Generally, at least, the
road was built on Adams plan. and-aot
Macadams.
1.-The first railroad was constructed in
1880. Since then We have built. in round
numbers. 100000 miles. These lines OF
commerce have become the track OF emu
pire, the pioneer Of civilization. The I'M
surveyed frontier of 100 years ago is now
an Eastern metropolis. while the unknown
wilderness has become a reritable garden
of flowers and paradise Of fruits. Happy
millions. housed in what our fathers would
have called pala,ial residences. now dwell
where then no white man was or had been |
from the making of the world
THE close OF the most remarkable CEN |
tury in the fight of time finds Americans |
the best-housed. the best-fed. the hest |
clothcd/ the best educated. the best !
churched. the most prcfitably employed. |
and happiest because the most hopeful OF |
any people at any time or under any sky. |
Marvellous are the pages OF their history: |
and unparalleled the record |
Of their achievements; great and honora-
BILE the annals of their deeds.
They have perfected and applied all |
sciences known TO our fathers and dis
covered new ones. They have harnessed |
every known physical force except the
tide. and sought new elements and combi
nations of elements to enslave. They
have annexed all contiguous territory ly-
ing between parallels OF latitude congenial
TO our civilization. and have not been slow
TO assume responsibility, when duty or ma
tional honor has demanded. beyond these
limits. They have made surveys prelimi-
nary to the construction of a channel for
the bisecting of the continent and the
nuptials OF oceans. through which in COM
ing years shall pass the commerce of the
world moiety OF which, let us hope,
shall be in American bottoms. Events,
implanted and by some unwelcomed. have
made the United States the mistress Of the
Pacific. Destiny or mans wisdom. call it
which you WILL has placed both Asia and
he islands of the sea under American tut
do Hnu - III !