The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-14

except Great Britain and Germany.
In the closing year Of this century
we shall doubtless mine 275, ooo,-
900 tons Of coal, one-t third of the
worlds output, worth $3.50, 900,
900. 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 posses
slons and more than twice as much
as Germany, the third great con
sumner.
"In 1845 we mined one hun
dred tons of copper. We now
produce nearly 3oo,ooo tons,
worth more than $500, 900, 900.
In ten years the worlds product of
copper has increased &c per cent
while ours has increased twice IS
per cent in the same period.
: "We produce, in round num-
bers, $4,000, 900 ounces of silver
per annum, one third the output g
of the world, worth so, 600, 900,
and 3,4oo, 900 ounces of gold, one
quarter of the worlds output, also
worth $40, 200, 900.
"We produce in round numbers
10, 200, 900 barrels of salt per an
mum, practically one-fourth of the
worlds output. This is twice the
amount produced ten years ago
and three times the product Of
twenty years ago. Ten years ago
Great Britain and Russia each pro-
duced more salt than we, and Ger
many quite as much. Now we
produce more than Great Britain
and 50 per cent more than Ger
many and Russia combined.
"The petroleum industry is for
ty-hve years old. In 1845 we pro-
duced 1000 barrels. Since then
our wells have yielded goo, 900, 900
barrels. The yield in 1899 was
81, 900, 900 barrels, worth, crude,
S64, 900, 900.
American Manufacturers.
equally favorable showing can
be made with respect to nearly all
mineral products. Our mines and
quarries and wells and pits yield
ed last year 975 million dollars
worth of metallic and non metallic
minerals, an increase of $50 per
cent in twenty years
81 regret that the latest avail
able statistics of manufactures are
ten years old and therefore value
less. But so good an authority as
the senior senator from Rhode
Island, after careful consideration
recently predicted that the twelfth
census will disclose manufactured
products worth more than S12, 900
900, 900, exceeding in value the
combined output Of all the factor
les and shops of Great Britain and
Germany combined by more than
81, 900, 900, 900.
"Ihe latest available statistics
giving actual values of the tangible
property of the United States are
found in the reports of the eleventh
census. Careful estimates indi- 81
cate that the twelfth census willre-
veal nearly or quite s1oo, 900, ooo,-
900 accumulated wealth.
'sWhen the act was passed max
ing the city of Washington the
capital of the waters no one had
ever seen steamboat, railroad.
an iron plow or friction match.
or thought of an electric telegraph
or telephone or dreamed of an au-
tomobile. Established highways
were few and poorly constructed.
Generally, at least, the road was
built on Adams plan, and not Nc
Adams
"The first railroad was CON
stracted in 1880. Since then we
have built, in round numbers, 2oo.-
900 miles. These lines Of COM
merce have become the track Of
empire, the pioneer of civilization.
The unsurveyed frontier of 100
years ago is now an eastern me-
tropolis, while the unknown wilder. d
ness has become a veritable garden
OF flowers and paradise of fruits
Happy millions, housed in what
our fathers would have called pa
latial residences, now dwell where
then no white man was or had
been from the making Of the world y