Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-07
AMERICAS GOLDEN DAYS.
Volume of Trade with Foreign Conn
tries Reach Amazing Proportions.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
In an especially direct and emphatic de-
gree these are golden days for the United
states For the ten months ending with
october OF the calendar year 1900. which
Is the latest period for which ofhcial figures
nave been furnished the country exported
soVOOOO,OO0 more mercha ndise than II i'm
ported. This Is far ahead OF any excess
oI the past, and is $3.50, 900, 900 in advance
Oh that OF the corresponding time in 1899.
me tendency, too, continues to be upward.
FOR october alone the excess Of mercha
use exports over imports was slightly
auoNe s'E'VVOOOO, or almost $4,000 900 for
eacn uay III the month. Sundays included
Inc outgo OF both agricultural products
ana manufactures is on the increase, and
though the cotton exports of the past two
or three months have run the agricultural
item up to abnormally high figures, manu-
factures have shown a steadier gain tho
exports OF manufactures amounting to az
per cent OF the total merchandise shin
merits In the ten months OF 1900 as com
pared with 80 per cent In the correspond
'ing time In 1899.
According TO an estimate OF the director
OF the mint at Washington, based on the
hsures for the past ten or eleven months.
SO far as they have been obtained the
gold output Of the United States for the
calendar year 1900 will be S., 900 600 as
compared with s71,O0o.OOO for 1899 and ss4.-
ooO,oOO for 1898. The United States stands
setond among the gold producing countries
this year, Australia being the only region
winch Is ahead Of US. and that locality is
only $l.OOO.O0O In the advance for 1900. The
united states was third in 1899, South
africa, as well as Australia, being ahead
ot us then, but the war has practically
cut OH the whole African gold supply this
year. The United States Is rapidly re-
gaining the lead II had a few years ago.
III the estimate OF the director OF the mint
turns out to be correct we will be In the
advance in 1901. with s94. 900 900 OF a gold
output, as compared with SIS, ,OOO, 900 for
Australia and $4,000 900 for Africa. The
latter figures, OF course, are based on the
assumption that the damage OF the war
period In that locality will be repaired at
once ana that mining will be resumed next
year on about the scale which was seen
before the trouble began. Americas gold
expansion VIII be due to the increase in
Colorado and in the Cape Nome district
chiefly.
BUT tho gold output comprises only n
small part Of the mineral product OF the
United States. While. for example, ST.
0o0,oO0 OF gold was produced in this coun.
try In the calendar year 1899. s258. .O0O. 900
OF coal was mined with SPAS, 600. 900 of iron
ana *lO4.OOO,0o0 Of copper Each of these
was far In the lead OF gold, while silver,
s7o,ooo,OOO, and petroleum, S64, 900, 900. were
but little below gold in value of output in
1883 The total value Of the OUTPUT OF the
&C tuntry's metallic, on-metallic and other
mineral products in 1899 was ss7e 600 600,
mere too, all records, not only for the
United states, but for the world were
broken This country's aggregate mineral
production In 1890 was s6l9. 900, 900 and Il
was SS6s,OOO,OOO in 1880. AS It Jumped from
sos' 'ooo,ooo In 1898 to 1910 900 900 in 1899
ana as the tendency continues to be upward
the total will be far above the 81 900 900 600
marx In 1900 or be three times as great ms
IL was twenty years earlier. In all the
elements Of material greatness this countrv
Is advancing by leaps and bounds. In no.
gregate wealth the United States ia far IN
the lead OF the United Kingdom. which
stahds second among the nations in tbia
respect When the country's wealth ,or
isVo is reported few months hence n will
be found to be up to or above
the $4,000 100000 mark. This is a greater
aggregate Of wealth than was in tba an,,ua
world at the birth OF the United states a.
l776. A''eu states In