The San Francisco call., 1901-11-03
GREAT GROWTH
Of THE WEST
Wonderful Strides Are
Made Within Louis
lana Purchase.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL BUREAU, 14O6 G STREET. N.
w. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The ap-
preaching centennial celebration Of the
Louisiana purchase has suggested to the
treasury bureau of statistics the compila-
ton OF some data regarding the present
condition and productions of the territory
included within that purchase. This state
ment shows that the land area of the
Louisiana purchase exceeds that of the
original thirteen States, being S64 ,944
square miles, against a total land area
of SO, ,944 square miles in the original
thirteen States. The States and Territor-
les which have been created in whole or
in part from its area number fourteen,
and their population in 1900 was H,708, SIG,
against q population of less than 100000
in the territory at the time of its pur-
chase. Their total area is nearly one
third that of the entire Union, and their
population about one-flfth that Of the en-
tire United States.
They produced in 1890 164 900 900 bushels
Of wheat and in 1900 264, 900 900 bushels, at
q value in 1900 of S152 000, 900, their total
wheat production being over 80 per cent
of that of the entire United States. They
produced 603 900 bushels of corn in 1890
and lob 900 bushels in 1900, with a
value in 1900 of 1914, ,OOO, 600, their total corn
crop forming in 1890 40 per cent and in 1900
48 per cent of the total corn crop of the
United States. OF oats they produced in
1900 81 0O0, 600 bushels, or 80 per cent of
the total product of the country, with
valuation of s71OOO,OOO. Their production
of barley in 1900 was valued at over S10,
coo 900, and of rye over s., 900 900; while
their production of potatoes in 1900
amounted to over $25, 900, 900, that of hay
S130 0OO, 900 and that of cotton $50 600 900 in
value. The total value of the agricultural
products of the States formed from the
Louisiana purchase, including in that cat
egory simply wheat, corn, oats, barley,
rye, hay, potatoes and cotton, was in 1890
500 600, ,000 and in 1900 $755 600, 900. The wool
product of these States amounted to 61,-
81 357 pounds in 1894 and in 1900 to l00,-
1896 $50, or 35 per cent of the total wool
product of the country, with an estimated
value of about SIS, 900 600, or equal to the
cost of the entire area The value of the
farm animals in these States in 1890 was
SIP ,000, ,000 and in 1900 $S25 900, 900. Add to
these easily measured farm products the
estimated value of the wool, the sugar,
the dairy and. poultry products and the
proportion Of the livestock annually
turned into provisions and 1t may be
safely estimated that their agricultural
products during a single year amount to
one hundred times the original cost of
the area, or, in other words, that its cost
is repaid by / per cent of the agricultural
productions of each recurring year.
The product of the mines is also very
great. The coal produced in this area in
1899 amounted to 22000.000 tons, against
1900 900 in 1890; the iron ore to S,491 900
tons in 1900. against 900 tons in 1890;
the silver product of 1899 was $50 300 1853
in coinage value, against $44 ,799, 1898 in $780,
and gold, $37, 7,712, 400 in 1899, against $10,-
$50 900 in 1890.
The prosperity shown by these figures
is further evidenced by the banking in
stitutions of the States formed from this