Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-08-30
GROWTH OF UNITED STATES
Review of Statistics from Eighteen Hundred
Up to the Present Year,
PERcAPITA CIRCULATION At MAXIMUM
TonderfuI Increase in Value of Farm
>ducts, ms Well Rs I'm Man
ufacturing - Public Debt
Fluctuations.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2e.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-A moving picture Of conditions in
the United States at decennial intervals
from 1900 TO 1850 and annually from 1850
to 1902 is presented in a monograph just
issued by the Treasury bureau OF statistics,
entitled Progress Of the United States
in Its Material Industries" This mono
graph consists OF series Of tables showing
area, population, wealth, debt money In
circulation, banks and bank clearings and
depositors, farms and farm values, manu-
factures and their value, revenues, ex-
penditures, imports. exports, railways and
their business. the shipping industry and
many other features of national develop
ment in the census years from 1900 to
1850, and annually from 1850 to 1902. The
figures presented, regarding more than 100
subjects, show an interesting and in many
cases phenomenal growth in the indus
tries, finances, production and transpor-
tation Of the country. The area has grown
from s27.S44 square miles in 1900 to 3,025,-
600 square miles in 1902, exclusive of Alaska
and the islands belonging to the United
States. The population per square mile,
which was SO in 1910, was 261 in 1902.
Notwithstanding the great increase in area
meantime. The total wealth has grown
S94, ,000, 900, 900 in 1900, and the per capita
wealth from 1907 in 1850 to 1926 in 1900
In no feature has there been greater
fluctuation perhaps than in the public debt
and interest charge. In 1900 the public
debt was SIS per capita; in 1910 it had
fallen to 21 cents per capita: in 1859 It
was $2.67 per capita; In 1861, before the
beginning Of the war, $2.74 and then
mounted rapidly until 1t became s76.9S per
capita in 1865, gradually falling again after
the war to $3S.27 in 1880, $1422 in 1890,
s1R.e4 in 1898, 1880 in 1896, and $12s7 in
1902.
Money I'm Circulation.
Money in circulation amounted to $13.S5
per capita in 1860, touched S20.57 during
the period Of paper currency near the close
Of the war;. but fell below the 500 mark
until 1881, when 1t reached S21.T per cap
ita. BY 1897 II nad reached Sz4.o0 per cap
ita In 1895 it was $21.44; in 1900, $26.93,
and in 1902, $3.50 per capita, the highest
point that II has ever reached. Deposits
in savings banks amounted to $1,13S,576 in
1870. S6,97S, ,304 in 1880, s43,4 100 in 1850,
S149, ,277 ,504 in 1860, s549, ,s74.358 in 1870.
ss1s. .s73 in 1880. 1884 .S44,506 in 1890.
$780, ,597. .O23 In 1895, and s2.597. .O94.5 $50 In
1901. Meantime the individual deposits in
national banks had grown from 0O,910,-
$40 in 1866 to 1911. 500, 1876 in 1902.
The cause OF these financial conditions
above noted-the increase Of currency. bank
notes, etc.-is found in other tables
showing the development of farms. manu-
factures and OF the various industries.
The number of farms increased from l.
449073 in 1850 to 5,739.s57 in 1900, the
value of farms and farm property from
"a, O00, 200, 900 in 1850 to SIC, 900 000, 900 in
1900 and the value of their product, which
was not measured until 1870 grew from
81, ,95S, ,O00, 900 in that year to S3,764, 900 900
in 1900. The value Of farm animals in
creased from S544, 900 in 1850 to $2.9s1,-
OO0, 900 in 1900. The value of the product
OF the manufacturing industries grew from
1000, ,0O0, 900 in 1850 to $4,000, ,OO0,OOO in
1900. while the number Of people employed
therein grew from less than 100000 in
1850 to 6.75O.0OO in 1900.
Comparative Table.
The following table shows the figures
for few Of the more important columns
of the monograph, for the years 1890. 1895
and 1902: