Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-01-17
UNITED STATES AT THE HFAD.
RICHEST OF ALL THE NATIONS
A Report of the Standing of Different
NatiOns-Uncle SAINTS Commercial
Supremacy Is Apparent-WOrIds
Wheat Crop-United states Largest
Producer of Pig Iron.

Washington, Jan. 14.-The standing
Of the United States with her neigh
bors, and especially with those of Eu'
rope, is illustrated by some statements
made by the London Daily Mail Year
Book for 1902, copy of which has
Just reached the treasury bureau OF
statistics. In it.; various chapters 1t
discusses various features of condl-
tens in the United States. Under the
head of wealth it places the United.
States at the head of the list of great
nations, the figures OF wealth being
United States e16,350,OOO, 900, United
Kingdom 1906, 100000, France So
$50, 100000, Germany GS,052,000,0OO
and Russia G6,425, 100000. While the
United States heads this list of coun-
tries in its wealth it shows the small
est national Indebtedness, the figures
being; United States e221, 100000,
Germany e651, 100000, United King
dom G706000,000 Russia ELL, 900, 900
and France e1,239,0 100000. The per-
centage of debt to wealth is given as:
United States IA per cent, United
Kingdom per cent, Germany 81 per
cent, Russia Ill per cent and France
1913 per cent.
Under the head of commercial COM
petition it says that "the first year of
the twentieth century opened badly for
two of the four leading industrial ma
tons" The trade of the United States
Was good and showed no decline from
the booming period of 1899 and 1900
hut rather. in most industries, con-
tinuance CT the boom of which the
United States has had so dispropor-
which had responded less eXpansive'y
to the boom, remained unaffected ny
the decline and progress elsewhere.
In England, however, the decline was
ielt acutely.
Under the head of the worlds wheat
crop, it shows the United States far
ahead of any other country in the pro-
dGction of wheat, the estimate of the
worlds crop for 1901 being in quar-
tiers (eight bushels to a quarter):
United States, 90,000,000; Russia,
42,000,000; France, 38,0O0,0OO; India,
10000, 900; Italy, 100000; Hungary,
1G,000,000; Spain, 13,000,000; Rouma-
mia and Bulgaria, 100000; Germany,
100000; United Kingdom, 100000;
Australia, 100000.
Under the head of Flight for the
Iron Trade" it calls attention to the
fact that the United States is now the
worlds largest producer of pig iron
end steel, and says: at will be noted
that the United Kingdom has lost
ground, producing 396,749 tons less
in 1900 than in 1899 the total for
Great Britain being nearly 100000
tons less than in America. An unsat.
isfactory feature in the British iron
and steel trade is that in 1900 we i'm
ported more iron and steel than in
any previous year and exported less,
while the United States exported more
than ever" The tables accompanying
this statement shows the pig iron pro-
duction of 1900 to be:
United States, 13,789,242 tons: Unit
ed Kingdom, S,y0S,570 tons; Germany.
), 4a4,S52 tons; France, 2,699,494 tons;
Russia, 1921, 900 tons.
Steel production is shown to be:
United States, 10,087, 1872 tons; Great
Britain, 4,9O1,O54 tons; Germany, 4,
10000 tons; France, 1,624046 tons;
Russia. 1,494,000 tons.