Arizona republican., 1902-02-24
"A picture on every page" is the term by which an enthusiastic student

term by which an enthusiastic student
 of statistics describes NATIONAL the statistical Ab- PICTURE stract of the United BOOK States just issued by
 the treasury bureau of statistics While solid columns of fig ures are not perhaps looked upon hy the average citizen as especially pictur- esque. an examination of the pages of the publication above mentioned. the Statistical Abstract, presents some in teresting if not absolutely picturesque facts. It is interesting, for instance, to observe by one of it's earliest pages that the gross area of the United States, eN- elusive of Alaska and Hawaii, has grown from S2T s44 square miles in 1900 to 3.O25, ,6OO in 1900. and the population meantime from 5,3Os. .4s3 in 1900 to 75.- 693, PA in 1900.
 Another page shows that Virginia ranked first in population in 1900 and in 1900 ranked seventeenth; that Penn sylvania has sturdily held her own. having ranked second in population in 1900 and the same in 1900; New York.
 
 in the list in 1900: North Carolina. which stood fourth in rank in 1900 was fifteenth in 1900. Kentucky has moved downward from eighth in rank in 1900 to twenty-ninth in 1900: Delaware, from seventeenth to forty-fourth, while Indiana moved upward from twenty first in rank in 1scO to eighth in 1900,
 a,1rl,~ h r,1n in to fourth in rank in 1900.
 Another page is devoted to the an- alysis of the public debt of the United States. It shows that the debt of the United States, which in 1865 was $7s.25 per capita. was in 1901 s13.45 per capita. and that the interest charge which in 1865 was s4.29 per capita was in 1901 3S cents per capita. The lowest rate of interest on outstanding bonds in 1865 was per cent, and of those there were but s90. .0OO, ,0O0 against SPAS. .0O0,0 900 in per cent bonds, s1.213. 100000 at 6 per cent. and s671. .000. 900 at 7.3 per cent: while in 1901 practically one-half of the outstanding debt stood at per cent, and even those bonds were selling at a premium in the markets.
 Another interesting picture is found on the page which shows the condition of the savings banks of the United States in 1901. Deposits in savings banks in 1920 were s1.13s. .576. and the number of depositors s.635; in 1901 the amount Of deposits was s2.449. .574, ,sS5, and the number of depositors 6,1O7, 7,0S3; s,. 1920 was s1S1 1s6, in 1901 it was s4O1.10.
 Another interesting picture is found in the statement showing the transac- tions of the New York clearing house from 1854 to 1901. In 1854 the number of banks was 50. the capital Al million dollars. and the clearings 8. 75o. 455. .9s7; in 1901, the number of banks had only increased to 62. their capital to s2 mill lions, while the clearings had increased to ST, ,O2O,672, 494, the number of banks having thus increased about % per cent, the capital about 75 per cent. while the clearings in 1901 were 13 times as much as in 1854.
 Still another interesting picture is that which shows in a single table the story or IDe commerce or the United States from 1900 to 1900. In 1900 the imports were 91 millions and the ex- ports T millions. imports exceeding ex- ports by 20 millions, nearly 30 per cent: in 1901 imports were S23 millions and exports 1.4S7 millions. the excess Of exports being 664 millions, or 30 per cent greater than the imports. I'm ports in 1901 were 9 times as great as in 1900. and exports were 21 times as great as in 1900. Another interesting picture Is that which divides the imports into great classes and shows the relative growth of each. Articles of food in 1886 formed 31 per cent of the imports, and in 1901 26 per cent; manufactures ready for in 1886 formed 20 per cent of the imports. and in 1901 16.S per | cent: articles in a crude conditiA for | use of manufacturs formed 23 per cent | of the imports in 1886 and 335 per cent | in 1901 showing that manufactures are | steadily increasing their importations 1 of raw materials required in manufac- turing, while in most other classes the | percentage of imports is decreasing.
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