Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-01-15
UNITED States At The HEAD
RICHEST OF ALL THE NATIONS.
A Report of the Standing of Different
Nnti0Rs-t ncIe Sans Commercial
supremacy is Appnrent-WOrld's
Wheat Crop-lnIted States Largest
Producer of Pig Iron

Washington. Jan. 1.-THE standing
cf the United States with her neigh.
bors, ana especially with those of Eu,
rope, is illustrated by some statements
made by the London Daily Mail Year
Book for 1902, a copy of which has
'ust reached the treasury bureau of
statistics. In its various chapters il
discusses various features of condi.
tens in the United States. Under the
head of wealth it places the Unite,.
states at the head of the list of great
nations. the figures OF wealth being.
| nited States GlG.35O. O0O. 900, United
Kingdom Gll.SO6. 0.000. France Go
i9o.o00,000. Germany GS.052 .000. 900
and Russia G6,425, 600 900. 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 .0OO, ,O00.
Germany G65l 100000, United King.
dom c7oG,O00,0o0, Russia ell. 100000
and France e1.2S9 100000. The per-
ContagC of debt to wealth is given as
United States IA per cent, United
Kingdom 6 per cent, Germany 81 per
cent, Russia Ill per cent and France
i2S 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
~. 9 good md cbpwad pp docltpo frop,
the booming period of 1899 and 1900,
hut rather. in most industries. a con.
tinuance CT the boom sf which the
United States has had so dispropor.
tionately large share, and France.
which had responded less expansivc,y
TO the boom. remained unaffected Icy
the decline and progress elsewhere
In England, however, the decline was
iclt acutcly.
Under the head of the worlds wheat
crop. it shows the United States far
ahead Of any other country in the pro.
GGctiOn of wheat, the estimate of the
worlds crop for. 1901 being in quar-.
ters teight bushels to a quarter):
United States, 10000. 900; Russia,
l4,0O0,000; France. 3S,000,00O: India,
Ho0O0,000; Italy. l7,000,000: Hungary,
ln00O,0O0. Spain, 1900, 900; Rouma.
MIA and Bulgaria, 10000, 900: Germany,
1000 900; United Kingdom, 100000; ;
Australia. 7,O0O,OdO.
Under the head of Eight for the
Iron Trade It calls attention to the
fact that the United States is now tho
worlds largest producer of pig iron
fnd steel. and says: 1T 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
lsfactory feature in the British iron
and steel trade is that in 1900 we i'm.
ported more iron and steel than In
fny previous year and exported less,
v vhile the United States exported more
than ever" The tables accompanying
this statement shows the pig iron pro-
Guction of 1900 to be:
United States. 13,7s9.242 tons; Unit
ed Kingdom. S.yOS,57O tons; Germany
n,i94,s52 tons; France, 2,699, 494 tons:
Russia 1921 900 tons.
Steel production Is shown to be:
United States, 10.0S7,322 tons; Great
Britain, 1901 ,054 tons; Germany, 4,
10000 tons; France. 1,G24.04G tons;
Russia / ,t94, 900 tons.