New-York tribune., 1902-08-30
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
SHOWN IN A MONOGRAPH BY TREAS
URY DEPARTMENT FOR THE CEN
TURY-IMPORTANT FIGURES.

Washington, Aug. 2s (SpeciaD.-A moving pictui g
of conditions IN the United States at decenniai IN
tervals from 1850, and annually from leo' To
1902, is presented in q monograph just Issued os
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, entitled Prog
Of the United States in Its Material Indus
tries This monograph consists Of series OF I'd
bles showing area, population wealth. DEBT, money
IN circulation, banks and bank clearinss and de-
positors farms and farm values, manufactures anu
their value, revenues expenditures imports, ex-
ports railways and their business, the snlppins
industry and many other features of national oe-
velopment in the years from 1900 to 1881 ana
annually from 1850 to 1902.
The figures presented, regarding more than one
hundred subjects, show interesting, and in many
cases a phenomenal, growth in the INDUSTRIES
finances production and transportation or the couf-
try. The has grown from S27S44 square miles
3O255 500 square miles in 1902, exclusive OF
Alaska and the islands belonging to the United
States. The population to the square mile, which
was Sc in 1870 was 261 in 1902. Notwithstanding
the great increase in area meantime Inc totai
wealth has grown from s7O0O,eO0 COO in 1850 to an
estimated $9 oO0 900 in 1900, and the per capita
wealth from 1907 in 1850 81. .235 in 1900.
In feature has there been greater fuctuaton,
perhaps, than in the public debt and interest
charge In 1900 the public debt SIS per capita;
in 1910 had fallen to per CAPITA in 1852 1t
81 81 per capita in 1861 before the beginning OF
the war, s. IA, and then mounted rapidly until II
became SIC 9S per capita in 1865, gradually falling
again after the to s3S q in 1885, Sl4 u IN 1884,
Sl2 81 in 1888, S3 60 in 1886 ana SlZ 81 III I- lie
money in circulation amounted to S3 S5 per capita
in 1850. touched $40 81 during the period of paper
currency the close of the war, but again fell
below the $50 mark until 1884, when it reached 81 Il
per capita BY 1892 it had reached S24 60 per CAPITA
in 1896 it was s21 A. in 1860 $50 49, and in 1902 SIS 40
per capita, the highest point that it has ever
reached. Deposits in savings banks amounted TO
s1l3S576 1920 Sc 334 in $780, s43 4311So In 1880
S49275 in 1860 $59S+35S in 1870. ss1sloosIS In lSSo
5o6 in 1890 S. O3 in 1885 and s25s7o
$50 in 1901. Meantime, the individual deposits IN
national banks had grown from Soo.9lO633 IN 1860
to S Ill 690196 in 1902.
The of these financial conditions above
noted-the increase of currency, bank deposits etc
is found in other tables showing the development
of farms manufactures and Of the various INDUS
tries. The number of farms increased from liiS,oi3
In 5 1861 in 1860, the value of farms and
farm property from siO000O0 600 in 1880 to S2G0OO-
GOO in ISOlt the value of their product, which
measured until 1870, grew from sl,9Oe OV,Uoo
in that year 100000 900 in 1900. The value or
farm animals increased from S5i4,OO.Ooo In 1850 TO
s. 900 in The value of the product or the
manufacturing industries grew from sl.U0,OUWo IN
1850 S13 100000 in 1900 while the number OF
people employed therein grew from less than
10000 in 1880 to 6,750.G1 in 1900.
The following table shows the figures for few
Of the important columns of the monograph
for he wears 1880 1855 and 1902: