Arizona republican., 1902-01-14
OUR STANDING
 ACROSS TIE SEA
Position of the United States in the World of Con-
 nnerCe.
What Was Accomplished by This Country Last Year as Shown by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department.

Washington, Jan. 1.-The standing of the United States with her neigh bors, and especially with those of E;u- rope. is Illustrated by some statements made by the London Daily Mail Year Book for 1902, q copy of which has just reached the treasury bureau of statis tics. In its various chapters it dis cusses various features of conditions 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 TIC, 1850 OGO, coo. United Kingdom f11, sec. OO00, GOO, France f9,690 0o0, 0nn Germany fS.O52 OO0, ,OOO. and Russia i5,- i25 eco, GOO. While the United States heads this list of countries in it's wealth, it shows the smallest national indebtedness, the figures being:
 United States f221.OOO. coo. Germany 1851 coo. 900. United Kingdom f7OG, ,OOO,- 900. Russia f711, 100000, France f1,239.- 900 900.
 The percentage Of debt to wealth is given as follows: United States 1f per cent, United Kingdom per cent, Ger many S.1 per cent, Russia III per cent, France 12.S per cent.
 Under the head of commercial compe- tition it says that the first year of the twentieth century opened badly for two of the four leading industrial na- tions. The trade of the United States was good and showed no decline from the booming period of 1899 and 1900. but rather. in most industries a continu- anCe of the boom of which the United States has had so disproportionately large a share. and France. which had responded less expansiVely to the boom. remained unaffected by the de- cline and progress elsewhere. In Eng land and Germany. however, the de- cline was felt acutely.
 Under the head of the worlds great wheat crop it shows the United States far ahead of any other country in the production Of wheat. the estimate of the worlds crop for 1901 being:
 United States 90 million quarters
 Quarter equals eight busheIs); Russia 42 million quarters. France 3S million India 30 million. Italy r million, Hun gary l6 million. Spain g million. Rou- mania and Bulgaria F million, Ger mray II million. United Kingdom
 million, Austria : million.
 Under the head of fight for iron 1 trade" it calls attention to the fact that the United States is now the worlds largest producer of pig iron ana steel, and says: Ut will be noted that ! the United Kingdom has lost ground
 producing 396, 749 tons less in 1900 thar
 in 1889, the total for Great Britain
 being nearly 5.G0a. coo tons less than il America. An unsatisfactory feature il 1 the British iron and steel trade is tha ] in 1900 We imported more iron and stee
 than in any previous year, and export ! ed less, while the United States eX ported more than ever" The tablc'
 accompanying this statement show tn, 1 pig iron production of 1900 to be: Unit ! ed States 13, 5S9,242 tons, United King ! dom S,90S.5 570 tons, Germany S.494. .S5. ! tons, France 2.696.494 tons. Russis
 ?, s21 600 tons. II shows the production
 Of steel to be: United States 10.OS7. .S2 ! tons. Great Britain 4.9Ol ,O54 tons. Ger
 many 4,799.G0O tons. France 1,62f,Oi i tens, Russia 1.494. .OOO tons.