Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-02-06
GREAT INCREASE
GROWTH OF INDUSTRIES DUR
ING THE LAST CENTURY.
Statements Of Treasury Bureau Show Pro.
gross Of the United States Along Al
Lines - Thirteen Times as Wealthy in
1900 as in ISSO-Decrsase in Public
Debt

ashington, Feb. 2.-"The Progress
of the United States in Its Material In
dustries" is the title of monograph
issued by the treasury department of
statistics, which contains series of
statements which show the rapid devel-
opment during the century of the i'm
portant factors in the present prosperity
Of the country. These tables which oc-
cupy number of closely printed pages,
show the development in products of
the field, forest, mine and mandatory,
the growth in our population, wealth
and commerce., the extension of rail
ways, tclegraphs, and other methods of
communication and transportation, and
present an interesting and instructive
picture of the progress of the United
States and its people during the period
from 1900 to 1901.
Among the interesting facts presented
by these tables are the growth OF pro-
auctions, the growth of commerce, the
growth of wealth, the growth of money
in circulation, the growth of deposits in
savings and other banks, thedecrease in
interest on the public debt, and many
other facts of this character. On the
production side it may be said that the
cotton product has increased from 1867
$50 bales in 1900 to 1876, 416 bales in
1900; the wool produced from So ,S02,-
Ill pounds in 1910 to 800, SOP 1928
pounds in 1900; wheat from l5l .999, 906
bushels in 1866 to 522 ,229 800 bushels
in 1900; corn from SCI ,946 295 bushels
in 1866, ., l05, 1902 SIG bushels in 1900 !;
copper, from $50 tons in 1850 to 270,
53S tons in 1900; pig iron, from 1861
600 tons in 1890 to Is. 500 900 in 1901 !;
petroleum, from 210,O0,000 gallons in
1860 to > ,66, 233 ,56S gallons in 1900;
coal, from 1888, S99 tons in 1850 to
267 $50, 900 tons in 1901; the gold from
$50, 900 900 in 1850 to $79,1 900 in
| 1900.
During the period under considera-
| ton the exports of merchandise have
grown from $70,97l $50 in 1900 to ST.
4S7 764 1871 in 1901; the per capita in
1900 being 1887 and in 1901 $1S.S1.
| The imports of merchandise have grown
from SOL ,252 76S in 1900 to 1923 ,721.-
l65 in 1901, while the per capita inn
ports have fallen from $17.19 in 1900
to $l0.5S in 1901.
Turning to the figures which show
those relating to wealth, circulation,
deposits, etc. the tables show that the
wealth has increased from 81, 1876, $780,
600 in 1880 to an estimated $94 300
600, 900 in 1900; the per capita wealth
| from 1907 $50 in 1850 to 81 ,235. So in
1900. The public debt, less cash in the
treasury was, in 1865, $76. 9S per cap
ita, and in 1900 was 1914 per capita !;
while the interest on the public debt,
which in 1867 was $l43, 7sl ,592, had
fallen to $50 ,342,7 97 in 1901. The
! figures of money in circulation show in
1860 Il total of $435 ,407 ,252, and in
1901 S2,l75 1897, 277. The circulation
per capita in 1860 was $l3.S in 1901,
$2S.02. The deposits in savings banks
in 1890 were Sc, 973, 304; in 1888, SO
years later, they were s., 024 1856, 7S7,
and by 1901, a further period of only
Is years, had reached 81, 597 ,094 $50.
Meantime the national banking system
had come into operation, and in 1865
the deposits in national banks were
$500, 9l0,S73 in 1880, 81 ,006 ,452 1853,
and in 1901 So ,044 800 900. The num-
Der OF depositors in savings banks grew
from 3S, 0S5 in 1880 to 1867 ,06l in
1866, and 6,35S,7 1928 in 1901. Rail-
roads grew from 9,02l miles in 1850 to
l99,37S in 1901; and freight carried
one mile increased from 80, 1902 ,209, 294
tons in 1882 to l4l 1862, 1924 tons in
1901, freight rates falling meantime
from 1924. cents per ton per mile to
75-0Oths OF cent per ton per mile.
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