Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-01-18
UNITED STATES At THE HEHl
RICHEST OF ALL THE NATIONS
A Report of the Standing of Di0o.
NatiOns-UncIe SAINTS Comm.
Supremacy Is Apparent-Wor,.
Wheat CrOp-United States Lave.
Producer of Pig Iron:

Washington, Jan. 14.-The STANDING
of the United States with her neigh
bors, and especially with those Of a.
rope, is illustrated by some Statement,
made by the London Daily Mail yaor
Book for 1902, copy of which no.
Just reached the treasury bureau 90
statistics. In it.; various CHAPTERS -
discusses various features of cona;
tens in the United States. Under tbo
head of wealth it places the United
States at the head of the list of great
nations, the figures OF wealth beino
United States G16,350,00O, 900, United
Kingdom G11,806,000,000, France ee
G90,000000, Germany G8,O52 600 oOo
and Russia G6,425,000,0O0. While tbe
United States heads this list of conn.
tries in its wealth it shows the small.
est national indebtedness. the figureO
being; United States G221. 900 OOO
Germany G651, 100000, United King.
dom 9706,OOO,OOO, Russia ELL ,OOO.OOO
and France 100000. The ner.
centage Of debt to wealth is given as.
United States IA per cent. United
Kingdom per cent, Germany 81 per
cent, Russia Ill per cent and Franco
1913 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
Was good and showed no decline from
the booming period of 1899 and 1900
but rather, in most industries. con.
tihuance CT the boom of which the
United States has had so dispropor-
tlonately large share, and France
which had responded less expansivelv
TO the boom, remained unaffected Inv
the decline and progress elsewhere.
In England, however the decline was
ielt acutely
Under the head of the worlds wheat
crop, it shows the United States far
ahead of any other country in the pro-
dGction of wheat, the estimate of the
worlds crop for 1901 being in quar-.
tiers eight bushels to a quarter)
United States, 9O000,000; Russia,
42,000,000 France, 100000 India,
10000 000 Italy, 17,000,0O0 Hungary.
1t,000,000 Spain, $4,000 900; Rouma,
MIA and Bulgaria, 12000,0 900; Germany
II 900 000 United Kingdom, 100000,
Australia, 100000.
Under the head of Eight for the
iron Trade" it calls attention to the
fact that the United States is now the
worlds largest producer of pig iron
end steel, and says: ct will be noted
that the United Kingdom has lost
ground, producing 396,749 tons less
in 1900 tnan 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
any previous year and exported less,
" lille the United States exported more
than ever" The tables accompanying
this statement shows the pig iron pro-
duction of 1900 to be-
United States, 13,789,242 tons; Unit
ed Kingdom, 8,SOS,57O tons; Germany
S,494S52 tons; France, 2,699494 tons;
Russia, 1921 900 tons.
Steel production is shown to be:
United States, 10,087, 1922 tons; Great
Britain, 1901, 054 tons; Germany, f.
$4,000 tons; France, 1,624,046 tons;
Russia, 1,494,000 tons.