Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-25
TRIBUTE FROM ABROAD
THIS COUNTRY THE LAND OF UN-
BOUNDED POSSIBILITIES.
Articles on the United States by Lud-
wig Goldberger Published
in Berlin.

''The Land of Unbounded Possibilities" is
the title OF a series of articles on conditions
in the United States. prepared by Ludwig
Max Goldberger of Berlin, royal privy coun-
cillor of commerce and member of the i'm
perial German consultative board for COM
mercial measures, to be republished by the
treasury bureau of statistics In its forth
coming issue of the Monthly Summary of
Commerce and Finance.
These statements are the result of an
eight months official tour OF the United
States by Mr.. Goidberger, In which he
made personal observations and investiga-
tons into Industrial, commercial and eco
nomic conditions. His detailed reports upon
these subjects were made direct to the en-
peror and the minister of commerce and
have not yet been officially published.
Meantime, however, he has published in
leading weekly journal of Berlin, Die
Woche, series of signed articles under
the above title, THE Land of Unbounded
Possibilities; Observations on the Economic
Life of the United States" from which the
following are extracts:
This Country's Fertility.
''The inhabitants of the United States, in
Guiding Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philip
pine Islands, number about SS,000,0 900; that
is barely per cent of the worlds total in
habitants, according to it's highest esti-
mate. This per cent has at present taken
possession of % per cent of all the cult
waited area of the EARTH viz: 4O74 million
acres out of 1928 million acres. A land
of marvellous fertility offered itself for
tillage, and the husbandman had but to
gather in the produce. The virgin soil made
his work easier, and its eXtensiveness rem
dered the application of artificial fertilizers
pra ctically unnecessary, although the agri-
cultural offices of the states and the Union
have constantly, by excellent advice and
practical expert assistance, been furnishing
the ways and means toward more intense
cultivation.
Production of Grain.
LET us examine the corn crops for the
six years 1S95-19O0. The worlds total pro-
duct f1uctuated between 90 and 3 billion
bushels per annum, a total of 1876 billions
for the period with an annual average of
2.77 billions. OF this amount the United
States alone produced 12.4 billions, an aver
age of POI billion bushels, per annum. or
70 per cent of the worlds crop.
Toward the worlds wheat crop the
United States contributed in the five years
1S96-19OO, POT per cent. while for the year
1901 Its contribution to the worlds produc-
ton of wheat amounted to % per cent.
During the years 1S96-1900 there were grown
14.7 billion bushels of oats in the world
and of this 374 billion bushels or 25.5 pei
cent were produced by the United States.
Output of Metal.
I'm the production of iron ore the United
States proved itself to be veritable land
of unbounded possibilities. 1t produced
very nearly SO per cent of the total iron
produced, and that of the very best quality
In the past year the United States produced
1913 per cent of the worlds product of pig
iron. In 1900 1t produced, roughly 10.1 mil
lion tons of steel or AZ per cent of the
worlds product. and in the year 1901 the
United States output was increased to 13.t
million tons.
THE United States produces nearly IS
per cent of all the worlds copper. The de-
velopment of the American copper industry
was perhaps more rapid than typical for
even American changes. From modest be-
ginnings this industry grew by leaps and
bounds in a remarkably short time to the
most important factor in the worlds pro-
duction. In 1870 the copper production of
the United States amounted to 1900 tons
in 1880 its production had increased to
27,000 tons out of total worlds production
Of $4,000 tons; in 1890 the United States
produced 116315 tons of the worlds product
of 269,455 tons. During 1895 1t controlled
more than one-half of the worlds produc-
ton. and at the end of the century the
United States produced 10000 tons, or
more than the worlds entire product had
amounted to ten years before.
The output of lead in the United States
since 1895 has increased to such an extent
that 1t has wrested from Spain the position
of primacy in the worlds production. In
1900 the United States produced 29.6 per
cent, while SPANS share had receded to
1877 per cent In 1901 the United States in
creased its production of lead to 100000
tons.
THE rivalry of the United States in the
production of quicksilver has been equally
strenuous. In 1900 for the first time Spain 8
product is slightly exceeded by that Of the
wit cd Stata In Gna IN cha in ri
worlds product amounts to but % per
cent. while the United States furnishes 80
per cent of the worlds total product.
1.-THE total worlds production Of gold for
the year 1900 was estimated to be 1856 mil
lion dollars; that of silver represented a
coinage value of 223.5 million dollars. For
the year 1901 estimates for both metals
amount to 285 million dollars. In each of
the two years the United States showed the
greatest share of both metals-31 per cent
for gold and 33 per cent for silver"