Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
Russia and Japan
At a Glance

at 1910, POP GA and extraordinary expendi-
lures at 800, 631 ,121.
Japan's public debt is 5000, 100 994, or
Sab per capita of population; Russias, SS'-
Japan's exports from the United States
aggregate SILL Az annually; Russians,
Japans Imports into the United States
total S36,S54,692 yearly; Russias' $''25o'-
Japan's total exports annually aggregate
$124, pos 1923; Russla's, $36S, 955,242;
Japans total imports yearly reach value
of $127 396, $50; Russia's, S322. 5S3O62
In year in Japan 16s,9I6 arrests for
crime are made; In Russia, 6O3,914.
In 1898 Japan, S merchant navy Included
/, 130 steamers Of European type, 1,9l4 sail
Ing vessels and 1907 native craft; RUSSIA
il 1899 consisted of 657 steamers and LIB
sailing vessels.
In 1899 Japan had 500 miles of state rail-
ways and 2,652 miles of railways owned by
private companies; Russia had "a, 4So miles
| of railway, of which 1851 miles belonged to
passengers carried on Japan's railway in
a year totaled 9S,537 III; Russia's, S3,IoS'-
In 1900 Japan had 1879 miles of the tele-
graph, or 80, 1906 miles of wire In operation;
| Russia 93,O52 271 ,024
The total number of kilograms handled
in Japan in a year was 15,5O3,1OO; Russia
1927 ,23S.
In 1900 Japan had 1,562 miles Of tele;
phone or 31,273 miles of wire; Russia mad
80, 300
In 1900 Japan's postal service, including
| 4 4O4 postoflices, handled 63jSS6,S $40 letters
and parcels; Russia's handled 632,9I2,3lI
letters and parcels.
Japan is 200 miles distant from Korea;
from Moscow, Russia. the distance, as the
crow flies is 5000 miles.
Japan has 11S separate or 2,022 miles OF
submarine cables; Russia mas III, Will TO-
tai of $40 miles
Japan's schools are non-sectarian, practi-
cal, and tend to enlighten liberia lism Rus
sia's are ruled by tyrannical religion OF
which the Car is the head.
The number of horses in Japan at last
report was / ,5S7 697; in Russia, %, 354 OOO
The number of cattle in Japan at the last
report was 1,2SoOo0; in Russia, 37'4lS'-
The forests Of Japan cover 1857, 766
acres; Russia, 474OOO,OOO. 80, .,
Japans annual production of silk, cotton
and other textiles is valued, according to
, last reports, at ST. 500; Russias cotton
? industry proper employs more than 100000
looms and is valued at S2SS, OOO,OOO year
Japan's postOffices act savings banks
and, according to last reports, 1'o6o, 49e per
4 sis. 800. 754; in the 5,351 state, municipal
= and postal savings banks OF Russia 5SO4'-
40 depositors put a total of S319,967, 900.
The Nippon Ginko, or Bank of Japan, has
i a paid up capital of S15.OOO.0OO deposits
: aggregating $3O30 SS4, 600, loans totaling ST.
:, | 100 532 400. and eight branch offices; the
Bank of Russia has lib branches, capital
q and reserve of more than $27,5OO,OOO, de-
J. posits and current accounts aggregating
y Japan's Mikado is the 121st descendant of
/ the Emperor Jimmu, who founded the pres
ent dynasty in $50 b. c.. the reigning fam
/ ily in Russia descend from Michael Roman
Is of, elected Car in 1913
Tobacco yields Japan an annual revenue
1, Of but 81, 463, 900; in Russia there are $50,
254 tobacco plantations and the manufac
t ture of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes eX
= ceeds So, go tons annually, the revenue
= yielded the government being near $4,000,
600 annually.
If Japan produces large quantities of sake
L. and soy, but little other spirits; in Russif
there are 2,055 distilleries, producing an
T. nually 2 245, 700 tons of spirits, and 1,01I
b. beer breweries producing annually 115,S6O,
900 gallons of beer
1t japan secures annual revenue OF mor'
n than $50, 100000 on spirits; Russia s total
l; are more than S17O,0OO,OOO.
u In Japan the sale of spirits is regulated
by strict local laws; in Russia the Crow
is has monopoly in handling the sale o
n spirits in many provinces, the total guam
re tity of vodka sold in a year at 3O1 spiri
depots in 20 provinces amounting to 1865,
re 800 gallons.
n. Last reports give the total marriages Il
IN Japan in one year at 471.21I, births 1859,
le 625 deaths S04437; in Russia SO9,S14 maj
riages 4 1884, 800 births and 3,O63,O41 deaths
IN The average height Of Japanese Is
= feet . inches; of a Russian, feet inches
ia The average weight of Il japanese Is 10
Mounds: of a Russian, 10 pounds.
G. The japanese have no oaths In their lar
H. guare and never swear; the Russians ar
re- Notorious for their use of eXpetives.
d. The average density of the popuatio
n throughout Japan is 296 to the squar
IL miles: in Russia the average density, count
O. ING all provinces of the great empire, Is bu
es | 10 per square mile.