The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-21
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.


the Department. of Commerce and La
Dor through its Bureau of Statistics
entitled Territorial and Commercial
Expansion Of the United States" The
information it summarized as follows:
The land area of the Louisiana pur-
chase exceeds that of the original thir-
teen states. being 875. OPS square miles,
against a land area of $50, 944 square
miles in the original thirteen States.
The states and Territories which have
been created in whole or in part from
it's area number fourteen, and their
population in 1900 was 14,7oS,616,
against a population of less than 1oO,-
600 in the territory at the time of its
purchase. Their total area is nearly
third that of the entire Union, and
i their population about one-fifth that
of the entire United States, They
produced in 1890, 1854, 100000 bushels of
wheat, and in 1903, 374,O00,000 bushels,
at a value in 1908 of 1926, 100000, their
total wheat production being nearly go
per cent of that Of the entire United
States. They produced 100000 bush
els of corn in 1890 and 973, 1874, 900 bush
els in 1903. with value in 1903 of
1857, 375, 900, their total corn crop form
ing 40 per cent in 1890 and in 1903 over
43 per cent of the total corn crop of
the United States. Of oats they pro-
duced in 1903, 331, 900. 900 bushels, or AZ
per cent of the total product of the
country, with a valuation of $99, 0000 600.
Their production of barley in 1903 was
valued at over $25, 00o, 900, and of rye
ton of Irish potatoes in 1903 was over
$34, 900, 900; of hay, $117, 100000, and of
cotton $500, $50, 900, 000 The total val
ue of the agricultural products OF the
States formed from the Louisiana pur-
chase, including in that category SIM
ply wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, hay,
and potatoes was in 1890 given as
$0626, 000, 900, and in 1903 it had increased
to 1856. 399, 900. The wool product of
these States amounted in 1894 to g.
81, 1857 pounds, and in 1903 to SO, $50, 500
pounds, or 80 per cent of the total wool
product of the United States. with an
estimated value of about $16,000,000, or
more than the cost of the entire area.
The value of the farm animals in these
States in 1890 was $759, $4,000, and on
January 1, 1904, the value was $1,119,-
$4,000 Add to these easily measured
farm products the estimated value of
the wool, the sugar, the dairy and
poultry products, and the proportion
of the live stock annually turned into
provisions, and it may be : fely es-
timated that the agricultural products
of single year amount to one hundred
times the original cost of the area; or,
in other words, that it's cost is repaid
by per cent of the agricultural pro-
auctions of each recurring year.
The product of the mines is also of
very great value. The coal produced
in this area in 1902 amounted to 10000
900 tons, against 100000 tons in 1890;
the iron ore to 15,S59,000 tons in 1902,
against 1859, 900 tons in 1890; the silver
product of 1902 to s37, S37,57e in coming
value, against $44, 799, 99S in 1890, and
gold $39.S41, 500 in 1902, against S10,650,-
900 in $780,
The prosperity shown by these figure
is further evidenced by the banking in
situations of the States formed from this
territory. Their capital stock amount
ed in 1908 to over $103, 600, 600 against
about s9S, 900, 900 in 1890; their eircula-
ton to $50, 453, 900, against SIS, 644, 900 in
1890; their loans and discounts in 1908
to 1902, $4,000, against $3.50, 016000 in 1890,
and their total resources in 1903 to ST.
713,S00,0oG against $746 900, 600 in 1890;
while a still more gratifying evidence
of the prosperity of this section is the
fact that individual deposits in nation
al banks in 1903 amounted to s471. 300
900, against $216, 6O9, 900 in 1890, an in
crease of more than 1854, 900, 900 in in
dividual deposits during the period.
A study of educational conditions
shows equally rapid and gratifying de-
velopment. The pupils enrolled in the
public schools in the States in ques-
ton in 1890 numbered 1850, 495 and in
1902, 1926, 593; the teachers EMPLOYED
numbered, in 1890, S9,55S, and in 1902
1925. and the expenditure for public
schools in 1890 was $50, 2s4, 1872, and in
1902, $45,S01,677. The number of pupils
in attendance at high schools in 1902
was 1921, with 1894 teachers; in at
tendance at normal schools, 1903
students, with $50 teachers, and at
higher educational institutions, $500