The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15
GREAT GROWTH IN A YEAR
United States Shown by
Recent Census.

The first pamphlet copies of the Sta
tistical Abstract Of the United States
for the year 1904 have come from tn.
printer and as soon as few minor
corrections are made the edition will
be ready for distribution. rhe ali
stract. reports the New York CONNER
cial. will make volume of 659 pages
and every page of the book is table
of figures. 1t does not look interest
ing but the volume really tells q fas
chatting story of progress in America
presenting figures so large as to
challenge the human mind to compre-
bend them Here are some of the
facts derived from these more than
$50 pages of tables:
In a single year, the length of time
upon which all of the comparisons are
based. the population of the United
States increased by 100000 souls.
The estimated total for the country
in 1904 was S1,752 900.
In the same year the amount of
noaey in circulation increased by
$751;, $50. 691, a gain of upward of 81
/ per capita The gain in gold circula-
tion alone was more than $28,000.0G0.
/ The interest-bearing debt of the nation
decreased by more than $19,00o.0oo,
aud the interest payments decreased
f. by more than $1360000
! The thrift Of tn people at large is
/ shown by the fact mat in the last year
the total derosits in banks increased
BY $4f6.853. 4o5. and the number of per-
sons who deposited money in savings
/ anlls alone was 2I02l5 more in 1904
than in 1903
II the year under consideration the
| eople of the United States were less
epenaent upon foreign products. the
Aports decreasing by about $4,000
90 At the same time the exports to
oreien countries increased by more
han 100000 900. The farmer is still
sing for the total exports Of farm
products last year amounted to $685.
543, o73 This was not quite SO large as
the amount exported the year before.
but the demands for home eonsump-
| ton were very large: there are more
than 100000 more mouths to feed in
the United States each year than in
| the year before American manufac-
| turers sold their products in foreign
countries last year to the amount of
| $452. 415.921; this meant an increase
| in their foreign sales of more than
| s47,000,00o over the record of the year
before.
More figures taken from the statis-
teal abstract almost at random show
that the total value of farm animals in
! the United States in 1904 was $3.006.-
| $50 37. an increase of more than S.
! 900 900 in year The production OF
wool in 1904 amounted to 291, 783,032
| pounds, a gain of over 100000 pounds
| in II months The wheat crop was
| SIS DOC, 900 bushels smaller than that of
the year before, but the production
reached the respectable figure Of $751;
399, SIT bushels. The corn crop was
tremendous, the grand total of the
1904 harvest being 2.467. $780, 1874 bush
| els, gain OF 223, O00, 900 bushels over
the crop Of 1903
OF the railroads, which are to the
country what the veins and arteries
are to the body, 1896 miles were built
In the last year The number Of pas
seEgers carried was more than 10000
600 larger than In the year before, the
grand total being 696, 908.994. The
total amount of freight carried by the
railroads one mile was III .290, BIG, 685
tons, or over $1,000, 900 900 tons more
than in the year before.