The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-31

led to 2+71.220. COS. against $2I66o3.C00 ii
1890. an increase Of more than $254.ooo,-
COO in Individual deposits during thu
period.
The pupils enrolled in the public
schools in the states in question il
1890 numbered Use, 495, and in 1862
3. 426. 593; the teachers employed num-
bered in 1890. S9.55S. and in 1902, 110,263,
and the expenditure for public schools
in 1890 was $30,2S4,752, and in 1902. $45.-
so16 81, The number of pupils in at
tendance at high schools in 1902 was
| 1921, with 1864 teachers; in attend
ance at normal schools. 1903 students.
with $50 teachers. and at higher educa-
tionaI institutions, 45.802 students and
4446 teachers. The total figures of the
number of teachers and attendance of
scholars for schools and educational in
stitutions in the fourteen States formed
from the Louisiana purchase show;
Teachers in 1890. 1886: in 1902, 1928;
attendance in 1890, 2.67o.541; in 1902,
3.617, 500
! The number of newspapers and peri
odicals published in this area in 1890
was 4759 and in 1903 the number was
| 5741; the number of postoftices in 1890
vas 13.474, and in 1908 it was 16, 437
the miles of railway in operation ip
1890 numbered 51,S23. and in 1902 there
were 62.403 miles being operated, or
nearly 81 per cent OF the total railway
mileage of the country.
The population of the three States
formed from the original Oregon Ter
ritory was in 1890, 747,524, and in 1900
1898 All. Their production of wheat in
1890 was %, 900 bushels, valued at
$16,8 500, and in 1903 81, 553, 159 bushels,
valued at $27,214, 465. The value of the
hay crop was in 1894, SIS, 655, $751; and in
1903, $24,129, $50. The wool produced
was in 1894, 31,297, 223 pounds, and in
1903, 37,060,0 900 pounds The value of
cattle on farms and ranches was in I
1890, $34, 316,643, and on January l. 1904, |
s32, 3S9, 1888; of sheep, in $780, IS, 239, 49, |
and on January 1, 1904, SIG, 1886, IA; and |
Of all farm animals on January 1, 1904, |
SS4, 137,0O3. The gold produced in 1902
was valued at SO, $4,000, and of silver, !
IS, 400, 795 (coining value). The number
of pupils in public schools was, in 1890,
133, 529 and in 1902, 2S3, 400. and the ex-
penditure for public schools was. III
1890, s1,933,110, and in 1902, s., 297, 31S.
The number of post-offices was, in 1890.
1,515, and in 1903, 2,316. The BANKING
were, in 1890, $50, 2S6, 900, ana
in 1903. $11S, 400, 900.
The territory added by the Mexican
cession had a population of 165. 524 at |
the census of 1850, the first enumera-
ton after the purchase. In 1890 it was
1675,009, and in 1900. 2.122.37S This
does not include any part of the State
of Colorado of which about one third
falls within the Mexican cession. but
does include all of New Mexico. which
IS formed in part from territory which
was claimed by Texas. The wheat
production of the five States and Ter
ritories now representing the Mexican
cession was, in 1890. SO, 066, 900 bushels;
in 1903, 26,3SS, 929 bushels. The barley
crop of 1908 was 32,015,S68 bushels, val
ued at $1a,644, $751; and the hav crop
alone in 1903 was valued at s29, 434, OPS,
or twice as much as the sum paid to
Mexico exclusive of the agreement to
settle the claims of American citizens
to SO, 250 0OO) for the entire
territory. The States and Territories
in question produced in 1903 more than
one-sixth of the wool grown in he
United States, their total wool produc-
ton being in 1908, 49, 392. go pounds. out
OF total in the United States of 2S7.-
100000 pounds The total value of the
production of wheat, corn, oats. rye,
barley, hay and potatoes in these five
States and Territories in 1908 was $84,- !
SS7,194. or practically five times the
sum paid for their purchase The
NUMBER OF horses and mules in 1903 !
was S56,SS3, and their value, $42.6 1855. s
The number of cattle on January l. f
1904. was S.96S,S73, valued at ST., los, S12,
against $57,713,266 in 1890 The num-
Der of sheep in 1904 was 10, 491. ASP.
against 1O,5SS,146 in 1890 and their val 5
Ne in 1904. S28,7S1,710. against $685. {
L62 in 1890. The total value of farm {
animals in the five States and Terri
tories formed from this purchase was.
IN 1904, 1856, 938, or more than eight
times its original cost The silver g
production in 1902 was 1914, SIS. sos (coin- I
ing value); and the gold production in
1902, $27,925,3oO, against s17.S3O. 900 in :
1890.
The growth in educational facilities
during IaooTa IN