The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-12-15

nation.
From its quarries and its mines, its
forests and its lakes, wealth is pour
ed out-such that the people of the
land are fed and clothed and sheltered
as the people in no other land in the
world are cared for.
But let us look more i'm detail at
some of the products of our land and
in their great abundance see reasons
for thanksgiving.
The great cereal Of civilization is
wheat. Our country's product of wheat
during this year is large. The govern
ment estimate places the amount at
about 670000000 bushels. An amount
equal to over eight bushels for every
man, woman and child in the country.
This quantity while not the largest
crop produced in our country in a
single year falls but little short of
the largest yield of any single year. III
is interesting TO note that of the whole
worlds production of wheat year after
year One-fourth of the whole amount is
produced in the United States.
We are about one twentieth of the
worlds population, so that we, one
twentieth of the worlds people produce
five twentieths of the cereal most high
ly priced by the advanced races of men.
The corn crop of our country this
year is the largest ever produced in this
or any country. According TO the
government estimates the crop this year
reaches the enormous amount of 2,7OO,-
100000 bushels an amount equal to 81
bushels for every inhabitant Of the
country.
The production of this splendid
American cereal is increasing year
after year. Fifty-fve years ago our
country produced less than 600,000,00O
bushels yearly, about % bushels for each
inhabitant of the country. This year
the production as just noted reaches
the aggregate of 80 bushels for each
one of our people. OF the worlds
annual production of corn the United
States produces two-thirds of the whole
amount.
Ehe six leading cereals of our country
have yielded this year the bewildering
amount of 4,500,000,000 bushels. 1t is
hard TO have any conception of this
vast quantity. If this amount of grain
were to be loaded into cars-each car
holding 1000 bushels-it would make a
line of cars reaching four and q half
times across our country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
The fields of our southland this year
have yielded the vast quantity of H.
! 100000 bales of cotton each bale weigh
ing 500 pounds. During a number of
years in the recent past our country
has produced two-thirds of the worlds
annual cotton crop.
In addition to these leading agricul-
tural products the vast quantities of
other things swell the sum total to
enormous proportions. With the fruits,
large and small, the vegetables, the
products of our poultry and cattle, the
provisions for feeding our people are OF
such abundance as no other people OF
earth has ever known. Truly God hath
not dealt so with any nation. Praise
We the Lord.
A glance at the products of oul
mines and our industries will still fur.
ther show the highly favored conditions
under which we live.
Coal is very important element in
the economic life of the world. Our
country has large wealth in its coal
mines and vast army of men is EN-.
ployed in mining this coal and bringing
it to the surface. OF the whole worlds
annual product of coal the United
| States furnishes one-fOurth.
| Silver is produced in our country in
great quantities. The United States
produces more silver than any other
country of the world and this is true
despite the enormous output of the
Mexican silver mines. Our country
produces each year one-third of the
amount of silver produced in the whole
world.
Our copper mines are famous the
world over One-half of the worlds
annual supply of copper is furnished
by the mines of the United States.
The petroleum industry is of com
paratively recent origin in the world
But the supply of Petroleum in our
country is so great that it is exported
in quantities to nearly all quarters of
the globe. 1t may surprise us to know
that of the worlds annual product of
petroleum our country furnishes nearly
three-fourths of the whole amount.
No mineral product enters more fully
into the worlds industries than iron
and steel. And when the statement is
made that one-third of the worlds
annual product of iron and steel is fur
nished by the United States it is seen
what foremost place in the worlds
industries is occupied by our country.
The amount of gold yielded by the
mines of our country is another great
element i'm the sum total of our nation
al resources. One-third of the worlds
annual product of gold is furnished by
mines of the United States. During
the past twelve months the yield of
gold of the mines of our country was
about SS9000,000, or a little more than
one dollar for every man, woman and
child in the United States.
The amount of gold which our
United States mines furnished the past
twelve months is larger than the
amount of gold produced by the whole
world during the first fifty years of the
nineteenth century. Thus our vast
resources of mineral wealth are no
small item in the sum total of our
country's riches and for this mineral
wealth we should offer grateful praise
at this season. When we look upon
the industrial development of our
country we are amazed at its wonder
full progress.
Consider the industries which center