The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
FIGURES STACCER
WITH THEIR SIZE
Statistical Abstract of the
United States Reveals
Enormous Growth
Globe Special Washington Service
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Globe Special Washington Service
1417 G Street
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The first
pamphlet copies of the statistical alb
stract of the United States for 1904
have come from the printer. The alb
stract will make a volume of $50 pages,
and every page is a table of figures.
The volume really tells a fascinating
story of phenomenal progress in Amer
ica-presenting figures so large as to
challenge the human mind to compre-
hend them. Nearly all of the figures
given in the statistical abstract are SO
marvelously large, in fact, that the only
way in which they can be appreciated
is by comparison with other figures
almost as large. Here are some Of the
facts derived from these tables:
In a single year (that is the length
Of time which is considered in all Of
the comparisons which follow here) the
population of the United States in
creased by 1,3SO,OOO. The total esti-
mated in 1904 was 31,752,000.
In the same year the amount of
money in circulation increased by $751;,
450,691, a gain of upwards of 81 per
capita. The gain in gold circulation
alone was more than $2S,000,000.
ton decreased by more than $19,000,-
600, and the decrease in interest pay
ments declined by more than $1,36O,00O.
Depositors Increase
The thrift of the people at large is
shown by the fact that in the last year
the total deposits in banks increased
by $446,S53 405, and the number of per-
sons who deposited money in savings
banks alone was 270,215 more in 1904
than in 1903.
In the year under consideration the
people of the United States were less
dependent upon foreign products, the
imports decreasing by about $4,000
600. At the same time the people of
the United States increased their ex-
ports to foreign countries by more
than $4,000, 900.
The farmer is still king, for the total
exports Of farm products last year
amounted to $S53,643,0 ,075. This was not
quite so large as the amount exported
the year before, but the demands of
home consumption were very lage;
there are more than a million more
mouths to feed in the United States
each year than in the year before.
American manufacturers sold their
products in foreign countries last year
to the amount of $452415921; this
meant an increase in their foreign sales
of more than $47,000,OOO over the rec
ord of the year before.
More figures taken from the statisti-
cal abstract almost at random show
that the total value of farm animals in
the United States in 1904 was $3,0O6,-
5SO,737, an increase of more than
$S,00O,OOO in a year
Wool and Wheat
The production in wool in 1904
amounted to 291, ,7S3, ,032 pounds, a gain
Of over 100000 pounds in twelve
months. The wheat crop was S5,0O0,-
600 bushels smaller than that of the
year before, but the production reached
the respectable figure of 552,399, ,517
bushels. The corn crop was tremen-
dous, the grand total of the 1904 har-
vest being 2,467, ,4S0,934 bushels, a gain
of 223,000,000 bushels over the crop of
1903. Even the figures which show the
increase are, of course, too huge to un-
derstand. The cotton crop was not so
large in 1904, but it still amounted to
10,011,374 bales.
OF railroads 1896 miles were built in
the last year. The number of passen-
gers carried was more than $4,000, 900
larger than in the year before, the
grand total being 696,90S,9 1894. The to-
tai amount of freight carried by the
railroads one mile was 171,290,310,6S
tons, or more than ,000,O00,OOO tons
more than in the year before.
Walter Z. Clark