Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-22

the last decade, while our total rbreIgu
trade has increased but 20 per cen
How much Of this rapid growth In our
trade with these countries is u 20
the large percentage Of their people
who become a part of the population
of the United States, cannot be
statistically stated, but ii is at least
an interesting fact that the Scandi-
navian population of the United States
bears a larger ratio to the present pop
ulation of their countries OF nativity
than is true of any other class of our
~foreign-born population. The censU.
OF 1900 shows in the United States. L.
O62. 100 persons born in Sweden. Den
mark and Norway, a total equal to 1O.7
per cent. OF the present population Of
those countries: while the highest ratio
which any other nationality in tht
United States bears to the present
population of its home country is that
of the United Kingdom, 80 per cent,
while Germany ranks next with rs
per cent, Italy 1.5 per cent, and Aus
tria-Hungary 1.3 per cent. The entire
trade with Sweden, Norway and Den
mark mounts TO So, 100000 q year.
of which S6,000.0Q0 represents the I'M
ports from those countries and $4,000
Oov the exports. To Sweden this coun-
try sends manufactured cotton, MN
eral oil. iron and steel manufactures,
-four, lard. and fertilizers and other ar
ticleS. and imports iron and steel IN
the form of bars and rods, hides ami
skins, wood pulp and matches. The
annual trade both ways mounts 10
so, 100000. To Norway the United
States sends breadstuffs, iron and steel
manufactures, sole leather, molasses
and syrup, raw cotton and mineral oil,
and receives in return wood pulp,
hides and skins, fish in various forms
including herring, mackerel II
~anchovies. The entire business
amounst to about S6,G00,OO0. The inn
ports show a substantial increasA,
while there is a tendency to a decrease
in the exports of that country. Den
marks annual business with the
United States amounts TO about $40
600. OOO,or about one-half the trade
with Scandinavia. The imports are
comparatively small, amounting tn
only a trife over a million dollars and
represented Ivy hides and other small
imports. The export trade is very
large, consisting practically of the
same products as are sent to Sweden
and Norway"
The count of Turin arrived from
Rome to Christiania last month and
registered al Grand hotel. The count
of Turin Is a brother of the cele.
brated polar explorer, the duke of
Abruzzi, and a son of King Humbert's
brother, the duke of Aosta, who for a
time was king Of Spain. He was born
in 1870 and has always evinced a great
deal Of interest for the northern conn
tries.
Says the Christiania Morgenblad:
"AIr. Green is the name of a cor
respondent who the London Times has
recently sent to Norway He has re-
Gently paid a visit to Christiania,
T|rondhjem and Bergen,
The Rollon iron ore fields near
Ibastad have been sold to a Swedish
mining syndicate for 100000 CROWDS.
The iron veins extend over the entire
island and are said to be of unusual
quantity and quality.
For the care of the city's poor dur
ing the year of 1906, the city budget
calls for an expenditure Of 1904, 700
crowns. Last year 1.SI2,000 crownS
were expended for the same purpose.
Lauritz Haaland, the artist. has
sold his famous painting "Gjoa ia the
Polar Seas and another marine paint
ing TO al English capitalist for 200.
The five new torpedo-boats, which
have just been completed, have been
named by King Haakon respectively:
Crib. 10, LON. Skarv and Teist.
motel "Haukenaes," in Romsdal, a
popular tourist hosiery, has been
leased for two seasons by the pro-
prietor of Hotel Mode.
Rev. NJ. Brodahl, for many years
a prominent Christiania divine. died a
few days ago at his nome in that city,
aged So years.