The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-08

lation that the United States will be
100000 strong in 1910. In the last
census year $1,000 the total was N,SOS.-
Ss7, and in 1903 il il estimated to be a.
S45, 900, a growth Of 79,2S6,Sl7 since 1900.
In that year we find the money in circu-
lation was $40, 500, 900, or IS per capita,
and IL is now 81, IA, 4S3, $50, or 30. AZ per
capita. OF course the public debt has
expanded: it was $50, $40, 294.3S, and 10
now $1,000 the imposing sum OF 1884,
ass, 6s8. 70; but the per capita is less,
sll. Il as compared with tl5.63 in 1900.
We are more and more a thrifty, po-
tential people. In 1890, when the first
record was made, the savings bank
deposits amounted TO 81, 1888, SIC, and they
were in 1905 the mighty sum Of $685.
071,357, the property Of no less than
1905, 200 depositors.
Other things have, Of course, risen in
proportion, for the nations bills have to
be settled. In 1900 the Government was
paying out only Se4, 1871 for pensions, and
in 1909 the expenditure is Sill, 1876, 7s4.
A large amount in the aggregate must
go into the savings banks. The trade
figures, to turn TO a more ~engrossing
subject, amaze by their contrasts. In
1900 our exports OF merchandise reached
the tidy sum Of s70,s71 ,7So for a new
country, but by 1908 the sum has become
colossal, being estimated for the year
at 81, 743, 1914 500. lmportations OF food
and live animals now amount to $685.
1877, 900; they were 81, 49,, 524 in 1920.
Our bill for imported raw materials for
manufacture was s., 1O7, 5e4 in 1920, and
in 1903 IL will be t4l6, $50, 1853, while manu-
featured articles ready for consumption
rose from s24,S27, 2Ss to s2O6, Asst ,O43. All
imports were s54, $50, S34 in 1900, and they
will be 81 ,226, 56s, s43 in 1908.
Agriculture in some respects has shown
the greatest expansion of all. There
are no reliable figures before 1850, when
the number Of farms was Las, o73; ac-
cording to the census of 1900 it had in
creased to 5,739, 657. In 1870 the first
census Of persons engaged in agriculture
was taken; the number was 5,922, All,
and in 1900, or in thirty years, it had
increased to lO,43s, 219. The value Of
farms and farm property grew from
$685., s43, $50 in 1850 TO S2O,5I4, OOl, 1888 in
1900. In 1900 there we're produced 1856, $50
bales of cotton, and in 1905 the quantity
was 1885, 1855. The gold product rose
from 81, 463 in 1910 70 $50, 337, 700 in 1905, and
silver from $50, 900 in 1850 to $35, 952, 1907
in 1905. Coal outstripped them both tre-
mendously. Only 365 IONS we're mined in
1920 and $50, 800, $40 tons in 1905. Wages in
the manufacturing industries amounted
to $3.50, 755, 464 in 1850 and to So, 1873, SOL 1893
in 1905, and the value Of products in
creased from $l,Ol9, 100, 616 to SI4,S O2, 49,
Os7. There were twenty-three miles Of
railroad in 1880 and 2l7, 25O in 1905. In
1910 there we're 473 patents issued, and
last year As, $40. In 1920 only 1885 immi-
grants landed, and since 1903 the total
has been more than a million a year.
There we're 10, 256, O3S pupils in our public
schools in 1904 mo later figures available)
az compared with 6,S7l ,522 in 1870.
The greatness and promise of these
United States are nowhere set forth and
indicated with more splendor than in the
arid looking figures of Mr.. AUsTIN's
pamphlet. II they could be set to music
Niagara would be a mere whisper COM
pared the volume of sound produced
nv them.