The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-01
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Interesting Facts about the Unite
States from official Sources.


Interesting Facts about the United
states from official Sources.
While area has grown from loss than
100000 square miles In 1900 to s,000,-
GOO at the present time, and more than
3,50O,000 II Alaska be Included, or
about 3,750,000 II we include the Islands,
tho population has grown from 5000,
600 to $4,000, 900, and If all OF that now
under the. American flag be included,
to7nearly 1OO.000,000; while tho popula-
ton per square mile in continental
United States has grown from Gls rcr-
sons In 1900 to about in 1850. Is In
1900, and nearly 28 ut the present time.
Wealth. which in 1850 was set down
ut s7ooO,OOo,oo0. Is given ut s1o7,oOo,-
100000 In 1908. the attest year for
which figures are available; and the
per capita wealth, which In 1850 was
1907 was in 1904 $3.50.
The public debt, which In 1861 was
5$2,675,0oo,ooO, is now but 4.ooo.ooO.
and the per capita Indebtedness, which
In 1864 was s760S is now but $1l.4G;
while the annual Interest charge, which
was then SALE per capita, Is now but
% cents per capita.
The money In circulation, which In
1900 was s26,00O,0o0, In 1850 Sa7S,0O0,-
600 and In 1880 o73,O0O,OoO was in 1906
S2.736.0O0, 900; and the per capita cir
culation, which in 1900 was SIS and in
1850 $12, was in 1905 1922.
Bank deposits, for which no record
liz available earlier than in 1876, were
in that year trifle over s2.OOO.000.00
In 1906 $7,25O.0OO.00O and In 1906 s12,-
ESQ, 100000. Deposits In savings banks
show q complete record from 1920 to
date In 1920 they amounted to $1,000
900, speaking in round terms; In 1850
they had reached s43.00oOOO. in 1876
In 1906 s3,250.o oo,o0O; while the nuns
Der of depositors, which in 1920 was
only S.G35, was In 1850 251.354, in 1875
2,35o.se4, and in 1000 61O7,0S3, was In
1906 S,027,192. or nearly a thousand
times as many as in 1920, while the
deposits were more than 5000 times
as much in 1906 as in 1920.
Imports Of merchandise, which in
1900 amounted to $91000,OO0, were IN
1905 s1.226. 100000, while exports, which
in 1900 were s71,oOo,ooo were in 1906
sl.744.oOo. 900. The per capita Of i'm
portatians which In 1900 amounted to
per capita of expectations which In
1900 was s13.37. was in 1906 $20.41.
| In the matter OF production and
manufacture the picture of progress is
equally interesting. Cotton production,
which in 1900 amounted to 155,556
bales, had by 1850 reached 100000. in
1875 3.75o,OoO. in 1900 little less than
| 100000 and In 1906 11,350,000. Corn
production. which in 1910 was 377, 000,-
| 900 bushels, touched the billion bushel
line in 1870 the two billion bushel mark
lin 1889, and in 1906 was 2,927,4 16.09l
bushels, and may therefore be expected
| Ito cross the three billion bushel line In
4 1907.
The sugar production Of the United
States. which amounted to less than
$4,000 tons in 1926, 111,000 tons in
1850 and 100000 tons in 1900, was In
1906 5s2.414 tons: beet sugar production.
which began In the Seventies" hav-
ling grown from 44s tons in 1917 to
1880 tons in 1890, s2,736 tons in 1900
| and 3O0317 tons in 1906. Meantime
consumption grew even more rapidly,
1 the total number OF tons Of sugar con-
sumcd having been 4o,612 In 1922 and
| 2,s64013 in 1906. and the quantity con
! sumed per capita from little less thap
IL pounds IN 1870 little more than
Is pounds In 1906
! In the great manufacturing indus
| tries evidences of progress are equally
apparent. The page devoted to this
subject shows that the number of peo-
pie employed in manufacturing has
grown from less than 100000 in 1850
! to 5,50O,0Oo in 1905; the wages paid,
from s2S7. 100000 In 1850 to s2.611 ,oo0,-
| 900 in 1905, and the value of products
from $1,000, 100000 in 1850 to nearly
| $4,000, 900, 900 in 1905.