The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-10
magnitude OF UNITED
STATES GIVEN IN DETAIL
New Volume Issued by the Department Of Commerce and
Labor Gives Statistcs which Really Astonishing
All Phases of Human Activity Completely
Covered.

against 8J263. 900, 900 handled by the
postal service OF the German Empire
$3.50 100000 by the postal service OF
United Kingdom, 1,l19,0 100000 in
France, and 1O57,O00,0OO in Austria
Hungary. The telegraph messages
sent in the United states numbered
100000 in 1870, 2O,OOOOOO in 1880,
63O0OO00 in 1890, S0,000,0O0 in 1900
and 9S,000,OO0 in 1907
The figures with reference to the
school system Cf the country, as sup
piled by the Bureau of Education,
show some remarkable facts. The
number of pupils enrolled in the
public schools n 1907 was 16S20,00
and the average daily attendance
II 100000 wnila the students in coll
leges, universities and schools OF
technology, wlo numbered $4,000
ir 1880, $4,000 in 1890, and $4,000 in
1900, aggregated 100000 in 1907
The wealth NJ the United States I'm
1850 was $1,000 100000, speaking in
round terms; III 1860 $4,000, 900 900;
in 1870, $3O,0OO,c0O,OOO in 1880, $43,.
500 900 600; in 1890, $G5, 900, 900, 600;
in 1900, SSS,5OO COO,OOO: and in 1904,
S107 600 100000; the average wealth
per capita being, according to the
same authority, in 1850. $3OS; in 1860,
$51i; in 1870, $3.50; in 1880, $3.50; in
$780, 81 ,039 in 1900. 81 ,1G5; and in
1904, Sl,3l0. The wealth production
on farms, according to the estimate
of the Department of Agriculture,
was in 1897, s4,25O, 100000 and in
1907 S7,4120OO, 900 Among the valua-
BILE articles produced on the farm are
included wheat. of which the farm
value i'm 1908 was set down at $617,-
100000, a larger sum than in any
previous year in the history OF our
production: cotton, of which the
value in 1906. The year OF largest val
uation. was S7ll,OO0,OOO; hay, in 1907.
$744 600 600, an1 corn, in 1908. $16l6,-
900 000-these hsing in all cases val
ues on the farm.
Turning to commerce, the volume
shows rapid growth in imports
and exports. especially during the
past quarter OF a century; that man
ufacturers' materials form an increas-
ing proportion of these growing inn
ports, and that manufacturers form
an increasing proportion of the grow
ing exports Crude materials for use
in manufacturing. which formed but
1876 per cent Ct the imports i'm 1870,
1874 per cent in 1880, and 2l.G2 per
cent in 1890 were 1926 per cent of the
total in 1900 md 1925 per cent in
1907; the aggregate value OF these
crude materials imported having been
in 1870, S56.OOO,GOO, in 1880, 1892 OOO,-
OOO in 1890, S171 100000, in 1900,
S27GOOOOOO and in 1907. $477,OO, 900.
On the export side manufactures
form steadily increasing share OF
the total, finished manufactures.
which amounted to 14.9G per cent IN
1870 of the total domestic exports.
having formed 26.6s per cent. of the
greatly increased total of 1908; while
manufactures for further use in
manufacturing, which formed 3.G6 per
cent of the exports in 1870, were l4.23
per cent OF those in 1908 The total
value OF manufactures ready for con-
sumption exported in the fiscal year
1908 was $489, 100000 and of manufac-
lures for further use in manufacture
ing S2Gl 100000, making a grand total
OF exports fro n the manufacturing
establishments OF the United States
in 1908 of 500 100000, and forming
4O.9l per cent OF the total exports OF
that year.