Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-11-02
Statistical Record of the Develop
ment Of the United States.

O6VeD nun0rCO ana nifty pages vi
solid figures unaccompanied by text
discussions other than exg lanatOry
notes, form q rather uninteresting
looking volume issued by the
Bureau of Statistics Of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, en-
titled Statistical Abstract of the
United State, yet this annual vol
ume, the thirty-third issue of which
has just made its appearance, is
called for by thousands of people in
every part of the United States and
in fact in every part of the world.
1t tells of the area, natural re-
sources, and population of tle
country from the adoption of the
constitution to the present time; az
r.cIlture, forestry, and fisheries;
manufacturing and mining indus
tries; occupations. labor. and wages;
internal communication and trans
portatiOn, merchant marine and
shipping; foreign commerce, COM
merce of noncontiguous territories;
prices. consumption estimates, mon
ey, banking, and insurance; wealth
and public finance; the Civil Serv-
ice, army, navy, pensions, Congress
ional appOrtionment, the Presiden-
tiaI election; the statistical records
progress of the United States from
1900 to 1910; and closes with a few
pages devoted to commercial. finan-
cial. and monetary statistics of the
principal countries of the world. 1t
is compiled by the Bureau of Sta
tistics, in part from its own data of
commerce and transportation, in
part from data gathered by other
governmental organizations.
This annual publication original
ing with the Bureau of Statistics
thirty-three years ago. then a small
volume of $50 octave pages. has
grown with the growth of the coun-
try and the demands of the public
for additional information, to $50
pages in this the thirty-third mum
Der just issued. Purely statistical
and thus appealing only to those
desiring definite information in con-
crete form, it presents many inter-
esting pictures of conditions past
and present in the United States.
For instance the 100 pages de-
voted to the general subject of area
natural resources, and population,
snow the date of admission of each
state and territory, and their re-
spective areas, the land area unap-
propriated and unreserved, amount
ing in 1910 to 712 million acres
and forming 41 per cent of the
total land area of the country;
swamps and overflow lands, Isl
million acres; developed WATERFOWL
ers, 3 1-3 million horsepower; esti-
mated coal supply by states and
territories, estimated iron ore sup
ply; the. number of farms irrigated,
$4,000 in 1907, and number of
acres II million; the various irriga-
ton projects commenced and theI
respective area to be retained; pop.
ulation from 1890 by decennial
years to the present time, and pop
ulation of states and principal cities
at each census; share which persons
of foreign birth form of the popula-
ton at various dates; marriage aud
divorce statistics; school population
enrolment, and attendance of
pupils, universities, colleges and
technical schools, with students and
instructors; and temperature and
rainfall for various sections of the
country.
The fifty pages to agriculture,
forestry and fisheries show the