The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-29
BIG DECREASE IN
PER CAPITA DEBT
Progress of the United States in Its
Material Resources in Period
From 1900 to 1911.

Statistical Record of the Progress
Of the United States, 1SoO-l911,' is the
title of small document just issued
by the bureau of statistics, department
of commerce and labor. 1t pictures in
statistical form conditions in the com
mercial, financial, industrial and trans
portation systems of the United States
at brief intervals since the year 1900,
down to, and III many instances in
cluding the year 1911 In those cases
in which the subjects considered are
measured by governmental fiscal year
periods, the figures for the fiscal year
1911 are included; in those in which
calendar year periods are used, of
course, statements can only terminate
with the calendar year 1910.
Among the interesting facts shown
are that the area of continental United
States was S43,255 square miles in
1900, advancing to 1,73463O square
miles in 1910; to 2,995,536 square miles
in 1850; and S,O26,7S9 square miles in
I1S53. since which date no change in
area is shown The population which
was five and one-third million in 1900,
was ninety-three and three-fourths mil
| lion in 1911. Public debt, which was
S3 million in 1900, reached 2,675 mil
lion dollars less cash in treasury, in
1865, the figures of 1911 being LOIS
million dollars. The per capita debt,
which was $15.63 in 1900, and in 1865
$76.9S, is in 1911 $1OS9. The interest
charge per capita, which amounted to
64c in 1900, and S412 in 1866, was in
I1911, 23o, and the total annual interest
charge, which was in 1866, 146 million,
was in 1911, twenty-one and one-third
million dollars, Money in circulation,
stated as twenty-six and one-half mil
lion dollars in 1900, was in 1911, $3,-
l22S,627 002. and the percapita circula-
ton, which was in 1900 $499, was in
I1911, $3435. Deposits in all banks in
the country cannot be shown earlier
than in 1875, at which date they are
set down as a little over two billion
dollars, and in 1910, over Is billion
dollars. The number of depositors in
saving banks in 1920, the earliest year
for which the figures can be shown
, was a little. less than nine thousand;
/ and in 1910, over nine million. Govern
= ment receipts. which amounted t
| $204 per capita in 1900, were in 1856
!. $1465 and in 1911, S745, or abou
one-half what they were in 1866 Elk
ports of domestic merchandise whicl
amounted to 80 million dollars in value
in 1900, were over two billion dollars
in 1911 and imports, which amounted
r to 81 million dollars in 1900, were on'
and one-half billion in 1911.
Many other subjects of this char
acter stated by the document in ques
p ton, include details of imports and eS
@ ports by great groups and grand di
/ visions, and principal ports througI
q which shipped the production of prir
q cipal articles, such as wheat, corn, col
r. ton, coal, sugar, copper, etc, from $50
D. to 1910; the attendance in publ
a schools, and sums expended for tha
h work postal receipts and expend
" lures; and a few pages devoted t
n monetary and commercial condition
d in the principal countries of the world
,e Copies of the publication in questio
IL can be obtained by applying to tn
IS bureau of statistics, department {
n. commerce and labor.