The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-09-26
R7BR
OF the United States in lis
Material Resources Shown
by Publication.

.WlAI7sEedGToN, b. c., Sept a.
Statistical Record Of the Progress
Of the United ststes. 1SOO-Is11." Is
the title OF a small document just
issued by the bureau. of statistics,
department of commerce and labor
1T pictures In Statistical form condi-
lions in the commercial. financial
Industrial and transportation sys-
TENS of the United States at brief
intervals since the year 1900, down
TO, and in many instances including
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 S4S ,255 square
miles in 1890, advancing to 1,7S4,-
$40 square miles in 1910; to 1885,
$50 square miles in 1850; and b.
/ O26, 7s9 square miles in 1858; since
/ which date no change in area is
shown. The population, which was
vas ninety three and IA million in
1911. Public debt, which was
SO million dollars in 1900, reached
2,675, million dollars less cash in
the treasury in 1865, the figures of
1911 being LOIS million dollars.
The per capita debt, which was
$3.50 in 1900, and 1865 $76.9S, is
in 1911 $1O.S3. The interest
charge per capita, which amounted
to sixty-four cents in 1900. and
%4.12 in 1866. was in 1911 twenty
three cents, and the total annual in
lterest charge, which was in 1866,
.146 million dollars. was in 1911.
21 Ia million dollars. Money in
circulation, stated as sixty-two and
ione-half million dollars in 1900, was
in 1911, $3,22s. 627, o02. and the
per capita circulation, which was in
1900 S4.s9, was in 1911, $34.S5.
Deposits in all banks in the country
can not be shown earlier than in
1875, at which date they are set
J, down as little over two million
dollars, and in 1910, over fifteen
million dollars. The number of de-
| lpositors in savings banks in 1920,
the earliest year for which the fig
ures can be shown. was little less
than nine thousand: and in 1910,
over nine millions. Government re-
ceipts, which amounted to $2.O4 per
capita in 1900, were in 1856.
$14.65, and in 1911, $7.45, or about
one-half what they were in 1866.
Exports of domestic merchandise
which amounted to $50, 100000 in
value in 1900, were over two billion
dollars in 1911: and imports which
amounted to $91,OOO,OOO in 1850,
were one and one half billion in
1911.
Many other subjects of this char
acter stated by the document in
question, include details of Inn
ports and exports, by great groups
and grand divisions. and principally
ports through which shipped; the
production of principal articles, such
qas wheat, corn, cotton. coal, sugar,
copper, etc, from 1900 to 1910; the
Itattendance in public schools, and
sums expended for that work; postal
receipts and expenditures; and a
few pages devoted to monetary and
Monumental conditions in the prin-
! cipal countries of the world.
Copies of the publication in cues
ton can be obtained by applying to
the bureau of statistics, department
of commerce and labor, Washing
ton, D. c.